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Disney Names Replacements For Roger Ebert & Richard Roeper!!

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E! blogger Ben Lyons and longtime TCM host Ben Mankiewicz have been named to replace the Chicago Sun-Times’ Roger Ebert and Richard Roeper on Disney’s long-running movie-review show.

Lyons’ dad Jeffrey (with Neal Gabler) succeeded Ebert and Gene Siskel on “Sneak Previews” in 1982 when Siskel and Ebert moved their act from PBS to Tribune Entertainment.

Roeper will continue at the Disney show until the weekend of Aug. 15. The new critics’ first show will air three weeks later.

Read all of Variety’s story on the matter here.


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First!
by Nico Toscani
Jul 22nd, 2008
07:55:08 PM
Dammit SoylentMean!
by Nico Toscani
Jul 22nd, 2008
07:55:49 PM
Ugh
by aversiontherapy2
Jul 22nd, 2008
07:56:58 PM
Jeffrey lyons and neal gabler
by Scuzzy
Jul 22nd, 2008
08:01:45 PM
It's Ben MANKIEWICZ
by MistaSparkle88
Jul 22nd, 2008
08:02:26 PM
blows
by reckni
Jul 22nd, 2008
08:05:16 PM
I wonder how anyone is going to realize...
by eggart
Jul 22nd, 2008
08:05:38 PM
Nothing beats Siskel & Ebert though
by mistergreen
Jul 22nd, 2008
08:07:17 PM
I actually like Ben Mankiewicz.......and......
by LHombreSiniestro
Jul 22nd, 2008
08:11:30 PM
So, for the past few years
by Big Jim
Jul 22nd, 2008
08:14:43 PM
Scuzzy:
by Mostholy
Jul 22nd, 2008
08:15:13 PM
Fuck These Guys
by Vic_Arpeggio
Jul 22nd, 2008
08:15:27 PM
Oh, I didn't realize Roeper was going too
by CherryValance
Jul 22nd, 2008
08:15:43 PM
You can't replace Roger Ebert + Gene Siskel
by DARTH VOODOO
Jul 22nd, 2008
08:16:04 PM
Never heard of these guys
by Mullah Omar
Jul 22nd, 2008
08:17:03 PM
Ebert and Roeper are going to continue the show
by DARTH VOODOO
Jul 22nd, 2008
08:17:08 PM
Seems sort of strange for them to announce their replacements so
by eggart
Jul 22nd, 2008
08:22:04 PM
- quickly.
by eggart
Jul 22nd, 2008
08:23:48 PM
Neal Gabler
by Tar Heel
Jul 22nd, 2008
08:32:30 PM
Where's Roeper's statement?
by Riley Martin
Jul 22nd, 2008
08:32:42 PM
Booooooooooooooooooooooooo!
by Bungion Boy
Jul 22nd, 2008
08:35:47 PM
woah
by Charlie Murphy
Jul 22nd, 2008
08:35:58 PM
Recast the roles with younger actors...
by Prof. Pop-Cult
Jul 22nd, 2008
08:38:40 PM
Ben & Ben?
by Orionsangels
Jul 22nd, 2008
08:45:52 PM
shoulda signed the 2 geezers
by bacci40
Jul 22nd, 2008
08:48:52 PM
3 weeks?! What about reviews of DEATH RACE, THE ROCKER, HOUSE BU
by TallBoy66
Jul 22nd, 2008
08:49:41 PM
Now he can suck just like his dad!
by The Funketeer
Jul 22nd, 2008
09:17:24 PM
Disney really fucked themselves, and these hosts on this
by smackfu
Jul 22nd, 2008
09:26:34 PM
You can't replace Roger Ebert
by snowpuff
Jul 22nd, 2008
09:33:17 PM
What? Were Billy Bush & Ryan Seacrest booked?
by Jugdish
Jul 22nd, 2008
09:42:04 PM
whatever...
by dingus khan
Jul 22nd, 2008
09:46:15 PM
M-O-O-N. That spells two thumbs down.
by Tom Cullen
Jul 22nd, 2008
09:46:40 PM
Billy Bush
by KazamaSmokers
Jul 22nd, 2008
09:50:55 PM
Lyons and Mankiewicz?
by Holeman
Jul 22nd, 2008
10:04:39 PM
The End of an ERA
by FuryofthefilmFan
Jul 22nd, 2008
10:09:21 PM
Roeper is a douchebag
by nascentia
Jul 22nd, 2008
10:17:32 PM
They might have asked someone at this site -
by joeelliott
Jul 22nd, 2008
10:20:22 PM
At the Movies with The Bens
by Playhouse
Jul 22nd, 2008
10:46:16 PM
Much Rather See...
by Playhouse
Jul 22nd, 2008
10:47:43 PM
Much Rather See...
by Playhouse
Jul 22nd, 2008
10:49:02 PM
Hey Tom Cullen:
by quadfather09
Jul 22nd, 2008
10:55:02 PM
M-O-O-N. That spells quadfather09
by Tom Cullen
Jul 22nd, 2008
11:13:40 PM
joeelliott...pussy juice equals ratings
by bacci40
Jul 22nd, 2008
11:22:09 PM
I bet the new Ebert show...
by DocBosch
Jul 22nd, 2008
11:23:04 PM
This really is a non-story
by Cotton McKnight
Jul 22nd, 2008
11:27:47 PM
Don't Know the Audience
by Conrad Rooks
Jul 22nd, 2008
11:50:44 PM
Two Thumbs Up... MY ASSHOLE!
by gridbug
Jul 23rd, 2008
12:07:57 AM
As someone who grew up watching Roger & Gene
by INWOsuxRED
Jul 23rd, 2008
12:21:34 AM
We really are in trouble in current times. Nepostism.
by GQtaste
Jul 23rd, 2008
12:27:42 AM
They should have gotten somebody from this site.
by GQtaste
Jul 23rd, 2008
12:44:43 AM
BEN LYONS????????
by Paul T. Ryan
Jul 23rd, 2008
01:03:51 AM
Really? An E-blogger?....
by jimmy_009
Jul 23rd, 2008
01:07:59 AM
Any critic worth reading is one who saw Star Wars and Jaws
by Cotton McKnight
Jul 23rd, 2008
01:30:29 AM
I just went to Lyon's IMDB page. Someone wrote "HOTTIE!"
by Cotton McKnight
Jul 23rd, 2008
01:34:42 AM
fuck the new show format
by Prossor
Jul 23rd, 2008
02:28:10 AM
*yawn*
by palewook
Jul 23rd, 2008
05:41:50 AM
Let's get rid of all the old people on TV!!!!
by kwisatzhaderach
Jul 23rd, 2008
06:50:53 AM
Figured it'd be Morirary and Harry
by cowboyone
Jul 23rd, 2008
07:35:40 AM
At least its not Mike Medved
by Knobules
Jul 23rd, 2008
08:42:06 AM
At The Junior High
by ArcadianDS
Jul 23rd, 2008
09:23:11 AM
If they wanted to go with two Bens
by Cory849
Jul 23rd, 2008
09:32:50 AM
Gene Shalitt needs a reality show
by fiester
Jul 23rd, 2008
09:40:50 AM
Just CGI Siskel And Ebert
by Tipsy McStagger
Jul 23rd, 2008
10:16:40 AM
Fuck this new show
by santi01
Jul 23rd, 2008
10:27:52 AM
CGI'd Ebert & Siskel
by santi01
Jul 23rd, 2008
10:28:48 AM
They should have stuck to guest reviewers when Gene died.
by Photoman
Jul 23rd, 2008
10:52:29 AM
Give Leah Rozen
by dirtsandwich
Jul 23rd, 2008
11:15:45 AM
Gene Shalit's pubic hair transplants
by Bobo_Vision
Jul 23rd, 2008
11:21:04 AM
Cancer Strikes The Two Greatest Reviews Ever...
by Tipsy McStagger
Jul 23rd, 2008
11:29:25 AM
One thing that no one's mentioned...
by EriamJH
Jul 23rd, 2008
11:47:17 AM
"Is reviewing some kind of hereditary ability?"
by Big Jim
Jul 23rd, 2008
12:51:49 PM
I Feel the IQ Points Draining
by Stacy Without An E
Jul 23rd, 2008
12:57:21 PM
Why they worked
by veritasses
Jul 23rd, 2008
01:49:32 PM
Since it's Disney owned I thought
by skimn
Jul 23rd, 2008
01:57:20 PM
I remember when I was a kid
by Abominable Snowcone
Jul 23rd, 2008
02:50:00 PM
I'm gonna have to watch these guys at 3am
by Rupee88
Jul 23rd, 2008
04:12:54 PM
The best US movie series I ever saw was the one
by emeraldboy
Jul 23rd, 2008
04:14:00 PM
None of you have to watch Jonathan Ross..
by emeraldboy
Jul 23rd, 2008
04:19:44 PM
So every movie will get a thumbs up?
by spectrebeeyatch
Jul 23rd, 2008
06:08:02 PM
lets burn disney to the ground
by duncanwk
Jul 23rd, 2008
08:05:45 PM
Michael Phillips
by The Alienist
Jul 23rd, 2008
08:33:30 PM
Fannie Mae & Freddie Macs Funtime Films & Finances
by G100
Jul 23rd, 2008
08:44:39 PM
Blogger does not = journalist
by Dr Gregory House
Jul 23rd, 2008
08:53:07 PM
Mankiewicz kicks ass; Roeper sucks ass.
by thegreatwhatzit
Jul 23rd, 2008
10:15:13 PM
Memories of Siskel & Ebert on
by thegreatwhatzit
Jul 23rd, 2008
10:29:21 PM
Send in the Clowns...
by crankyoldguy
Jul 23rd, 2008
10:48:59 PM
Ben's Dad Jeff
by SnootyBoots
Jul 23rd, 2008
10:49:10 PM
Boycott!
by Filmaholic
Jul 24th, 2008
11:15:25 PM
Screw these guys
by jtp8000
Jul 25th, 2008
09:31:17 AM
End of an era?
by LeftFoot
Aug 26th, 2008
07:38:45 PM
Third time
by INWOsuxRED
Aug 26th, 2008
09:16:33 PM

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