BRAMPTON, Ont. — A tradition of futile joke-telling has ended in Canada. In the wake of John Doyle’s decision to stop reviewing television at The Globe and Mail, fellow journalist Bill Brioux has vowed to no longer tell his favourite joke. It generally appeared on Twitter and went like this: “Babylon 5, Leafs Nothing,” or,
Do not adjust your set. Tonight’s episode of Murdoch Mysteries is shot in sensational black and white. It is a milestone episode, the 250th of the popular CBC drama, which is halfway through its 16th season. After tonight, the series will sit out the holiday season as CBC goes wall-to-wall Christmas right through until January.
As a young Toronto school teacher, Linda Schuyler decided to introduce her Grade 8 students to the art of filmmaking. As it says on the inside flap of her new book, “The Mother of all Degrassi: A Memoir” (ECW Press), this was a momentous decision. “It set in motion a career of storytelling for an
Imagine if this fall CBS or Netflix or anybody had launched a sitcom about a group of office workers in one of the upper floors of the World Trade Center — and had set it in the year 2001. No one would dare, right? Yet, in 1965, just twenty years after the end of World
To no one’s surprise, the fifth season of The Crown shot right to the top of the weekly Netflix Top-10 in Canada, the US and The UK, as well as several other countries. It got there with no help from me. I haven’t started to stream it yet, and I’m about as excited about the
Actors and actresses from When Calls the Heart have been among the most-listened to guests in the three years since brioux.tv: the podcast was launched. Clearly, “Hearties” are everywhere, and in Canada they subscribe to Super Channel. The service has a fascinating history. Think of how the media landscape has lurched from one disruption to another this
At the 9:09 mark of the pilot episode of Tulsa King, Sylvester Stallone knocks out his first palooka. It’s a clean right cross, boom, lights out. And why not? As Mafia capo Dwight “The General” Manfredi, he’s got every right to be a little testy. He just served 25 years in a Philly slammer, “definitely
There were some shakeups on the Netflix chart this week as Inside Man premiered in the No. 2 spot overall. The four-episode, BBC-Netflix co-production is about an American death row prisoner with a sideline in solving mysteries (played by Stanley Tucci) helping a young British journalist (David Tennant) search for a missing friend. Season 4