You were probaby expecting me to post a review of the new AppleTV+ documentary about Steve Martin before it premiered. Well excuuuuse me! It took me a few extra days to get around to it, but I have seen both parts of STEVE! (martin) a documentary in 2 pieces. Part One, “Then,” features his rise
The 2024 Juno Awards drew an average audience of 672,000 viewers ages two and up in live, overnight viewers Sunday night on CBC. That number includes data coupled with the live and encore broadcast that airs in Pacific and Mountain time zones. That has the 53rd annual Canadian music industry salute climbing 36 per cent
Very few scripted dramatic TV shows have ever attempted to mount a full-blown musical episode. Certainly Dallas never did it. Mad Man sent off Bert Cooper in style when, in a fantasy sequence, Robert Morse took a career-ending bow singing, “The Best Things in Life are Free.” Even Don Draper was speechless. But full blown
Never say Murdoch Mysteries does not take chances. In its 17th season, the popular CBC series presents, as far as I can remember, a first for a Canadian TV drama — an all musical episode. Writer Paul Aitken had had the idea for years. Helene Joy (Dr. Julia Ogden) always wanted to do it. Yannick
There is no more beautiful venue for an annual media festival than the one held every June in breathtaking Banff, Alberta. Festivals have had it tough in recent years; witness the shocking news that Montreal will not host a Just for Laughs comedy event this summer for the first time in memory, certainly no laughing
Carol Burnett, who turns 91 next month, says she had no hesitation in joining Kristen Wiig, Laura Dern, Ricky Martin and others as a recurring star in the new dramedy Palm Royale. The series is streaming now at AppleTV+. “All I had to do is hear who was going to be in it,” she told
Listen up, wrestlemaniacs. This week’s guest on brioux.tv: the podcast is none other than Trish Stratus, back for a third season — starting tonight, Tuesday, March 19 — on Citytv’s two-hour season premiere of Canada’s Got Talent. The eight-time World Wrestling Entertainment champion and WWE Hall of Famer is back as a bad girl after
I seemed to be in the minority among TV critics last month in Pasadena during the Television Critics Assocation’s semi-annual press tour. I was not so knocked out with Palm Royale. The 10-part dramedy begins streaming Wednesday on AppleTV+. Maybe for me its that old bugaboo, “dramedy.” Is it simply not funny enough to be