Mr. Manatane's notebooks

Parodic news programme focusing on the fictional country Groland (full name: Presipality of Groland), airing on French television channel Canal+.

Maximum tension in the Fontella household: father and son are both facing life-changing moments. Michel Fontella, the father, has a crucial meeting with his boss in hopes of landing the coveted position of regional director at Juhel Bank. Meanwhile, his son, Adam Fontella, is about to visit a dream apartment he’s determined to move into.

Individualism, pride, greed, hatred of one's fellow man, God is exasperated by Men and decides, motivated by a St. Peter who is a bit on edge, to sound the time of the Apocalypse! But before throwing fireballs at those he made in his image, he gives men one last chance and chooses to send back to Earth... the Messiah. His son, Jesus. To finish the only job he had asked him to do 2000 years ago, to remove the sin from the world. A mission that Jesus had screwed up rather well by ending up in his underwear nailed to a cross. So Jesus has to come back down to Earth to save mankind. Except that he's not motivated.

30 years ago, Jules-Edouard Moustic and his team imagined Groland, a fictional country, the scene of a series of humorous programs aimed at parodying national and international news.