The show really ended when Ebert stopped appearing, but now, with Richard Roeper, who’d grown into the position, leaving as well, all connection to its founders will be gone. There’s no reason to think that the named replacements, guys from E! and TCM, will be worth thinking about at all. The LA Times’ Patrick Goldstein writes:

The future of criticism, be it reviews of movies, pop music, theater, dance or video games, is not inextricably linked to television. In fact, the success of the original “Siskel and Ebert at the Movies” was a fluke, owing more to the engaging personalities of the two critics than their actual opinions. Siskel and Ebert, though trained as ink-stained wretch newspaper men, turned out to be a great showbiz buddy team, the film-critic version of Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau. They had a chemistry on screen that transcended critical heft.

Goldstein has a couple of classic clips from the show, too.