I just read on here they are getting canned. Is this true? I watch At the movies online and always hoped Scott and Phillips were getting the gig after Roeper quit because they were my favourite guest critics... I stop watching when those Ben nobodies started presenting it.
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The whole show is getting cancelled. They announced that months ago. Ebert wrote a good blog about it which I recommend. I liked Phillips and Scott, but they were no Siskel and Ebert. Its like the Producers didn't want them to get into big fights. They were too calm.
I think they needed more time to get their chemistry right since they didn't work together before and may not have have met before they were picked. They were my favorite guest critics too.
You didn't read the news awhile back? The show has been cancelled after this season. Scott is going back to NYC and once again Phillips is leaving the show.
sharewell, I dont live in US so Im out of the loop as far as news goes there.. I just watch their show on the net..
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You had better get out of that cave, this show was canceled back in like what March. And still who knows, if they didn't who knows if they would be back if they did another season of this show. And they are just best to do it anways, and there are really no other movie review programs so we are stuck, and we won't know what the critics would have thought of part 1 or even part II of Harry Potter and the Deadly Hallows.
shareI don't understand why ABC cancelled it. What kind of ratings did they expect? The show's on at midnight on a sunday. Also idk if you guys knew but when they get rid of the god awful Ben Lyons and Ben Mackewiecks, and brought in Scott and phillips the ratings grew.
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The show aired at a different time in every market. I live in Chicago and it aired on Sat at 10:35pm and a repeat on Sunday moening.
shareRoger sort of mentioned why in his essay on the show ending. It had to do with the fact that today's syndicated shows are aired more than once a week.
shareLike insanity_84, I also live in the area of Chicago so it aired here at 10:35 P.M. and repeats on Sunday Mornings, expect for like the fall, and early winter when College Football is going on, or another sports game going on, that would push the show to a later start time then 10:35 on a Saturday night, when it was hard to know when it will air. But it is was not ABC that canceled the show it was Disney. Take a look at this,
Cancellation and replacement
On March 24, 2010, Disney announced that At the Movies was being canceled, ending 24 seasons of national syndication on August 14, 2010.[3][19] The final episode included reviews of Eat Pray Love, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, and The Expendables.
The same day that the cancellation was announced, Roger Ebert announced he is "deeply involved" in talks to produce a new movie review program called Roger Ebert presents At the Movies, which will make use of the "Thumbs Up/Thumbs Down" recommendation he and Siskel introduced.[20] WTTW in Chicago, where Siskel and Ebert had their start, picked up the show, and will nationally syndicate it on PBS member stations beginning on January 21, 2011.[21] The show will also air on the Armed Forces Network.[22] The principal co-hosts of the show were announced as Christy Lemire of the Associated Press and Elvis Mitchell from National Public Radio.[23] Mitchell has since been dropped and the producers are now looking for a replacement.[21][22] Also, Ebert announced that regular contributors and occasional co-hosts will be Kim Morgan and Omar Moore who are both respected and popular film bloggers.[24] Ebert himself will host a segment called "Roger's Office", in which he will use a computer voice to review movies or to talk about the industry;[25] however, he will refrain from debating the hosts or using the "Thumbs Up/Thumbs Down" method himself, citing that "you can't have three Thumbs."[26]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At_the_Movies_(U.S._TV_series)#Cancellation_and_replacement