| Saturday Night At The Movies |
Article Index for Saturday Night |
Website Links For Saturday Night |
Information AboutSaturday Night At The Movies |
| CATEGORIES ABOUT SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES | |
| tvontario shows | |
| saturday | |
| variety television series in canada | |
| 1974 canadian television program debuts | |
|
First aired on March 30 , 1974 , the program was hosted by Elwy Yost . The first film shown was Ingmar Bergman 's '' Through A Glass Darkly ''. The series has since presented almost 1,500 films and over 1,000 interviews. In the late 1990s , the Progressive Conservative government of Mike Harris appointed Isabel Bassett as chair of TVOntario, with a mandate to refocus the network's broadcast schedule more clearly on education. Although there was some concern that the network would lose ''Saturday Night at the Movies'', its highest-rated program, Bassett instead negotiated an agreement with York University to include the series in its Film Studies curriculum. Yost retired as host of the series in 1999 , and was replaced for one season by Shelagh Rogers . When Rogers moved to the CBC the following year to host '' This Morning '', ''Saturday Night at the Movies'' briefly changed to a hostless format. More recently, the program has been hosted by Johanna Schneller . ''Saturday Night at the Movies'' is the longest-running series still seen on Canadian television, apart from network newscasts and sports broadcasting. Recently, it was announced that ''Saturday Night at the Movies'' would be airing three movies in one night instead of two (until recently, the third movie was just a repeat of the night's first movie). |
|
|