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At the Movies: Roeper, Ebert Out; Dueling Bens in Former Co-Hosts' Shoes

Ben Mankiewicz and Ben Lyons moonlight from Turner Classic Movies and E! Entertainment Television to Buena Vista Productions as Disney-ABC Domestic Television's durable film review program At the Movies begins an all-new season of new programs previewing new full-scale feature-length theatrical motion picture titles, including new tentpole releases and sell-through-retail DVD and Blu-ray Disc titles available in on store shelves.

Mankiewicz has come a very long way since filling in Richard Roeper's shoes earlier this month during his double-duty stint as one of the on-air personalities on cable television's TCM. Since then, the many men who made up the Mankiewicz family have been making and reviewing movies for nearly 100 years, beginning with Joseph L. Mankiewicz's groundbreaking cult favorites such as Some Like It

Hot and Monkey Trouble. Tom Mankiewicz made the transition from James Bond 007 screenwriter to

ABC's classic 1980s mystery adventure series Hart to Hart. And then, there's Ben - one of the three men who make up the distinctive Jewish/Polish surname Mankiewicz - enough said.

Ben Lyons of E! has been reviewing the latest theatrical feature films since Comcast acquired the network from Disney-ABC Television Group, of which DADT is part of Disney/Touchstone, in 2006.

As the new film critic on At the Movies, Lyons continues the series' long-standing tradition as a leading nationally syndicated film review program.

When I attend a big-budget, low-cost tentpole box-office hit blockbuster, I alway catch At the Movies

every week in national first-run broadcast television syndication.

Meanwhile, Buena Vista Productions finished production on Cha$e, a new SciFi Channel original reality

competition series premiering in November. You can find out more about Cha$e at http://disneyabctv

.com and on http://www.scifi.com.