Ebert, Roeper cutting ties with `At the Movies'

...You didn’t have to read much between the lines of the hosts’ gracious comments to infer that Disney ABC Domestic Television plans to dumb down and glam up the show next season.

Details are still sketchy, but word is that the new version will bear little resemblance to the brilliant and exquisitely simple format Gene and Roger invented ...

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E! Entertainment critic Ben Lyons and Turner Classic Movies host Ben Mankiewicz are the new guys.

I see the strategy. One who has seen a movie made before 1990, and one who knows nothing of cinema history.

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