Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert Are the Subject of a New Narrative Documentary Podcast
When I was growing up I loved watching the Siskle & Ebert movie review show! The two offered movie reviews and criticism with each film receiving a "thumbs up" or "thumbs down," indicating whether it is a good or bad movie. There’s really nothing out there right now that captures the magic that these two gentlemen had. They are a big reason why I do what I do today!
Well, Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert now the subject of an upcomning narrative documentary podcast series titled Gene & Roger. This is a Spotify Original that comes from Bill Simmons’s The Ringer and host Brian Raftery.
The series will document Siskel and Ebert’s rise with a focus on the cultural footprint they left behind. It will :chronicle their lives and careers and feature never-before-heard commentary and sound bites from Siskel and Ebert and those closest to them. Ebert died in 2013 and Siskel died in 1999.
Guests on the podcast will include Siskel’s widow Marlene Iglitzen, Ebert’s widow Chaz Ebert, Quentin Tarantino, Tom Shales, Justin Lin, Carrie Rickey, Thea Flaum, Nancy De Los Santos, Ray Solley, Ramin Bahrani, Carie Lovstad, Jesse Beaton, Richard Roeper, Erik Rydholm and David Price.
The eight-episode series will launch on July 20th. You can listen to the trailer below.