This premiere half-hour is about Jimmy, a former toy industry designer and developer, making a special gift for his and John's 4-year-old nephew, Aidan: a custom-made go-kart.
After the UK premiere of Half Way, she hopes to screen it wherever she can; in deprived areas where homelessness is rife, but also to those patronising politicians and policymakers.
Started in 1985 in the ski-resort of Park City, Utah by actor Robert Redford, this year it has 57 world premieres and half of all the films in competition are made by women - a first for any film festival.
For the first time this year, Toronto will host a section, called "Primetime," that will premiere a half-dozen TV shows in its official selection.
As a result, we have decided to air, after the show's premiere, an additional half-hour discussion of the issues that it raises.
Thursday's program even featured a premiere: "Atthis," a half-hour piece for string quartet, double bass, clarinet, bassoon and French horn, spun off from an earlier monodrama for soprano and ensemble based on love poetry by Sappho.
It would include the premiere of a half-hour set of variations written for him by another jazz star, Brad Mehldau; a few jazz-tinged Ligeti études; another duet with Mr. Burton on Oscar Levant's "Blame It on My Youth"; several of Earl Wild's Gershwin transcriptions; and the original 1924 band version of Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue".
"This approach has worked well for many programs across multiple networks, and, most recently for us with 'Breaking Bad,' which attracted nearly double the number of viewers to its second-half premiere than had watched any previous episode," AMC President Charlie Collier said in a statement.
The second half of the fifth season, also Cavallari's first episode as the lead, premiered to 2.1 million viewers, suffering a 30-percent drop from the premiere of the first half.
Pieces by Wolpe, Takemitsu and Charles Wuorinen (a New York premiere) in the first half will be followed by Beethoven's epic "Diabelli" Variations after intermission.
