Film critic Roger Ebert returns with new show
Associated Press
CHICAGO
Roger Ebert is returning to the small screen. The famous film critic stopped appearing on television movie-review shows in 2006 when cancer surgery left him unable to speak. But now he has his own segment on a new program, “Ebert Presents at the Movies.” The weekly show debuts Friday on public-television stations nationwide. It will air at 11 p.m. on Western Reserve PBS in the Mahoning Valley.
The show is necessary in today’s entertainment world, Ebert says.
“Can you think of another TV show that deals with the movies as movies instead of as celebrity showcases?” Ebert said during an interview with The Associated Press at the Chicago television studio where the show is produced. His laptop computer speaks his typed answers.
“We don’t praise everything,” he said.