Some Tuesday TV news and notes: This morning started with a visit with my pals Howard Glassman and Fred Patterson of Humble & Fred fame. Every two months I talk to the lads only to find out they are watching more TV than me. Howard is big on the new Jason Bateman series DTF St.
It takes more than 22 Minutes to amass 700 episodes of a Canadian TV series — or any North American series for that matter. Saturday Night Live, after 50 years, is inching towards 1000 episodes. (It’s at 991.) The Ed Sullivan Show, from 1948 – ’71, was a really big variety shew for 1,068 Sundays.
After a brief theatrical run, the documentary “Paul McCartney: Man on the Run” premiered Friday on Prime Video. If you are a fan of McCartney’s post-Beatles band Wings, this is the story of that group, which sold a lot of records throughout the 1970s. American director Morgan Neville has distinguished himself with several compelling docs
Early data released by CBC measured how many Canadians watched peak moments of Sunday’s Winter Olympics gold medal game between Canada and the United States. As for the average minute audience for the entire game, it drew 7.8 million across English & French TV (CBC, TSN, Sportsnet, ICI TÉLÉ, RDS). That is a huge audience for
On a special mid-week episode of brioux.tv: the podcast, meet Tara Bosch. Like Monday’s podcast guest Jay Klein, she is walking back into the Dragon’s Den a Canadian success story. Both came up with better ways to take sugar out of everyday snacks. Bosch, from Surrey, BC, had a sweet tooth but yearned for a healthier alternative.
It stings to settle for silver — twice — when the gold came down to an overtime bounce. Whatever the outcome, Canadians came out in record numbers to root for the home side. Take the 2026 Milano Cortina Women’s Hockey Gold Medal Game. According to Numeris, the match up, which aired last Friday in the
Some of us just chew gum. While he was chewing it over, however, Jay Klein thought: how can I make gum better? Klein is the founder and CEO of PÜR, a brand committed to making snacks better-for-you and still taste great and fun to chew. Born in Florida, he moved to Toronto to study at
I only met him one time, but it was quickly apparent that you never had to guess what Robert Duvall was really thinking. Other reporters have similar stories. He once grumbled publicly about having to go to Canada to shoot great American stories, dismissing Canadian actors as “not good.” The Oscar, BAFTA, Golden Globe and