Enlarge The Walt Disney Company via Reuters Ben Lyons, left, and Ben Mankiewicz are the new hosts of At the Movies, starting in September. By Lynn Elber, Associated Press LOS ANGELES — Over the years, TV’s best-known movie review show has gone from hosts Siskel and Ebert to Ebert and Roeper to Roeper and guest critics — and at once it’s Lyons and Mankiewicz.
Ben Lyons, a Hollywood reporter and film critic for E! News and others, and Turner Classic Movies host Ben Mankiewicz will take over At the Movies when its recent season begins in September, Disney Domestic Television said Tuesday.
Don’t look for the syndicated program’s “thumbs up-thumbs down” ratings to return. Roger Ebert shares a trademark lock on it with the widow of his late co-host, Gene Siskel, and Ebert has said they’re death by the halter on to it.
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