Talk:John Brunton (producer)

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Seems incredibly likely that he'd be related in some way (brother? cousin?) to Colin Brunton, but I've not been able to find any source which verifies whether that's the case or not — any attempt to search for "john brunton brother" just gets buried under the fact that John was a producer of Big Brother Canada, any attempt to search for "john brunton colin" just gets swamped by Colin James's Juno nominations, even a full shot at "'colin brunton' 'john brunton'" just brought up a single article in which they were both separately quoted on the challenges of running an independent Canadian production studio without making any reference whatsoever to whether they're related or not, and on and so forth. So I'm leaving this note as a subject for further research, and would welcome input if anybody knows of a source that confirms whether they're related or not. Bearcat (talk) 22:45, 20 March 2024 (UTC)

Okay, looks like brother's out, as trying to use his sister Barbara Bowlby as an alternative got me an obituary for the husband of their sister Nancy, which names both Barbara Bowlby and John Brunton as the deceased's siblings-in-law but says nothing of Colin, and it looks like I missed that the Globe and Mail citation I used calls him "the youngest of three siblings and the only son", so Barbara and Nancy is it for sibs. But some other type of extended family relationship to Colin may still be possible here, because it's just too rare a surname for it to be a mere coincidence that two people with the same surname both emerged as Canadian film and television producers at practically the same time as each other. Bearcat (talk) 23:04, 20 March 2024 (UTC)