During the 1960s, Parkinson moved into television, working on current affairs programmes for the BBC and Manchester-based Granada Television. He was one of the reporters and presenters on the five-times-a-week daily news magazine show "Twenty-Four Hours" on BBC1 from March 1966 until January 1968. From 1969 he presented Granada's "Cinema", a late-night film review programme, (which included his first star interview with Laurence Olivier), before in 1971 presenting his eponymous BBC series "Parkinson", which ran until 1982 and from 1998 until December 2007, leaving the BBC for ITV1 partway through the second run, however he avoided posing his usual confrontational questions. By his own reckoning, he has interviewed 2,000 of the world's celebrities. Parkinson was one of the original line-up of TV-am in 1983, with Angela Rippon, Anna Ford, David Frost and Robert Kee, all subsequently replaced with younger presenters within a matter of months. He also took over as host of Thames Television's "Give Us a Clue" from Michael Aspel. In 1985, he stood in for Barry Norman as presenter of "Film 85". Between 1987 and 1988, Parkinson hosted 15 episodes of "Parkinson One to One" for Yorkshire Television, a series of interview programmes which continued in the style of his BBC talk show but with each episode dedicated to a single celebrity guest.