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
John Doyle is back!
Now that John Doyle has retired as the TV critic of The Globe and Mail, how are we supposed to make sense of it all? Where is our roadmap out of the madness that is Canadian television?
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Lauren Holly presides on Family Law
Lauren Holly is an American-Canadian actress who lives in Toronto but works in Vancouver. Hers is every TV actresses resume rolled into one.
Vancouver is where she shoots Family Law, whi…
Behind the scenes on The Game Show Show
Come on down for a fun conversation with John Ealer, executive producer, and Sarah Gibson, director and showrunner, of The Game Show Show. Their four-part docuseries from Toronto's Crea…
Encore: Eric McCormack slashes back
Eric McCormack is such a terrific podcast guest we're running this episode twice.
The occasion is the premiere, April 6, of Slasher: Ripper. This fifth season of the horror anthology se…
Tripping Train 185 with Mitch Azaria
I always look forward to catching up with Mitch Azaria. He's the executive producer behind the unique "Tripping" series of real time, immersive documentaries featured each spring on TVO…
Kardinal Offishall
For the second week in a row, my guest on brioux.tv: the podcast is a judge on Canada's Got Talent. Listen up to Kardinal Offishall, the Toronto-born rapper and music producer who is no…
Howie Mandel says Canada's Got Talent
If you liked Season One of Canada's Got Talent, "You are going to be bowled over this year," says Howie Mandel, "because I don't think there's even a comparison." The talent search seri…
Karine Vanasse's Plan B
It is not often that a series that is popular on Radio-Canada crosses over into an English language version. But that is the case with Plan B, a compelling new drama airing Monday night…
White Pine Pictures president Peter Raymont
Born in Ottawa, trained at the National Film Board of Canada and winner of dozens of international awards, Peter Raymont has enjoyed a distinguished career as one of Canada's top docum…
Mark Little on Gary and His Demons
The pandemic forced some longer-than-usual delays between seasons of many of our favourite TV shows. Mark Little, for example, had to wait over four years to launch the second season of…
SCTV Hall of Famer Dave Thomas
This is the episode you've been waiting for, comedy fans. Dave Thomas tells how he almost became an ad man, a real life Don Draper, On the very day, however, that the young Canadian …
Lea Thompson and Stacey Farber are The Spencer Sisters
Come on Back to the Future as we celebrate Episode 100 here at brioux.tv: the podcast. This installment boasts two wonderful guests, both starring in the new mystery hour The Spencer S…
Mayor of Kingstown's Hugh Dillon
Hugh Dillon was sick with worry after hearing of Mayor of Kingstown co-star Jeremy Renner’s recent snow plow accident. The crushing mishap put the Avengers star in the hospital with cri…
Chuck Tatham on Harold Ballard and other tales of Arrested Development
We found him! The man who came up with Bob Loblaw's law blog on Arrested Development. Had to be a Canadian, right?
Chuck Tatham, from Listowel in southwestern Ontario, has had a stellar…
Jason Priestley and Michael Geddes on Harold Ballard
The Toronto Maple Leafs have not won the Stanley Cup since 1967. The reason? Two words: Harold Ballard.
The curmudgeonly owner ruined the team in the '70s and '80s with a tight-fisted re…
The CW's Brad Schwartz
The CW is at a crossroads. Launched in 2006 by both CBS and Warner Bros, Nexstar Media Group is now the majority owner of America's fifth broadcast network.
A lot of The CW's legacy sho…
Dick Cavett salutes Groucho
Christmas came early for me this year as I got to talk to Dick Cavett about Groucho Marx. The occasion is the December 27 premiere of American Masters "Groucho & Cavett" on PBS.
Dubbe…
"Ice-Breaker" director Robbie Hart
Another podcast episode about the 1972 hockey Summit Series?
Yes and here's why: a second documentary looks at the landmark eight-game series from a very different angle.
"Ice-Breaker: t…
Mary Walsh: The Missus Downstairs
Mary Walsh says she was born to play the tart-tongued older "Missus" living downstairs from a sad sack young bachelor in the very funny comedy The Missus Downstairs. The award-winning s…
Yannick Bisson returns!
By far the most-downloaded episode of brioux.tv: the podcast has been a conversation I had two years ago with Murdoch Mysteries star Yannick Bisson. The actor is back to talk about "Bak…