Pleased to be in several newspapers and web sites today, including The Toronto Star, reporting for The Canadian Press on the early response by TV viewers to the 2020 Olympic Summer Games fro Tokyo. Despite a 13-hour time difference from Tokyo to Toronto, CBC’s live morning coverage and prime time replays are starting to gather
How lucky am I to have a conversation with Bill Persky, the Emmy-winnng writer-producer of, among many other things TV-related, The Dick Van Dyke Show. The spry 89-year-old New Yorker is the latest guest on brioux.tv: the podcast. (Listen now at the link above.) He’s pretty sure that he is the last remaining writer from
The one and only time I encountered Jackie Mason in person he was selling Chicken Soup. Not the dish; the TV show. Co-starring the English actress Lynn Redgrave as his Irish Catholic girlfriend, Chicken Soup cast Mason as what he was at the time, a middle-aged Jewish man with a droll but searing sense of
A quick programming note on a series starting today, Thursday, July 22: Ultra City Smiths (AMC+). This is an animated comedy series for adults from some of the people behind Robot Chicken. It focuses on a pair of detectives who are, like all the characters on this show, made up of baby doll parts. Listen
On this day in 1969, at 2:56:15 AM (GMT), Neil Armstrong became the first person to step onto the Moon. I’m up at the cottage this week, half unplugged, so here’s a giant leap into the brioux.tv archives — a replay of a salute I wrote to Armstrong, who passed away at 82 in 2012:
The weekly English Canada Top 30 Total TV ratings for July 5-11 were released Tuesday by the Canadian data company Numeris. The final two games of the 2021 Stanley Cup hockey finals are on the list. If you combine the number of viewers who watched Tampa Bay triumph over Montreal on CBC, Sportsnet and TVA,
What, exactly, is “Schmigadoon”? Well, it is a parody of iconic Broadway musicals from the ’40s and ’50s — big shows such as “Brigadoon” and “Oklahoma” — updated and diversified for 21st century audiences. Think of it as more of a deconstruct than a parody suggests Keegan-Michael Key, who is paired with Saturday Night Live‘s
“Holy shit is right, Devi,” I had almost forgotten one of the most delightful aspects of Never Have I Ever — the fact that it is narrated by John McEnroe — until I started watching the second season’s first episode. All ten new episodes are up now on Netflix. Let the binging begin. The former