January is a busy month in broadcast with plenty of new and returning shows, including some homegrown comedies. There are also plenty of big names headlining several streaming projects. It’s all there to take your mind off another month locked inside the house. As always, check back often as the calendar page is constantly being
UPDATED: NBC will re-broadcast White’s Mother’s Day episode of Saturday Night Live from 2010 this Saturday, Jan. 1 at 11:30 p.m. ET. Twenty twenty-one — don’t let the door hit you on on your way out. Just 18 days before her 100th birthday, beloved TV icon Betty White has passed away at 99. One of
For so many reasons, 2021 was a good year to want to travel half a century back in time. Not that 1971 was perfect, or a time when (North) America was necessarily great again. The start of the seventies were, if anything, just as F-d up as things are today. Pollution was ruining the planet,
A few years ago, my son Dan was shocked to learn that there really was a John Madden. To many under 30, Madden — who died Dec. 28 at 85 — is more likely thought of as Col. Saunders or Ronald McDonald, a corporate brand ambassador. If you are closer to 50-plus, you remember the
Some of the best podcast conversations I’ve had in 2021 were with authors. The six listed below seized this pandemic predicament by hunkering down and writing great books either about their own life experiences or, in one case, a biography about one of Canada’s best storytellers. I thank them all for helping me to read
Way back in July of 1960, TV Guide ran its 10th cover story on Lucille Ball. The headline was terse: “Humiliated and Unhappy.” Writer Dan Jenkins caught up with TV’s “zany redhead” two months after her divorce from Desi Arnaz and right before a career misstep in a Broadway musical called “Wildcat.” Jenkins wrote that
We all know Anne Murray was an adult contemporary, pop and country music super star, selling more than 55 million records. Her impact on television, however, was also tremendous. As she relates in this special Christmas Week episode of brioux.tv the podcast, Murray got her TV start on CBC’s Singalong Jubilee. Spun off from the
He was the tall one with the touque, the Monkee not to monkey with. Michael Nesmith’s passing Friday at 78 is another dagger to the heart of TV and music fans who grew up in the ’60s, ’70s. Even into the ’80s when the Texas native became better known for pioneering music video compilations, producing