I sat in for Jim Richards on “NewsTalk Tonight” on the Bell Media Network on Monday June 24, 2024.
HOUR ONE: What’s Wrong with O’ Canada? We have a by-election we are watching… but first, the Rundown with Laura Babcock and Andrew Caddell!
HOUR TWO: Would you drink ‘Kirkland’ or ‘Compliments’ Wine? Matt Cauz joins the show to give us a preview of Game. Matt Cauz joins the show to give us a preview of Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Finals between Edmonton and Florida. He also discusses discount “store label” wines coming to grocery stores, and wineries are a little worried! Later, Parents struggle to stop tracking their kids on their devices even as they enter college. Carmi Levy joins the show to discuss this… and the AI bubble which might be bursting. Greg Layson of Automotive News Canada, discusses why Canada will start 30-day consultation to impose surtax on Chinese EVs. And can Canada’s book stores be saved? Retail Analyst Bruce Winder tells us what bookstores need to do to stay alive.
HOUR THREE: Can Dolly Be Cancelled? It’s That Week Popped with Rudy Blair and Jen Kirsch and they discuss the week’s biggest pop culture stories. Voters head to polls for Toronto by-election, all eyes on whether Liberals hold seat – Tasha Kheiriddin, political analyst joins the show and tells us why this by-election is so important. Jim is off but we are still discussing MenTell Health – Richard Crouse is joined by Michael Kaufman, an advisor, activist, and keynote speaker. Michael has developed innovative approaches to engage men and boys in promoting gender equality and positively transforming men’s lives.
On the Saturday June 22, 2024 edition of The Richard Crouse Show, we meet Tamara Podemski. You know her from TV shows and movies like Reservation Dogs, Dance Me Outside, The Rez, Ready or Not, North of 60, Rabbit Fall, Heartland, Cracked, Four Sheets to the Wind and numerous theatre productions, most notably as a member of the Original Canadian Cast of Rent, as well as playing Maureen in the Broadway Company of Rent.
Currently she stars, alongside Josh Brolin, on the hir Prime Video sci fi western “Outer Range.” Brolin plays Royal Abbott, a Wyoming rancher who discovers a mysterious black void in his pasture., a hole that can send people to other moments in time. The show combines a “Yellowstone” vibe with the twisty-turny plot of “Lost.” Tamara plays the time-travelling Deputy Sheriff Joy Hawk, the acting sheriff of the county where the show is situated.
In this interview we talk about “Outer Range,” why she felt excited but intimidated to take on the role, Broadway musicals, martial arts and much more.
Then, did you know “It’s Raining Men,” the 1982 disco hit by the Weather Girls, is part Canadian? The upbeat song, which was inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame, was written by Donna Summer’s songwriter Paul Jabara and the Toronto-born musician and former band leader of Late Show with David Letterman, Paul Shaffer, who joins me from Los Angeles.
Each week on the nationally syndicated Richard Crouse Show, Canada’s most recognized movie critic brings together some of the most interesting and opinionated people from the movies, television and music to put a fresh spin on news from the world of lifestyle and pop-culture. Tune into this show to hear in-depth interviews with actors and directors, to find out what’s going on behind the scenes of your favourite shows and movies and get a new take on current trends. Recent guests include Chris Pratt, Elvis Costello, Baz Luhrmann, Martin Freeman, David Cronenberg, Mayim Bialik, The Kids in the Hall and many more!
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On the Saturday June 15, 2024 we get to know Olympian and World Champion Hurdler Perdita Felicien. These days you can see her as the host “All-Round Champion,” a competition show you can check out on TVO, TVOkids YouTube and TVOkids.com. Now in season six, the show, which sees young athletes come together to learn and compete in each other’s sports and earn enough points to become the All-Round Champion, is changing things up. This season the athletes will also have to compete as pairs in sports like Pickleball, Teqball, Roller Derby, Cricket, Synchronized Diving, MMA, Beach Volleyball, Canoe Sprint, Cheer, Ice Dance and Breaking.
We’ll meet Haley McGee, the writer and performer of “Age is a Feeling,” a beautiful, funny and poignant one-woman show that follows a woman from the age of 25 until her death. The twist? It’s a choose-your-own-adventure show, where the audience dictates the general; direction of the play. It’s an impressive theatrical achievement that offers up 180 possible iterations of the material Haley will perform on any given night.
We’ll also meet the Wizard in the form of veteran Broadway actor Blake Hammond who can currently be seen onstage in the touring production of “Wicked.”
Each week on the nationally syndicated Richard Crouse Show, Canada’s most recognized movie critic brings together some of the most interesting and opinionated people from the movies, television and music to put a fresh spin on news from the world of lifestyle and pop-culture. Tune into this show to hear in-depth interviews with actors and directors, to find out what’s going on behind the scenes of your favourite shows and movies and get a new take on current trends. Recent guests include Chris Pratt, Elvis Costello, Baz Luhrmann, Martin Freeman, David Cronenberg, Mayim Bialik, The Kids in the Hall and many more!
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I join NewsTalk 1010’s The Rush to spend a few minutes talking about a new spin on “Anne of Green Gables,” a Shazam app for your TV, Kevin Spacey and more!
On the Saturday June 8, 2024 edition of The Richard Crouse Show we’ll meet George Miller. He has made pigs talk and penguins tap dance. He’s been a doctor and a film director. Among the bold-faced names on his resume are the titles “Babe: A Pig in the City,” “The Witches of Eastwick,” “Happy Feet” and “Lorenzo’s Oil.” One name, however, looms larger than the rest.
“Mad Max.”
He returned to theatres recently with “Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga,” his fifth Mad Max inspired film in 45 years.
A mix of Norse and Greek mythology set against an apocalyptic backdrop, and set 15 to 20 years before the events of “Mad Max: Fury Road,” “Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga” is a high-octane origin story. Kidnapped from the Place of Great Abundance by Warlord Dementus’s (Chris Hemsworth) henchmen, young Furiosa (played by Alyla Browne as a child, Anya Taylor-Joy as an adult) vows vengeance for the death of her mother as warlords Immortan Joe (Lachy Hulme) and Dementus vie for supremacy of the Wasteland.
It’s a pedal-to-the-metal epic, “Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga” follows the big-block engine power of “Fury Road” with a film that brings a backstory to the strong-willed Furiosa (Taylor-Joy). As expected, Miller delivers a high-octane apocalyptic tale with a fierce Taylor-Joy and charismatic warlord Hemsworth, that features action scenes that’ll make your eyes pop out of their sockets.
We’ll also meet Simon Lewis, author of the book “Making ‘A Bridge Too Far” which takes a deep dive into the making of what many people call, the greatest World War II movie of all time.
Just ahead of the 80th anniversary of Operation Market Garden, which happened in September 1944 when the Allies attempted to capture several strategically important bridges in the Netherlands in the hope of breaking the German lines, comes the book which details the making of the movie based on the famous military maneuver.
In recreating Operation Market Garden on film, director Richard Attenborough enlisted a company of actors and trained them to behave like soldiers. These actors underwent weapons training and were trusted to bring authenticity to their roles, a groundbreaking approach that hadn’t been tried before.
Based on a 2010 Sarnia, Ont. snowstorm that saw people stranded at a local Tim Hortons, “The Last Timbit” is a new musical, playing at the Elgin Theatre in Toronto June 26 – 30, that celebrates 60 years of the iconic chain. Joining me to talk about the show is producer Michael Rubinoff (originating producer of “Come From Away”) and star Chilina Kennedy, who played Carole King in the musical “Beautiful” on Broadway for over 1,200 performances.
I sat in for Jim Richards on “NewsTalk Tonight” on the Bell Media Network on Friday June 7, 2024.
HOUR ONE: The Rundown with Jimmy Zoubris and Andrew Pinsent!
HOUR TWO: We explore Vulcan, Alberta with Chris Gaultier, and Richard talks with Michael Rubanoff and Chilina Kennedy about their latest project The Last Timbit.
HOUR THREE: Mike Le Couteur on THe Week That Was, Amanda Marshall says about her journey, to her latest album Heavy Lifting, and Amber Dowling tells us what’s streaming this week!
I sat in for Jim Richards on “NewsTalk Tonight” on the Bell Media Network on Monday June 24, 2024.
