''Série noire'' is a

Quebec Quebec ( ; )According to the Canadian government, ''Québec'' (with the acute accent) is the official name in Canadian French and ''Quebec'' (without the accent) is the province's official name in Canadian English is one of the thirtee ...

Comedy drama Comedy drama, also known by the portmanteau ''dramedy'', is a genre of dramatic works that combines elements of comedy and Drama (film and television), drama. The modern, scripted-television examples tend to have more humorous bits than simple co ...

thriller series which was originally broadcast on

Radio-Canada The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (french: Société Radio-Canada), branded as CBC/Radio-Canada, is a Canadian public broadcaster for both radio and television. It is a federal Crown corporation that receives funding from the government. ...

and

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in 2014–2015."Série noire one cool film-noir dramedy"
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Montreal Gazette The ''Montreal Gazette'', formerly titled ''The Gazette'', is the only English-language daily newspaper published in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Three other daily English-language newspapers shuttered at various times during the second half of th ...

'', January 9, 2014. The series centres on Denis (

François Létourneau François Létourneau (born 1974 in Sainte-Foy, Quebec) is a Canadian actor and writer, best known as co-creator and star of the television series ''Les Invincibles'', ''Série noire'' and '' Happily Married (C'est comme ça que je t'aime)''. H ...

) and Patrick (

Vincent-Guillaume Otis Vincent-Guillaume Otis (born April 13, 1978) is a Canadian actor from Quebec. He is most noted for his roles in the television series ''District 31'', for which he won the Prix Gémeaux for Best Actor in a Drama Series in 2018, and the film '' Nor ...

), the writers of a popular but critically reviled crime drama series, ''La loi de la justice'', as they embark on a crime spree following the end of the show's first season in the hope of accumulating the personal experience necessary to make the writing more realistic in the show's second season. The show was critically acclaimed and won eleven Gémeaux awards in 2014 and four Gémeaux awards in 2016.

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Série Noire on Radio-Canada
Television shows set in Montreal Television shows filmed in Montreal 2014 Canadian television series debuts 2016 Canadian television series endings Ici Radio-Canada Télé original programming Prix Gémeaux-winning shows 2010s Canadian crime drama television series 2010s Canadian comedy-drama television series {{Canada-comedy-tv-prog-stub