Spend Canada Day with Jonathan Torrens

Spend Canada Day with Jonathan Torrens

Author: Bill Brioux June 30, 2025 Duration: 1:03:27
Send us Fan Mail Here is why Jonathan Torrens is the perfect Canada Day Weekend podcast guest: As a producer, he is behind two new Canadian TV comedies: Pretty Blind, starring Jennie Bovard as a legally blind but supremely independent library worker (premiering July 8 on AMI); and 0-to-60 Driving Academy, steering headlong into a second season on Bell Fibe. Then there are his IMDb credits. The PEI native has worked on the following CanCon favourites: Trailer Park Boys (as rapper J-Roc), Mr. d...

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Duration: 47:31
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Jerry Beck on Bugs Bunny hopping over to TCM [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:14:34
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Celebrating 22 Minutes' 700th with Stacey McGunnigle & Chris Wilson [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 40:26
Send us Fan Mail Seven hundred episodes of a Canadian TV series? Aside from Hockey Night in Canada, what could this be? Well, on Tuesday, March 3, CBC will air the 700th episode of This Hour Has 22 Minutes. The satirical…
Tara Bosch spun SmartSweets into Dragon's Den gold [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 34:22
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Full Circle Dragon Jay Klein heads back to the Den [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 40:34
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Bhaneja beams aboard Star Trek Starfleet Academy [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 43:13
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Whalen and MacNeill's shared Goals [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 24:47
Send us Fan Mail The former Baronesses are back as Jennifer Whalen and Meredith MacNeill launch into Season Two of Small Achievable Goals (Tuesday nights on CBC; also streaming on demand on CBCGem). The writer-producers…
Barb Williams: I'll be CBC-ing you [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 39:42
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Saint-Pierre co-creator Robina Lord-Stafford [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 50:15
Send us Fan Mail In Part Two of my look at the return of Saint Pierre meet Robina Lord-Stafford. Not only does she have one of the coolest names in Canadian television, she is also, along with Allan Hawco, the co-creator…
Hawco & Jobert on Season Two of Saint-Pierre [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 28:50
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