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Roger Ebert Presents At the Movies... heading to PBS in 2011.

Wow, this is fantastic news! Although I won't be able to watch it because I'm currently in Japan, I applaud Ebert's strength and courage to return to television after all he has gone through.

Nardpuncher said:
I seem to remember his show with Gene Siskel was called Sneak Previews and was on PBS back in the early 80s. I used to watch it on Saturday nights when I was a kid.

Thanks youtube:
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Whoa! That's awesome! I just wish the clip was longer. I wanted to hear what Siskel and Ebert had to say about Blade Runner at that time.
 
Nardpuncher said:
I seem to remember his show with Gene Siskel was called Sneak Previews and was on PBS back in the early 80s. I used to watch it on Saturday nights when I was a kid.

Thanks youtube:
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Thanks for mentioning Sneak Prevfiews...i also watched that show as well.

The PBS move seems like he's coming full circle, and going back to where he started (TV-wise), but with a new format.

Sounds interesting...
 
Emh said:
Wow, this is fantastic news! Although I won't be able to watch it because I'm currently in Japan, I applaud Ebert's strength and courage to return to television after all he has gone through.
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Based on some of the things he's said in the past about this show, I'd say it's safe to say that you'll be able to watch at least large chunks on the show's website. Ebert fully intends to embrace "new media" with this incarnation of At the Movies.
 
I have to ask. Do the guys like to see Kim Morgan only because she is a young hip pretty blonde or do they actually care about her reviews and film criticisms? I have to say, as a female critic, you do notice the huge desperarity between men and women and how they critique films. Women are expected to only do 'chick flicks' or like romantic comedies or by contrast be the bad ass hardcore or horror bitch. Where men can review whatever they want, women tend to be classified in one catergory or the other-yet the truth of the matter is that most women don't strictly review in those stereotypes. Take a browse at some of the big movie blogs. It will be a dozen guys and only one or two cool chicks who are usually somehow related to the guys. Out of over 70 or so members in the Online Critics Society, only a handful are women, and a few of them are wives of the dudes.

Does the precious 18-34 demographic simply like looking at the chicks and not care what they say? Like the girl on The Daily Line on Versus, she has nothing to do but be the girl. My husband was watching some video game review podcast and the girl go to do the Super Mario Brothers Wii. All she could say was that it was nostaglic and cute. Do we put the looks above and expect so little intelligence. Then you get the opposite, the ones that write too much and always seem butch, bitchy, and uber feminist.

I lost my train of thought! Well, anyone have any input on the seemingly lack of female critics and the stereotypes out there?
 
^ Actually it was thyroid cancer that spread to his salivary glands and his jaw bone.

KB24 said:
I have to ask. Do the guys like to see Kim Morgan only because she is a young hip pretty blonde or do they actually care about her reviews and film criticisms?
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I don't care what she looks like or if she is a woman. I enjoy what she has to say and her unique view of film.
 
^ Read the link. ;)

Roger Ebert said:
"Roger Ebert Presents At the Movies" is cleared in 192 markets and worldwide on the Armed Forces Network. First show, Jan. 21.
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(Bold mine.)
 
(I apologize for posting twice in a row, but I think this warrants it.)

Now online is a list of channels (and tentative airdates) that will be carrying Roger Ebert Presents At the Movies.
Roger Ebert said:
[...] The show will play in prime time or prime access in many major markets, including New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Houston, Phoenix, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Dallas, San Diego, Denver, San Jose and Detroit. It will have double runs in many cities.

The program is cleared in 192 markets in the United States, and will also go out via the worldwide facilities of the Armed Forces Network. [...]
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Follow the link for more details, including a PDF with the full list of channels.


Also, if anyone has seen stories about Elvis Mitchell being removed from the show, Ebert tweeted this response:
Roger Ebert said:
The Sun-Times story cited is assumed to have authority. Its writer never spoke to us. Nothing in it came from us.
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I hope this means a return of the "At the Movies" online archive. Buena Vista/Disney removed it and killed the site where it was without any warning, pissing off myself and many other fans of Siskel & Ebert (and Roeper, Scott, and Phillips). Now we have to rely on Youtube to watch any of the old reviews. :scream: I was hoping maybe Ebert got the archive and will put it on the site for his new show when it debuts, but that's probably a long shot. :(
 
^ His latest Answer Man column addresses the issue. I hope for the archive's return also.

And, Mitchell should totally go. He's as wooden as Costner on a bad day.
 
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