President Macron of France and Justin Trudeau, the Canadian prime minister, conceived of TV5MondePlus two years agoFrance and other French-speaking nations have launched a free global video-streaming service to offer a Gallic alternative to the likes of Netflix and Amazon Prime. TV5MondePlus, which went online yesterday, was conceived by President Macron and Justin Trudeau, the Canadian prime minister, two years ago after the huge success of US platforms. Viewers have a choice of 4,000 hours of feature films, television series and documentaries from France, Canada, Belgium, Switzerland and French-speaking Africa, with subtitles in five languages including French to help learners. “The aim is to enable the people in 194 countries to discover the rich offering of programmes in French,” Yves Bigot, head of the TV5Monde network, said. “We are not positioning ourselves as a rival to the American platforms.

Source: The Times September 09, 2020 23:07 UTC