This has been a transitional year for the Television Critics Associiation. It was finally acknowledged that the semi-annual press tour, or “the Bataan death march with cocktails” as veteran scribes called it, was, like late night television, viewed by the networks as no longer financially supportable. To paraphrase Tina Fey at one of our award
As friends and readers of brioux.tv may know, I’ve been collecting 16mm films for many years. Sixteen millimeter is the width of film shown on those large reels shown in classrooms in the 1960s and ’70s. Some boomers may remember this as “nap time.” I have around two thousand films in my collection, which, believe
Today, August 15, 2025, would have been Oscar Peterson’s 100th birthday. The Canadian jazz piano phenomenon, who passed away at 82 in 2007, won eight Grammy awards. He is celebrated in a wonderful documentary titled, “Oscar Peterson: Black + White.” Released in 2021 and directed by Barry Avrich, the COVID-era tribute features many musicians who
I grew up with the classic Match Game daytime series, the one Gene Rayburn hosted with that telescoping mic. It featured Bret Summers, Charles Nelson Reilly and Richard Dawson, all served on a bed of orange shag carpeting. A decade ago a revival featured Alec Baldwin as host, complete with that goofy antenna mic. The
Mark Maron’s WTF podcast has been essential listening for me ever since the COVID pandemic. He’s been at it since way before that, sixteen years in fact. His peers consider him the O.G. of podcasting. His decision to shut things down come October, podcast wise, has nothing to do with the title of his new
I met Loni Anderson 20 years ago in Los Angeles on a Television Critics Association press tour. It was at a cable network event that took place at the Universal Hilton. Other stars, including Wayne Newton and George Hamilton were in the room. It was cool meeting those guys as well but Anderson stood out
Every Sunday night back in the 1950s and ’60s families would gather around their living room TV and watch The Ed Sullivan Show. The variety hour ran 23 seasons, ending 54 years ago in 1971. Now streaming on Netflix, the documentary Sunday Best: The Untold Story of Ed Sullivan is not just another “best of” blast of nostalgia.
When I interviewed this century’s most successful creator of sitcoms — Chuck Lorre — earlier this summer for a podcast, I asked if he had any new shows coming up. He immediately singled out Leanne, which premiered Thursday on Netflix. All 16 first-season episode are available now. Lorre, who has worked with some pretty fair