Monday, November 7, 2011 at 2:32PM Plug To Be Pulled On 'Ebert Presents...' Without Financial Help
With movies being driven by elaborate marketing schemes and strings being pulled by dark shaded Hollywood agents, it was always nice to see intelligent reviewers standing by their opinions regardless of what the mainstream wanted them to say. Ebert Presents: At the Movies had a simple thumbs up, thumbs down rating system that allowed a certain simplicity, but also allowed the reviewers; Christy Lemire and Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, to elaborate on why they thought the way they did. It was a formula that had worked for over 35 years thanks to Roger Ebert with Gene Siskel and Richard Roper.
Now, the show is in trouble. And without an 'angel', as Ebert said, the show will go off the air in December after the end of its current season. Ebert and his wife, Chaz, have been behind the scenes of the show and also footing the bill to keep the show going.
Since 1967, Roger Ebert has been the film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times. After complications relating to thyroid cancer left him unable to speak, Ebert started work on "Ebert Presents..." and the show aired on January 21, 2011.
"Unless we find an angel, our television program will go off the air at the end of its current season. There. I've said it. Usually in television, people use evasive language. Not me. We'll be gone. I want to be honest about why this is. We can't afford to finance it any longer." - Roger Ebert
Despite the show seemingly a huge success, no one else has stepped up to back it. It is understandable that Ebert and his wife are unable to continue financially supporting the show as they are only a married couple with heaps of medical bills and perhaps suffering from this economy like the rest of us.
Fans of the show and of Ebert can only hope that someone decides to financial back the show as it nears the end.
Reader Comments (3)
Good. The show seemed like a cheap imitation anyway. This is not a didactic age of movie criticism anymore, anyway. You can go online and get millions. The only thing that matters now is box office - 'cause that allows you to make more movies - and whether or not people still remember and well regard a work a generation or more after it's in the public eye.
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