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TV Squad (Free subscription) | 08/06/2008
Filed under: Celebrities , Game Show , Casting , Reality-Free I know what you're thinking: Roger Ebert is going to host a kid's game show? That's what he's going to do for his return to weekly television? Nah, it's not Roger. And it's not co-host Richard Roeper either. Both are leaving the syndicated movie review show . It's actually Ben Lyons, son of movie critic Jeffrey Lyons and one of the replacements...
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Orlando Sentinel (Free subscription) | 08/06/2008
How did Ben Lyons (pictured) gain the plum job of succeeding Roger Ebert on "At the Movies"? E! film critic Lyons cites his knowledge; he is the son of movie critic Jeffrey Lyons. But age is another reason, says Lyons,...
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ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 07/25/2008
"This week, Roeper and Roger Ebert both left the show, whose format has survived since its beginning on public television in 1975 to its latest incarnation through Disney-ABC Domestic Television, with Roeper hosting with a rotating partner in Ebert's health-related absence."...
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TV Fodder (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
The movie critics are bailing on their syndicated television review show.
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MSNBC.com (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Over the years, TV’s best-known movie review show has gone from hosts Siskel and Ebert to Ebert and Roeper to Roeper and guest critics — and now it’s Lyons and Mankiewicz.
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TV Squad (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Filed under: Celebrities , Reality-Free Allison told you yesterday that both Roger Ebert and Richard Roeper were leaving their film review show , At The Movies . Ebert has been off the show since 2006 because of health problems and Roeper couldn't come to terms on a new contract. They both explained that Buena Vista wants to take the show in a new direction and that they wouldn't be a part of it....
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Variety.com (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
TV News: New season starts Sept. 6 -- Disney ABC’s venerable weekly TV review show “At the Movies” confirmed Tuesday that Ben Lyons and Ben Mankiewicz will co-host the next iteration of the series when its 23rd season begins the weekend of Sept. 6. On Monday, Chicago Sun-Times staffers Roger Ebert and Richard Roeper quit the series.
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Needcoffee.com (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
At the Movies will keep on keeping on, but without Ebert and Roeper. Roeper has exited the show and Ebert hasn't renewed his contract because the network wants to "take the show in another direction." What directional choices there are for a show that's reviewing movies, I have no idea. Knowing Disney [...]
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TV Squad (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Filed under: News , Reality-Free I think this was a demise that you could see coming. Remember, back in April, when Chicago Sun-Times film reviewer Roger Ebert and the star of At the Movies with Ebert & Roeper announced he would never be able to return to the TV show because of his health? You knew it then. Now comes the news that the other half of the show, Chicago Sun-Times columnist Richard Roeper,...
