Fire up the Tiki torch and pass the Doritos: Genevieve Mushaluk, a 33-year-old corporate lawyer from Winnipeg, Manitoba, had her torch snuffed on last week’s two-hour, second-last episode of Survivor 47. After finally winning an immunity challenge on the second-last episode in a diving, swimming and puzzle-solving competition, Mushaluk was also able to partake in
My guest this week has made over three dozen made for television movies, She also headlined Hallmark’s Aurora Teagarden series. Before that, as a child star, she was part of the long-running TGIF family series, Full House, as well as its streaming sequel, Fuller House. Of course I’m talking about Candace Cameron Bure. In 2022, she broke away
The CBC held its “Winter 2025” Media Day Thursday in Toronto. It was, as usual, well run and smartly organized, with plenty of access to the talent associated with shows either launching or returning starting early in January. Plus, yes, there was lunch. The public broadcaster’s No. 1 hit comedy Son of a Critch, which
Since the dawn of television, viewers have always wanted to be amazed. One who knew this was George Joseph Kresge, Jr., a.k.a. The Amazing Keskin. Billed as a mentalist with special powers of perception, Kreskin (born in 1935 in New Jersey) was one of those amazing TV distractions that tickled viewers in the late ’60s
If you think Blue Ant refers to your aunt Betty who lives in Los Angeles and voted for Kamala Harris, have we got an episode for you. One of the top execs at Canada’s Blue Ant Media is my guest this week at brioux.tv: the podcast. If you work in this industry you know how
Today is my mom Margaret Brioux’s 100th birthday. I love my mom, and am amazed at her longevity, but this website being about television, what’s the tie-in? Well, there have been a few, so allow me to get a bit personal this post. Maragret Rose McCarroll Brioux pretty much pre-dates television. Even in her native
If you believe that those who fail to study history are doomed to repeat it, this is probably a very good time to watch Churchill at War. You can’t help but watch and not think: with dictatorships would-be kings and other autocratic leaders ascending to power around the world, where is the Churchill of today?
Charlie Brown and Snoopy and the original Peanuts gang have survived nerly 60 years in television. The original animated half-hour holiday special, A Charlie Brown Christmas, premiered on Dec. 23, 1965. I was eight that Christmas and already a devoted Peanuts follower. I used to clip Charle’s Schultz’s comic strip out of the Toronto Star