Why is sitcom star Jann Arden talking to me at BriouxTV: The Podcast? “Because you swiped right, Bill,” she teases. Arden’s back with a second season of her CTV comedy JANN (airing Monday nights at 8/7c on CTV). The eight new episodes were shot nearly a year ago, well before the coronavirus shut down TV and movie sets. That’s
It’s officially fall, and there are, believe it or not, a few new network TV shows trickling onto TV screens this season. Tonight, Fox and CTV will get a boost from the return of The Masked Singer. The fourth season begins Wednesday night at 8/7c. It threatens to be as ridiculous and popular as it
No Schitts, Sherlock: the 72nd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards was a much bigger hit in Canada than in the US. Overnight estimates Sunday show CTV drew 1,584,000 for the three-hour “PandEmmy” broadcast, making it by far the top draw of the night in Canada. On CTV alone, The Emmys drew three times the audience Sunday
SPOILER ALERT: If you haven’t seen the second season premiere of Jann, which returned Monday on CTV, you may want to read no further. Or, what the heck, keep reading. What follows does not really give away any spoilers — unless you’re shocked to learn that this comedy comes no holds barred. Season Two picks
Sunday night’s Emmy Awards were the best Emmys Ever — especially for a Canadian. The so-called “PandEmmys” were over an hour old before anything other than Schitt’s Creek claimed an award. The shot-in-Toronto series swept all the major primetime comedy awards — the first time this has ever happened — on its way to becoming
It took Sherri Davis just three days to become the biggest draw ever at BriouxTV: The Podcast. Hudson & Rex’s dog master shared some terrific stories about grooming her handsome canine charge, Diesel vom Burginwald, for stardom on the Citytv police procedural now shooting its third season in St. John’s Newfoundland. The Shaftesbury series, which
It’s been a strange year. Nothing is like it usually is. No surprise, therefore, to see NFL numbers on the downside as the last of the big American team sports ramps up for another season. All there is to go on so far is last Thursday. That’s when CTV and TSN aired the season opener
CTV finally announced Thursday that their homegrown comedy JANN will be returning with new episodes starting Monday, Sept. 21. The Calgary-based sitcom, starring singer/songwriter Jann Arden, was an instant hit when it premiered two seasons ago.The six first season episodes averaged close to a million total Live+7 viewers across Canada in their first airings. Even