brioux.tv: the podcast

Updated: 06 Feb 2025 • 187 episodes
brioux.tv

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.

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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-based Hallmark and Super Channel series. As viewers will see on the Saturday, Feb. 8 episode, Avery will be re-introduced to Georgie Mc

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 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 Critch. The native son plays Mark Sr."s new VOCM radio station boss on the CBC sitcom. Catch the episode this Tuesday (also on CBCGem). Merc

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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 Critch, circa 1990, on the CBC sitcom. The episode was recorded last summer on location in St. John"s, Nfld. Ainsworth was shooting a sce

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19 Jan 2025 • EN

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 Donald was just another tanned game show host when I interviewed him in his 26th floor office at Trump Tower in New York. Now I"ve reached

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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 Salem. I spoke with all three in Toronto at the CBC Winter Media Launch in December.  Wraich plays Sabrina Sohal, a promising rookie po

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 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 played a detective on Republic of Doyle and was also on Tom Clancy"s Jack Ryan, plays Donny "Fitz" Fitzpatrick. He"s a cop who gets t

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