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
215 episodes
Our dad John Candy featuring Jennifer Sullivan Candy & Chris Candy
Ryan Reynolds said he just didn't want to live in a world without a John Candy documentary. So he produced one, and it's a beauty. "John Candy: I Like Me" premieres Friday, October 9 on Prime Video. Colin Hanks -- whose dad Tom Hanks star...
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Episode 215
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36:22
Bill Carter on the fall and rise of Jimmy Kimmel
Former New York Times television columnist and bestselling author Bill Carter joins me for a wide open discussion about the White House attack on late night talk show hosts. Me and Bill celebrate Kimmel, more than ever our hero for going Brookl...
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Episode 214
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1:06:28
Traveling First Class with Eugene Levy
Have you ever made a bucket list of places around the world you'd like to visit? Eugene Levy did for Season Three of The Reluctant Traveler, streaming now on AppleTV+.This season finds him flying to Mexico, India, Vienna, Irelan...
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Episode 213
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22:25
Dini Petty: still blazing trails at 80
In the '60s, Dini Petty broke ground with Toronto radio station CKEY as Canada's first female traffic reporter to fly solo in a helicopter. After 5,000 hours in the air she landed her pink chopper and went on to a stellar career as a news ancho...
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Episode 212
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1:04:36
Michael MacMillan goes public (again)
The Blue Ant founder and CEO and former Alliance Atlantis chief rang the bell earlier this month on the Toronto Stock Exchange. His company's reverse takeover of Boat Rocker delivered more Canadian content -- including top-rated The Amazing...
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Episode 211
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1:06:08
CBC Archives: documentary dream factory
Where do documentary filmmakers go to find that historic clip or interview nobody else has? Many turn to the CBC Archives in Toronto. The vast, climate controlled vaults at the CBC Broadcast Centre are home to approximately 1.5 mill...
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Episode 210
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More Fun for All Ages with Frank Santopadre: Pt. 2
If you've already listened to Part 1 of my conversation with writer-producer-podcaster Frank Santopadre, you just know there was more to explore. This is the second half of our terrific conversation. Here the focus is more on ...
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Episode 209
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49:22
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Fun for All Ages host Frank Santopadre
If you are a fan of comedy, film, television, movies, music, or even Bazooka Joe bubble gum jokes, join me this week in conversation with Frank Santopadre. For over eight years and 600 episodes he brought comedian Gilbert Gottfied i...
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Episode 208
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FROM THE VAULT: 3 TV stars from the '60s Dawn Wells, Bob May and Monty Hall
I went into the vault this week to create a 3-Pack of favourite TV stars from the '60s. Two are from interviews conducted in 1997 at a Hollywood Collectors autograph show.First up is Dawn Wells (Mary Ann), who was signing autographs with...
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Episode 207
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42:47
Ed Sullivan doc producer Margo Precht Speciale
Back in the 1950s and '60s, every Sunday night, families would gather around their living room TV and watch The Ed Sullivan Show.The variety hour ran 23 seasons, ending 54 years ago in 1971. Now streaming on Netflix, the documen...
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Episode 206
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48:11
Do not overlook Jennie Bovard
Meet the star of the new series Pretty Blind. As described in her AMI-tv bio, Jennie Bovard is a running, beer-drinking, thirtysomething with albinism. She loves making people laugh and is very involved in accessible sport and recreati...
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Episode 205
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41:45
Spend Canada Day with Jonathan Torrens
Here is why Jonathan Torrens is the perfect Canada Day Weekend podcast guest:As a producer, he is behind two new Canadian TV comedies: Pretty Blind, starring Jennie Bovard as a legally blind but supremely independent library wor...
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Episode 204
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1:03:27
Pat Ferns sees The Big Picture
In the digital age, the question is not only which tools are still available to support Canadian content production but which ones are still relevant. One with an insider's perspective is Pat Ferns, author of
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Episode 203
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1:04:01
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
