This weekend, Saturday Night Live celebrates a half century of laughs with SNL50: The Anniversary Sprecial (NBC, Peacock+,Global, STACKTV). The three hour tribute follows a re-broadcast this Saturday night at 11:30 p.m. of the very first episode of the series. Hosted by George Carlin, that premiered Oct. 11, 1975. Twenty five years ago, in 1999,
In June of 1996 I flew to Winnipeg to interview Dan Aykroyd. At the time, the former Not Ready for Prime Time Player was on location and starring as aviation executive Gordon Crawford in the CBC miniseries The Arrow. Gordon was the maverick behind the Avro Arrow, a twin-engine fighter-interceptor built by Toronto’s A.V. Roe
“TORONTO GOAL SCORED BY NUMBER 27, DARRYL SITTLER…TIME, FIVE-O-FOUR. UNASSISTED… TOMORROW AFTERNOON THE MARLIES PLAY HOST TO THE PETERBOROUGH PETES…” Paul Morris’s straight forward goal announcing still rings in my ears to this day even though he ceased to be the Toronto Maple Leafs’ public address announcer at the end of the last century. He
It was a blowout, with the Philadelphia Eagles up over the Kansas City Chiefs 34 – 0 early in the third quarter. The Half Time show with Kendrick Lamar? Pretty much meh. The commercials? Not that great this year. Add it all up and is it any surprise that the Super Bowl audience in Canada
Saturday Night Live is celebrating the big 5-0. Who better to put it in perspective than the Canadian writer who was there at the start. On this special presentation from brioux.tv: the podcast and LateNighter, Rosie Shuster tells how it all began. She was born with a funny bone as the daughter of Frank Shuster (half of
Think you know Jack about Wagner? As all Hearties know, Wagner plays sheriff-turned-judge Bill Avery on When Calls the Heart. The former soap star has played the character for a dozen seasons on the Langley, BC-based Hallmark and Super Channel Heart & Home series. As viewers will doscover on the Saturday, Feb. 8 episode, Avery will
Yes, that’s me in the shadows on tonight’s episode of Son of a Critch. I was in St. John’s interviewing the cast last August during production of Season 4 of the CBC sitcom. When I was asked if I’d like to also sneak into a scene as an extra or “background performer,” it didn’t take
Speaking of Talking to Americans: if ever we needed some frank talk from Rick Mercer, we need it now. Not that he addresses the news of the past weekend. I caught up with the CBC Hall of Famer last summer in St. John’s on the set of Son of a Critch. The native son plays Mark