Rogers Sports & Media unveiled their Upfront 2025 sizzle reel Tuesday and it flew by in 45 briskly-paced minutes. It went by so fast, in fact, it was easy to miss that one of their tent pole Canadian shows of the past four seasons was missing. Confirmed later by a Citytv spokesperson: Canada’s Got Talent
The theme to the Corus Entertainment 2025 Upfront Monday in Toronto was “Next Level.” Coincidentally, that is also where the banks have downgraded their financial status. Since there is no Jimmy Kimmel at the Canadian upfronts, I’m forced to make the mean jokes at the network’s expense. The elephant in the room, of course, is
This has been going on for months now, half a year at least. Every time Donald Trump burps out another middle-of-the-night tweet or lurches into another Oval offside about Canada becoming the “51st State,” the fiercest pushback comes during the opening monologues of at least half a dozen US late night talk shows. The folks
This 200th episode of brioux.tv: the podcast features a SCTV original who remains one of my favourite people to interview — Dave Thomas. On this, our third podcast conversation, Thomas talks about his recent trip to Kyiv, a city where drone strikes and missile attacks from Russia have created a living hell for Ukrainians at war. Thomas
There are TV stars whose passing seems to catch us by surprise even when they die at 87. When the hell, we think upon hearing the sad news, did Loretta Swit turn 87? How can I still have a crush on somebody who is 87? Yet there it is. Swit, the coroner declared, died at
I was living in Los Angeles in 1986 when Pee-wee’s Playhouse premiered on Saturday mornings on CBS. What a welcome sea change in children’s television. It was as if Prince and Cindy Lauper made a TV series with Captain Kangaroo. Best of all, every week, the secret word was “FUN.” The series was this incredible
With semi-annual press tours to Pasadena, Calif., shut down, two colleagues from the Television Critics Association, Roger Catlin from Washington and Neal Justin from Minneapolis, decided to cross the border into Toronto. These guys go everywhere — they even went to the Red Skelton Museum in Vincennes, Indiana. Neal, who had already arranged a Second
Sometimes reruns can still draw big numbers. Take, for example, the Toronto Maple Leafs. They have lost a record-tying seven Game 7’s in a row and haven’t made it past the Second Round of the Stanley Cup playoffs since 2002. Their last Stanley Cup win came in 1967, 58 years ago. Even though many had