When it comes to late night talk show exits, Stephen Colbert will have to aim high to surpass those of Johnny Carson, David Letterman, Conan O’Brien and Craig Ferguson. Carson set the bar high on May 21st, 1992 – his second last episode after 30 years as the King of Late Night on The Tonight
As I tell CTV News Channel anchor Marcia MacMillan (see below for clip), this week’s ouster of Stephen Colbert and The Late Show feels like the beginning of the end for late night televison as we know it. For over seventy years dating back to the premiere of Steve Allen’s original Tonight Show on NBC
World’s collide as the talky half of Jay and Silent Bob meets Murdoch Mysteries. Yes, it turns out that Jason Mewes, Kevin Smith’s pal since Clerks, is a superfan of the CBC historical whodunnit Murdoch Mysteries. He was turned on to the series by his buddy, Matt Goehring. Mewes binged 18 seasons and 300 episodes in six months.
The Montreal Canadiens — the one team remaining in the 2026 Stanley Cup playoffs — continues to win over hockey fans from all across Canada. Take a look at the overnight estimated data from Game Four of the Canadiens 2nd Round series against the Buffalo Sabres (and their Canadian anthem-singing fans). That game on Tuesday,
Eight years ago today, the surviving cast members from SCTV – everyone except John Candy and Harold Ramis – gathered in Toronto at the Elgin Theatre for what was supposed to be the opening scenes of an upcoming documentary. That idea seems to have slid right off director Martin Scorsese’s to-do list. Instead, individual members
This week on brioux.tv: the podcast, please welcome a veteran sports reporter and host who, in my opinion, has been better on his feet and in the moment than anybody else in a rink or on a field. I’m talking of course about Scott Oake, who recently announced his retirement from Sportsnet and Hockey Night in
Huzzah! (as the cool kids in Regency England say) for the new Bad Wolf / britbox / BBC drama, The Other Bennet Sister. The first three episodes are binge-able now on britbox, with the remaining seven dropping weekly. Based on Janice Hadlow’s bestselling 2020 novel of the same name, the series chronicles the personal journey of
If all he ever did was create Turner Classic Movies that would be reason enough to celebrate Ted Turner. There was so much more, however, to the maverick entrepreneur, adventurer, sports team owner, conservationalist and philanthropist, as captured in the TCM Remembers video, above. Jane Fonda’s favourite ex-husband (as she characterizes Turner) passed away Wednesday