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
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 f…
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…
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, Jo…
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-fou…
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 hap…
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…
Troy Reeb on 50 Years of Global TV
Back in 1974, fifty years ago, there was no streaming, no cable, no news or sports networks. What there finally was, however, was a third national Canadian broadcast network.
On this ep…
Eugene Levy returns as The Reluctant Traveller
The folks at AppleTV+ asked if I’d like a one-on-one with Eugene Levy. Before you could say Schitt’s Creek, I said yes!
Levy – beloved in Canada for decades as part of the legendary SCTV…
The Great Canadian Pottery Throwdown
Have you seen The Great Canadian Pottery Throw Down? The series is produced out of Grenville Island in Vancouver and among the executive producers is Seth Rogen. He is known more for po…
Allegiance writer, executive producer, Mark Ellis
TV shows don't just write and produce themselves. That takes showrunners! Two of the best in Canada have been Mark Ellis and Stephanie Morgenstern, the husband and wife team behind such…
Law & Order Toronto's Karen Robinson
I had so much fun zooming with Karen Robinson, who lays down the law on the new Law & Order Toronto: Criminal Intent.
"Toronto is its own character in the show,” says Robinson, who loves…
Steve Smith is back as Red Green
One of Red Green's favourite sayings is, "If the ladies don't find you handsome, they should at least find you handy."
Steve Smith may be the handiest fella ever in the history of Canadi…
Tim Progosh, Comedy Hall of Fame founder
For years, actor/comedian Tim Progosh has wondered: with all the great comedians Canada has produced over the years, why is there no Canadian Comedy Hall of Fame?
Progosh has done more t…
Michele Finney's Hard Day's Night, 60 years later
I’m old enough to remember seeing The Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show. That "really big shew" happened on February 9, 1964 – 60 years ago. I remember my dad going on about their long ha…
Enrico Colantoni shows his Allegiance
Of the 137 podcast episodes I've done here over the past four-plus years, the most amazing conversation might be the second one we recorded. That was with one of my favourite actors, En…
Run the Burbs/One More Time
In this episode: two CBC Tuesday night comedies for the price of one.
First up is Andrew Pfung and company from Run The Burbs (Tues. on CBC). The sitcom returns for a third season with R…
Ghosting with Luke Hutchie and Matthew Finlan
Two actors known exclusively for their work in the horror genre step off script and into their own real-life thriller on their quest to decipher if Canada’s most ghostly places are trul…
Sight Unseen's creators Kat and Niko Troubetzkoy
To see your way clear to a new spin on a cop show is not easy. Sisters Karen Troubetzkoy and Nikolijne Troubetzkoy, series creators who've proven themselves on hits such as Orphan Black…
Production design "discovery" Mark Steel
Series creator and star Mark Critch needed to replicate the bridge of the original Star Trek Enterprise for a fantasy sequence on his St. John's-based sitcom Son of a Critch. The episod…
Meet CBC Wild Cards Giacomo Gianniotti and Vanessa Morgan
When you are casting a he/she series, chemistry is everything. The producers behind the new Vancouver-based cop/caper hour Wild Cards struck gold with their leads: Vanessa Morgan (River…