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Sep 28, 2026 · 25:24
Send us Fan Mail As a TV beat reporter with an eye on the ratings, I never could understand why the Global television network walked away from their top-rated Canadian original…
Sep 21, 2026 · 38:35
Send us Fan Mail Back in the ‘70s there was this hippie musical Godspell that ran for over a year in Toronto. The cast was mainly unknown at the time but wouldn’t stay that way…
Sep 7, 2026 · 33:57
Send us Fan Mail As George Harrison once said, all things must pass. Which brings us to the fifth and final season of Son of a Critch, the CBC sitcom based on the early life of…
Aug 17, 2026 · 56:47
Send us Fan Mail This week on brioux.tv: the podcast, meet a former child star who continues to impress -- Kathy Garver, best known for playing oldest sibling Cissy on Family…
Aug 10, 2026 · 48:54
Send us Fan Mail For Part Two of my conversation with "Programming Insider" Marc Berman, we continue with the back half of the Critics Quiz. What was the scariest thing you ever…
Aug 3, 2026 · 50:38
Send us Fan Mail If you are reading this, you probably already follow Marc Berman, a.k.a. "Mister Television." In 1997, while at Mediaweek, Marc created The Programming Insider,…
Jul 27, 2026 · 38:49
Send us Fan Mail Back in 2008, I had the pleasure of interviewing Peter Lassally, then winding up his extraordinary career in late night as executive producer of The Late, Late…
Jul 13, 2026 · 46:31
Send us Fan Mail In 2022 I had the good fortune to welcome Ronnie Schell as a guest on this podcast. Schell was a familiar face and voice on TV for decades, most prominently as…
Jul 6, 2026 · 47:44
Send us Fan Mail In Part II of this two-part conversation, retired Globe and Mail TV columnist John Doyle returns to talk a little bit more about soccer but mostly about our…
Jun 29, 2026 · 45:39
Send us Fan Mail Can it be? Is that our John Doyle making sense of The World Cup in The Toronto Star? The former TV columnist at The Globe and Mail has come out of retirement to…
Jun 22, 2026 · 55:43
Send us Fan Mail Yes, TV is Good. ABC declared it back in the '90s in their press materials. Now Alan Sepinwall has used the slogan as the name of his new podcast , where he is…
Jun 15, 2026 · 43:13
Send us Fan Mail There has been a lot of talk lately that talk shows, as we know them, are too expensive to last. The big band, the studio audience, the nightly monologue -- they…
May 25, 2026 · 53:12
Send us Fan Mail This Saturday, May 30 at 12 noon, over 100 people in brightly-coloured orange wigs and vivid caftans will be storming Orangeville, Ont's city hall. Demanding…
May 18, 2026 · 48:31
Send us Fan Mail World's collide as the talky half of Jay and Silent Bob meets Murdoch Mysteries . Yes, it turns out that Jason Mewes, Kevin Smith's pal since Clerks , is a…
May 11, 2026 · 34:20
Send us Fan Mail Please welcome a veteran sports reporter and host who, in my opinion, has been better on his feet and in the moment than anybody else in a rink or on a field.…
May 4, 2026 · 31:43
Send us Fan Mail With the recent passing of Dinah Christie at 83 we go back into the vault for my 2014 conversation with the beloved Canadian entertainer. Always a welcome…
Apr 20, 2026 · 52:55
Send us Fan Mail Adam Growe is happy to be back behind the wheel of Cash Cab for a 10th season (airing Wednesdays on MUCH and streaming on Crave). Raised in Vancouver, the…
Apr 13, 2026 · 29:24
Send us Fan Mail Who’s a good boy? All the puppies on the new CBC/CBC Gem series Must Love Dogs , that’s who. Premiering April 20, the 10 episodes feature a couple I met last…
Apr 6, 2026 · 47:29
Send us Fan Mail I first met today’s guest, BC native Benjamin Ayres, in 2010 when he was co-starring with Corner Gas ’s Fred Ewanuick on a little Canadian comedy called Dan for…
Mar 30, 2026 · 43:20
Send us Fan Mail In this special episode, we go beyond the scandal and into the storytelling of one of the most infamous moments in Olympic sports history with the cast of Hate…
Mar 23, 2026 · 47:31
Send us Fan Mail For over 300 episodes, Debi Drennan has been applying makeup to Yannick Bisson and all the leading actors on Murdoch Mysteries . She even works on bit players,…
Mar 9, 2026 · 1:14:34
Send us Fan Mail What’s up, doc? Well, for one thing, they are now showing classic Bugs Bunny cartoons on Turner Classic Movies. I first saw these seven-minute miracles back in…
Mar 2, 2026 · 40:26
Send us Fan Mail Seven hundred episodes of a Canadian TV series? Aside from Hockey Night in Canada , what could this be? Well, on Tuesday, March 3, CBC will air the 700th episode…
Feb 26, 2026 · 34:22
Send us Fan Mail On a special mid-week episode of brioux.tv: the podcast, meet Tara Bosch. Like Monday's podcast guest Jay Klein, she is walking back into the Dragon's Den a…
Feb 23, 2026 · 40:34
Send us Fan Mail Some of us just chew gum. While he was chewing it over, however, Jay Klein thought: how can I make gum better? Klein is the founder and CEO of PÜR, a brand…
Feb 9, 2026 · 43:13
Send us Fan Mail Who is that on the flight deck of the Starship Athena? Why it is none other than Raoul Bhaneja who has boldly gone on to wow audiences across Canada on stages as…
Feb 2, 2026 · 24:47
Send us Fan Mail The former Baronesses are back as Jennifer Whalen and Meredith MacNeill launch into Season Two of Small Achievable Goals (Tuesday nights on CBC; also streaming…
Jan 26, 2026 · 39:42
Send us Fan Mail Barbara Williams first media job was as a receptionist at the all-news radio station CKO. She quickly rose up the ranks, eventually becoming President of Shaw…
Jan 19, 2026 · 50:15
Send us Fan Mail In Part Two of my look at the return of Saint Pierre meet Robina Lord-Stafford. Not only does she have one of the coolest names in Canadian television, she is…
Jan 12, 2026 · 28:50
Send us Fan Mail At the start of this conversation recorded before Christmas at the CBC broadcast centre in Toronto, Allan Hawco reminded me that I've been tailing him for 20…
Jan 5, 2026 · 30:47
Send us Fan Mail One actor/comedian I have had on my most sought-after list since this venture began in 2019 is my guest this week on brioux.tv : the podcast. Jonny Harris just…
Dec 29, 2025 · 31:53
Send us Fan Mail Did you hear about the lady lawyer who dropped her briefs and became a solicitor? No? Me neither but BC-born Kayla Wallace plays the kick-ass law shark on…
Dec 22, 2025 · 39:38
Send us Fan Mail The year 2025 has certainly been a good year to stand up for Canada. Who better to turn that mission into a TV special than Rick Mercer? The former This Hour has…
Dec 15, 2025 · 48:28
Send us Fan Mail Here is something I've been working on for a while -- a video podcast salute to a true TV pioneer: David Boreanaz, Sr. If you grew up in the '60s or '70s you may…
Dec 8, 2025 · 1:16:34
Send us Fan Mail Dick Van Dyke really has had the time of his life. Celebrate his centennial with three friends of the podcast: former New York Times TV critic Bill Carter, Dick…
Nov 10, 2025 · 26:01
Send us Fan Mail Some actors are thrilled to land a role on a TV series that lasts six or 13 episodes. Then there are Melody Thomas Scott and Peter Bergman. As all soap fans…
Oct 27, 2025 · 53:49
Send us Fan Mail Who is this lawyer writing and producing hit medical dramas? He is David Shore, who got his start in Canada writing for Traders before crossing the border as a…
Oct 20, 2025 · 32:57
Send us Fan Mail Twelve years after their storyline wrapped on NCIS, Cote de Pablo and Michael Weatherly have reunited as their crowd-pleasing characters on NCIS: Tony & Ziva. As…
Oct 8, 2025 · 36:22
Send us Fan Mail Ryan Reynolds said he just didn't want to live in a world without a John Candy documentary. So he produced one, and it's a beauty. "John Candy: I Like Me"…
Oct 6, 2025 · 1:06:28
Send us Fan Mail Former New York Times television columnist and bestselling author Bill Carter joins me for a wide open discussion about the White House attack on late night talk…
Sep 29, 2025 · 22:25
Send us Fan Mail Have you ever made a bucket list of places around the world you'd like to visit? Eugene Levy did for Season Three of The Reluctant Traveler , streaming now on…
Sep 22, 2025 · 1:04:36
Send us Fan Mail In the '60s, Dini Petty broke ground with Toronto radio station CKEY as Canada's first female traffic reporter to fly solo in a helicopter. After 5,000 hours in…
Sep 15, 2025 · 1:06:08
Send us Fan Mail The Blue Ant founder and CEO and former Alliance Atlantis chief rang the bell earlier this month on the Toronto Stock Exchange. His company's reverse takeover of…
Sep 8, 2025 · 1:07:50
Send us Fan Mail Where do documentary filmmakers go to find that historic clip or interview nobody else has? Many turn to the CBC Archives in Toronto. The vast, climate…
Sep 2, 2025 · 49:22
Send us Fan Mail If you've already listened to Part 1 of my conversation with writer-producer-podcaster Frank Santopadre, you just know there was more to explore. This is the…
Sep 2, 2025 · 52:35
Send us Fan Mail If you are a fan of comedy, film, television, movies, music, or even Bazooka Joe bubble gum jokes, join me this week in conversation with Frank Santopadre. For…
Aug 25, 2025 · 42:47
Send us Fan Mail I went into the vault this week to create a 3-Pack of favourite TV stars from the '60s. Two are from interviews conducted in 1997 at a Hollywood Collectors…
Aug 4, 2025 · 48:11
Send us Fan Mail Back in the 1950s and '60s, every Sunday night, families would gather around their living room TV and watch The Ed Sullivan Show . The variety hour ran 23…
Jul 7, 2025 · 41:45
Send us Fan Mail Meet the star of the new series Pretty Blind . As described in her AMI-tv bio, Jennie Bovard is a running, beer-drinking, thirtysomething with albinism. She…
Jun 30, 2025 · 1:03:27
Send us Fan Mail Here is why Jonathan Torrens is the perfect Canada Day Weekend podcast guest: As a producer, he is behind two new Canadian TV comedies: Pretty Blind , starring…
Jun 23, 2025 · 1:04:01
Send us Fan Mail In the digital age, the question is not only which tools are still available to support Canadian content production but which ones are still relevant. One with…
Jun 16, 2025 · 41:47
Send us Fan Mail By far, the biggest name in TV sitcoms this century has been Chuck Lorre. This June, when I saw that he was going to be a keynote speaker at the Banff World…
Jun 9, 2025 · 24:12
Send us Fan Mail Jason Ritter is my guest this week on brioux.tv: the podcast. I spoke with the 45-year-old actor recently at the Corus Entertainment Upfront in Toronto. Ritter…
Jun 2, 2025 · 1:03:22
Send us Fan Mail This 200th episode of brioux.tv: the podcast features a SCTV original who remains one of my favourite people to interview -- Dave Thomas. On this, our third…
Apr 28, 2025 · 38:53
Send us Fan Mail People who work television's morning shift could be forgiven for being a tad grumpy. That's never the case with Tim Bolen, who recently made the leap from…
Apr 21, 2025 · 1:00:46
Send us Fan Mail My guest this episode is an executive producer who helped guide Schitt’s Creek to a canoe full of Emmy and CSA awards. He’s currently one of the executive…
Apr 14, 2025 · 49:28
Send us Fan Mail Bummed your invitation to Martin Short's cottage in the Muskokas was evidently lost in the mail? Save yourself the long drive and listen to this week's episode…
Apr 7, 2025 · 49:05
Send us Fan Mail Jay Leno is Jay-walking his way back to Canada. The former Tonight Show host, who turns 75 in May, will join fellow late night rival Arsenio Hall as comedy…
Apr 4, 2025 · 50:03
Send us Fan Mail People of Comedy: Celebrating 30 Years of the Nubian Show starts streaming April 9 on Crave. It features this week's guest on brioux.tv: the podcast and one of…
Mar 31, 2025 · 26:09
Send us Fan Mail These days it is not unusual for fans to wait over a year for a second season of their favourite series. But five years?? That is the situation for When Hope…
Mar 24, 2025 · 43:12
Send us Fan Mail For this episode we go back into the vault for an interview conducted ten years ago with Joe Clokey. He was the son of the man who created and animated Gumby,…
Mar 17, 2025 · 47:50
Send us Fan Mail Ali Weinstein is the writer/producer/director behind "Your Tomorrow," a look at Ontario Place the summer before it was shut down after 52 years. For over five…
Mar 3, 2025 · 1:01:57
Send us Fan Mail Podcasts were invented for guests such as Malcolm McDowell. He is a smart, funny, generous man and as terrific as ever as Pop on CBC's Son of a Critch . This…
Feb 24, 2025 · 25:25
Send us Fan Mail Two of the four Baroness Von Sketch Show players, Jennifer Whalen and Meredith MacNeill, are back with a new CBC series -- and it's a period piece! The series is…
Feb 17, 2025 · 1:05:07
Send us Fan Mail Claire Rankin says she's waited "a really long time...to land something like this." The PEI native is talking about her role as Mary on Son of a Critch . How she…
Feb 10, 2025 · 56:15
Send us Fan Mail Saturday Night Live is celebrating the big 5-0. Who better to put it in perspective than the Canadian writer who was there at the start. On this special…
Feb 6, 2025 · 41:45
Send us Fan Mail OK, Hearties, here he is, Jack Wagner who plays Bill Avery on When Calls the Heart . The former soap star has played the sheriff-turned-judge character for 12…
Feb 3, 2025 · 26:26
Send us Fan Mail If ever we needed some candid talk from Rick Mercer, we need it now. The CBC Hall of Famer didn't hold back when I spoke with him last summer in St. John's on…
Jan 27, 2025 · 31:18
Send us Fan Mail This episode is the second to feature a cast member from Season 4 of Son of a Critch : none other than the son himself, Benjamin Evan Ainsworth. Ainsworth, of…
Jan 19, 2025 · 24:11
Send us Fan Mail Monday January 20 is inauguration day in the US. So everybody raise your right hand, and for those listening here at home, hang onto those Canadian passports. A…
Jan 13, 2025 · 38:40
Send us Fan Mail The second season of the slick crime series Allegiance begins January 15 on CBC and CBC Gem. The shot-in-Surrey, B.C., drama stars Supinder Wraich ( Sort Of ),…
Jan 6, 2025 · 42:33
Send us Fan Mail No man is an island. Allan Hawco's new series, however, is shot and set on an archipelago of eight islands represented by the French government off the coast of…
Dec 30, 2024 · 59:15
Send us Fan Mail This Hour has, well, not just 22 Minutes but a full hour as I catch up with Mark Critch, this week's guest on brioux.tv: the podcast. The conversation was taped…
Dec 18, 2024 · 28:20
Send us Fan Mail Genevieve Mushaluk, a 33-year-old corporate lawyer from Winnipeg, Manitoba, had her torch snuffed on last week’s two-hour, second-last episode of Survivor.…
Dec 16, 2024 · 38:01
Send us Fan Mail My guest this week has made over three dozen made for television movies, She also headlined Hallmark’s Aurora Teagarden series. Before that, as a child star, she…
Dec 9, 2024 · 57:36
Send us Fan Mail If you work in this industry you know how hard it is to keep ahead in a world that always seems to be pivoting. Streaming, fast channels, multi-platform media…
Dec 2, 2024 · 28:51
Send us Fan Mail As we head into another frigid Canadian winter we bring you a podcast about a series that is set and shot in the hottest part of Australia. The series is called…
Nov 25, 2024 · 50:14
Send us Fan Mail After 31 years as host of The Fifth Estate , plus another decade winning Emmys for CBS and NBC News, award-winning investigative journalist Bob McKeown is ready…
Nov 22, 2024 · 41:18
Send us Fan Mail Tyler and Jordie Schwartz started their business of selling retro toys and gifts in 2007 as the Canadian Leg Lamp Company. The idea came after shooting their fan…
Nov 18, 2024 · 50:53
Send us Fan Mail When Jess Salgueiro auditioned in person for the role of Eve on Frasier, she had to do it in front of a pair of sitcom legends: Kelsey Grammer and director Jim…
Nov 11, 2024 · 40:10
Send us Fan Mail Stop me if you've seen this kind of Hallmark series before: an enterprising and attractive single woman (Sarah Drew from Grey's Anatomy ) owns a Christmas store…
Nov 4, 2024 · 1:12:16
Send us Fan Mail If only The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour was still around to help us through another turbulent US Presidential election. Pat Paulsen -- where are you when we…
Oct 28, 2024 · 52:43
Send us Fan Mail In Part 2 of my conversation with Ken Levine, more evidence that the Emmy-winner is one of TV's top storytellers. One of my favourite episodes from his excellent…
Oct 21, 2024 · 48:31
Send us Fan Mail What hasn't Ken Levine done? He's an Emmy-winning screenwriter who has -- with writing partner David Issacs -- written for some of television's best comedies.…
Oct 14, 2024 · 17:15
Send us Fan Mail This past spring, the CBS action-drama Tracker became an instant hit, emerging as the No. 1 US network series of the season. On this episode, I speak with the…
Oct 7, 2024 · 32:38
Send us Fan Mail When you’ve been busy creating, writing and starring in TV shows and films for a couple of decades, who has time for a hobby? That’s been the case for Mark…
Sep 30, 2024 · 39:07
Send us Fan Mail The first scene of the new Fox and Global series Murder in a Small Town is set at that most sacred of Canadian television landmarks: the diner from The…
Sep 23, 2024 · 1:13:23
Send us Fan Mail Ever wonder what it was like to be in Studio 8H opening night in 1975 on Saturday Night Live ? Director Jason Reitman wondered and his new movie, "Saturday…
Sep 18, 2024 · 46:00
Send us Fan Mail TV schedules and programs are like the places where we live. Sometimes they need somebody to come in a do a thorough de-cluttering. As CBC's Dragon's Den heads…
Sep 9, 2024 · 48:03
Send us Fan Mail After a two year wait, our long national farmhouse facelift crisis is over! Designer/contractor siblings Carolyn Wilbrink and Billy Pearson are back with a new,…
Aug 19, 2024 · 24:01
Send us Fan Mail About two hours northeast of Toronto stands The Highlands Cinemas, a hand made movie palace carved out of cedars and mosquitoes. Every summer for 40 years,…
Jul 29, 2024 · 51:20
Send us Fan Mail Hugh Wilson talked his way into a job at MTM Enterprises at just the right time. When he arrived in the early '70s, they were busy making sitcom history with The…
Jul 22, 2024 · 1:00:01
Send us Fan Mail The death of comedy legend Bob Newhart July 18 had me scrambling for this "From the Vault" conversation with Bill Daily. Daily was one of Newhart's oldest…
Jul 15, 2024 · 47:31
Send us Fan Mail Welcome to a faster, higher, stronger podcast episode This week’s guest, Scott Russell, has medalled for years in Olympic Games coverage. He’s off to France for…
Jul 8, 2024 · 33:55
Send us Fan Mail In a spectacular career that's gone everywhere from The Streets of San Francisco to "Wall Street" and beyond, two-time Oscar winner Michael Douglas currently…
Jul 1, 2024 · 35:40
Send us Fan Mail Man it was fun heading down to Niagara last October and catching up with Ron James. He was shooting season two of his comedy series 1 Man's Treasure , which is…
Jun 24, 2024 · 1:05:09
Send us Fan Mail The licensing of American specialty brands in Canada went all WWE in June as Rogers swooped in and wrestled away rights to The Food Network and HGTV brands,…
Jun 17, 2024 · 1:17:45
Send us Fan Mail As "Toad" in "American Graffiti," Charles Martin Smith took playing the school nerd to new heights. Over 50 years later, the California-born actor-director…
Jun 10, 2024 · 27:55
Send us Fan Mail Hugh Dillon is a man of many talents, including acting, writing and rocking -- the latter done with his band, Headstones. The acting writing and producing skills…
Jun 3, 2024 · 33:36
Send us Fan Mail Here is another conversation I had in May at the CBC Media Upfront on Toronto. Allan Hawco and Josephine Jobert -- stars of the upcoming CBC series Saint-Pierre…
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