Chicago film critics Roger Ebert, Richard Roeper leave nationally syndicated TV show 'At The Movies with Ebert & Roeper'

Submitted by HollywoodChicago.com on July 21, 2008 - 11:45am.

This just in from the AP:

Chicago Sun-Times film critic Roger Ebert says he’s cutting ties with the television show he and the late Gene Siskel made famous.

In an e-mail to The Associated Press, Ebert says Disney-ABC Domestic Television has decided to take the show “in a new direction” and he won’t be associated with it.

His announcement comes a day after Sun-Times columnist Richard Roeper said he’s leaving the nationally syndicated “At The Movies with Ebert & Roeper.”

Ebert and Siskel started the program in 1975 with “Sneak Previews” on PBS, with the show later moving to commercial television. Roeper joined the show after Siskel died of a brain tumor in 1999.

Ebert hasn’t been on the air for two years because of health problems that have left him unable to speak.

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Disney names replacements: Ben Lyons, Ben Mankiewicz

Submitted by HollywoodChicago.com on July 22, 2008 - 1:34pm.

This just in from the Chicago Sun-Times:

One day after Roger Ebert and Richard Roeper signed off as hosts of “At the Movies,” Disney ABC Domestic Television announced their replacements along with a new format for the Chicago-based syndicated movie-review show.

Ben Lyons and Ben Mankiewicz were named Tuesday as co-hosts of show when its new season begins Sept. 6.

Lyons, the son of film critic Jeffrey Lyons and grandson of columnist Leonard Lyons, reported on movies for E! Entertainment.

Mankiewicz, the grandson of screenwriter Herman Mankiewicz and great-nephew of director Joseph L. Mankiewicz, was a host for Turner Classic Movies and Sirius Satellite Radio.

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