One of the best lines ever at a Television Critics Association press tour: Tina Fey was at the podium receiving a TCA Award for her series 30 Rock. She looked out over the gathering and declared that it was a great time to be in broadcast television. “It’s like being in vaudeville in the ’60s.”
People of Comedy: Celebrating 30 Years of the Nubian Show starts streaming April 9 on Crave. It features this week’s bonus guest on brioux.tv: the podcast and one of the true iron men of the Toronto comedy club scene: Kenny Robinson. Since 1983, he’s been performing at YukYuks as well as at Just For Laughs and
If only the real White House was this much fun. If you’ve got eight-and-a-half hours to kill, you could do a lot worse than spend it watching Netflix’s The Residence. If you are a fan of the recent Daniel Craig “Knives Out” films, or mystery movies from the past such as “The Last of Sheila,”
CBC certainly let you know the 2025 Juno Awards were coming. There was host Michael Bublé, in countless promotion spots for well over a month, getting more air time than a Poilievre attack ad chiding Mark Carney for sneaking up on him in the polls. Sneaky! It had to help that the show, broadcast live
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 Calls, the spinoff to the popular period piece drama When Calls the Heart. The shot in Ontario series returns April 6 on Super Channel Heart &
To a generation of TV fans, Richard Chamberlain will always be “Father Ralph.” They knew him best from his second act as “King of the Miniseries.” This was back when Chamberlain, who passed away March 29 (two days before his 91st birthday), headlined such highly rated network dramas as “Centennial” (1978), “Shōgun” 1980), and “The
I have to thank the folks at LateNighter for a cool assignment — explaining and providing a Canadian point of view on the impact of Mike Myers’ “elbow’s up” rallying cry on Saturday Night Live. You can read the full story here. As the credits started to roll, Myers flashed the double-secret “elbows-to-action” signal at
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, the most bendable children’s TV character ever. Read more about this colourful character at the official site Gumbyworld. The interview was conducted ten years