{"podcast":{"title":"brioux.tv: the podcast","slug":"brioux-tv-the-podcast-104246","podcast_index_feed_id":104246,"rss_url":"https://rss.buzzsprout.com/1529933.rss","website_url":"http://brioux.tv","image_url":"https://storage.buzzsprout.com/y1f5rc3i8xr2d1amm2r5lfedylrr?.jpg","author":"Bill Brioux","episode_count":252,"summary":"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.","last_synced_at":"2026-09-21T12:19:33.769578+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/brioux-tv-the-podcast-104246"},"episode":{"title":"Son of a Critch: the final season","slug":"son-of-a-critch-the-final-season","published_at":"2026-09-07T11:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/brioux-tv-the-podcast-104246/son-of-a-critch-the-final-season","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/brioux-tv-the-podcast-104246","url":"https://www.buzzsprout.com/1529933/episodes/19714165-son-of-a-critch-the-final-season.mp3","audio_url":"https://www.buzzsprout.com/1529933/episodes/19714165-son-of-a-critch-the-final-season.mp3","summary":"Send us Fan Mail As George Harrison once said, all things must pass. Which brings us to the fifth and final season of Son of a Critch, the CBC sitcom based on the early life of Mark Critch (This Hour Has 22 Minutes). Last June as production wrapped I met with the four main castmates from the series -- Critch, Benjamin Evan Ainsworth, Claire Rankin and Malcolm McDowell -- at the CBC Broadcast Centre in Toronto. There we shared a conversation about how the series ends with young Mark (Ainsworth...","meta_description":"Send us Fan Mail As George Harrison once said, all things must pass. Which brings us to the fifth and final season of Son of a Critch, the CBC sitcom base…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2037,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/brioux-tv-the-podcast-104246/episodes/son-of-a-critch-the-final-season/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/brioux-tv-the-podcast-104246/son-of-a-critch-the-final-season.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}