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THIS WEEK’S PODCAST: Class is in session with Andrew Barnsley

4 days ago | brioux.tv | Bill Brioux

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 — nomination wise — at this year’s Canadian Screen Awards. Yes, it is Andrew Barnsley and he’s just back from France where he attended Series Mania, an industry marketplace where stakeholders gather to discuss where this crazy business is all heading.
Wink Martindale 1933-2025

1 week ago | brioux.tv | Bill Brioux

Winston Conrad Martindale — nicknamed “Wink” by a neighbourhood pal — was probably best known for hosting Tic-Tac-Dough. The Tennessee native, however, also hosted around 20 other TV game shows, including Boogle, Gambit, Shuffle, Headline Chasers, High Rollers, Debt, Can You Top This? and the TV version of Trivial Pursuit. Martindale died from lymphoba April 15 at Rancho Mirage, CA. He was 91.
Jean Marsh 1934 - 2025

1 week ago | brioux.tv | Bill Brioux

Jean Marsh played well over 100 roles as listed at her profile on the International Movie Database (IMDb). The Emmy Award winning British actress, however, was best known as the co-creator as well as one of the stars of the ITV series Upstairs Downstairs (1971-75). Marsh died Sunday in London at the age of 90. She suffered from dementia in her last few years.
THIS WEEK’S PODCAST: Tripping the Muskokas with Mitch Azaria

1 week ago | brioux.tv | Bill Brioux

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 back with his sixth in an annual series exploring the province of Ontario: Tripping The Muskoka Lakes. Azaria’s earlier Tripping documentaries are all worth seeing.
Jay North 1951 - 2025

2 weeks ago | brioux.tv | Bill Brioux

I met Jay North, along with his Dennis The Menace co-star Jeannie Russell (who played schoolmate Margaret), over 25 years ago at one of the Hollywood Shows where former stars meet fans and sign autographs. The actor died of colorectal cancer April 6 at his home in Florida. He was 73. North was one of several former child stars who attended the Hollywood Collectors Show in 1998.
TONIGHT: McKinney steps in as Mark Carney for 22 Minutes

2 weeks ago | brioux.tv | Bill Brioux

Mark McKinney, a veteran of both The Kids in the Hall and Saturday Night Live, gets his brows darked for Tuesday nights episode of This Hour Has 22 Minutes (8 p.m. ET on CBC and streaming on CBCGem). At least he doesn’t have to sit and get tarted up with orange tan spray the way Mark Critch has to do every time he plays US president Donald Trump. Critch has been killing it lately as the mad tariff fiend, nailing The Donald’s high and low voices and all 45 words in his vocabulary.
THIS WEEK’S PODCAST: Jay Leno on Canada, cars and the current state of late night

2 weeks ago | brioux.tv | Bill Brioux

Jay Leno says he almost backed out of an upcoming booking in Canada. The former Tonight Show host crosses the border with special guest Arsenio Hall May 2 to perform at Casino Rama north of Toronto. Leno has played before thousands in this room in other years, but was having second thoughts after the barrage of “51st State” attacks from US president Donald Trump. “I was almost not gonna do these dates because I didn’t want to be the ugly American coming in,” he tells Bill Brioux.
It’s official: TCA is out of the hotel business

2 weeks ago | brioux.tv | Bill Brioux

One of the best lines ever at a Television Critics Association press tour: Tina Fey was at the podium receiving a TCA Award for her series 30 Rock. She looked out over the gathering and declared that it was a great time to be in broadcast television. “It’s like being in vaudeville in the ’60s.”She saw it coming even back in 2009.
THIS WEEK’S BONUS EPISODE: Fabulous Kenny Robinson

3 weeks ago | brioux.tv | Bill Brioux

People of Comedy: Celebrating 30 Years of the Nubian Show starts streaming April 9 on Crave. It features this week’s bonus guest on brioux.tv: the podcast and one of the true iron men of the Toronto comedy club scene: Kenny Robinson. Since 1983, he’s been performing at YukYuks as well as at Just For Laughs and other Canadian comedy venues. Close to 30 years ago — with the go ahead of impresario Mark Breslin — he launched The Nubian Comedy Revue, a showcase for BIPOC entertainers.
The Residence is a house full of whodunnit highlights

3 weeks ago | brioux.tv | Bill Brioux

If only the real White House was this much fun. If you’ve got eight-and-a-half hours to kill, you could do a lot worse than spend it watching Netflix’s The Residence. If you are a fan of the recent Daniel Craig “Knives Out” films, or mystery movies from the past such as “The Last of Sheila,” “Clue” or “Murder on the Orient Express,” you’ll especially want to check in to this Residence.