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French TV. It’s sort of a catch-all term for anglophone Canadians for the channels they skip over when they’re deciding what to watch on cable. Many because they just don’t understand the language, or at least have trouble following conversations in it, or don’t get its cultural references. Others have preconceived notions that television produced for the local Quebec market is of poor quality compared to the critically acclaimed dramas coming out of the United States.

Quebec TV series won’t ever have the budgets of U.S. network dramas or bigger cable shows, but as the quality of television has improved internationally, so too have homegrown series, with more gripping writing, more spectacular cinematography, more realistic acting and more breathtaking direction.

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Your French-language TV watching shouldn’t be limited to Canadiens games on RDS and the occasional episode of Tout le monde en parle.