‘TMZ’ on TV finds its footing
Cory Bergman December 27th, 2007
Three months on the air, TMZ is the top-rated new show in syndication. “The website was such a breakout that a lot of people were scoffing at the notion that we would, as they put it, ‘revert back to TV,’” said Harvey Levin, the managing editor of TMZ.com and the host of the series. “I think people were almost writing it off as something that would fail, something that everyone else was doing on TV, and that it wouldn’t have the freshness of the website, and I think it does.” While it has yet to beat Entertainment Tonight and Access Hollywood, TMZ is drawing a younger demographic.
6 Comments Add your own
1. Barney Lerten | December 27th, 2007 at 9:41 pm
I’m NOT a gossip-hound - I’ve been to TMZ’s Website maybe twice, and not on purpose. But their show runs after our Fox 10p news, and it’s hard to turn away! It’s fun, fresh, different and not just full of scandal but salutes celebs when they do nice things, etc. I’d rarely if ever pick up anything but People, maybe, to leaf through at the checkstand, but … they basically have built the show around a variation of the AM news meeting (pitches, etc.) and … I think it works, and I’m NOT in that younger demographic.
2. Rocker | December 28th, 2007 at 6:54 am
Barney, you’re not in that younger demo? That rules out my theory that it’s a generational thing. I’m not in the demo either, and I find the show unwatchable…incredibly boring after more than a few minutes. The triviality of it is what really gets to me quickly.
3. tdc | December 28th, 2007 at 8:38 am
what’s “TV” mean?
4. Anon | December 28th, 2007 at 12:22 pm
This show is disgusting! I can’t watch another minute of Britney Spears pumping gas or some D list celebrity cussing at their cameras in a drunken slur. I don’t care if its top rated or not - this is simply the worst thing on TV!
5. C D | December 28th, 2007 at 11:10 pm
I like the format, sort of a ‘behind the scenes’ feel. And if we are stuck with this gossip/celebrity culture, they might as well get the tapes to us in near real time.
It almost puts a human face on the Paparazzi to me, which ain’t easy!
6. Barney Lerten | December 29th, 2007 at 10:14 pm
Well, it sure seems less plastic than ET has after 20-odd years of beauty-pageant grins and “shocking revelations!” hype. It’s just a bunch of “normal” young folks saying what celebrities are up to, and seems to dump on the dumb danger-creating paparazzi as much as it plays one of them.
Different strokes…
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