Career
Mankiewicz began his professional career as a reporter and an anchor for WCSC-TV (a CBS affiliate) in Charleston, South Carolina. In 1998, he joined WAMI in Miami, Florida, where he served as anchor of The Times, a daily news magazine show and the station’s highlight program.
He is a regular fill-in and co-host of the progressive YouTube talk show The Young Turks, along with Cenk Uygur, and hosts TYT Sports and What The Flick, two spinoff shows on The Young Turks Network. In 2007, he moved to a new entertainment and celebrity gossip television show, TMZ on TV, deciding after a few months that it was not for him. On weekends, he presents classic movies on the American cable television channel, Turner Classic Movies. From 2004-07, he hosted TCM's Cartoon Alley, shown weekly on Saturday mornings.
In 2008, he and Ben Lyons replaced Roger Ebert and Richard Roeper on the syndicated TV program At the Movies. In August 2009, Lyons and Mankiewicz were replaced by Michael Phillips from the Chicago Tribune and A.O. Scott from The New York Times.
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