As the clipboard above indicates, Keshia Chanté guest stars tonight on the comedy JANN. “Last Straws,” the second episode of Season Two, airs at 8/7c on CTV. She plays a young, up-and-coming pop star who runs into Jann Arden’s character at a charity event. “She’s so brilliant,” says Arden, who raves about the singer this
I wondered if any of the Canadian networks would dare use phrases such as “the most coveted new series of the season” to hype their September schedules. After all, thanks to COVID-19, this is a year with a record low number of American rookies to cherry pick. There weren’t even pilots to watch. It’s like
Episode 7 of brioux.tv: the podcast is up and features the sheriff of the wild west otherwise known as the Canadian TV industry: Valerie Creighton. As president and CEO of the Canada Media Fund, Creighton should be celebrating the 10th anniversary of the creation and re-branding of her vital funding organization. Instead, she’s a central
Monday morning, the newly-christened Rogers Sports & Media kicked off two days of Catch up, Up Front week in Canada. Catch up, Up Front –say it with me, you’ll get used to it. Things began at 9 a.m. with “Breakfast with Banks,” something all Canadian television executives have probably been doing the past 12 –
It is mid-May, 2020. By now, the major US broadcast networks have usually had their blockbuster upfront presentations in New York. Canadian broadcast execs would be flying down to Los Angeles this week to scoop up shows during the annual “Hollywood Screenings.” Not this week and not this year. The COVID-19 pandemic had shut down
A share of a half-billion in emergency funding is headed towards the Canadian film and television industries thanks to Heritage Canada, The Canada Media Fund and Telefilm Canada. A $500 million relief fund designed to carry cultural industries past the COVID-19 pandemic had previously been announced by the federal government. On Friday, Minister of Canadian
Going stir crazy in isolation? Good. That means you’re doing your part to help manage medical resources in North America and the rest of the world in order to cope and eventually conquer the COVID-19 crisis. As a TV critic, all I can do is help make isolation in front of your screens a little