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While Roeper is new to Ebert's old role, he isn't new to the Sun-Times or film criticism. While Ebert spent his entire 46-year career at the Sun-Times, Roeper worked alongside "Roger would have been thrilled." him for more than two decades of it as both a movie reviewer and general news columnist. Ebert, a Pulitzer Prize winner, rose to national prominence in 1966 hosting the "Siskel & Ebert & the Movies" TV show with well-known Chicago Tribune film critic Gene Siskel. When Siskel died in 1999, Ebert personally selected Roeper as his next co-host. Together, the duo hosted the renamed show "Ebert and Roeper" until 2008, when Roeper left to review films for the Reelz Channel. The series was later canceled in 2010.
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