Any chance you can have your KZfaq channel dig out late 29th December 1969 interview with Robert Shaw and Woody Allen? I’d be interested to see who they interacted together. Best wishes

Yeah, wish it was at least an hour, or two!

So is Sir Anthony ;)

Not sure there is a market for his type of "class" these days.

He's in his 90s

I stopped watching ordinary TV seven years ago because quality material such as this had pretty much vanished. I think the pace of modern TV, what drives it, just doesn't suit such calm and thoughtful conversation; mass audiences, who are so much the focus of advertising and other pressures & encouraged narratives, can't handle it, the style is too slow for them, while actually contemplating novel ideas and issues simply isn't encouraged. Consider even the inherant nature of many modern information structures, such as TokTok, Facebook, etc., they are optimised for extremely condensed content. It's reflected in movies aswell, the action must never stop, never give the audience a chance to think about what they're seeing. Even reading ordinary books has become something which few young people ever do. It was thought that the popularity of Harry Potter might induce a revival in books as a pastime of the young, but it didn't pan out that way. So as Robert says, interviews of this calibre are no longer a match for the kind of audiences about which advertisers care. Having said that, Nero has a point, Mr. Cavett is indeed now rather elderly, currently 86 as I write this. Where I am in the UK there were once talk show hosts who were similar in many ways, such as Terry Wogan and especially Michael Parkinson, but such programmes faded away, talk shows became ever more a spectacle of entertainment, often the focus was more on the host than the guests, such as the series with Jonathan Ross, or still today the show hosted by Graham Norton. Modern audiences want to be entertained, not educated; learning something they didn't know before isn't something modern talk shows care about. Look up Parkinson's interviews from the 1970s and 80s (quite a few are on YT), some of which have become especially famous, such as those with Blly Connolly, Robin Williams, Oliver Reed and RIchard Harris. The channel 'Scott Pert' has a playlist with several dozen clips. Alas though, in later years Parkinson also veered more towards entertainment, often seeking out controversial figures, presumably to bolster viewing figures. These days though, especially in the US, many talk show hosts are highly political. There's no place for rational discourse when the intent of the show is just propaganda rather than gentle inquiry of the guest.

@@mapesdhs597 Seven years ago?? I stopped watching just over 20 years ago (2002), and it had already vanished then.

@@jsullivan2112 Yeah wish I'd stopped sooner; I'd been clinging on via the likes of the History Channel, A1, etc., but then A1 was removed (it was a solid documentaries/science channel) and the History Channel morphed into little more than period dramas, alien nonsense and endless reruns of the same WW2 stuff. I loved the WW2 content (recorded tons onto VHS), but they weren't doing anything new, just showing "The World at War" for the umpteenth time, along with Battlefield series 1 & 2 (curiously, never series 3; had to buy that on DVD). A1 had been showing other stuff, recorded a great series from that channel about the origins of the Russian space programme, but then it was gone, as one by one the better channels disappeared or degraded into mush. I already didn't watch most mainstream channels (which where I am in the UK are BBC1/2, ITV and CH4/5), they'd long become just soaps, reality TV and other cringe. BBC2 used to have a series called QED which was good, but that was long gone, likewise Equinox that had been on CH4. What sucks is it's hard to escape the TV license system here, paying for a service (BBC) that I don't use. The BBC now is just a communist/globalist propaganda service.

yes its good that hearts of atlantis

He was in loads of cheesy romantic films in the 1970s. There was one with Elizabeth Montgomery that is on KZfaq. Can’t remember the name.

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