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
Rogers Sports & Media unveiled their Upfront 2025 sizzle reel Tuesday and it flew by in 45 briskly-paced minutes. It went by so fast, in fact, it was easy to miss that one of their tent pole Canadian shows of the past four seasons was missing. Confirmed later by a Citytv spokesperson: Canada’s Got Talent
The theme to the Corus Entertainment 2025 Upfront Monday in Toronto was “Next Level.” Coincidentally, that is also where the banks have downgraded their financial status. Since there is no Jimmy Kimmel at the Canadian upfronts, I’m forced to make the mean jokes at the network’s expense. The elephant in the room, of course, is
This has been going on for months now, half a year at least. Every time Donald Trump burps out another middle-of-the-night tweet or lurches into another Oval offside about Canada becoming the “51st State,” the fiercest pushback comes during the opening monologues of at least half a dozen US late night talk shows. The folks