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"At The Movies" Canceled

...you're both wrong. At The Movies was the name of Siskel and Ebert's Tribune-produced/distributed program. When Gene and Roger left Tribune for Buena Vista, At The Movies continued at Tribune with Rex Reed, Bill Harris and Dixie Watley for a couple of years and then evaporated. When Ebert announced he wouldn't be able to return to Ebert and Roeper, Disney simply reappropriated the title, since Tribune hadn't been using it for a couple of decades; The Mouse also tried desperately to tell us the current series was the same as the one Ebert and Siskel had been working on (it wasn't, and never would be). The recently-cancelled teleturd co-hosted by the grossly unqualified Dickie Roeper WAS NOT the same series Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert had in the '80s, any more than Conan O'Brien was the "fifth" host of The Tonight Show simply because the jerks at NBC were able to forget Ernie Kovacs, Al Collins and Jack Lescoulie in that lineage...
 
Surprised At The Movies was still on the air considering IMDB. Today if someone really wants to know if a movie is good or bad for the most part they go to IMDB and read the comments there. Why wait for "At The Movies"? I have to admit that Siskel & Ebert were fun to watch, sorry to say I can't say the same about the others though.
 
Ultimajock said:
...you're both wrong. At The Movies was the name of Siskel and Ebert's Tribune-produced/distributed program. When Gene and Roger left Tribune for Buena Vista, At The Movies continued at Tribune with Rex Reed, Bill Harris and Dixie Watley for a couple of years and then evaporated. When Ebert announced he wouldn't be able to return to Ebert and Roeper, Disney simply reappropriated the title, since Tribune hadn't been using it for a couple of decades; The Mouse also tried desperately to tell us the current series was the same as the one Ebert and Siskel had been working on (it wasn't, and never would be). The recently-cancelled teleturd co-hosted by the grossly unqualified Dickie Roeper WAS NOT the same series Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert had in the '80s, any more than Conan O'Brien was the "fifth" host of The Tonight Show simply because the jerks at NBC were able to forget Ernie Kovacs, Al Collins and Jack Lescoulie in that lineage...
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The originator of the post was right, though you may believe different. The present At the Movies is the same show, produced by the same company, since 1986. Hosts and titles may have changed, but the lineage hasn't. The original, Tribune-produced At the Movies ended in 1989 after seven years.

In all reality, this show should not have continued after Roger Ebert and Richard Roeper ended their involvement. The year of the Bens, Lyons and Mankiewicz, did nothing to keep the franchise viable. A.O. Scott and Michael Phillips may be a bit better, but it was too little and too late.

And, what makes you believe Roeper was unqualified? If anything, the Bens were "grossly unqualified".
 
Rollo-Smokes said:
The present At the Movies is the same show, produced by the same company, since 1986. Hosts and titles may have changed, but the lineage hasn't. The original, Tribune-produced At the Movies ended in 1989 after seven years...
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... and interestingly, the series only retained the "At The Movies" title in 2008 - that's just two years ago. That according to Wikipedia.
 
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