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1 week ago | brioux.tv | Bill Brioux

Tuesday’s sixth and final game of the 2025 Stanley Cup playoffs drew an overnight, estimated, average minute audience of 3.8 million viewers. That total, based on all viewers ages two and up, was measured by Numeris across Sportsnet National, One and 360 platforms plus the CBC Total. Of that, 1,733,000 watched on Sportsnet National and 1,444,000 are estimated to have watched on CBC. The Florida Panthers defeated The Edmonton Oilers four games to two to win their second consecutive Stanley Cup.

1 week ago | brioux.tv | Bill Brioux

Seven hundred episodes of anything is a lot of television. Real Time with Bill Maher reaches that milestone Friday at 10 p.m. ET/PT on HBO and Crave. Maher’s first guest this week is a favourite from the past, Dave Barry. The humour columnist and author is promoting a book titled, “The Memoirs of a Professional Wiseass: How I Went 77 Years without Growing Up.”Maher himself turns 70 next January, a milestone he does not seem too thrilled about.

1 week ago | brioux.tv | Bill Brioux

As the finals tick down with two potential games remaining, the quest of The Edmonton Oilers to bring the Stanley Cup back to Canada after a 32-season drought is drawing a little over three million viewers in English Canada. Saturday’s Game 5 hometown loss by Edmonton to The Florida Panthers drew an overnight, estimated total of 1,658,000 on Sportsnet National+com plus another 1,435,000 on CBC for a combined 3,093,000 linear and specialty viewers.

1 week ago | brioux.tv | Bill Brioux

Early in 2019 when The Big Bang Theory was winding down production after 12 seasons and 279 episodes, I took this photo of series co-creator, writer and executive producer Chuck Lorre. I caught him at a pretty good time. Warner Bros. was naming one of its fabled Burbank soundstages after the series. Lorre scored a similar honour four years earlier when Two and a Half Men‘s title went up on another stage. Nobody has had a bigger impact on television sitcoms this century than Chuck Lorre.

2 weeks ago | brioux.tv | Bill Brioux

Orangeville, Ont., got even orange-ier Saturday as over three dozen Mrs Ropers romped intro town. The locals all dressed up as outrageous landlady Helen Roper, originally played in all her colourful glory by Audra Lindley. The character was a favourite on Three’s Company (1977-84) and the short-lived ABC spinoff series, The Ropers (1979-80).