Patrick Huard leads Juste entre toi et moi back to monthly release
Patrick Huard is the first guest as patrick huard returns to Juste entre toi et moi, now back on a monthly schedule. The balado’s new formula gives the show a steadier cadence, and Huard uses the seat to talk about burnout, consulting a psy, and the pressure on Quebec television.
Huard opens the monthly run
At 57 years old, Huard says he has been consulting a psy since the burnout he nearly suffered after leaving La tour in 2022. He also says he once worried that getting help would blunt his creative muscle after reading what he called a stupid article in the 1990s, a belief he now rejects in the interview.
“On s’enorgueillit de passer au travers de quelque chose seul,” he said. “Mais l’important, est-ce que c’est de passer au travers seul ou de passer au travers ?” He added: “Si j’ai réglé ce problème-là, mais que j’en ai créé trois autres en chemin, peut-être que ce n’est pas un si grand succès que ça.”
Quebec TV under strain
Between 2023 and 2025, television budgets fell by nearly 20%, and fiction budgets fell by 35%. Huard calls television “une industrie hyper importante” and links the squeeze to the kind of cultural compromise he says happens when people stop investing in it.
“On est toujours en train de s’excuser d’exister, alors que ce qu’on fait, c’est un vrai métier. Vous avez vu la chanson qu’ils ont chantée pour [le départ de] François Legault ?” he said. He followed that with: “C’est ce que ça donne quand tu n’investis pas en culture. Tu as des amateurs qui finissent par faire le show.”
Three series, 11 days
Huard also said some actresses appear in three series and seem rich, even though they may have only 11 days of shooting in a year. He said some of them pray not to be nominated at the Gémeaux because they would have to buy a dress they cannot afford, a line that turns the budget debate into a pay-and-work reality rather than an abstract cultural complaint.
That same pressure runs through his view of franchises. He has previously said “Le parrain, c’est une trilogie” when explaining why he would not take part in the fourth Boys film, and he compared a longer run to “Police Academy, une comédie en sept films qui n’a pas tout à fait triomphé aux Oscars.”
Crave gets six episodes
The new Bon Cop, Bad Cop series is set to arrive on Crave in six episodes, and Huard framed that format as something that can only be judged after the work is done. “Le truc, c’est que tu ne le sais jamais pendant que tu le fais. Est-ce que moi, je trouve ça bon ? Vraiment, beaucoup,” he said.
For viewers, the monthly return of Juste entre toi et moi is the immediate change. For the industry, Huard is using the show’s first episode back to put a number on the squeeze: fewer budgets, fewer fiction dollars, and more pressure on the people expected to keep producing the work anyway.
