Sad to hear of the untimely death of the Toronto’s Sun’s iron man of editorial art, Andy Donato. The man spent a lifetime drawing cartoons. I met Andy many years before I worked as the Sun’s television columnist from 1999 to 2007. Back when I was a student at the University of Toronto I used
I don’t think CTV News Channel anchor Marcia MacMillan was ready for my assessment of Emmy presenters Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey when we spoke Tuesday morning about the 78th Annual Emmy Awards. Hey, I call them the way I see them, and I can’t wait to see them both when Brothers premieres next Wednesday
We like her. We really like her. That would be Sally Field, who took her Emmy-winning moment Monday night at the 78th Annual Emmy Awards to single out the country where her series was shot. “It’s Canada, blessed Canada, our neighbours, our friends.” Field picked up her fourth career Emmy for her role as lead
The last person I thought I’d run into at a festival of early “talkie” films in upstate New York was George Chuvalo. This was an annual event which ran for 35 years in Syracuse, N.Y., and showcased films – sometimes with live music accompaniment – projected on 16mm film. The guy who founded the festival,
TNA Wrestling stars Santino Marella and Allie were comin’ atcha Friday morning at the Anthem Sports & Entertainment breakfast at the Fairmont Royal York in Toronto. The pair added some punch to this Toronto International Film Festival tradition, the unofficial kickoff to TIFF. The breakfast, hosted for years by long-time brioux.tv sponsor Hollywood Suite, always
The biggest shock now about the September 11 attacks is that they happened 25 years ago. When I was barely a teen in 1970, it seemed unfathonable that World War II had ended just 25 years earlier. The world seems to be spinning at such an excellerated pace now, 25 years seem to have flown
Here is an offer you just can’t refuse: hanging out in a Toronto bar styled after the hit streaming series Mobland. The folks at Paramount+ Canada — one of the valued sponsors here at brioux.tv — announced Wednesday that they have brought a taste of the edgy crime series to T.O. It is all timed
Son of a Critch, Canada’s most popular sitcom, had a problem in 2025. Benjamin Evan Ainsworth, who plays young Mark Critch circa 1990-ish, had grown into a teen sensation. First, HBO Max hired him to work a few episodes of House of the Dragon. Then there was a little project, based on a Nintendo videogame,