Top French-language Content Comes Together on
One Single Platform
MONTREAL, Aug. 13,
2024 /CNW/ - Big news for fans of
French-language entertainment: in keeping with its customer
satisfaction commitment based a simplified user experience,
Videotron has chosen to consolidate its offering by creating
one single subscriber-based video-on-demand (VOD) platform. As a
result, Club illico and Vrai will merge on October 23 to become illico+, with a
seamless transition for existing subscribers of both platforms on
Helix and illico.
The illico+ platform will include the kind of scripted,
unscripted and specialized content on which Club illico and Vrai
have built their reputations over the years. This impressive
catalogue will continue to offer several Quebec and international exclusives, along
with movies and TV series for all audiences, true crime
documentaries, docu-reality shows, reality series, comedy
programming and much more.
Videotron will maintain its content creation
investments to keep showcasing local original productions. More
committed than ever to offering subscribers crowd-pleasing content
and shining a spotlight on Quebec
talent – both behind and in front of the camera – illico+
becomes the indispensable Quebec
platform, with several productions to watch for starting
October 23, including:
- La collecte, the story of a debt collector
(Charles-Aubey Houde) trying
to turn the page on his life of crime, directed by Podz and
co-starring Claude Legault,
Caroline Néron and Guy
Nadon
- Corbeaux, a police drama starring Pascale
Bussières and Mylène Mackay
- Hot Ones Québec, with host
Marc-André Grondin interviewing famous personalities as they
sample different hot sauces
- Le CH et son peuple, a documentary series in
which journalist Brendan
Kelly explores the parallels between Quebec society and the Montreal Canadiens
hockey team
- Les Grands Bien-cuits ComediHa!, Season 4 of the
celebrity-roast series with guests of honour Claude Legault, Patrick Groulx, Mélanie Maynard and
Pierre Hébert
- L'appel, a series about a criminal biker trial
produced by Aetios Productions, directed by Julie Perreault, and starring Magalie
Lépine-Blondeau, Pier-Luc
Funk and Patrice
Robitaille
As for international and U.S. acquisitions, illico+
subscribers can look forward to new episodes of hit series like
HPI: haut potentiel intellectuel (Season 4),
Set et match! (French version of Apples Never
Fall), Le maire de Kingstown (French version of
Mayor of Kingstown), and
the French version of From. Also on tap: recent
Paramount movies available shortly after their theatrical
release, including Transformers : Le
Commencement and Sourire 2 (French version of
Smile 2).
With an enhanced catalogue and improved user
experience, the subscriber-based VOD platform illico+ is sure to
please existing and future subscribers. It all starts October 23 – don't miss it!
About Vidéotron
Videotron, a wholly owned
subsidiary of Quebecor Media Inc., is an integrated
communications company engaged in television, entertainment,
Internet access, wireline telephone and mobile telephone services.
Following the acquisition of Freedom Mobile, Videotron became the
fourth strongest and competitive wireless service provider in
Canada. As of June 30, 2024, Videotron and Freedom together had
3,918,600 subscriber connections to their mobile telephony
services. Videotron is also a leader in new technologies with its
Helix home entertainment and management platform, and is the
Québec leader in high-speed Internet access. As of June 30, 2024, Videotron was serving 1,321,900
television customers, 1,722,500 subscribers to its Internet
services as well as 643,400 to its wireline telephony service.
Finally, Videotron has taken the coveted title of ''most respected
telecommunications provider in Québec'' for the 18th
time since 2006, according to Léger's 2024 Reputation survey.
SOURCE Videotron Ltd.