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2:24 PM Mon, Jul 21, 2008 | Permalink
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In the past two days, both Roger Ebert and Richard Roeper have said they are calling it quits on At the Movies with Ebert & Roeper and both have more or less said that they disagree with the direction that Disney wants to take the show. A Chicago Tribune story says that the Mouse House wanted to move the show in more of an Entertainment Tonight direction with more of a focus on Hollywood.
To which I ask: Don't we already have a ton of shows like that?
What made Ebert & Roeper (and Siskel & Ebert before it) special was that it was a simple show featuring two guys talking about the movies -- and none of the peripheral stuff surrounding them. If Disney wants to change the show's focus, that's their decision. But they should know going into it that they'll just be entering another show into an already crowded field.

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Posted by Kip Mooney @ 9:49 PM Mon, Jul 21, 2008

It's really sad, because there's not many shows like At the Movies anymore. I mean you've got Sunday Morning Shootout on AMC, but nothing of the quality that this show has been for decades. It will be sorely missed.

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