What hasn’t Ken Levine done? He’s an Emmy-winning screenwriter who has — with writing partner David Issacs — written for some of television’s best comedies. You may have heard of M*A*S*H, Cheers and Frasier. In his spare time (!) he has also been a disc jockey, a major league baseball play-by-play announcer, a cartoonist, a playwright, a director,
This past spring, the CBS action-drama Tracker became an instant hit, emerging as the No. 1 US network series of the season. On this episode, I speak with the tracker himself, Justin Hartley, who was in Toronto last June promoting the series at the CTV upfront. After a career in soaps (Passions; The Young and the
When you’ve been busy creating, writing and starring in TV shows and films for a couple of decades, who has time for a hobby? That’s been the case for Mark McKinney. The son of a diplomat moved around a lot as a lad and says comedy has always been his hobby. Together with Dave Foley, Kevin
The first scene of the new Fox and Global series Murder in a Small Town is set at that most sacred of Canadian television landmarks: the diner from The Beachcombers, Mollys Reach. Seated inside, shooting a first date scene, are two actors representing several generations of Canadian acting royalty: Kristin Kreuk, the Vancouver lass who went from Edgemont to Smallville to Beauty and
Ever wonder what it was like to be in Studio 8H on opening night in 1975 on the very first episodes of Saturday Night Live? Director Jason Reitman’s new film, “Saturday Night,” is a recreation of the hours leading up to airtime on that historic night. Somebody who was there, however, is my guest this week on
TV schedules and programs are like the places where we live. Sometimes they need somebody to come in a do a thorough de-cluttering. As CBC’s Dragon’s Den heads into a 19th season, who better to join the series as the latest investing entrepreneur than Brian Scudamore? He’s the founder and CEO of 1-800-GOT-JUNK. You know their slogan:
Yes, podcast listeners, I took a few weeks of the summer off, but now I’m back pumping out new episodes at brioux.tv: the podcast. We’ve got some exciting guests lined up, starting this week with some familiar faces (and voices) — Caroline Wilbrink and Billy Pearson from Farmhouse Facelift. The stylin’ siblings also took some
About two hours northeast of Toronto stands The Highlands Cinema, a hand made movie palace carved out of cedars and mosquitoes. Every summer for 40 years, families from neighbouring towns and villages in Ontario’s cottage country have braved bear cubs in the parking lot to see everything from “Barbie” to the latest “Despicable Me” flick.