Roger Ebert Bringing Back "At The Movies" On PBS

[DToTheJ]

The famed movie critic, who owns rights to "At The Movies" as well as certain elements from the show, is reviving the program on PBS, where his original film review show with the late Gene Siskel started 35 years ago.

More info:
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE68959T20100910

 

[Garrett]

The famed movie critic, who owns rights to "At The Movies" as well as certain elements from the show, is reviving the program on PBS, where his original film review show with the late Gene Siskel started 35 years ago.

More info:
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE68959T20100910

Its not really the same show. No Roeper, and it will be two other critics discussing the movies. If I read correctly, Ebert will just have a single segment on the show.

 

[KeithE4]

The famed movie critic, who owns rights to "At The Movies" as well as certain elements from the show, is reviving the program on PBS, where his original film review show with the late Gene Siskel started 35 years ago.

More info:
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE68959T20100910

Its not really the same show. No Roeper, and it will be two other critics discussing the movies. If I read correctly, Ebert will just have a single segment on the show.

How is this going to happen? Last I heard, Ebert is permanently unable to speak due to cancer destroying his lower jaw. Or has his jaw (hopefully) been restored?

 

[dave73]

The famed movie critic, who owns rights to "At The Movies" as well as certain elements from the show, is reviving the program on PBS, where his original film review show with the late Gene Siskel started 35 years ago.

More info:
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE68959T20100910

Its not really the same show. No Roeper, and it will be two other critics discussing the movies. If I read correctly, Ebert will just have a single segment on the show.

How is this going to happen? Last I heard, Ebert is permanently unable to speak due to cancer destroying his lower jaw. Or has his jaw (hopefully) been restored?

He can't speak. He uses a computer that does the speaking for him. It has most words he spoke in older interviews & shows that captured most of his words. It has worked for him for the most part. I'm just wondering when it comes to words he never spoke before his cancer that caused him to lose his jaw. How will his computer program handle that one? I know that he's never said Lady Gaga before.

 

[Darth_vader]

Probably by concatenation. If it's anything like the system NOAA currently uses for its radio broadcasts, it's a system that uses samples of human speech, in this case it would be Mr. Ebert's speech instead of whomever else. I imagine there's some concatenation algorithm in the software Mr. Ebert uses that can generate odd-sounding words, like some names, by piecing together fragments of existing speech samples using the set parametres. It's quite similar to how many modern sample-based music systhesisers work.

That's just my hypothesis, anyways.

[size=8pt]B.T.W., you ought to hear how the NOAA computer stumbles over names of places in WA & OR. In fact, if you don't live within range of KIG98, you can load this link into your Winamp and listen at your lesiure: http://audioplayer.wunderground.com/wh6ko/StHelens.mp3

 

[Ultimajock]

The famed movie critic, who owns rights to "At The Movies" as well as certain elements from the show, is reviving the program on PBS, where his original film review show with the late Gene Siskel started 35 years ago.

More info:
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE68959T20100910

Its not really the same show. No Roeper

...THANK GOD! The only two reasons Ebert brought Dickie Roeper into that program after Gene Siskel's death were (a) to make damned good and sure Roger became the only actual film critic on the show and (b) to turn it into an infomercial for the Chicago Sun-Times (Siskel had been the primary film critic for the Chicago Tribune and CBS' WBBM-TV/2)...

 

[ajc_trw]

The famed movie critic, who owns rights to "At The Movies" as well as certain elements from the show, is reviving the program on PBS, where his original film review show with the late Gene Siskel started 35 years ago.

More info:
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE68959T20100910

Its not really the same show. No Roeper, and it will be two other critics discussing the movies. If I read correctly, Ebert will just have a single segment on the show.

You know Siskel & Ebert couldn't go on forever. Eventually they'd die (Siskel) or grow too old/sick (Ebert) to continue.

Consider it At The Moves The Next Generation or ATM-TNG.

 

[1069_KIFR]

His vision is to most likely bring it back to the way it was in the beginning, or as close to it as possible. Before others put their own spin on it and turned 'At the Movies' into a show not at all like the concept.

I'm sure Eberts computer has the sayings, "The Balcony is Closed" and "Thats a Big Thumbs Up"

 

[nick p]

So who are the regular hosts? Mercifully the easily excitable Richard Roeper will not be on board, but Elvis Mitchell and Christy Lemire will. Mitchell served two stints at the New York Times and hosted some rather drab interview segments on Turner Classic with various notables chatting about their favorite films. Lemire is one of those rah-rah types who somehow gets paid to gush about movies for the Associated Press. So basically this might turn out to be a cross between the reviled Ben Lyons and the charisma-free A.O. Scott, who served separate terms during the recently canceled show's last two iterations.