The chat show host will continue to do what he does best on his own programme. A typical programme included three interviews, each lasting around 15 minutes. It was customary for the first two guests to remain after their own chats to observe and occasionally participate in those that followed. There was also quite often a musical act who might or might not be interviewed.
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- TV Special: The B… (Dec. 22, 2007)
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- Stuart McDonald (IV) (6 episodes)
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- The first series of the show, including interviews with John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Peter Ustinov, Benny Goodman, Spike Milligan and Orson Welles, was wiped on the orders of a BBC committee. All…
[show]The first series of the show, including interviews with John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Peter Ustinov, Benny Goodman, Spike Milligan and Orson Welles, was wiped on the orders of a BBC committee. All that survives of the first series is a monochrome telerecording of his interview with Shirley MacLaine.
[hide] - In 1978, Michael Parkinson and his producer, John Fisher (VI), proposed changing the series into a five-night-a-week series as a replacement for the current affairs series "Tonight" (1975),…
[show]In 1978, Michael Parkinson and his producer, John Fisher (VI), proposed changing the series into a five-night-a-week series as a replacement for the current affairs series "Tonight" (1975), which was producing disappointing ratings. Although this proposal was supported by BBC One Controller Bill Cotton, the Managing Director of Television Alasdair Milne and the Director-General of the BBC, Ian Trethowan, the BBC's Board of Governors objected to it, considering it a "trivialisation of the airwaves" because Parkinson's series had always been made by the BBC's light entertainment department and was therefore judged as an unsuitable replacement for "Tonight" (1975). The proposal had also been opposed by the National Union of Journalists and politicians such as Dennis Skinner.
[hide] - This programme was not broadcast between 1983 and 1997.
