Hi Wolf! good to see you. Yes, thanks. I battled that monster lol. Sometimes it works, sometimes it don’t. Did you know TMZ got there own show coming up?
http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070727/OPINION03/707270383/1032/ENT
Hoping to capitalize on its ever-growing popularity, Telepictures Productions and two other groups are bringing TMZ to television as a syndicated news magazine show for Fox. The 30-minute long “TMZ” debuts locally at 7 p.m. Sept. 10 on WJBK-TV (Channel 2) on weekdays, re-airing at 4 a.m. An hour-long version will air 12:30 a.m. Saturdays.
Set in TMZ’s Hollywood newsroom, the show will cover breaking celebrity news the way NBC, ABC and CBS evening newscasts cover breaking stories on the president. The broadcasts won’t be live but viewers are supposed to feel the behind-the-scenes frenetic energy that goes into covering the Lindsays, Britneys and Parises of the world.
There isn’t an anchor, per se, but Harvey Levin, the managing editor of TMZ, will spearhead coverage as the major face in the newsroom. Levin, whom daytime judge show fans know as the man-on-the-street reporter on the current incarnation of “People’s Court” (a job he still holds) is also an executive producer behind “TMZ” the show.
But as we critics toured the newsroom of TMZ Tuesday, several questions arose, including whether “TMZ” can survive on the small-screen when thesmokinggun.com tried and failed three years ago, and why the move to TV?
“Just like with the site, celebrities will drive the news,” says Jim Paratore, the other executive producer behind “TMZ.” “A TV version allows us to reach more people in a new way.
“It is a three-dimensional version of the site.”
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