Who’s a good boy? All the puppies on the new CBC/CBC Gem series Must Love Dogs, that’s who. Premiering April 20, the 10 episodes feature a couple I met last December at the CBC Broadcast Centre in Toronto – Brady Oliveira and Alex Blumberg. They live in Winnipeg and are very dedicated to rescuing and finding
I first met today’s guest, BC native Benjamin Ayres, in 2010 when he was co-starring with Corner Gas’s Fred Ewanuick on a little Canadian comedy called Dan for Mayor. Ben’s 110 IMDb credits go back even further and show him to be skilled at both comedy and drama with roles in such shot-in-Canada gems as Saving Hope, Less
In this special episode, we go beyond the scandal and into the storytelling of one of the most infamous moments in Olympic sports history with the cast of Hate the Player: The Ben Johnson Story. Hear all star comedy cast members such as Mark McKinney, Andrew Phung, Emma Hunter and others answer tough questions such as
No, that’s not Wilford Brimley on the right in the tie. That is me, in 2018, back when I was invited by executive producer Peter Mitchell to lark about Murdoch Mysteries for a few lines as an early 20th century ticketmaster. The fake stomach was, well, all me at the time. The Lanny McDonald moustache
The streaming service britbox celebrated nine years of service this week with the launch of On The Box: The BritBox Podcast. To help sink your teeth into it, they even sent cookies in the shape of the heads of their hosts, Edith Bowman (BBC Radio 1, Soundtracking) and US comedian Michelle Collins (The View). Hey,
What’s up, doc? Well, for one thing, they are now showing classic Bugs Bunny cartoons on Turner Classic Movies. I first saw these seven-minute miracles back in the 1960s on The Bugs Bunny Road Runner Hour. By the time I was in high school, I used to take the subway downtown in Toronto to check out
It takes more than 22 Minutes to amass 700 episodes of a Canadian TV series — or any North American series for that matter. Saturday Night Live, after 50 years, is inching towards 1000 episodes. (It’s at 991.) The Ed Sullivan Show, from 1948 – ’71, was a really big variety shew for 1,068 Sundays.
On a special mid-week episode of brioux.tv: the podcast, meet Tara Bosch. Like Monday’s podcast guest Jay Klein, she is walking back into the Dragon’s Den a Canadian success story. Both came up with better ways to take sugar out of everyday snacks. Bosch, from Surrey, BC, had a sweet tooth but yearned for a healthier alternative.