What happens when you pick up your Rogers Ignite xfinity remote and give the command, “Flavour”? Up pops two links on your screen: one for CORUS’s rebranded Flavour Channel and the other for Rogers’ newly-acquired Food Network. Sneaky, huh? And, no, it doesn’t work the other way. Utter “Food Network” and all you get is
Wednesday in Toronto, Corus’ co-CEO Troy Reeb had a message for advertisers: Stay Home. As in Home, the new brand name for what will no longer be Corus’ HGTV Canada. Come January 1st, HGTV will migrate to another channel number as part of the Rogers Sports & Entertainment family of specialty channels. It is all
Yes, podcast listeners, I took a few weeks of the summer off, but now I’m back pumping out new episodes at brioux.tv: the podcast. We’ve got some exciting guests lined up, starting this week with some familiar faces (and voices) — Caroline Wilbrink and Billy Pearson from Farmhouse Facelift. The stylin’ siblings also took some
On this week’s brioux.tv the podcast episode, Farmhouse Facelift contractor and design team Carolyn Wilbrink and Billy Pearson got a kick out of me calling them the “Stylin’ Siblings.” That’s what they are, though, so I’m going to keep calling them that until the name sticks. You can catch the second episode of their second
“The biggest impact on renovations in th last few years has been the cost of everything.” So says handyman host Scott McGillivray. His latest series, Scott’s Own Vacation House, just premiered on HGTV (and can also be streamed on Stack TV). He also can be heard now as the latest guest on brioux.tv the podcast;
Happy birthday to this Canada Day lass, Pamela Anderson. Born on Centennial year, July 1, 1967, she is 54 years of age. Monday, Corus Studios presented a pre-birthday present. The media company announced it had ordered a new reality series from Anderson set to premiere in 2022. Pamela Anderson’s Home Reno Project (working title) will
More and more Canadians are sticking close to home as they observe self-isolation during this pandemic. Has that led to a spike in TV ratings? A quick look at three days of overnight estimates shows that news viewership has jumped higher so far. Let’s start with last Sunday, March 15: CBC’s The National drew 640,000
If you’re old enough to remember what “Marcia, Marcia, Marcia” was all about, you may be ready to return to the house used in all the exterior shots of The Brady Bunch (1969 – ’74). HGTV bought the actual North Hollywood side-split in 2018 for $3.5 million. They’ve gutted the place and made it