Turner Classic Movies is developing a one-hour special version of "The Dick Cavett Show" for a September debut.

Program, to be taped before a live audience on a contemporized version of the original set from the '70s, will feature Cavett doing an in-depth interview with Mel Brooks.

In addition, TCM has acquired rights to eight episodes of the original talk show, featuring one-hour interviews with Robert Mitchum, Bette Davis, Ingmar Bergman, Alfred Hitchcock, Woody Allen, Groucho Marx and two with Katharine Hepburn.

Archive episodes are also slated for September. Cavett will supplement interviews with new introductions.

i will have to remember to watch the groucho eps when they air ive always wanted to see those

...seems to have this "habit" of renewing his ties to television every few years or so...especially if it means interviewing interesting people and celebrities on a regular schedule. So, he's coming back with a new interview show aimed primarily at TCM's core audience. Well, why not? He asks better questions than most talk/interview hosts do these days, and actually LISTENS to his guests' responses, and gives them room to embellish their points. I'd like to see him go one-on-one with Mel Brooks again.....and anyone else he can corral onto his show. And I would like to see those "classic" interviews he did in the late '60s and early '70s (thank god he saved those videotapes!!).....I'm looking forward to this new Cavett series, really I am...........

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