The new series Murder in a Small Town opens with the most Canadian scene ever. Cassandra, played by Vancouver-born Kristin Kreuk (Smallville, Burden of Truth), meets Karl, played by another Vancouver native, Rossif Sutherland — he of the famous half-brother Kiefer and the late, great actor Donald and wife Francine Racette. Cassandra and Karl are
It is said that nobody wants to know how the sausage is made. Well, not me. During my journalism career, I found it a privilege to go behind the scenes and find out how the sausage is made, metaphorically anyway. Here are a few of the best documentary series available on the streaming services (and
[With Sunday’s 76th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards signalling the start of another Fall TV season, we’re going to up the review ante here at brioux.tv. Maurice Tougas leads things off with this look at one of the new traditional broadcast network shows about to come our way.] In High Potential, a new ABC series airing
Am I disappointed in the new HBO/Crave documentary “Wise Guy: David Chase and The Sopranos”? Fagettbout it. The two-part film, streaming now on Max in the US and Crave in Canada, is brilliant. Oscar winning director Alex Gibney (“The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicone Valley”) turns the tables by putting Chase, now 79, in
Warning: spoilers ahead. When last we left our three heroes Charles, Oliver and Mabel (Steve Martin, Martin Short and Selina Gomez) they were celebrating solving the riddle of Season Three: who killed actor Ben Glenroy (Paul Rudd). As in other seasons on Only Murders in the Building, however, the next season’s whodunnit was pre-teased. There
Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV by Emily Nussbaum (Random House). In the introduction to Cue the Sun!, Pulitzer Prize-winning television critic Emily Nussbaum reveals that in 2003 she told a friend that she wanted to write a book about this new genre called ‘reality TV’. After all, Survivor was a smash hit.
About two hours northeast of Toronto stands a movie palace carved out of cedars and mosquitos. There are more theatre seats in the five screening rooms in this homemade multiplex than there are people in the small town where it exists, Kinmount, Ontario. Yet, from May through October, every summer for 40 years, families from
In the past few weeks, I’ve posted a couple of “From the Vault” episodes over at brioux.tv: the podcast. One featured a 2014 interview with Bill Daily talking about his boss on The Bob Newhart Show; the other was another 2014 interview, this time with WKRP in Cincinnati creator Hugh Wilson. I’ve done others in