Is "Ebert & Roeper" returning at some point?

[Tulin]

I have not even bothered searching out the new show, apparently hosted by some guy and a Carson Daly lookalike. I remember reading a couple of months back that Roeper and Michael Phillips would probably be starting a new show soon after the bastardized version of the old "At The Movies" premiered.

At this point, however, I can find nothing about it.

Anybody heard anything?

 

[Brikar99]

I hadn't heard that they were going to do a new show... but the old one is definitely done and gone forever.

 

[nx1701g]

I thought for some reason that Ebert had retired to doing only written reviews and that Roeper didn't get a syndication deal for his own version of At the Movies.

 

[Tulin]

While Ebert will probably never be seen speaking on tv again, I definitely read that Roeper would be back in a revamped show. I assumed Phillips would come with him, since their chemistry was pretty good.

 

[Caretaker]

Ebert said he would do something, and likely with the thumbs up/thumbs down. As for Roeper, he said there is potential to continue the format of the now defunct version of At the Movies, and from what I hear, he should be announcing something in the next week or two.

 

[Amaris]

I miss Siskel & Ebert.


J.

 

[auntiehill]

^Me, too. I remember being a kid, sitting on my Mom's bed, watching them on a Sunday afternoon. Listening to them argue so passionately about films made me realize that movies could be so much more than just meaningless entertainment. No one in my family cared about movies that way that I did, and watching that show helped me put my interest into words.

 

[Samurai8472]

Disney has screwed up the format
http://www.chicagotribune.com/topic/ktla-ebert-roeper,0,5357850.story

The new show will have an "X" in the title somewhere,a busty babe and video game reviews

 

[Aragorn]

I wanted to watch the premiere episode of the new "At the Movies," but my local station that syndicated it replaced it with some syndicated Canadian crime drama.

After going online to watch what they've done to the show, the Canadian crime drama was an upgrade. Good lord was this stupid. It's all fluff coming from people who have no business being on TV, topped off with bright colors and flashy graphics.

Plus one of the three "critics via satellite" they go to is the only critic in the country who gave a positive review to Dungeon Siege.

 

[JacksonArcher]

Yeah, these guys are really dull and uninspired. At least Roeper & Phillips intelligently and passionately argued movies. These guys act like they know squat.

 

[Amaris]

Ben Mankiewicz is a former host for TCM. I've always found him to be quite competent.

J.

 

[JacksonArcher]

He came off as boring to me. At least Roeper & Phillips had chemistry and weren't afraid to disagree.

 

[Amaris]

He came off as boring to me. At least Roeper & Phillips had chemistry and weren't afraid to disagree.

He does understand quite a bit of film, though.
The other guy doesn't rub off on me very well.

J.

 

[cardinal biggles]

I caught a bit of the final episode of Ebert & Roeper (where they'd stopped using the Thumbs, and were instead grading films "See It" (green ticket) or "Skip It" (red ticket). I don't even remember what movies they were reviewing, but there was some lively discussion going on.

This new show is a bucket full of stupid, and if it lasts out the year, I'll be surprised.

 

[Aragorn]

The VP of Chicago Film Critics Association called Ben Lyons -- the younger of the two critics -- a quote whore.

 

[Tulin]

They did this in Australia about five years ago with the venerable hosts of nationwide film review program "The Movie Show". David Stratton and Margaret Pomeranz were deemed too old and stuffy for hip and ethnic SBS here in Oz so they got the shove while three younger, more hip and trendy glasses-wearing late twenties/early thirty somethings were brought in.

They didn't last a season.

Margaret and David meanwhile started up on the national broadcaster in the meantime and haven't missed a beat.

Good for them!

 

[Temis the Vorta]

Good GOD, the new show is annoying as hell. I'll keep watching it for movie clips, but keep hoping Roeper and Phillips start a competing show so I can bail on this annoying travesty.

Ben Mankiewicz is a former host for TCM. I've always found him to be quite competent.

With a different co-host (and a different show format), he might be okay.

 

[Aragorn]

Maybe Roeper and Phillips can get a new show and Ebert can give them the Thumbs trademark. That would definitely upstage the new and improved At the Movies made for the Japanese Game Show Children's Network.

 

[JacksonArcher]

I caught a bit of the final episode of Ebert & Roeper (where they'd stopped using the Thumbs, and were instead grading films "See It" (green ticket) or "Skip It" (red ticket). I don't even remember what movies they were reviewing, but there was some lively discussion going on.

This new show is a bucket full of stupid, and if it lasts out the year, I'll be surprised.

Exactly. Roeper & Phillips really went at it, almost as if there was no breathing room when they began discussing and dissecting the films they were reviewing. I'll definitely miss that.

I watched an episode of this new show and I couldn't get past the first review.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

My gold standard for movie review shows is when I can't get thru an episode without worrying that this time one of those guys is definitely going to jump up and try to choke the other one. The new show with the Carson Daly clone just makes me want to choke everyone involved.