“At the Movies” Will Have New Hosts From September
By Charlie Brett
11:36, July 23rd 2008
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“At the Movies” Will Have New Hosts From September

Changes, changes, changes! The new hosts of the nationally syndicated movie review show “At the Movies” will be Ben Lyons and Ben Mankiewicz. Disney-ABC Domestic Television said Tuesday that the new hosts will take over the show in September when the show’s new season begins.

The show suffered some transformations over the years. Initially there were Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel, then Roger Ebert and Richard Roeper and now Ben Lyons and Ben Mankiewicz. The two film critics Ebert and Roeper announced that they were leaving “At the Movies.”

Ben Lyons is a Hollywood reporter and film critic for “E! News” and others and Ben Mankiewicz hosts shows for Turner Classic Movies and Sirius Satellite Radio. The new season of the movie review show “At the Movies” begins on September 6.

“It's an awesome responsibility. We're going to try to reach an audience that cares about movies,” said Ben Mankiewicz, according to The Associated Press.

“This is the pinnacle of being a film critic,” said Ben Lyons.

Ben Mankiewicz is the son of Frank Mankiewicz, the first president of National Public Radio, and grandson of screenwriter Herman Mankiewicz and Ben Lyons is the son of movie reviewer Jeffrey Lyons.

Roger Ebert announced he was going to leave the show, saying that Disney-ABC Domestic Television was taking the show “in a new direction” and he did not want to be linked with it anymore. Richard Roeper didn’t come to financial terms for his new contract with Disney-ABC Domestic Television and he said he would start his work as a critic somewhere else.

Ebert and Gene Siskel’s show began in 1975 for Chicago station WTTW and then it moved to PBS nationally in 1978 with the renamed “At the Movies,”going commercial afterward with Tribune Syndication. The show was sold to Buena Vista Television in 1986 and it was renamed “Siskel & Ebert & the Movies.” Richard Roeper took Siskel’s place in 2000. Gene Siskel died of a brain tumor in 1999.

 

 

 



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