Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert's At the Movies will go on an indefinite hiatus at the end of the year, Ebert announced on his blog.
"Our public television program Ebert Presents At The Movies will go on hiatus while we find necessary funding," Ebert wrote Wednesday. "It was a sad but necessary moment of realism."
Roger Ebert: We can't afford to finance At the Movies anymore
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Roger Ebert
Ebert Presents: At the Movies may go off the air at the end of the season, Roger Ebert writes on his blog.
Since the show's January debut, it has been financed solely by a $25,000 backing from Kanbar Charitable Trust. The rest has come from Ebert and his wife Chaz, who are both executive producers on the show.
"We can't afford to support it any longer," Ebert writes. "That's what it comes down to."
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Ryan Dunn, left and Zachary Hartwell, right. The man in the middle is unidentified.
Bam Margera slammed Roger Ebert on Twitter after the film critic tweeted: "Friends don't let jackasses drink and drive."
Meantime, police have identified Ryan Dunn's passenger as Zachary Hartwell, a production assistant on Jackass. Both men died when Dunn's Porsche jumped a guardrail in West Goshen Township, Pa., crashed into a tree and burst into flames.
Hartwell was credited as a production assistant ...
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Roger Ebert
Film critic Roger Ebert has a new chin.
After more than two years, Ebert, who lost a portion of his jawbone and the ability to speak after a battle with thyroid cancer, is now the proud owner of a new silicone prosthetic that fits over ...
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Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, a Chicago-based film critic who writes for Mubi.com and the Chicago Reader, will co-host Roger Ebert's revamped At the Movies.
Date set for Roger Ebert's TV return
Vishnevetsky, 24, joins Christy Lemire, who has been a critic for The Associated Press for 12 years. Vishnevetsky replaces Elvis Mitchell, who was originally announced as Lemire's co-host...
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Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert's new movie review TV show will premiere Jan. 21, the film critic announced.
Roger Ebert Presents At the Movies will air in 192 markets across the United States and worldwide in 175 countries via the Armed Forces Network, Ebert wrote in his Chicago Sun-Times journal.
Ebert, who lost his ability to speak after a battle with thyroid cancer, announced his TV return in September. The new show will feature contributors who will use Ebert's trademark "thumbs up/thumbs down" rating system he made famous on At the Movies, which ended earlier this year. Ebert, who communicates with post-it notes and a computer program that turns text into speech, will contribute regular segments as well.
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Roger Ebert
Film critic Roger Ebert is reviving the classic half-hour movie review program, At the Movies, on PBS, Ebert announced Friday.
Roger Ebert to produce movie review TV show
The new show, titled Roger Ebert Presents At the Movies, will be hosted by Christy Lemire, film critic of The Associated Press, and NPR's Elvis Mitchell, a former film critic for The New York Times. It is scheduled to debut in January...
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Roger Ebert
Just one day after the cancellation of At the Movies, Roger Ebert announced that he and his wife Chaz will produce a new movie review television show tentatively titled Roger Ebert Presents At the Movies.
At the Movies will end in August after 35 years
"No, Wednesday's cancellation of At the Movies hasn't discouraged us," Ebert wrote in his Chicago Sun-Times blog on Thursday. "We believe a market still exists for a weekly show where a couple of critics review new movies."
While Ebert did not reveal the details about the negotiations, the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer assured fans ...
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At the Movies - A.O. Scott, Michael Phillips
At the Movies, which traces its lineage back 35 years, will end this summer, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
The film-review series, once known as Siskel & Ebert after the show's first and longtime hosts, will air its final original program on the weekend of Aug. 14.
"This was a very difficult decision, especially considering the program's rich history and iconic status within the entertainment industry, but from a business perspective it became clear this weekly, half-hour, broadcast syndication series was no longer sustainable," the show's distributor, Disney-ABC Domestic TV, said in a statement obtained by THR.
Roger Ebert debuts "new voice" on Oprah
At the Movies began as Sneak Previews. It debuted in Chicago in 1975 and was hosted by...
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Roger Ebert, Oprah
Cancer robbed Roger Ebert of the ability to speak four years ago. Now the famed film critic has found a new voice that sounds like his old one.
Using a new text-to-speech software by Scottish computer programming company CereProc, Ebert debuted his synthesized yet familiar voice on Tuesday's The Oprah Winfrey Show.
Roger Ebert to sit down with Oprah
The 67-year-old Pulitzer Prize winner, who had part of his jawbone removed in a battle with thyroid cancer, previously used standard computerized voices until CereProc sampled audio clips of Ebert's past film commentaries to fashion a semblance of his voice. The technology allows Ebert ...
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