Seven hundred episodes of anything is a lot of television. Real Time with Bill Maher reaches that milestone Friday at 10 p.m. ET/PT on HBO and Crave. Maher’s first guest this week is a favourite from the past, Dave Barry. The humour columnist and author is promoting a book titled, “The Memoirs of a Professional
As the finals tick down with two potential games remaining, the quest of The Edmonton Oilers to bring the Stanley Cup back to Canada after a 32-season drought is drawing a little over three million viewers in English Canada. Saturday’s Game 5 hometown loss by Edmonton to The Florida Panthers drew an overnight, estimated total
Early in 2019 when The Big Bang Theory was winding down production after 12 seasons and 279 episodes, I took this photo of series co-creator, writer and executive producer Chuck Lorre. I caught him at a pretty good time. Warner Bros. was naming one of its fabled Burbank soundstages after the series. Lorre scored a
Orangeville, Ont., got even orange-ier Saturday as over three dozen Mrs Ropers romped intro town. The locals all dressed up as outrageous landlady Helen Roper, originally played in all her colourful glory by Audra Lindley. The character was a favourite on Three’s Company (1977-84) and the short-lived ABC spinoff series, The Ropers (1979-80). John Ritter,
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 is so thrilled to be on Matlock — last season’s biggest rookie hit on both Global in Canada and CBS in the US — that he’s been dancing up a storm
The Bell Media Upfront25 held Thursday at Meridian Hall in Toronto may be the best Canadian upfront I’ve ever attended. Bell does it old school. They rent the biggest hall, fly in the most stars and crank up the open bar for the ad community. They have the advantage of going last and thus can
This year’s CBC Upfront presentation was a good one for my SAAB. The Swedish Princess never left the driveway as I stayed home and watched the event on my computer screen. The experience turned out to be longer than the drive in would have been from Orangeville, and the view was just as familiar. CBC
Today would have been Tony Curtis’ 100th birthday. TCM is celebrating with several of the actor’s best films, including “Some Like it Hot,” “Sweet Smell of Success” and “The Defiant Ones.” I met him on a couple of occasions, and asked about one of his more forgotten films. That story and others are part of