Siskel, Ebert & Roeper Now Online

Published: August 1, 2007, 6:05 pm

Tags: around the web, richard roeper, roger ebert

A couple years ago Roger Ebert decided to put his entire review library online at RogerEbert.com. I’ve spent many hours on that website researching past movies in the extensive review database. I use to collect Ebert’s movie yearbooks which collected all his film reviews in a yearly collection. It amazed me that Roger would risk putting his entire archive online free of charge. And now he’s doing it again. Starting Thursday, August 2nd, Ebert will be putting an archive of his television reviews online. The 1,000+ television shows represent more than 5,000 reviews, and will be available on demand at atthemoviestv.com. “Gene and I knew those old shows would be worth saving, but for a long time nobody agreed with us. In the years before home video, it seemed like a waste of expensive video tape to preserve hundreds of episodes of our earlier incarnations on Opening Soon at a Theater Near You, Sneak Previews or At the Movies. After all, the movies

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