Film critic Roger Ebert says he's cutting ties with the television show that he and the late Gene Siskel made famous.
In an e-mail on Monday, Ebert said Disney-ABC Domestic Television had decided to take the show "in a new direction" and he won't be associated with it.
His announcement came a day after his fellow Chicago Sun-Times writer Richard Roeper said he was leaving the nationally syndicated "At the Movies With Ebert & Roeper."
Roeper said Sunday that he had failed to agree on a contract extension with Disney-ABC Domestic Television, so his last appearance on the show will air the weekend of Aug. 16-17.
Roeper joined Ebert on the show in 2000, after Ebert's original co-host, Chicago Tribune film critic Gene Siskel, died of a brain tumor in 1999
This is truly the end of an era--even though both men will continue to work as critics it won't be the same...It will be interesting to see whether the "new direction for the show" will be any good...
Stay Tuned...
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