3. At the Movies
This movie review TV show was syndicated in 1982, with Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel as hosts. In 1986, Ebert and Siskel left the show and were replaced by Rex Reed and Bill Harris, with the series continuing through 1990. Fast forward to 2007, and At the Movies turned into At the Movies with Ebert & Roeper, starring none other than Ebert and Richard Roeper, per Time. Ebert suffered surgery complications that left him unable to talk, so Roeper forged on with a variety of guest hosts.
In 2008, the pair walked away from the program, and Ben Mankiewicz and Ben Lyons stepped in to host for a year before being replaced by Michael Phillips, a Chicago Tribune critic, and A.O. Scott, a New York Times critic. The show was finally canceled in 2010, in a move that didn’t surprise many. “After all, this was Siskel and Ebert’s show — people knew their names better than the actual name of the program — and when you took away one (or both), At the Movies just wasn’t the same. ‘RIP, At The Movies,’ Ebert tweeted the day that news of the show’s cancellation broke,” according to Time.