This week’s guest on brioux.tv: the podcast is the always charming and hilarious Sabrina Jalees. She can currently be seen in two summer TV shows — Farming for Love (Sunday nights on CTV) and Roast Battle Canada (Mondays on CTV Comedy). What’s next? Dyeing her hair gray and replacing Lisa Laflamme on the CTV News? Sabrina
It doesn’t take long for Emma Hunter’s frisky DJ Nora to jump back into action on Moonshine (CBC; The CW). As Season Three begins, she’s having sex in a car with her police officer boyfriend (played by James Gilbert). Sorry, America. You won’t see that scene in the U.S. Hunter’s auto erotic antics, as well as the
Did you hear Part One of this conversation with Can-Am TV writer/producer/showrunner Hart Hanson? We left off right as he was making the career jump from Canada to Hollywood. Part Two is packed with stories from the U.S. network TV trenches. After shepherding both Joan of Arcadia and Judging Amy, Hanson’s decision to bail on a series called Snoops baffled
Was he born in California or Canada? Even Hart Hanson is not 100% sure but here is what we do know: he has created hit TV shows in both countries, including the longest-running drama ever at Fox, Bones. Pt. 1 of this two-part conversation looks at his start in Canada as a writer on the final
With summer just over a week away, it’s time to jump back into The Lake. The Prime Video series has just returned for a second season. It stars Jordan Gavaris (Orphan Black) as a gay dad with a now 17-year-old daughter named Billie (Madison Shamoun). That’s what happens when you get your best friend pregnant
Fifteen years ago I wrote a book about TV’s greatest rumours and myths. Marilyn Denis and Roger Ashby, then the morning team at CHUM 104.5 in Toronto, were both incredibly welcoming and gave the book plenty of play. Then they walked me over to the CHUM AM side, introduced me to that team, and I
Now that John Doyle has retired as the TV critic of The Globe and Mail, how are we supposed to make sense of it all? Where is our roadmap out of the madness that is Canadian television? It is all right here, friends, in this handy and convenient, click and listen podcast episode. Hear Doyle
One of my earliest memories is the time I accompanied my mother, Margaret Brioux, to the then-brand new CFTO Toronto studio in Agincourt for a taping of the Canadian version of the panel show To Tell the Truth. Mom had enough Lucy Ricardo in her to want to be on game shows. The goal on