The year 2025 has certainly been a good year to stand up for Canada. Who better to turn that mission into a TV special than Rick Mercer? The former This Hour has 22 Minutes and Rick Mercer Report firebrand returns Sunday, December 28, with Rick Mercer Stand Up for Canada. The hour-long comedy special, featuring fellow comics Sophie Buddle, Mayce
WATCH OR LISTEN: Chose the full video version of the Rocketship 7 podcast episode (above) or the audio only version (below) Thanks for all the feedback so far on this week’s “Blast off Back to Rocketship 7” episode of brioux.tv: the podcast. Here are a few examples: I live in Ontario. I’m now 67 but
When I was a child of the 1960s, it was the wild west when it came to keeping kids entertained on television. Sure there were national shows such as The Friendly Giant and Captain Kangaroo, amd Romper Room, Soupy Sales and Sherri Lewis and Lambchop were everywhere back then, but the regional shows are the
As the front cover of People magazine recently declared, Dick Van Dyke really has had the time of his life. Celebrate his centennial with three friends of this podcast: former New York Times TV critic Bill Carter, Dick Van Dyke Show expert and “Walnut Times” publisher David Van Deusen and Cinecon president and fellow film
Some actors are thrilled to land a role on a TV series that lasts six or 13 episodes. Then there are Melody Thomas Scott and Peter Bergman. As all soap fans know, they’ve starred for decades as Nikki Newman and Jack Abbott on The Young and the Restless. The series is in its 52nd year
If you’ve only seen the advance trailer for the new AppleTV series Pluribus (above), but still haven’t streamed the series (the first two episodes are up now), you might think Peter Bergman is the leading man on the sci-fi drama. Bergman, best known from his 36-year stint as Jack Abbott on The Young and the
Who is this lawyer writing and producing hit medical dramas? He is David Shore, who got his start in Canada writing for Traders before crossing the border as a writer-producer on The Practice and Law & Order. Besides his hits he was involved with a few great misses, including EZ Streets, a short-lived series that was HBO before HBO, and two
Twelve years after their storyline wrapped on NCIS, Cote de Pablo and Michael Weatherly have reunited as their crowd-pleasing characters on NCIS: Tony & Ziva. As executive producers of this series, the two actors had a say as to where this series would be shot, and they picked Europe — smart move if you’re going