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.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 51 minutes
- Episodes
- 211
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2025
Malcolm McDowell returns
Podcasts were invented for guests such as Malcolm McDowell. He is a smart, funny, generous man and as terrific as ever as Pop on CBC's Son of a Critch.
This conversation took place last …
Jennifer Whalen & Meredith MacNeill's Small Achievable Goals
Two of the four Baroness Von Sketch Show players, Jennifer Whalen and Meredith MacNeill, are back with a new CBC series -- and it's a period piece!
The series is called Small Achievable…
Mom of a Critch Claire Rankin
Claire Rankin says she's waited "a really long time...to land something like this."
The PEI native is talking about her role as Mary on Son of a Critch. How she landed the role -- after…
SNL original Rosie Shuster
Saturday Night Live is celebrating the big 5-0. Who better to put it in perspective than the Canadian writer who was there at the start.
On this special presentation from brioux.tv: the …
When Calls the Heart's Jack Wagner
OK, Hearties, here he is, Jack Wagner who plays Bill Avery on When Calls the Heart. The former soap star has played the sheriff-turned-judge character for 12 seasons on the Langley, BC-…
Rick Mercer guests on Son of a Critch
If ever we needed some candid talk from Rick Mercer, we need it now. The CBC Hall of Famer didn't hold back when I spoke with him last summer in St. John's on the set of Son of a Critc…
Son of a Critch's Benjamin Evan Ainsworth
This episode is the second to feature a cast member from Season 4 of Son of a Critch: none other than the son himself, Benjamin Evan Ainsworth.
Ainsworth, of course, plays young Mark Cr…
FROM 2013: Donald Trump
Monday January 20 is inauguration day in the US. So everybody raise your right hand, and for those listening here at home, hang onto those Canadian passports.
A dozen years ago The Donal…
Pledging Allegiance to Season Two
The second season of the slick crime series Allegiance begins January 15 on CBC and CBC Gem. The shot-in-Surrey, B.C., drama stars Supinder Wraich (Sort Of), Enrico Colantoni and Samer …
Allan Hawco on CBC's new Saint-Pierre
No man is an island. Allan Hawco's new series, however, is shot and set on an archipelago of eight islands represented by the French government off the coast of Newfoundland.
Hawco, who…
Son of a Critch is back!
This Hour has, well, not just 22 Minutes but a full hour as I catch up with Mark Critch, this week's guest on brioux.tv: the podcast.
The conversation was taped last summer in St. John'…
Survivor 47 Canadian Genevieve Mushaluk
Genevieve Mushaluk, a 33-year-old corporate lawyer from Winnipeg, Manitoba, had her torch snuffed on last week’s two-hour, second-last episode of Survivor. Picked as the final member of…
Christmas queen Candace Cameron Bure
My guest this week has made over three dozen made for television movies, She also headlined Hallmark’s Aurora Teagarden series. Before that, as a child star, she was part of the long-ru…
Blue Ant Media-meister Jamie Schouela
If you work in this industry you know how hard it is to keep ahead in a world that always seems to be pivoting. Streaming, fast channels, multi-platform media brands – who can keep up?
W…
Going Troppo with Australia's Nicole Chamoun
As we head into another frigid Canadian winter we bring you a podcast about a series that is set and shot in the hottest part of Australia. The series is called Troppo, a term used in …
Fifth Estate host Bob McKeown tackles retirement
After 31 years as host of The Fifth Estate, plus another decade winning Emmys for CBS and NBC News, award-winning investigative journalist Bob McKeown is ready to retire.
The Ottawa nat…
Go RetroFestive with Tyler Schwartz
Tyler and Jordie Schwartz started their business of selling retro toys and gifts in 2007 as the Canadian Leg Lamp Company. The idea came after shooting their fan film “Road Trip for Ral…
Frasier's Canadian connection Jess Salgueiro
When Jess Salgueiro auditioned in person for the role of Eve on Frasier, she had to do it in front of a pair of sitcom legends: Kelsey Grammer and director Jim Burrows.
Pressure? Yes and…
Mistletoe Murders stars Sarah Drew and Peter Mooney
Stop me if you've seen this kind of Hallmark series before: an enterprising and attractive single woman (Sarah Drew from Grey's Anatomy) owns a Christmas store on the main street of a …
Garry Blye salutes Allan Blye
If only The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour was still around to help us through another turbulent US Presidential election. Pat Paulsen -- where are you when we need you?
A key writer/pro…