The Canadian Screen Awards main gala was broadcast Sunday night on CBC. The hour-long industry salute, which was hosted by Samantha Bee and featured one of the biggest names in sports and entertainment (Ryan Reynolds), drew an overnight, estimated 136,000 viewers. Yes, that is out of all viewers across Canada ages 2+. The lead-in Sunday
On February 22, it was announced that CBC’s The Porter led all shows at the 2023 Canadian Screen Awards with 19 nominations. Two days later came news that this same well-reviewed series about Black Canadian railway workers fighting for job protection in 1921 was cancelled. The series was co-created by and featured veteran actor and
As producer-actor Arnold Pinnock relates in the latest episode of Brioux.tv the podcast, it took 13 years to get The Porter to the station. Set 100 years ago in the early 1920s, the Canadian railway drama tells the story of train porters Junior Massey and Zeke Garrett (Ami Ameen and Ronnie Rowe Jr.) and their
Swifter, Higher, Stronger. No, that’s not the latest COVID-19 variant. That’s the motto for the Olympic Games, taking place this month in Beijing. With people just allowed (again) back into restaurants and movie theatres, are viewers ready for another international sports competition? It seems like the Summer Games from Japan were less than a year
CBC whipped through their virtual, on-line Upfront 2021 presentation Wednesday like it was an Olympic event — fitting since they’re Canada’s host broadcaster for both this summer’s Tokyo Games as well as the Beijing Winter Games in 2020. It took just 33 minutes for the public broadcaster to promote 35 new and returning series from