I can’t wait to talk to my Humble & Fred pals Howard Glassman and Fred Patterson (next visit: January 20) about “CFNY: The Spirit of Radio.” The documentary, from Highball TV, recently premiered on TVO and can be streamed on TVO’s digital platforms, including right here on YouTube. The film is credited to Matt Schichter
Goodpods Top 100 Television Podcasts Listen now to brioux.tv: the podcast Ali Weinstein is the writer/producer/director behind “Your Tomorrow,” a look at Ontario Place the summer before it was shut down after 52 years. For over five decades a 155-acre Toronto waterfront sanctuary, it is being radically redeveloped. Gone are 850 West Island trees. Instead
Were you one of the many who, after working from home during the worst of the COVID pandemic, were less than thrilled about going back to the office? A new documentary series suggests it might not be going back to work that is the problem. It may be going back to the same old stuffy
As brioux.tv: the podcast listeners know by now, executive producer Mitch Azaria loves to go Tripping. These past five years, he has taken us by mahogany lake boat up the Rideau Canal, sailing along the tip of The Bruce Peninsula, on a bird’s eye view over the Niagara region and aboard a Budd train northwest of
Have you watched any of these so-called “Slow-docs” from Mitch Azaria? The executive producer of “Tripping the Rideau Canal” and “Trippimg the Niagara” is back for the thrd-straight spring with a new TVOntario documentary. When I interviewed him last year, I suggested he should go “Tripping the Bruce” next. And that’s exactly what he did!
As the man himself would have said, it’s “marvelous” to be in the Saturday Toronto Star today with a full-page story on Elwy Yost. Find the feature on page C4 of the Culture/Entertainment section or here on-line for subscribers at theStar.ca. Between 1974 and 1999 Yost was the pipe smoking, mustachioed host of “Saturday Night
It was great fun reconnecting with Graham Yost on this week’s episode of brioux.tv the podcast. Press the white arrow about to listen to the entire conversation. One of TV’s busiest executive producers, Yost’s credits include being showrunner on the Peabody award winning series Justified, excutive producer on The Americans and Sneaky Pete and writing
Ready to go Tripping again? All of us who have been in lockdown through this year-plus pandemic would love to get out and visit and explore. The warm days of early spring are adding to the cabin fever. Last April, viewers got to live the travel dream vicariously thanks to Tripping the Rideau, a serene