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
202 episodes
Sultan of sitcoms Chuck Lorre
By far, the biggest name in TV sitcoms this century has been Chuck Lorre. This June, when I saw that he was going to be a keynote speaker at the Banff World Media Festival, I thought what the hell, put in a request for a podcast int...
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Episode 202
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41:47
Matlock's TikTok dance master Jason Ritter
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 o...
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Episode 201
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24:12
Dave Thomas stands with Ukraine
This 200th episode of brioux.tv: the podcast features a SCTV original who remains one of my favourite people to interview -- Dave Thomas. On this, our third podcast conversation, Thomas talks about his recent trip to Kyiv, a city where...
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Episode 200
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1:03:22
Breakfast Television's Tim Bolen
People who work television's morning shift could be forgiven for being a tad grumpy. That's never the case with Tim Bolen, who recently made the leap from co-hosting Morning Live on Hamilton's CHCH to pairing with Dina Pugliese on City...
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Episode 199
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38:53
Back to school with Andrew Barnsley
My guest this episode is an executive producer who helped guide Schitt’s Creek to a canoe full of Emmy and CSA awards. He’s currently one of the executive producers on another wonderful sitcom, Son of a Critch, shockingly ignored -- no...
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Episode 198
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1:00:46
Tripping the Muskokas with Mitch Azaria
Bummed your invitation to Martin Short's cottage in the Muskokas was evidently lost in the mail? Save yourself the long drive and listen to this week's episode of brioux.tv: the podcast. One of my favourite guests, filmmaker Mitch Azaria, is ba...
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Episode 197
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49:28
Jay Leno comes to Canada
Jay Leno is Jay-walking his way back to Canada. The former Tonight Show host, who turns 75 in May, will join fellow late night rival Arsenio Hall as comedy headliners May 2 at Casino Rama near Orillia, Ont.In an exclusive brioux...
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Episode 196
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49:05
Fabulous Kenny Robinson
People of Comedy: Celebrating 30 Years of the Nubian Show starts streaming April 9 on Crave. It features this week's guest on brioux.tv: the podcast and one of the true iron men of the Toronto comedy club scene: Kenny Robinson. Since 1...
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Episode 195
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50:03
When Hope Calls stars Cindy Busby & Christopher Russell
These days it is not unusual for fans to wait over a year for a second season of their favourite series. But five years??That is the situation for When Hope Calls, the spinoff to the popular period piece drama When Calls the...
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Episode 194
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26:09
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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