Le nouveau show is a Canadian sketch comedy series, which premiered as a web series on TOU.TV in 2015 before airing on ICI ARTV and Ici Radio-Canada Télé in 2016."«Le nouveau show»: le show d'une génération?". Huffington Post, October 14, 2015. The series was created by the same cast and crew who had previously created SNL Québec, after that show was cancelled by Télé-Québec earlier in 2015."Radio-Canada repêche les comédiens de SNL Québec". La Presse, April 9, 2015.
The show's core cast members are Katherine Levac, Virginie Fortin, Léane Labrèche-Dor, Pier-Luc Funk, Mathieu Quesnel, Guillaume Girard, Mickaël Gouin and Phil Roy."Le nouveau show: 100 % humour". canoe.ca, April 22, 2016. Where SNL Québec had been created as a local adaptation of Saturday Night Live, Le nouveau show dropped SNL-related elements such as guest hosts, musical performers and Les nouvelles SNL, instead restricting itself to a straight sketch comedy troupe format.
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