Brian Mulroney, unplugged!

The CBC will once again poke that media stick into the eyes of Brian Mulroney, as the Mother Corp airs an interesting documentary Monday night at 8 pm on the main network. The program is based on Peter C. Newman’s book; The Secret Mulroney Tapes. Part of the Passionate Eye series, the documentary will show a rather passionate and occasionally profane Mulroney as he chatted with Newman about the events of the day during his time as Prime Minister.

The course of the evening’s show will feature, Mulroney in his own words expressing his contempt at some and delight with others and features that Irish bluster of his that made him fodder for satirical magazines and television shows for years.

The main target of most of Mulroney’s most vociferous venom is none other than the press, with special attention paid to the CBC. This should make the show Must See TV at the CBC, as layers and layers of bureaucrats secretly hope they’ll be called an asshole or something much worse.

There’s a small preview of the program’s highlights in the Globe and Mail, another part of the media that frequently found itself on the Mulroney dirt list. The Globe interviews the director of the Tapes, Mike Sherrin who poured over nine years of taped material to put together the overview of the Mulroney Tapes.

From Ronald Reagan to Lucien Bouchard, John Turner to Pierre Trudeau, Mulroney had comments for all and didn’t hold back with his thoughts. The documentary also explores the rather unusual relationship between Mulroney and Newman, sometimes appearing to cross the lines between journalist and subject and turning more towards confidant at times. Regardless, with it all on tape, we’ll get to make our own decisions about who was using whom in that relationship.

Mulroney was reportedly devastated that his most innermost thoughts had been turned into a book, one which seems to have made Newman a fair amount of money. One wonders what he will think of becoming a prime time attraction on the CBC!