Michael J. Fox, Bill Hader and Eli Wallach Lined Up as Turner Classic Movies' GUEST PROGRAMMERS

Emmy-winners Michael J. Fox, Bill Hader and Eli Wallach have each signed up to take the seat opposite Turner Classic Movies (TCM) host Robert Osborne as part of the network's popular GUEST PROGRAMMER showcase in the second half of 2010.

Regularly during the year, TCM invites a celebrity to exchange star status for a role as a devoted fan of classic film by picking a few favorite movies and sharing with viewers what he or she has come to love about each one.  Hader is slated to serve as GUEST PROGRAMMER in September, while Fox is set for November and Wallach for December.

Bill Hader has been a fixture on the popular series Saturday Night Live for the past five years and earned an Emmy for his work as a producer on South Park.  He has also turned out memorable appearances in films such as Superbad and Forgetting Sarah Marshall.  Hader will join Osborne in primetime Wednesday, Sept. 22, to host an evening of diverse films, beginning with the Billy Wilder's intriguing drama Five Graves to Cairo (1943), starring Franchot Tone.  He'll follow that with Akira Kurosawa's groundbreaking film Rashomon (1950), with Toshiro Mifune.  Next up, he'll present Robert Altman's offbeat comedy Brewster McCloud (1970), starring Bud Cort and Shelley Duvall.  The evening will conclude with Rob Reiner's hilarious rock mockumentary This Is Spinal Tap (1984), with Michael McKean and Christopher Guest.

Five-time Emmy winner Michael J. Fox, whose extraordinary television career includes the long-running hits Family Ties and Spin City, joins Robert Osborne Tuesday, Nov. 9, for a night of movies chosen by Fox himself.  The evening kicks off with Stanley Kubrick's nuclear-war comedy Dr. Strangelove: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964).  Next up is Bill Forsyth's Scottish comedy Local Hero (1983), starring Burt Lancaster, a particularly timely film given its story about the oil industry.  The evening rounds out with Alan J. Pakula's political thriller The Parallax View (1974), starring Warren Beatty, and the super British comedy Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949), with Alec Guinness playing eight roles.

Eli Wallach, who has turned in countless memorable performances over the decades (including his 2010 performance in Oliver Stone's Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps), will be featured as the GUEST PROGRAMMER on Friday, Dec. 10, three days after he turns 95.  Wallach's lineup will begin with Elia Kazan's powerful drama Baby Doll (1957), which earned him a BAFTA Film Award for Most Promising Newcomer.  Then he'll present Ernst Lubitsch's delightful romantic comedy The Shop Around the Corner (1940), starring James Stewart and Margaret Sullavan.  Next up is Charlie Chaplin's brilliant satire The Great Dictator (1940), co-starring Paulette Godard.  He'll wrap up the evening with Federico Fellini's 8½ (1963), starring Marcello Mastroianni and Claudia Cardinale.