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No longer at the movies with Ebert & Roeper
Tuesday July 22nd 2008Chicago — Film critic Roger Ebert says he’s cutting ties with the television show that he and the late Gene Siskel made famous.
In an e-mail on Monday, Ebert said Disney-ABC Domestic Television had decided to take the show “in a new direction” and he won’t be associated with it.
His announcement came a day after his fellow Chicago Sun-Times writer Richard Roeper said he was leaving the nationally syndicated “At the Movies With Ebert & Roeper.”
Roeper said Sunday that he had failed to agree on a contract extension with Disney-ABC Domestic Television, so his last appearance on the show will air the weekend of Aug. 16-17.
Roeper joined Ebert on the show in 2000, after Ebert’s original co-host, Chicago Tribune film critic Gene Siskel, died of a brain tumor in 1999.
Siskel and Ebert had begun reviewing movies on television together in 1975 on Chicago public broadcasting’s WTTW, and pair jumped to commercial television through the Tribune Co.’s TV syndication wing in 1982, switching to Disney in 1986.
Ebert has been sidelined the past two years because of health issues that have robbed him of his voice.
Source: Associated Press
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No longer at the movies with Ebert & Roeper
Tuesday July 22nd 2008Chicago — Film critic Roger Ebert says he’s cutting ties with the television show that he and the late Gene Siskel made famous.
In an e-mail on Monday, Ebert said Disney-ABC Domestic Television had decided to take the show “in a new direction” and he won’t be associated with it.
His announcement came a day after his fellow Chicago Sun-Times writer Richard Roeper said he was leaving the nationally syndicated “At the Movies With Ebert & Roeper.”
Roeper said Sunday that he had failed to agree on a contract extension with Disney-ABC Domestic Television, so his last appearance on the show will air the weekend of Aug. 16-17.
Roeper joined Ebert on the show in 2000, after Ebert’s original co-host, Chicago Tribune film critic Gene Siskel, died of a brain tumor in 1999.
Siskel and Ebert had begun reviewing movies on television together in 1975 on Chicago public broadcasting’s WTTW, and pair jumped to commercial television through the Tribune Co.’s TV syndication wing in 1982, switching to Disney in 1986.
Ebert has been sidelined the past two years because of health issues that have robbed him of his voice.
Source: Associated Press
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Front Page, Industry News
No longer at the movies with Ebert & Roeper
Tuesday July 22nd 2008Chicago — Film critic Roger Ebert says he’s cutting ties with the television show that he and the late Gene Siskel made famous.
In an e-mail on Monday, Ebert said Disney-ABC Domestic Television had decided to take the show “in a new direction” and he won’t be associated with it.
His announcement came a day after his fellow Chicago Sun-Times writer Richard Roeper said he was leaving the nationally syndicated “At the Movies With Ebert & Roeper.”
Roeper said Sunday that he had failed to agree on a contract extension with Disney-ABC Domestic Television, so his last appearance on the show will air the weekend of Aug. 16-17.
Roeper joined Ebert on the show in 2000, after Ebert’s original co-host, Chicago Tribune film critic Gene Siskel, died of a brain tumor in 1999.
Siskel and Ebert had begun reviewing movies on television together in 1975 on Chicago public broadcasting’s WTTW, and pair jumped to commercial television through the Tribune Co.’s TV syndication wing in 1982, switching to Disney in 1986.
Ebert has been sidelined the past two years because of health issues that have robbed him of his voice.
Source: Associated Press
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