In order to keep hold of the rights, Beatty must, periodically, get back into his yellow duster and appear somewhere as the character Dick Tracy. And Turner Classic Movies is more than eager to ...

something called “Dick Tracy Special: Tracy Zooms In.” The half-hour special found Maltin and TCM presenter Ben Mankiewicz sitting down for a Zoom chat with Beatty as the yellow trenchcoated ...

After all, this isn't the first time a new special featuring the yellow-coated cop has been made. Back in 2008, Dick Tracy Special aired on TCM, featuring Maltin interviewing Beatty in character ...

Instead of making a new Dick Tracy film, Beatty dresses up as the comic-book character, wearing the trademark yellow overcoat and fedora and speaking in terse Tracy mode (but with a winking hint ...

He is in full Tracy outfit with his yellow hat and coat ... simply to enable the star to “retain the legal rights” to Dick Tracy by showing that he was continuing to work on the character.