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Dead! From L.A.! It’s the ‘Studio 60′ fake blog!

Posted by Steve Safran on September 21, 2006

The folks behind the otherwise acceptable “Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip” have come up with a terrible, terrible idea for a blog called “Defaker.” It’s a, um, fake blog. It’s meant to be written from the POV of a Studio 60 viewer/fan who writes “Since I’m lucky enough to have some contacts at the show, and thought that other fans might find the backstage shenanigans of interest in light of the recent shakeup…” It has stills from the show posted as “shots my friend smuggled out.” Worst of all, there are fake comments interspersed with real ones. Dreadful. How does a show with such decent writing turn out this? I’ll stick with the Studio 60 real blog instead, if you don’t mind, Aaron. (thx, Best Week Ever, which presents a funny network-exec-meeting scenario of how this marketing “idea” may have happened.)