{"id":470069,"date":"2010-03-25T06:49:14","date_gmt":"2010-03-25T10:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/?p=98132"},"modified":"2010-03-25T06:49:14","modified_gmt":"2010-03-25T10:49:14","slug":"%e2%80%9cat-the-movies%e2%80%9d-cancelled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/470069","title":{"rendered":"\u201cAt The Movies\u201d Cancelled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The balcony is now closed: Disney-ABC is pulling the plug on <em>At the Movies<\/em>, the long-running syndicated film-review show  best remembered for its &#8220;Thumbs Up\/Thumbs Down&#8221; review summaries by dueling Chicago film critics Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/At-The-Movies-Cancelled-500x250.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"At The Movies Cancelled\" width=\"500\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignright size-large wp-image-98134\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-98132\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>After Siskel died of cancer in 1999, he was replaced by <em>Chicago Sun-Times<\/em> film critic Richard Roeper. However, the show has been in limbo ever since Ebert lost his voice to an aggressive form of cancer in 2002. Producers and distributors finally cancelled the series on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;R.I.P. At The Movies,&#8221;<\/em> Ebert wrote on his Twitter account.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;After 24 seasons with us in national syndication, the highly regarded movie review show &#8216;At the Movies&#8217; (formerly known as &#8220;Siskel &#038; Ebert&#8221; and &#8220;Ebert &#038; Roeper&#8221;) will air its last original broadcast the weekend of August 14, 2010,&#8221;<\/em> Distributor Disney-ABC Domestic TV said in a statement Wednesday.<em> &#8220;This was a very difficult decision, especially considering the program&#8217;s rich history and iconic status within the entertainment industry, but from a business perspective it became clear this weekly, half-hour, broadcast syndication series was no longer sustainable&#8230;..We extend very special thanks to the two brilliant, visionary and incomparable critics that started it all, Roger Ebert and the late Gene Siskel.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/cfq2HOLDRV60i-Bd9fPqnJStGFE\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/cfq2HOLDRV60i-Bd9fPqnJStGFE\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/cfq2HOLDRV60i-Bd9fPqnJStGFE\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/cfq2HOLDRV60i-Bd9fPqnJStGFE\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The balcony is now closed: Disney-ABC is pulling the plug on At the Movies, the long-running syndicated film-review show best remembered for its &#8220;Thumbs Up\/Thumbs Down&#8221; review summaries by dueling Chicago film critics Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert. After Siskel died of cancer in 1999, he was replaced by Chicago Sun-Times film critic Richard Roeper. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5335,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-470069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5335"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=470069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470069\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}