7.4 /10 1 Votes
Country of origin United States No. of seasons 1 First episode date 21 January 2011 Genre Talk show Program creators Don DuPree, Scott Dummler | 7.4/10 IMDb Original language(s) English Running time 30 minutes Final episode date 30 December 2011 Executive producer Roger Ebert | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Presented by Christy Lemire
Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
Roger Ebert (primarily voiced by various people; secondarily voiced by Bill Kurtis) Location(s) WTTW Studios in Chicago, Illinois Similar At the Movies, Maltin on Movies, On the Red Carpet, The McLaughlin Group, Spoilers | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Roger ebert presents at the movies
Ebert Presents: At the Movies was a weekly, nationally syndicated movie review television program produced and presented by film critic Roger Ebert and co-produced by his wife, Chaz Ebert. The program aired on public television stations in the United States through American Public Television.
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- Roger ebert presents at the movies
- Roger ebert presents at the movies 2011 my announcement
- Development
- Production
- Cancellation
- References
The show continued the format originated by Ebert and Gene Siskel on their first show, Sneak Previews, and continued on At the Movies with Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert and later At the Movies, in which two film critics discuss the week's new releases and occasional theme episodes, such as "The Best Films of the Year".
Ebert Presents: At the Movies was hosted by Christy Lemire of Associated Press and Ignatiy Vishnevetsky of Chicago Reader and the website Mubi. The program premiered on January 21, 2011 and was officially cancelled in 2013 after the showrunners failed to determine new sources of financial underwriting.
Roger ebert presents at the movies 2011 my announcement
Development
A pilot was shot in the summer of 2010 featuring critics Christy Lemire and Elvis Mitchell (from National Public Radio). Though it was assumed that the two would co-host the show, in December 2010 it was announced that Mitchell would not be taking part in the program. Lemire remained as one of the two principal critics alongside Ignatiy Vishnevetsky.
Ebert returned to television on this show for the first time since his emergency operation in 2006 that took his ability to speak. He continued to review movies from his office set, using famed Chicago journalist and anchor Bill Kurtis and others to read his reviews.
Production
Ebert Presents: At the Movies was filmed at the studios of WTTW in Chicago, where Ebert and Siskel's version of the program (originally titled Opening Soon at a Theater Near You) began filming 36 years earlier. Though the show used a newly constructed set made to resemble a balcony, hosts Lemire and Vishnevetsky sat in the seats originally used by Siskel and Ebert on the show Sneak Previews.
The show regularly featured guest contributors such as teenage movie critic Jackson Murphy, Kim Morgan, Omar Moore, and producer Chaz Ebert.
Cancellation
On November 6, 2011, Ebert announced in a post on his blog that he and Chaz had paid for the first season themselves in hopes of finding corporate underwriting for subsequent seasons, and the program would have to be cancelled if that funding could not be arranged.
In a subsequent blog entry posted on November 30, 2011, Ebert stated that the show would go on hiatus at the end of the year. The last program aired just before the year ended; despite the couple's best efforts, no new sources of financial underwriting were found. Roger Ebert died on April 4, 2013.