Jason Ritter is my guest this week on brioux.tv: the podcast. I spoke with the 45-year-old actor recently at the Corus Entertainment Upfront in Toronto. Ritter is so thrilled to be on Matlock — last season’s biggest rookie hit on both Global in Canada and CBS in the US — that he’s been dancing up a storm
The theme to the Corus Entertainment 2025 Upfront Monday in Toronto was “Next Level.” Coincidentally, that is also where the banks have downgraded their financial status. Since there is no Jimmy Kimmel at the Canadian upfronts, I’m forced to make the mean jokes at the network’s expense. The elephant in the room, of course, is
The turnout for the 2025 Federal Election was robust — especially on television. Both CBC and CTV had a big night Monday. In overnights, based on average minute audience data, CBC’s Main network drew an estimated 518,000 for it’s “Countdown” pre-show from 6:30 p.m. ET to 7 p.m.; 987,000 for two hours of “Polls Close”
Canadian network coverage of the 2025 Federal Election kept score okay, but they had a hard time following the puck Monday night and into Tuesday morning. With votes still being counted Tuesday, Prime Minister Mark Carney emerged with a minority government victory over Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives. The NDP got stomped, the Bloc battered, and the
When it comes to viewership among the broadcast networks and news channels, CBC remains an essential service. As Donald Trump would say, “The numbers were Huuge!” For last Thursday’s English language debate, the public broadcasters drew an overnight, estimated average minute audience of 1,239,000 viewers. Keep in mind the debates were scheduled earlier than usual.
Global in Canada was a new network on the air about a year when, in 1975, it imported a little weekend show from NBC. Known back then as Saturday Night, it soon added Live and turned out to be one of the smartest buys the Canadian network has ever made. Five decades later, Global celebrated
Monday January 20 is inauguration day in the US. So everybody raise your right hand, and for those listening here at home, hang onto those Canadian passports. A dozen years ago The Donald was just another tanned game show host when I interviewed him in his 26th floor office at Trump Tower in New York.
Fire up the Tiki torch and pass the Doritos: Genevieve Mushaluk, a 33-year-old corporate lawyer from Winnipeg, Manitoba, had her torch snuffed on last week’s two-hour, second-last episode of Survivor 47. After finally winning an immunity challenge on the second-last episode in a diving, swimming and puzzle-solving competition, Mushaluk was also able to partake in