Roger Ebert News

How did Ben Lyons gain the plum job of succeeding Roger Ebert on "At the Movies"? E! film critic Lyons cites his knowledge; he is the son of movie critic Jeffrey Lyons.

Getting "two thumbs up" from Siskel and Ebert used to mean something. Before the OMG-The-Sky-Is-Falling state of the newspaper industry, thoughtful movie criticism was valued.

EBERT "DEPRESSED" BY LOSS OF SHOW Chicago Sun-Times film critic Roger Ebert says that having to announce his departure from the television show that he launched with the late Gene Siskel in 1975 left him ...

Ben Lyons , one of the two much-maligned beneficiaries of nepotism chosen to fill the legendary seats of Roger Ebert and the late Gene Siskel on At the Movies , received a rousing defense from his father, noted ...

The recent announcement that Roger Ebert had ended his association with "At the Movies" -- as well as Richard Roeper -- repped the end of an era.

Of course Ebert's battle with cancer has had us concerned for the longest time of one of the finest movie critics ever, but just last week it was discovered he and his Sun-Times colleague won't be returning to ...

Roger Ebert is gone from "At the Movies," but he's an increasingly influential figure in the new dominant realm of film criticism: the Web.

DISNEY/ABC Domestic Television's AT THE MOVIES will be getting two new critics/co-hosts when it debuts this fall on September 6th, 2008 -- BEN LYONS and BEN MANKIEWICZ, replacing film critic ROGER EBERT and his ...

DISNEY/ABC Domestic Television's AT THE MOVIES will be getting two new critics/co-hosts when it debuts this fall on September 6th, 2008 -- BEN LYONS and BEN MANKIEWICZ, replacing film critic ROGER EBERT and his ...

DISNEY/ABC Domestic Television's AT THE MOVIES will be getting two new critics/co-hosts when it debuts this fall on September 6th, 2008 -- BEN LYONS and BEN MANKIEWICZ, replacing film critic ROGER EBERT and his ...

DISNEY/ABC Domestic Television's AT THE MOVIES will be getting two new critics/co-hosts when it debuts this fall on September 6th, 2008 -- BEN LYONS and BEN MANKIEWICZ, replacing film critic ROGER EBERT and his ...

DISNEY/ABC Domestic Television's AT THE MOVIES will be getting two new critics/co-hosts when it debuts this fall on September 6th, 2008 -- BEN LYONS and BEN MANKIEWICZ, replacing film critic ROGER EBERT and his ...

DISNEY/ABC Domestic Television's AT THE MOVIES will be getting two new critics/co-hosts when it debuts this fall on September 6th, 2008 -- BEN LYONS and BEN MANKIEWICZ, replacing film critic ROGER EBERT and his ...

The five teens in Youth Speaks Hawai'i won first place at the Brave New Voices International Youth Poetry Slam Festival on Saturday in Washington, D.C. The winning teens are Will Giles of Hawai'i Kai, Alaka'i ...

DISNEY/ABC Domestic Television's AT THE MOVIES will be getting two new critics/co-hosts when it debuts this fall on September 6th, 2008 -- BEN LYONS and BEN MANKIEWICZ, replacing film critic ROGER EBERT and his ...

Chicago Sun-Times columnist Richard Roeper says he is leaving the syndicated TV show "At the Movies With Ebert and Roeper" after eight seasons.

Another installment of cards and letters across the television/radio desk: Bill Harding: It is truly a tragedy to learn that Roger Ebert and Richard Roeper will not be part of "At the Movies" in the future.

Over the years, TV's best-known movie review show has gone from hosts Siskel and Ebert to Ebert and Roeper to Roeper and guest critics - and now it's Lyons and Mankiewicz.

Yesterday, we learned that At the Movies was changing in a big way. Richard Roeper had decided to leave the show to pursue a new reviewing program, while Roger Ebert sent out a statement saying that he was out ...

T he curtain has come down on "At the Movies With Ebert & Roeper." The aisle may vanish too.