The popular gossip website tmz.com has decided that posting the downfall of celebrities on the internet isn’t good enough; they need to put this stuff on the television!
What’s interesting is that TV viewership is down these days because of people spending so much time on the internet. So now a website that posts breaking news about drunken celebs actually wants you to stop looking at their site, and instead watch the same stories on TV hours after the story broke! WTF Ever!!!
But, it’s my job to review TV shows so I watched an episode of TMZ and, well, it’s a big Who Gives A Shit show. I mean all the stuff they are reporting has already been posted at their site. And the good thing about the site is that if you don’t give a rat’s ass about Leo Dicaprio & Kevin Connolly in a car together, then you skip by the story. On the TV show you’re stuck watching that shit.
The show tries to go “behind the scenes” of the TMZ offices as they scramble to report on the world of celebrity melt downs. But truth be told, there’s little excitement watching fat meat heads and ditzy blondes sit behind a computer and try to “scoop” other rag mags for a story we’ll all forget by tomorrow.
Harvey Levin (he of the “People’s Court”) is our “host.” He sits in the TMZ offices and tells us to go to tmz.com for more footage. So, in other words, you should have just gone to the website in the first place. Oh, and most of the footage they show on the TV version is the same crappy-ass cell phone quality video they have on their website. Yeah, that looks great on my HD television!! Okay, I don’t have a HD TV, but if I did the footage would still look like ass.
Look! Britney is showing her poon again! Ooh, and the Braves are winning 4-0!
Anyway, bottom line – there is no need for this show. It offers nothing that the website doesn’t already offer except for bad narration. Which brings me to my next criticism; The website’s write ups have some funny, biting commentary to go with the news piece, but the TV version of TMZ plays it boring and safe and sounds just like a “Entertainment Tonight” or “Access Hollywood” segment. Snoooooze!
So to conclude, the website is more fun, more mean spirited, and more interesting than the 30 minutes you’ll waste watching the TV version.
You heard it here at tvadviceguy.com; A website that nobody visits and has no chance in hell ever getting a TV version.
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