The Company

A Grand Passion for the Small Screen

Guy Villeneuve and Michel St-Cyr founded Fair-Play in 1998.  Armed with over two decades of television experience, the two producers embarked on one great ride:  television production.  To stand out of the crowd in a highly competitive market, they had their know-how, their acumen and especially, a vision:  compelling stories told by passionate people make for exciting television.

This vision has allowed Fair-Play to create television shows that broach a wide variety of topics, in many formats – documentary, variety, fiction, magazine – and garner an increasing share of the Anglophone and Francophone audiences across the broadcast and cable spectrum.

 

Fair-Play’s English credits include Guy Stuff with John Moore on Men TV & Global, Canadian Case Files on Mystery, Destiny Files and Let’s Talk Sex both for Men TV and Just for Laughs: The Gags on CTV and CBC.  In addition, Fair-Play has produced comedy variety shows such as Stand Up Montreal and Comedy Tonight.  French productions include the prime time hit Les enfants de la télé on Radio-Canada and hidden-camera sensation Peut contenir des Rachid on TVA.  Other successes include Gémeaux award-winning series Ici Louis-Jose Houde for Radio-Canada and ADNX for Télé-Québec.

Television series, documentaries, live show recordings, informative content… Fair-Play’s catalogue keeps expanding.  But if results do matter, the fun of getting there is also paramount at Fair-Play.  In this competitive world, Guy Villeneuve, Michel St-Cyr and their associates see to it that their staff of artists, crew members and producers enjoy the perfect environment for creating exciting television shows.  Our name is more than a play on words, it reflects our work culture.

Guy Villeneuve
Executive Producer

Fair-Play’s cofounder Guy Villeneuve has produced internationally acclaimed television series in Europe and Canada and has managed production licenses around the world. He is the company’s Executive Producer, along with business partner Michel St-Cyr.

Michel St-Cyr
Executive Producer

Prior to cofounding Fair-Play in 1999, Michel St-Cyr was Head of Development and Creative Consultant for Québec broadcaster, TVA.  For over twenty years, he has been developing and producing television programmes in a wide variety of genres.  He is Fair-Play’s Executive Producer, a title he shares with business partner Guy Villeneuve.

Jocelyn Côté
General Director

After thirteen years in corporate banking, with tenures in Canada, Europe and the US, Jocelyn Côté joined Fair-Play as partner and officer in 2001.  He serves as the company’s General Manager.

Pierre Patry
President of Advisory Committee

Pierre Patry is President of Fair-Play’s Advisory Committee.  A retired engineer and entrepreneur, this founder and former CEO of Québec’s engineering consultant firm Soprin now sits on various boards of directors and is serving his first mandate as mayor of Saint-Étienne-de-Bolton, in the Eastern Townships.

Jacques Gauthier
Member of Advisory Committee

Jacques Gauthier is a member of Fair-Play’s Advisory Committee.  He is a lawyer and recently served on VANOC.  This former CEO of Boralex and Kruger is now Senior VP at Dessau and Chief Operating Officer at LVM, a Dessau subsidiary specialized in soil and materials engineering.