The streaming service britbox celebrated nine years of service this week with the launch of On The Box: The BritBox Podcast. To help sink your teeth into it, they even sent cookies in the shape of the heads of their hosts, Edith Bowman (BBC Radio 1, Soundtracking) and US comedian Michelle Collins (The View). Hey,
What’s up, doc? Well, for one thing, they are now showing classic Bugs Bunny cartoons on Turner Classic Movies. I first saw these seven-minute miracles back in the 1960s on The Bugs Bunny Road Runner Hour. By the time I was in high school, I used to take the subway downtown in Toronto to check out
On March 3, Prime Video in Canada started streaming all six seasons of one of Canada’s most groundbreaking and influential sketch comedy series, SCTV. And just like everything else on TV a half century ago, not all of it holds up. There are, however, plenty of laughs. There is also great joy in seeing these
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.