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- With interviews from cast and crew, including stars Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, and director Jonathan Demme, you'll hear how a film with a young director trained in B-movies and cheesy comedies managed to make one of the most chilling films in decades, and how a studio in the midst of collapse could turn out a film that took the box office and Oscars by storm. We'll also examine how Foster was able to make the transition from child star to silver screen sensation, and how an all-but-retired Hopkins was coerced back into the Hollywood scene to create one of the most indelible villains in film history.
- A NIGHT AT THE MOVIES: THE SUSPENSEFUL WORLD OF THRILLERS will look at thrillers from all sides, including different types of thrillers and the stylistic tools filmmakers use to give their audiences a shot of adrenaline. The special will feature interviews with such figures as TCM host Robert Osborne; Ken Follett, author of Eye of the Needle; Bryan Singer, writer and director of The Usual Suspects and Valkyrie; Diablo Cody, writer and producer of the upcoming film Jennifer's Body; Kenneth Branagh, director and star of Dead Again; Mel Brooks, writer, director and star of the Hitchcock spoof High Anxiety; David Koepp, writer-director of Stir of Echoes; Norman Lloyd, star of Hitchcock's Saboteur and producer and director for the Alfred Hitchcock television series; Martin Landau, co-star of Hitchcock's North by Northwest; Ileanna Douglas, co-star of Cape Fear and Stir of Echoes; Scott Frank, screenwriter of Minority Report and director of The Lookout.
- "Who's Afraid of Happy Endings?" is a witty and revealing documentary that offers an insider's view of the billion-dollar romance fiction industry. "Who's Afraid of Happy Endings?" follows the stories of three Canadian romance writers trying to make it big in this extremely competitive world: Kelly Boyce - an aspiring writer is hungry to sell her first book at a major industry conference. Kathryn Smith - an historical romance author, made a leap to the "dark side" of paranormal romance to stand out in a competitive marketplace. Kayla Perrin - a contemporary romance author is eager to break out of the smaller African American market and into the mainstream with a swing to the "steamier side" of erotica. Whisking us to the heart of the romance publishing centres in Toronto and New York to the whirlwind of a romance writers' conference in Reno, "Who's Afraid of Happy Endings?" features interviews with some of the biggest superstars of the romance world.
- Before Radio and phonograph there was sheet music and pianos, lots of pianos, with aggressive song pluggers pounding out the next big hit for the music publishers along west 28th Street. They made such a racket, it sounded like a hundred people banging on tin pans, so Tin Pan Alley was born, and with it a new way of selling pop music to America. Kelly walks through the city's musical past, into gambling halls where thugs and song writers rubbed shoulders, and into the vertical Tin Pan Alley of the next generation, the famous Brill Building at 49th and Broadway where almost every big Rock n Roll hit of the early 1960's was created. We meet Neil Sedaka, the star who sold 25 million records as a singer and song writer in Brill Building from 1958 to 1963, and we explore the now-empty sound studios where records, television shows and films were mixed. Kelly meets the creators of a successful musical called Murder for Two and learns the basics of writing a good musical at the famous BMI Workshop. Whether it was the best song in a Vaudeville revue, number one in Billboard magazine or a hit Broadway show, New York City is still the heartbeat of American Pop Music.
