Only Murders in the Building is the one show I watch as appointment viewing. Tuesday nights have purpose again starting August 27 with the fourth season premiere of this series starring Stave Martin, Martin Short and Selina Gomez. The murder mystery finds our podcasting heroes Charles Haden-Savage, Oliver Putnam and Mabel Mora (Martin, Short and
To whet out appetite for Season 4 of Only Murders in the Building — premiering August 27 on Hulu and Disney+ in Canada — the above teaser photo was released. The new season storyline finds our three podcasters Charles, Oliver and Mabel (Steve Martin, Martin Short and Selena Gomez) off to Los Angeles. A Hollywood
This week on brioux.tv: the podcast — Dave Thomas pays tribute to his late, great writer-producer-performer friend, Joe Flaherty. Thomas and Flaherty produced SCTV in its second season, taking their cue from original (sort of) showrunner Harold Ramis and putting more of a spotlight on the cast’s ability to morph into famous celebrities. They also
Those of us who grew up with SCTV have it deep inside our nervous systems. To this day, if Joe Flaherty and John Candy show up on Instagram, as they did for me yesterday, in a sketch as the two hopeless lads from “Goin’ Down the Road,” we watch it all again and love every
The folks at AppleTV+ asked if I’d like a one-on-one with Eugene Levy. Before you could say Schitt’s Creek, I said yes! Levy – beloved in Canada for decades as part of the legendary SCTV cast – had just been inducted into the Canadian Comedy Hall of Fame. The interview took place in February in Pasadena, CA. I also
Trying to launch a Canadian Comedfy Hall of Fame is no laughing matter. Just ask Tim Progosh. In fac t, don’t ask him, I already did in our conversation this week on brioux.tv: the podcast. Progosh first took on this Seventh Act of Hercules over 20 years ago. He kept running into unfunny road blocks:
Emmy and Golden Globe award winning executive producer Andrew Barnsley has his Schitt’s Creek trophies on display at his other office. That is where he presides as president of the Toronto Film School. The trophies serve as inspiration for the young TV and film students looking for a leg up in an industry that keeps booming
Ivan Reitman (above right, with Dan Aykroyd and Rick Moranis on the set of “Ghostbusters”) packed a lot of movie theatres when I was a university student and beyond. His low-budget cottage country comedy “Meatballs”(1979) co-starred an actress named Kate Lynch who went to my high school in Etobicoke (Michael Power-St. Joseph’s). She was great,