Son of a Critch, Canada’s most popular sitcom, had a problem in 2025. Benjamin Evan Ainsworth, who plays young Mark Critch circa 1990-ish, had grown into a teen sensation. First, HBO Max hired him to work a few episodes of House of the Dragon. Then there was a little project, based on a Nintendo videogame,
All things must pass, as George Harrison once said. Which brings us to the fifth and final season of Son of a Critch, the CBC sitcom based on the early life of Mark Critch (This Hour Has 22 Minutes). Last June as production wrapped I met with the four main castmates from the series —
“Canada’s Country Gentleman,” as he was known for decades on CBC, Tommy Hunter pased away peacefully July 2 in the city where he was born, London Ontario. He was 89. Hunter was a friendly face on Canadian television for decades. The tall singer/musician first entered living rooms while still in his teen years on Country
There are billions of reasons why, come the fall, CBC will break with tradition and will no longer be carrying NHL games on Saturday nights in Canada. It all comes down to one multi-billion dollar NHL rights deal ending and another just beginning, The old deal, signed in 2013, saw Rogers’ Sportsnet end CBC’s grip
I kid the folks at Rogers Sports and Media. That headline is just our little joke here at brioux.tv. Please don’t raise my cable bill. Still, if the last Canadian team left in the hunt for the Stanley Cup loses Game Five of the third round Friday night, Rogers-owned Sportsnet’s biggest draw will be gone.
I’ll give this to CBC, who yesterday announced that their 2026-2027 slate will include 50 original series from Canadian storytellers: this isn’t just the same old boring list of retreads. There are no spinoffs or re-brands. The slim lineups of new shows emerging from the recent US upfronts earlier this month were just more 9-1-1
Can the Montreal Canadiens ride a plucky rookie goalie all the way to the Stanley Cup final? First, Jakub Dobeš and his teammates will have to get past their NHL Eastern Conference Final opponent, the Carolina Hurricanes. Puck drops Thursday night at 8pm on CBC, Sportsnet and TVA and on TNT and truTV in the
World’s collide as the talky half of Jay and Silent Bob meets Murdoch Mysteries. Yes, it turns out that Jason Mewes, Kevin Smith’s pal since Clerks, is a superfan of the CBC historical whodunnit Murdoch Mysteries. He was turned on to the series by his buddy, Matt Goehring. Mewes binged 18 seasons and 300 episodes in six months.