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
Anne Murray
Spread your tiny wings and listen to Canada's songbird, Anne Murray, as she looks back at her incredible 40-year career. The Nova Scotia native is profiled in "Anne Murray: Full Circle,…
Brian Williams
The dean of Canadian sports broadcasting, Brian Williams, looks back at his 50-year career after announcing his retirement from CTV Sports and TSN. Among the highlights: 35 years coast-…
Director Robert Vaughn
Can you actually make a Christmas TV-movie for $1.5 million Canadian?
Resourceful Robert Vaughn can and did. The Ontario-based director shot the charming holiday romance "Christmas Movi…
Publicity legend Bill Vigars
As a newspaper boy, Bill Vigars once almost set a school on fire -- which, in a bizarre way, eventually led to him running half-way across Canada with Terry Fox.
That's just one of the a…
Graham Yost
Graham Yost is the Emmy and Peabody award-winning executive producer and showrunner behind such Peak TV hits as Justified and The Americans. As a writer, he was the screenwriter behind …
Director David Winning
If you’ve watched Hallmark movies in the past five years, you’ve probably seen several directed by David Winning.
The Calgary-born director made a name for himself early in his career f…
Rick Mercer
“It’s not exactly ‘Angela’s Ashes,’” Rick Mercer says of his childhood. He writes about it in his engaging new memoir, “Talking to Canadians” (Penguin Harper Collins).
When he first sat…
Peter Mansbridge
Peter Mansbridge feels a tad uncomfortable being the story instead of reporting it. The retired CBC chief news anchor, however, has written a bestselling memoir titled, "Off The Record"…
K Trevor Wilson
Canada’s “Man Mountain of Comedy,” K Trevor Wilson, is finding it’s a great day for hay in Canadian television. Besides his regular gig as “Squirrely Dan” on the Crave hit Letterkenny, …
Mark Critch
Mark Critch has not let a little thing like a pandemic slow him down one bit. The busy Newfoundland native is in his 18th season on This Hour Has 22 Minutes. He is also co-creator of th…
JANN's Zoie Palmer
As Canadian thanksgiving comes and goes, Zoie Palmer is thankful she's playing Jann Arden’s sensible sister Max on JANN. The Calgary-based sitcom is in its third season Monday nights on…
Gerry Dee
Gerry Dee says he is thrilled to be back in front of a studio audience again as Family Feud Canada returns for a third season.
The game show, shot at CBC’s Toronto broadcast centre, had …
Jewel Staite
Jewel Staite was five-years-old when an agent stopped her and her mom walking through a mall. Did the girl want to be in a TV commercial, the agent asked? Staite had no interest until h…
Murdoch's Thomas Craig
You know Thomas Craig as Inspector Brackenreid on Murdoch Mysteries, back for a 15th season on CBC. The Sheffield, England, native has been keeping the constables and detective William …
Kevin Newman
It was 20 years ago this week when the biggest story of Kevin Newman's career broke wide open.
The Toronto-native was coming off a five year stint with ABC News in New York City and had…
Shaun Majumder
Former "This Hour Has 22 Minutes" standout Shaun Majumder talks about his latest TV effort, "Race Against the Tide," (premiering Sept. 9 on CBC).
The series is an outdoors reality compe…
Bill Persky
Bill Persky helped save Carl Reiner’s life. That’s how the late, great creator-executive producer of The Dick Van Dyke Show saw it anyway. As the third season approached, he desperately…
Jason Priestley
Star, executive producer and director Jason Priestley talks about the fifth season of his shot-in-Toronto procedural, Private Eyes. It's a series that, no matter how many times it gets …
Brent Butt is back!
The creator, writer, executive producer and star of Corner Gas Animated returns to brioux.tv:the podcast to set up the fourth and final season of his series. The spin-off from the live-…
Author Ira Wells on Norman Jewison
Author Ira Wells spent three years working on "Norman Jewison: A Director's Life." A full year of that was pouring over Jewison's papers, annotated scripts and other manuscripts at Vict…