[4] For a number of years, however, the show was unable to broadcast films from the Warner Bros. studio, as TVOntario's transmitter in Windsor created a programming rights conflict with stations in Detroit.
[8] Soon after Yost's retirement, the Progressive Conservative government of Mike Harris appointed Isabel Bassett as chair of TVOntario, with a mandate to refocus the network's broadcast schedule more clearly on education.
[9] Although there was some concern that the network would lose Saturday Night at the Movies, its highest-rated program,[10] Bassett instead negotiated an agreement with York University to include the series in its film studies curriculum.
[14] On November 13, 2012, it was announced that TVO would cancel Saturday Night at the Movies as of the end of the 2012-2013 season, amidst budget cuts incurred by the network.
[15] The final edition of Saturday Night at the Movies was broadcast on August 31, 2013, featuring two foreign films as its last movies: The Lives of Others (at 8 P.M.), and Black Book (starting at 10:50 P.M.) [16] Copies of many of the show's interviews have been donated to the archives of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.