The Parent Family

*The Parent Family*
The Parent Family
Genre	comedy
Developed by	Jacques Davidts
Starring	Anne Dorval; Daniel Brière; Joey Scarpellino; Raphaël Grenier-Benoît; Louis-Philippe Beauchamp;
Country of origin	Canada
Original language	French
No. of seasons	8
No. of episodes	169
Production
Running time	21 minutes
Production companies	La Presse Télé (2008–2013); LP8 Média (2013–2014); Attraction Images (2014–2016); Marleen Beaulieu;
Original release
Network	ICI Radio-Canada Télé
Release	September 8, 2008 –; March 28, 2016

The Parent Family (French: Les Parent) is a French-language comedy television series created by Jacques Davidts. It originally aired on ICI Radio-Canada Télé from 8 September 2008 to 28 March 2016. The series was produced in Canada. It has 8 seasons, containing a total of 169 episodes, each lasting 21 minutes.^[1]

Plot

Louis-Paul Parent and Natalie Rivard are the caring parents of three boys Thomas, the oldest, lazy teenager who does well academically, Olivier "Oli", a rebellious, manipulative, mischievous, athletic middle child, who loves skateboarding, and Zacharie "Zak", the youngest very energetic child.^[1]

Cast

Anne Dorval as Natalie Rivard
Daniel Brière as Louis-Paul Parent
Joey Scarpellino as Thomas Parent
Raphaël Grenier-Benoît as Olivier Parent
Louis-Philippe Beauchamp as Zacharie Parent
Alexis Martin as Benoît, Louis-Paul's friend
Marie-Chantal Perron as Marie, Natalie's friend
Louise Turcot as Madeleine Rivard, Natalie's mother
Marcel Sabourin as Bernard Rivard, Natalie's father
Maude Carmel-Ouellet as Anaïs Laliberté, Thomas's girlfriend
Jean-Carl Boucher as Jesse, Olivier's friend
Rosalie Bonenfant as Sarah, Olivier's girlfriend
Sophie Nélisse as Zoé Larivière-Beaudoin, Zacharie's friend
Aliocha Schneider as Frédéric-Olivier, Thomas's friend
Pier-Luc Funk, as Maxime, Thomas's friend
Alice Morel-Michaud as Alicia, Zacharie's friend
Olivier Fontaine as Matthew Couture, Zacharie's friend
Émilien Néron as Cédrick Plourde, Zacharie's friend
Édith Cochrane as Sylvie, Cédrick's mother
Mélanie Maynard as Sarah's mother
Kevin Parent as himself
Charlotte Legault as Mélissa, Olivier's girlfriend (season 5)
Kalinka Petrie as Alex Parent, Thomas, Olivier, and Zacharie's cousin (season 5)

Production and broadcast

The Parent Family was created by Jacques Davidts, and produced in Canada by La Presse Télé (2008–2013), LP8 Média (2013–2014), Attraction Images (2014–2016), and Marleen Beaulieu, and distributed by ICI Radio-Canada Télé. The main cast included: Anne Dorval, Daniel Brière, Joey Scarpellino, Raphaël Grenier-Benoît, and Louis-Philippe Beauchamp. The first episode aired on 8 September 2008, on ICI Radio-Canada Télé in Canada. Its final episode aired on 28 March 2016. In total, the show had 8 seasons, containing a total of 169 episodes.^[1]^[2] Since 4 October 2010, the show also aired in France on Canal+ Family and Gulli channels, in partially redubbed version, modified for the French audience.^[1]^[3]

Adaptations

In 2011 the show was adapted into a Polish-language series produced by Telewizja Polska, titled Family.pl, which aired until 2020.^[4]^[5] In 2015, it was adapted into a Russian-language series titled Roditeli (Russian: Родители) produced by Russia-1 channel.^[6] In 2016, it was adapted into a Slovak-language series titled Naši produced by TV JOJ.^[7]