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Two-time Emmy winner Alec Baldwin (30 Rock) is returning for a second
season as co-host of THE ESSENTIALS on Turner Classic Movies (TCM). In
his first season, Baldwin displayed a deep knowledge of classic films.
Baldwin and TCM host Robert Osborne will return in 2010 with a new slate
of “must see” movies each week.
THE ESSENTIALS airs Saturdays at 8 p.m. (ET). The 10th season will kick
off in March 2010 with Elia Kazan’s 1951 version of Tennessee Williams’ A
Streetcar Named Desire, starring Marlon Brando and Oscar winners Vivien
Leigh, Kim Hunter and Karl Malden. The season will feature four Best
Picture Oscar winners, including The Best Years of Our Lives (1946), Gigi
(1958), Lawrence of Arabia (1962) and The Sting (1973), as well as Best
Foreign Language Film Oscar winner Black Orpheus (1959).
For the first time, THE ESSENTIALS will include special late-night
installments, with the seminal 1970s films Saturday Night Fever (1977) and
Serpico (1973).
Other titles for 2010 include the groundbreaking Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
and The Graduate (1967); the delightful Ealing comedy Kind Hearts and
Coronets (1949), with Alec Guinness in eight different roles; and the work
of several top-name directors, such as Alfred Hitchcock (Strangers on a
Train – 1951), Frank Capra (Meet John Doe – 1941), John Ford (My Darling
Clementine – 1946), Stanley Kramer (Judgment at Nuremberg – 1961) and
George Cukor (the newly restored A Star Is Born – 1954). The complete
schedule for next year’s installments of THE ESSENTIALS will be announced
later.
“I have enormous respect for TCM and Robert Osborne,” Baldwin said. “TCM
has stayed true to its mission, with a vast library of movies from many
different decades. I’m proud to be able to sit down with Robert
again.”
“After we wrapped our first season together, I remember thinking how many
more films I would like to discuss with Alec,” Osborne said. “Now we have
that chance.”
Prior to co-hosting THE ESSENTIALS, Baldwin appeared on TCM as part of the
network’s Guest Programmer series. In 2008, he hosted the TCM special
Role Model: Gene Wilder, in which he interviewed the comic actor.
Baldwin is one of Hollywood’s most charismatic and prolific actors. He
currently stars with Tina Fey in the hit comedy series 30 Rock, which just
earned him his second Emmy. He has also earned a Golden Globe®, a Screen
Actors Guild Award and a Television Critics Association Award for his
performance on the show.
Baldwin’s many film credits include The Departed; The Cooler; The Hunt for
Red October and Glengarry Glen Ross. This Christmas, he will co-star in
Nancy Meyer’s It’s Complicated, with Meryl Streep and Steve Martin, and he
will soon begin production on the thriller Solitary Birds. On stage,
Baldwin won acclaim and a Tony nomination for his work opposite Jessica
Lange in A Streetcar Named Desire, which also garnered him an Emmy
nomination for the television adaptation. Baldwin’s production company,
El Dorado Pictures, co-produced TNT’s Emmy-nominated miniseries Nuremberg
and the feature film State and Main. He also wrote the book A Promise to
Ourselves: A Journey through Fatherhood and Divorce.
Past hosts of THE ESSENTIALS included filmmakers Rob Reiner, Peter
Bogdanovich and Sydney Pollack. Robert Osborne took over hosting duties
in 2006, paired with film critic and author Molly Haskell. He was joined
by actress and bestselling author Carrie Fisher in 2007 and actress Rose
McGowan in 2008.
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