Quebec’s best-loved hockey team is lacing up its skates once again, but this time Les Boys will be looking to continue their remarkable winning streak on the small screen, and are now shooting a 20 x 30 series for Radio-Canada in Montreal.

The producer of the blockbuster film franchise, which has grossed $23 million at the box office over four installments since 1997, says fans can’t seem to get enough of the motley band of amateur hockey players.

‘There isn’t a day that goes by when someone doesn’t go up to one of the performers on the street and ask them when there will be more of Les Boys. So we decided it was time to make a TV series,’ says Melenny Productions’ Richard Goudreau. ‘Now we have the chance to go much deeper into the characters. We have a great deal to say.’

Directed by Louis Bolduc (Belle-Baie) on a budget around $400,000 per ep, the series reunites the original cast, including Rémy Girard (Les Bougon), Marc Messier (Lance et compte: La revanche), Paul Houde (Le cercle), Luc Guérin (Détect.inc) as well as Pierre Lebeau, Roc Lafortune, Michel Charette, Patrick Labbé, Yvan Ponton and Réal Béland.

Les Boys will air this October, in time for the first movie’s 10th anniversary. Shooting wraps up mid-July.