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
258 episodes
Brent Butt is back!
The creator, writer, executive producer and star of Corner Gas Animated returns to brioux.tv:the podcast to set up the fourth and final season of his series. The spin-off from the live-action version of Corner Gas is the No. 1 Canadian original...
Author Ira Wells on Norman Jewison
Author Ira Wells spent three years working on "Norman Jewison: A Director's Life." A full year of that was pouring over Jewison's papers, annotated scripts and other manuscripts at Victoria College at the University of Toronto -- where Wells is...
The 2021 Juno Awards
"We were going to do it in March, we were going to do it in April, we were going to do it in May and finally, come hell or high water, it's going to come off on June 6th," says John Brunton.The CEO of Insight Productions is talking about th...
Bill Carter Part Two
Bestselling author and former New York Times TV columnist Bill Carter is back to share more stories about making The Story of Late Night. The six-episode docuseries continues Sunday nights on CNN. I asked Bill to return (virtu...
Bill Carter
Bill Carter literally wrote the book on late night television. In fact, he wrote two bestsellers: "The Late Shift" and "The War for Late Night." Now he's executive producer of the compelling documentary series The Story of Late Night, premierin...
Slawko Klymkiw
I finally learn how to spell his name and then he retires! Slawko Klymkiw has spent over 40 years towering over the media landscape in Canada. His list of acheivements are many, starting in news at CBC and working his way up to hea...
Jay Baruchel
I first met Jay Baruchel 20 years ago in Los Angeles on a Television Critics Association Fox network reception in downtown Los Angeles, At 18, he was starring in Judd Apatow's college comedy Undeclared alongside another young Can...
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Ron James
Nobody makes me laugh out loud like Ron James. Canada's ultimate Road Warrior will be "Live from my Living Room" with a brand new comedy special on Sunday, March 21 at 8 p.m. James' virtual New Year's Eve special sold over 3500 ticket...
Trevor Evans, a.k.a. Kiddo the Clown
As "Kiddo the Clown," Trevor Evans was the biggest star on TV when I was five. His daily series (1962-65) was produced in what was then the brand new CFTO studios in Agincourt right off the 401 in Toronto. It was the kind of bizarre local kiddi...
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Pascale Hutton and Kavan Smith from When Calls the Heart
"Hearties" will be looking forward to the return of When Calls the Heart when the eighth season premieres Sunday, February 21 on Super Channel Heart & Home. So will Pascale Hutton and Kavan Smith, who return as sawmill sw...
Kristin Kreuk
Hard to believe, but Kristin Kreuk has spent over half her life before the cameras, starring on Smallville, Beauty and the Beast and Burden of Truth .Here’s something I didn’t know, however: she almost became half Klingon!...
Coroner's Serinda Swan
Like every actor on every series these days, Serinda Swan, who plays Jenny Cooper on Coroner, wore masks, shields and "bunny suits" in order to safely shoot scenes through this pandemic. COVID is very much part of the stor...
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Pretty Hard Cases showrunners Tassie Cameron & Sherry White
You want to talk Pretty Hard Cases? That's the title of the new Toronto-based detective drama premiering Wednesday, Feb. 3 on CBC. It stars Meredith MacNeill (Baroness von Sketch Show) and Adrienne C. Moore (Orange is the ...
Episode 20: Hudson & Rex's Mayko Nguyen and Kevin Hanchard
This episode, TV critic Bill Brioux is in conversation with two of the stars of the Citytv series Hudson & Rex. They are Mayko Nguyen, who plays forensics expert Sarah Truong, and Kevin Hanchard, superintendent Joseph Donovan. The actors se...
Episode 19: Hélène Joy
Had a lovely chat right before Christmas with Hélène Joy, who stars opposite Yannick Bisson as Dr. Julia Ogden on CBC's
Episode 18: Special Christmas edition
It's the most wonderful time of the year for fans of Christmas programming. This episode, we learn from the top organizer how North America's oldest Santa Claus parade will carry on despite COVID. Director Dylan Pearce tells us about his Edmonton-...
Episode 17: Nicholas Campbell
Ask anyone who has ever acted across from him in a scene: Nicholas Campbell raises the bar. Demanding the best of himself and others has led to stellar work on Da Vinci's Inquest, The Englishman's Boy and now on CBC's Coroner. Then there are the s...
Episode 16: Ron MacLean
Ron MacLean had to interrupt our podcast to do a COVID test. The veteran host of CBC's Hockey Night in Canada has been the boy in the bubble of late, isolating these days as host of Battle of the Blades. MacLean talks about getting swabbed every 2...
Episode 15: Brent Butt
A conversation with Canadian comedian Brent Butt, creator of Corner Gas Animated, The sitcom is back for a third season Monday nights on CTV Comedy Channel. Butt explains how making an animated version of the series has one big advantage: it avoid...
Episode 14: Yannick Bisson
During a break in production on Season 14 of Murdoch Mysteries, Yannick Bisson candidly takes stock of these COVID times. The father of three, married to his high school sweetheart, talks about how this period of isolation and distancing has affec...
Episode 13: Jann Arden
The Juno Award-winning singer-songwriter is back with a second season of her CTV comedy JANN (airing Monday nights at 8 p.m. ET on CTV). Arden fulfills a lifelong dream and puts "Canada's Sweetheart," Sarah McLachlan, in a headlock in Season Two. ...
Episode 12: film critic Leonard Maltin
Who better to talk to about television than author, film critic and historian Leonard Maltin? After all, as the New York native explains, "TV was a living museum of movies when I was growing up." That's where he first encountered Laurel & Hardy, t...
Episode 11: Hudson & Rex's dog trainer extraordinaire Sherri Davis
How do you explain to a dog that there is a pandemic? That's just one challenge facing Sherri Davis as she and the rest of the cast and crew resume production on Hudson & Rex. The shot-in-St. John's series co-stars Diesel vom Burgimwald, a four-ye...
Yes, a clip show. Highlights from Season One; teasers for Season Two
Besides growing a COVID beard in 2020, I finally jumped into the deep end of the podcast pool. On this shorter-than-usual episode I recap some highlights including clips from conversations with Cardinal star Billy Campbell and Coroner's Roger Cros...
