{"id":6464,"date":"2009-09-01T18:15:17","date_gmt":"2009-09-01T17:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=6464"},"modified":"2009-09-01T18:18:10","modified_gmt":"2009-09-01T17:18:10","slug":"at-the-movies-with-scott-and-phillips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2009\/09\/01\/at-the-movies-with-scott-and-phillips\/","title":{"rendered":"At the Movies with Scott and Phillips"},"content":{"rendered":"

Could this video trailing the new At the Movies<\/a><\/strong> presenters (A.O. Scott<\/a> of the New York Times and Michael Phillips<\/a> of the Chicago Tribune) be any more of a calculated ‘f*** you’ to the previous lineup of Ben Lyons and Ben Mankiewicz<\/a>?<\/p>\n

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After Roger Ebert<\/a> was unable to do the show after illness<\/a>, someone at Disney’s AMC Media Productions\u00a0felt it would be a good idea to replace him and co-host Richard Roeper<\/a> with two – how shall we put this? – lesser lights<\/a> (although to be fair to Mankiewicz, it appeared to be Lyons who was well out of his depth<\/a>).<\/p>\n

The format originally found fame with Gene Siskel<\/a> and Ebert in the late 1970s and a big archive of the show can be seen here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Could this video trailing the new At the Movies presenters (A.O. Scott of the New York Times and Michael Phillips of the Chicago Tribune) be any more of a calculated ‘f*** you’ to the previous lineup of Ben Lyons and Ben Mankiewicz?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[1102],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6464"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}