Hosted by Brittlestar · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 28 episodes
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The world of entertainment through a Canadian lens with your hosts Sarah Hanlon and Richard Crouse.
Brittlestar hosts Entertainment Is Broken, a news show with 28 episodes published.
This week on Entertainment Is Broken, Richard Crouse and Sarah Hanlon open the mailbag and get into the big questions... and, because this is us, also several deeply specific side quests. Is Canada finally building a rea
Are movie theatres finally back? This week on Entertainment Is Broken, Richard Crouse and Sarah Hanlon look at the return of audiences to cinemas, the rise of younger moviegoers, and why Canadian films may be benefiting
Richard Crouse and Sarah Hanlon open the Entertainment Is Broken mailbag to answer listener questions about the strange machinery behind show business. Richard shares what celebrity junkets are really like, from exhauste
Is late night television dying, or has it just been chopped up into clips, podcasts, TikToks, and celebrity interviews designed for the algorithm? This week on Entertainment Is Broken, Richard Crouse and Sarah Hanlon loo
Richard Crouse and Sarah Hanlon take on comedy as an art form… and why it so often gets treated like drama’s unserious cousin. They discuss the craft behind great comedy, from timing and rhythm to improv, physical perfor
Mick Jagger is 82. Paul McCartney is 83. Ringo Starr is still making music. So are we witnessing a creative renaissance... or rock’s most determined refusal to retire? Richard Crouse and Sarah Hanlon discuss legacy artis
What if the best concert you’ll ever see… only has 50 people in the room? This week on Entertainment Is Broken, Richard and Sarah explore the phenomenon of massive artists going small — from secret shows and fake band na
A new Michael Jackson biopic raises a familiar question… do audiences actually want the truth, or just a great show? This week, Richard Crouse and Sarah Hanlon unpack the new film Michael and the growing trend of biopics
This week, Richard Crouse and Sarah Hanlon explore the thrill—and fragility—of live performance. From Broadway productions like Rocky Horror and Chicago to the high-wire act of Saturday Night Live, they ask: what makes l
What is Angine de Poitrine… and why is everyone suddenly talking about them? This week on Entertainment Is Broken, we break down the viral Quebec band turning heads by doing the exact opposite of what modern fame demands
The Junos came and went… but where were Canada’s biggest stars? In this episode of Entertainment Is Broken, Richard Crouse and Sarah Hanlon dig into the growing debate around Canadian identity in entertainment… and wheth
Buffy is cancelled… again. After years of development, a filmed pilot, and serious creative talent behind it, the Buffy the Vampire Slayer reboot is suddenly dead — and the timing couldn’t be worse. So what happened? Thi
Remember when red carpets were about journalism… and not vertical video, viral moments, and whether someone got free cake? This week on Entertainment Is Broken, hosts Richard Crouse and Sarah dive into the growing clash
BTS is back from military service — and their comeback show in Seoul is expected to draw 260,000 fans. Yes. A quarter of a million. Meanwhile, most bands can’t afford gas for the tour van. In this episode of Entertainmen
Did Jim Carrey really appear at the César Awards… or did the internet just decide he didn’t look like himself anymore? This week on Entertainment Is Broken, Richard Crouse and Sarah Hanlon dig into the bizarre online con
Why do we travel just to stand where a movie scene was filmed? This week on Entertainment Is Broken, Richard Crouse and Sarah Hanlon explore the booming world of film and TV tourism — from Twin Peaks and Ghostbusters to
Canadians are proudly buying local, waving the maple leaf, and rallying behind homegrown culture — so why are Canadian movie theaters suddenly empty? This week on Entertainment Is Broken, Richard and Sarah unpack the sur
This week on Entertainment Is Broken, Richard Crouse and Sarah Hanlon hold up the “art is a mirror” cliché…then immediately use it to start a small, tasteful blaze. We’re talking art as resistance...from Picasso’s Guerni
This week on Entertainment Is Broken, Richard and Sarah try to make sense of a glossy new Melania Trump “documentary” that feels less like filmmaking and more like the soft launch of a lifestyle brand. From its eye-water
Is reality TV trash…or is it secretly one of the most powerful storytelling tools we have? In this episode of Entertainment Is Broken, film critic Richard Crouse and reality-TV scholar and Big Brother Canada winner Sarah
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Entertainment Is Broken is hosted by Brittlestar. The show is categorised under news (entertainment) and has published 28 episodes.
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