The good folks over at TMZ.com have a little TV show that they want you to take a look at. Basically it is supposed to be about what goes on each day as different celebrity stories getting "pitched" to the managing editor of the website from the young staff members. They say things like "We got Justin Timberlake and Jessica Beal trying avoid getting their picture taken leaving a restaurant" or some washed up minor celeb doing something stupid while the camera jockeys try to bait them into saying or doing stupid things. The so-called "staff members" look like they are out-of-work actors who try to get in zingers about such-and-such a celebrity. The show is incredibly tepid and some of the people pitching the story ideas come across as being really not very bright. The show seems to put the surfer dude-type guys front and center, no doubt to draw in the hyper tween girlie market.
The show is really without any redeeming factors. The cameras do quick cuts and repeats foolish comments and scenes made by celebs and the paps who follow them. They do classy things like baiting fat people and those with eating disorders by asking "What's a good place to eat in town?" and such other witty banter. Most of the famous just breeze past the paparazzi but sometimes they get a good comment or a picture but mostly it's just minor league celebs (think Dog The Bounty Hunter and washedup rappers) and a lame-ass narrator making goofy comments inter spliced with clips being set up in the "editorial meeting." I'm not sure how long the shows been on, but I think a thumbs down is in order. Hopefully, the website will stick to their knitting and let this ill-conceived show disappear quietly into the night.
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