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
168 episodes
Mark McKinney Needs a Hobby
When you’ve been busy creating, writing and starring in TV shows and films for a couple of decades, who has time for a hobby?That’s been the case for Mark McKinney. This son of a diplomat moved around a lot as a lad and says comedy has ...
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Episode 168
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32:38
Small Town girl Kristin Kreuk
The first scene of the new Fox and Global series Murder in a Small Town is set at that most sacred of Canadian television landmarks: the diner from The Beachcombers, Mollys Reach. Seated inside, shooting a first da...
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Episode 167
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39:07
SNL's 50th memories with Lorraine Santoli
Ever wonder what it was like to be in Studio 8H opening night in 1975 on Saturday Night Live?Director Jason Reitman wondered and his new movie, "Saturday Night," is a recreation of the hours leading up to airtime on that hist...
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Episode 166
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New Dragon Brian Scudamore
TV schedules and programs are like the places where we live. Sometimes they need somebody to come in a do a thorough de-cluttering.As CBC's Dragon's Den heads into a 19th season, who better to join the series as the latest investin...
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Carolyn & Billy return with Farmhouse Facelift 3
After a two year wait, our long national farmhouse facelift crisis is over! Designer/contractor siblings Carolyn Wilbrink and Billy Pearson are back with a new, third season of HGTV's Farmhouse Facelift. The stylin' siblings--...
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Episode 164
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48:03
Meet "The Movie Man" Keith Stata
About two hours northeast of Toronto stands The Highlands Cinemas, a hand made movie palace carved out of cedars and mosquitoes. Every summer for 40 years, families from neighbouring towns and villages in Ontario’s cottage country have braved b...
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Episode 163
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24:01
FROM THE VAULT: WKRP creator Hugh Wilson
Hugh Wilson talked his way into a job at MTM Enterprises at just the right time. When he arrived in the early '70s, they were busy making sitcom history with The Mary Tyler Moore Show and The Bob Newhart Show. Wilson, who had ...
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Episode 162
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51:20
FROM THE VAULT: Bill Daily on Bob Newhart
The death of comedy legend Bob Newhart July 18 had me scrambling for this "From the Vault" conversation with Bill Daily. Daily was one of Newhart's oldest friends from their Chicago days in the late '50s when Daily was directing and perform...
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Episode 161
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1:00:01
Olympic preview with Scott Russell
Welcome to a faster, higher, stronger podcast episode This week’s guest, Scott Russell, has medalled for years in Olympic Games coverage. He’s off to France for the Olympic Games Paris 2024, which runs July 26 through August 11. Russell will ho...
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Episode 160
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47:31
Michael Douglas
In a spectacular career that's gone everywhere from The Streets of San Francisco to "Wall Street" and beyond, two-time Oscar winner Michael Douglas currently stars in the epic, eight-part limited series "Franklin," now streaming on App...
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Episode 159
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33:55
One Man Treasure Ron James
Man it was fun heading down to Niagara last October and catching up with Ron James. He was shooting season two of his comedy series 1 Man's Treasure, which is up now and streaming on Bell Fibe.If this episode sounds different it is...
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Episode 158
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Food Fight: the Corus-Rogers brand battle explained
The licensing of American specialty brands in Canada went all WWE in June as Rogers swooped in and wrestled away rights to The Food Network and HGTV brands, among others, from Corus. The new deals with Warners Bros. Discovery takes effect in Ja...
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Episode 157
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1:05:09
Charles Martin Smith
As "Toad" in "American Graffiti," Charles Martin Smith took playing the school nerd to new heights. Over 50 years later, the California-born actor-director co-stars opposite Toronto actress Anwen O'Driscoll in "This Time," director Robert Vaugh...
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Episode 156
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1:17:45
Hugh Dillon on Mayor of Kingstown S3
Hugh Dillon is a man of many talents, including acting, writing and rocking -- the latter done with his band, Headstones.The acting writing and producing skills were put to the test this third season on the Paramount+ drama Mayor of Kin...
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Episode 155
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Previewing Allan Hawco's Saint-Pierre
Here is another conversation I had in May at the CBC Media Upfront on Toronto. Allan Hawco and Josephine Jobert -- stars of the upcoming CBC series Saint-Pierre -- talk about shooting the series, which will premiere in 2025. ...
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Episode 154
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33:36
CBC Media Upfront 2024-25
One of the new shows on CBC's 2024-25 schedule is called Small Achievable Goals. It is a scripted comedy about female podcasters going through menopause. Those three words, however, coulld also describe, in a fiercely competitive and c...
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Episode 153
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29:43
When Calls the Heart's Ben Rosenbaum
Attention Hearties! And especially Hickies! Yes, this week's episode of brioux.tv: the podcast features Ben Rosenbaum. For over a decade, he's played Mike Hickam on When Calls the Heart, the longest-running series on both Hallmark and ...
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Episode 152
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55:26
Evanka Osmak's Hoop dreams
Evanka Osmak helps us keep score most nights along with Ken Reid at the Sportsnet Central desk. She's taking her own shot now in the publishing world with her first novel, a cool book for kids ages 6-11 titled "Ali Hoops."The PlumLeaf Press...
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Episode 151
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44:45
More Tripping with Mitch Azaria
As briouxtv listeners know, 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...
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Episode 150
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46:18
Dave Thomas remembers Joe Flaherty
Stop doing whatever you are doing right now and listen to this podcast episode with Dave Thomas. The SCTV writer-producer-player looks back on his years working with the late, great, Joe Flaherty, who passed away April 1st at 82.Thomas and ...
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Episode 149
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1:16:01
Bill Vigars on Terry Fox 44 Years Later
Terry Fox dipped his toe into the Atlantic off the coast of St. John's, Newfoundland, on April 12, 1980. And so began his historic crusade against cancer, the Marathon of Hope.Forty-four years later, nearly a billion dollars has been raised...
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Episode 148
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56:58
Murdoch Mysteries' Daniel Maslany
Gotta sing! Gotta dance! Gotta watch the cast of Murdoch Mysteries do what no other scripted, dramatic Canadian TV series has done before -- present a full-blown musical episode.It happens Monday, March 25 on CBC (see it afte...
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Episode 147
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58:32
Canada's Got Talent titan Trish Stratus
Trish Stratus is a WWE Hall of Famer, eight-time WWE Champion, and was recently named WWE's Greatest Female Superstar. Now she's heading into her third season as a judge on Canada's Got Talent, which has just been supersized with a...
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Episode 146
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