Kif-Kif (TV series)
| Kif-Kif | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Comedy-drama |
| Created by | Sylvie Tremblay |
| Written by |
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| Directed by |
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| Creative director | Stéphanie Bujold |
| Starring | |
| Country of origin | Canada |
| Original language | French |
| No. of seasons | 2 |
| No. of episodes | 189 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer | Jean-Pierre Morin |
| Producer | Sylvie Tremblay |
| Running time | 24–25 minutes |
| Production company | Vivaclic |
| Original release | |
| Network | Radio-Canada |
| Release | September 11, 2006 – December 2007 |
Kif-Kif (known as Roommates in English)[1] is a Quebec teen-oriented téléroman produced by Vivaclic and broadcast by Radio-Canada.
Plot
The series center on a group of high school students—four girls and four boys—who live together at a Des Sables High School's residence.
Cast
- Roxane Bourdages as Noémie
- Jean-Robert Quirion as Jean-Robert Nault
- Marie-Lyse Laberge-Forest as Fanny
- Emmanuel Schwartz as Julien
- Pierre-Luc Bouvrette as Félix
- Amélie B. Simard as Carole-Anne
- Émilie Gilbert as Allison
- Iannicko N'Doua-Légaré as Malik Tamba
Production and broadcast
Kif-Kif was produced by Vivaclic and was originally broadcast at Radio-Canada from September 11, 2006[2] on the 17h timeslot replacing Watatatow.[3] The company Tribal Nova developed an interactive website to be updated in real time as the series is broadcast.[2] The series was conceived with the working title Comme en Appart and selected by the Quebecor Fund in Spring 2005.[4] Episodes 105 to 189 were funded by the Canadian Television Fund with aounrd $1.5 million.[5]
On April 18, 2007, Radio-Canada announced that Kif-Kif was cancelled and would stop to air in Winter 2007.[6] All 189 episodes were already shot by its cancellation time but only 104 had been broadcast by the network.[6] Among the reasons given by the channel were the poor ratings and a decrease in Canadian Television Fund to support youth-oriented shows.[6] Also, the show was failing to reach its target audience of 12–18 years[1] and was mostly seem by adults.[7]
The series rights were later sold to Latin America;[8] in Brazil, it was broadcast by Boomerang[9] and TV Brasil.[10]
Reception
Kif-Kif's website was elected the best website at the Boomerang Awards[11] and the Gémeaux Awards.[12] At the 2007 Gémeaux Awards it received six nominations[13] and its episode 64 won the Best Screenplay in a Youth Program or Series.[14] In 2008, it was nominated for Best Youth Program or Series – Fiction at the Gémeaux Awards but lost to Ramdam.[15] It also received a French Award of Excellence from the Youth Media Alliance for the episode "Bye Julien".[16]
In 2007, the series was exhibited in the same timeslot of Grand-Papa and recorded an average of 127,000 viewers against 118,000 of its competitor.[17]
The The Gazette's writer Gaëtan Charlebois praised the show's "solid acting" as well as its "jaunty" dialogues. However, he commented on the series's "bizarre aesthetic", saying: "Though Kif-Kif has the same shoestring budget as other such programs, it seems to show it more vigorously – almost revelling in its cheesy ugliness."[18] Steve Proulx of Voir criticized what he called "a trivialization of smoking", questioning its occurrence in a show broadcast by a public station. Proulx also stated there was some publicity for Neutrogena and Canadian Armed Forces and he criticized it too.[19]
See also
- List of programs broadcast by Ici Radio-Canada Télé
- List of French-language Canadian television series
References
- ^ a b "Roommates (seasons I and II)". Vivavision. Retrieved February 13, 2015.
- ^ a b "Tribal Nova produit Kif-kif sur le web" (PDF) (in French). Tribal Nova. September 11, 2006. Retrieved February 13, 2015.
- ^ Savoie, Anne-Marie-A. (August 9, 2006). "Radio-Canada prend un virage jeunesse". Le Journal de Montréal (in French). Québecor Média. Retrieved February 13, 2015 – via Canoe.ca.
- ^ "Spring 2005 round". Quebecor Fund. Retrieved February 14, 2015.
- ^ "Broadcaster Performance Envelope Stream" (PDF). Canadian Television Fund. p. 25. Retrieved February 14, 2015.
- ^ a b c ""Kif-Kif": la fin de cette série pour jeunes" (in French). ShowBizz.net. April 18, 2007. Archived from the original on September 29, 2010. Retrieved February 14, 2015.
- ^ Roy, Caroline (October 6, 2008). "La télé pour ados en péril". Le Journal de Montréal (in French). Québecor Média. Retrieved February 14, 2015 – via Canoe.ca.
- ^ "Critical acclaim for CTF productions on CBC/Radio-Canada" (PDF). CBC Television. Retrieved February 14, 2015.
- ^ "TV a Cabo CTBC | Programação Desenhos Outubro | Araguari" (PDF) (in Portuguese). Algar Telecom. Retrieved February 14, 2015.
- ^ "Espaço Dividido" (in Portuguese). TV Brasil. Empresa Brasil de Comunicação. Retrieved February 14, 2015.
- ^ Charest, Carl (December 8, 2006). "12e soirée des Boomerangs réussie" (in French). Canoe.ca. Québecor Média. Retrieved February 13, 2015.
- ^ "Prix du Meilleur Site Web" (in French). Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television. Retrieved February 13, 2015.
- ^ Bouchard, Dany; Lévesque, Pascale (June 21, 2007). "Le Négociateur en première ligne". Le Journal de Montréal (in French). Québecor Média. Retrieved February 13, 2015 – via Canoe.ca.
- ^ "Meilleur texte : émission ou série jeunesse : toutes catégories" (in French). Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television. Retrieved February 13, 2015.
- ^ "Les nominations". Le Journal de Montréal (in French). Québecor Média. September 13, 2008. Retrieved February 13, 2015 – via Canoe.ca.
- ^ "French Awards of Excellence 2008". Youth Media Alliance. Retrieved February 13, 2015.
- ^ "Les antiquités prennent de la valeur avec le temps". Le Journal de Montréal (in French). Québecor Média. October 26, 2007. Retrieved February 14, 2015 – via Canoe.ca.
- ^ October 21, 2006. "Rad-Can's afternoon scary but satisfying". The Gazette. Canwest. Retrieved February 14, 2015 – via Canada.com.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ Proulx, Steve (October 10, 2006). "Kessé ça?". Voir (in French). Communications Voir. Retrieved February 14, 2015.