Glad I saw this listing: Tonight at 8pm, TVO (TVOntario) is playing a one hour retrospective show titled "30 Years of Conversations". For those of you in the Ontario television market, the title might be self explanatory. For over three decades now TVO has been running a Saturday night staple framework program by the name of Saturday Night At the Movies. Formerly hosted by unofficial film professor Elwy Yost, this long running film school in a box has featured many classic and more obscure movies in addition to interviews, through the "Conversations" segments, with a wide selection of people who have made and analysed these films. (Some names: Jimmy Stewart, Michael Anderson, Gene Kelly, Linwood Dunn, Tony Thomas, Donald Spoto, Betty Garrett, David Cronenberg, Kenneth More, and on and on...)I understand that TVO donated a whack of these archived interviews to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences a few years ago. Those recordings are most valuable documents and historical records.
We in Ontario -- and upper New York State -- were blessed for years. (Of course, with the proliferation of satellite and cable, this uniqueness is more or less gone.)
If you get this 'message' in time, be sure to watch or TiVo (hey!) TVO tonight starting at 8pm.
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