CBC could have called Wednesday’s virtual 2022-2023 presentation, This Upfront Has 27 Minutes. Hosted by Andrew Phung from Run the Burbs and Kim’s Convenience (above), the public broadcaster’s sizzle reel was heavy on clips and light on talking heads. Phung promised “thrills and chills” and then gave way to the networks’ Executive Vice President, Barbara
My late mother-in-law Teresa used to have many colourful expressions. One was, “Busy as a dog licking two pots.” This pretty much describes TV showrunner Peter Mitchell this past year. The veteran writer/executive producer has overseen CBC’s Murdoch Mysteries for over a decade and last year took on the added assignment of overseeing Hudson &
CBC and HBO Max jointly announced Friday that they are renewing Sort Of for a second season. That is sort of a surprise, but not really. The comedy-drama, created by Bilal Baig and Fab Filippo, leads the recent list of Canadian Screen Award nominations with 13 nods, including Best Comedy Series. It made Best TV
“Doing better than we usually do,” is not the boast you used to hear from an Olympic broadcaster. The Beijing Games, however, presented all kinds of challenges this winter for both NBC in the States and CBC in Canada. (See photo above.) Still, CBC found several positives in the report they issued Tuesday after compiling
As producer-actor Arnold Pinnock relates in the latest episode of Brioux.tv the podcast, it took 13 years to get The Porter to the station. Set 100 years ago in the early 1920s, the Canadian railway drama tells the story of train porters Junior Massey and Zeke Garrett (Ami Ameen and Ronnie Rowe Jr.) and their
Jimmy Kimmel asked his audience this question Tuesday night: Are you watching the Olympic Winter Games from Beijing? In the studio audience there were crickets. “The U.S.– we’ve won no gold medals so far,” he told his audience. “Canada has one. So worst comes to worst, we just go up there and take theirs.” By
Canada is off to a fast start at the 2022 Olympic Winter Games in Beijing with four medals after two days of competition. That includes a gold won Sunday by Quebec native Max Parrot in snowboarding. A gold should also go to veteran sportswriter Allen Able for the stirring video he presented over the weekend
Six months after the end of the Tokyo Summer Olympic Games, the Beijing Winter Games officially kicked off Friday. Watching the opening ceremonies on both CBC and NBC, the North American broadcasters seemed intent on medaling in diplomacy. An overdressed Andi Petrillo in a Toronto studio began Friday at 6:30 am ET by welcoming Scott