Have to admit I’m cheered to see Netflix’s Harry & Meghan infomercial docuseries did not immediately vault into the No. 1 spot on Netflix’s most-viewed weekly Top-10 series. The Addams Family spinoff Wednesday continues to haunt the No. 1 spot after three weeks. Meanwhile, another series giving the royal family a royal pain, the fifth
Mary Walsh is a marvel. At 70, the Order of Canada recipient has more on the go than Marg Delahunty at a Pierre Poilievre rally. Walsh says she was born to play the tart-tongued older “Missus” living downstairs from a sad sack young bachelor in the very funny comedy The Missus Downstairs. The award-winning series is
Some viewers can be forgiven if they thought they’d seen the last of JANN, Jann Arden’s self-mocking sitcom. It has been a full year since the last episode of Season 3 aired, and there was nary a peep from CTV’s promotional department last June when the 2022-2023 season was unveiled. A nice surprise then to
If you thought Pluto TV was something you’d only find on Disney+, don’t be Goofy. Pluto TV, which hails from the same U.S.-based media giant as Paramount+ and CBS, is actually the world’s leading FAST (free ad-supported streaming television) service. It made its debut in Canada December 1, with a very compelling four word pitch:
Wednesday, the high school-set series spun off from The Addams Family franchise, continues in the top spot among shows watched this past week in Canada on Netflix. Nice to see, however, a Canadian-born actress among the stars of the show right behind in second: Firefly Lane. Sarah Chalke, the Ottawa-born actress best known for Roseanne
Tuesday, January 12, 2005 was not a red letter day in the history of the Television Critics Association. On that day, a press panel was held for the Showtime series Fat Actress. The title character was played by Kirstie Alley, who died Monday following a short battle with cancer. She was 71. Alley’s big show
In the three-year history of brioux.tv: the podcast, by far the most downloaded episode has been a conversation I had two years ago with Murdoch Mysteries star Yannick Bisson. The actor is back to talk about “Baking All the Way,” a new Super Channel Heart & Home original he stars in and directs this holiday season. The
This blog you are reading began 15 year and 4,718 posts ago this very week. When I launched brioux.tv in 2007 it was called, “TV Feeds My Family.” The family all grew up and left (and grew by on son-in-law). The blog grew as well, especially with the addition of sponsors as well as an