brioux.tv: the podcast
Hosted by veteran TV columnist Bill Brioux. Each week, join in on an outspoken conversation with the actors, executives, and insiders that make the television industry pop. In each edition, Bill invites his guests to talk business, give up some great stories, and make it personal. Plus laughs.
Episodes
193 episodes
Look who's turning 70 -- Gumby!
For this episode we go back into the vault for an interview conducted ten years ago with Joe Clokey. He was the son of the man who created and animated Gumby, the most bendable children's TV character ever. Joe grew up in California as "G...
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Episode 193
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43:12
Ontario Place documentarian Ali Weinstein
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. G...
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Episode 192
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47:50
Malcolm McDowell returns
Podcasts were invented for guests such as Malcolm McDowell. He is a smart, funny, generous man and as terrific as ever as Pop on CBC's Son of a Critch.This conversation took place last summer in St. John’s, Nfld., in McDowell’s ...
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Episode 191
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1:01:57
Jennifer Whalen & Meredith MacNeill's Small Achievable Goals
Two of the four Baroness Von Sketch Show players, Jennifer Whalen and Meredith MacNeill, are back with a new CBC series -- and it's a period piece!The series is called Small Achievable Goals and it is about two women...
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Episode 190
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25:25
Mom of a Critch Claire Rankin
Claire Rankin says she's waited "a really long time...to land something like this."The PEI native is talking about her role as Mary on Son of a Critch. How she landed the role -- after one of those remote zoom call auditions ...
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Episode 189
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1:05:07
SNL original Rosie Shuster
Saturday Night Live is celebrating the big 5-0. Who better to put it in perspective than the Canadian writer who was there at the start.On this special presentation from brioux.tv: the podcast and
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Episode 188
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56:15
When Calls the Heart's Jack Wagner
OK, Hearties, here he is, Jack Wagner who plays Bill Avery on When Calls the Heart. The former soap star has played the sheriff-turned-judge character for 12 seasons on the Langley, BC-based Hallmark and Super Channel series.As ...
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Episode 187
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41:45
Rick Mercer guests on Son of a Critch
If ever we needed some candid talk from Rick Mercer, we need it now. The CBC Hall of Famer didn't hold back when I spoke with him last summer in St. John's on the set of Son of a Critch. The native son plays Mark Sr.'s new VOCM r...
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Episode 186
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26:26
Son of a Critch's Benjamin Evan Ainsworth
This episode is the second to feature a cast member from Season 4 of Son of a Critch: none other than the son himself, Benjamin Evan Ainsworth. Ainsworth, of course, plays young Mark Critch, circa 1990, on the CBC sitcom. The episo...
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Episode 185
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31:18
FROM 2013: Donald Trump
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 int...
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Episode 184
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24:11
Pledging Allegiance to Season Two
The second season of the slick crime series Allegiance begins January 15 on CBC and CBC Gem. The shot-in-Surrey, B.C., drama stars Supinder Wraich (Sort Of), Enrico Colantoni and Samer Salem. I spoke with all three in Toronto at the CB...
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Episode 183
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38:40
Allan Hawco on CBC's new Saint-Pierre
No man is an island. Allan Hawco's new series, however, is shot and set on an archipelago of eight islands represented by the French government off the coast of Newfoundland.Hawco, who played a detective on Republic of Doyle
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Episode 182
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42:33
Son of a Critch is back!
This Hour has, well, not just 22 Minutes but a full hour as I catch up with Mark Critch, this week's guest on brioux.tv: the podcast. The conversation was taped last summer in St. John's, Nfld., during production on the fourth seas...
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Episode 181
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59:15
Survivor 47 Canadian Genevieve Mushaluk
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. Picked as the final member of the jury, she’ll be in LA watching the finale with the res...
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Episode 180
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28:20
Christmas queen Candace Cameron Bure
My guest this week has made over three dozen made for television movies, She also headlined Hallmark’s Aurora Teagarden series. Before that, as a child star, she was part of the long-running TGIF family series, Full House, as ...
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Episode 179
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38:01
Blue Ant Media-meister Jamie Schouela
If you work in this industry you know how hard it is to keep ahead in a world that always seems to be pivoting. Streaming, fast channels, multi-platform media brands – who can keep up?Well, one fella is Jamie Schouela, President, Global ...
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Episode 178
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57:36
Going Troppo with Australia's Nicole Chamoun
As we head into another frigid Canadian winter we bring you a podcast about a series that is set and shot in the hottest part of Australia. The series is called Troppo, a term used in north Queensland that means going mad from th...
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Episode 177
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28:51
Fifth Estate host Bob McKeown tackles retirement
After 31 years as host of The Fifth Estate, plus another decade winning Emmys for CBS and NBC News, award-winning investigative journalist Bob McKeown is ready to retire.The Ottawa native never shied away from his assignments...
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Episode 176
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50:14
Go RetroFestive with Tyler Schwartz
Tyler and Jordie Schwartz started their business of selling retro toys and gifts in 2007 as the Canadian Leg Lamp Company. The idea came after shooting their fan film “Road Trip for Ralphie,” an homage to the kid from the 1983 classic, “A Chris...
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Episode 175
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41:18
Frasier's Canadian connection Jess Salgueiro
When Jess Salgueiro auditioned in person for the role of Eve on Frasier, she had to do it in front of a pair of sitcom legends: Kelsey Grammer and director Jim Burrows.Pressure? Yes and no says the actress, who was born in Winnipeg, Man.&nb...
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Episode 174
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50:53
Mistletoe Murders stars Sarah Drew and Peter Mooney
Stop me if you've seen this kind of Hallmark series before: an enterprising and attractive single woman (Sarah Drew from Grey's Anatomy) owns a Christmas store on the main street of a picturesque small town. She crosses paths wit...
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Episode 173
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40:10
Garry Blye salutes Allan Blye
If only The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour was still around to help us through another turbulent US Presidential election. Pat Paulsen -- where are you when we need you?A key writer/producer back on that 1967-69 comedy variety...
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Episode 172
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1:12:16
Part Two: master storyteller Ken Levine tells all
In Part 2 of my conversation with Ken Levine, more evidence that the Emmy-winner is one of TV's top storytellers.One of my favourite episodes from his excellent podcast, Hollywood & Levine, is the one where he told listeners exact...
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Episode 171
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