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Nearly months after the television syndicated movie review show, 'At the Movies,' was cancelled after it 24th year, the program has been revived by original host Roger Ebert.
Produced by himself and his wife Chaz, 'Roger Ebert Presents At the Movies' will be a weekly half-hour film review program and continue the 35-year-old run of a reviewing format first introduced by Gene Siskel and Ebert and later by Ebert and Richard Roeper.
The program's principal co-hosts will be Christy Lemire, film critic of The Associated Press, and Elvis Mitchell of National Public Radio.
Regular contributors and occasional co-hosts will be Kim Morgan of Los Angeles and Omar Moore of San Francisco, both respected and popular film bloggers.
Mitchell is a former film critic for The New York Times and a contributor to NPR. He hosted the highly-regarded "Black List" series on TCM, a series of living portraits with prominent African Americans of many backgrounds.
Moore, an attorney, publishes reviews, essays and video essays on his website, www.popcornreel.com. He is a member of the San Francisco Film Critics Circle. Lemire, Mitchell and Morgan were guest co-hosts after the death of Siskel in 1999.
On his blog at the Chicago Sun Times, Ebert stated that "the new program will air in January 2011, and in addition to reviewing new movies will expand into coverage of New Media, special segments on classics, on-demand viewing and genres, and an extended website. It will use the copyrighted 'Thumbs Up/Thumbs Down' format made famous by Siskel & Ebert."
The show was cancelled in May and last aired in August with hosts A.O. Scott of The New York Times and Michael Phillips of The Chicago Tribune. Prior to them the show's previous hosts were Ben Lyons of E! and Ben Mankiewicz of Sirius Satellite Radio from September 2008 to August 2009.