An overnight, estimated 1,867,000 CTV viewers watched the Buffalo Bills lose to the Cincinnati Bengals in NFL Sunday night playoff action. The late afternoon’s disappointing end to the Bills season drew just about the same number of Canadian viewers as the evening prime time NFL playoff game Sunday. That’s where San Francisco 49ers defeated the
Hugh Dillon was sick with worry after hearing of Mayor of Kingstown co-star Jeremy Renner’s recent snow plow accident. The crushing mishap put the Avengers star in the hospital with critical injuries. Dillon’s fears were put to rest after speaking on the phone with Renner. “I knew he was going to be okay because he was just
Probably the only time you ever wish you were a bit older is when you are in Grade Seven. That’s where I was in 1969. That summer, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young played their second-ever gig — at Woodstock. I was not at Woodstock. I was in Etobicoke. At Our Lady of Peace elementary school
This special Thursday premiere on brioux.tv: the podcast features a hilarious and enlightening conversation with Chuck Tatham, one of the executive producers of this Sunday’s CBC documentary, “Offside: The Harold Ballard Story.” Tathan hails from Listowel, Ont., in southwestern Ontario — a remote farm town that is pretty much acknowledged as the blueprint for Letterkenny.
For the second week in a row Ginny & Georgia was the most-watched series on Netflix in Canada. Created by Sarah Lampert, the dramedy was in the Top 10 in 88 countries. Season 2 logged 162.72M hours viewed January 9-15, with Season 1 right behind in 2nd place in Canada, edging out the 11th season
I don’t think I ever met anyone who had a bad word to say about David Onley. The Citytv television journalist and former Lieutenant Governor of Ontario died January 15 in Toronto. He was 72. Onley was stricken with Polio at the age of three, resulting in partial paralysis. Starting his on-camera career in 1984
The NBC western Bonanza ended a thirteen-and-a-half season run on this date in January of 1973 – 50 years ago today. I was reminded of the milestone by someone who should know: Andrew J. Klyde, archivist, historian and attorney for Bonanza Ventures which controls merchandising and licensing worldwide for the series. Bonanza had been one
The Toronto Maple Leafs have not won the Stanley Cup since 1967. The reason? Two words: Harold Ballard. The curmudgeonly owner ruined the team in the ’70s and ’80s with a tight-fisted reign of error that played out almost daily in that era’s sports pages. The man who caused Leaf’s captain Darryl Sittler to rip