The Negotiator is a crime series that played TVA every Monday at 9 pm in 2005 and 2006 and Fridays at 9 pm in 2008. It is inspired by the facts experienced by Claude Poirier, rewritten by screenwriter Danielle Dansereau. In 1970 in Montreal, a man named Michel-André Cloutier was present during a murder and called the police immediately. He later became the host of a news bulletin for radio station CJKM. Seeing the reports he broadcasts, criminals want to confide in him. Michel-André Cloutier becomes the negotiator.