{"id":1825,"date":"2007-12-27T13:14:47","date_gmt":"2007-12-27T20:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=1825"},"modified":"2007-12-27T20:37:19","modified_gmt":"2007-12-28T03:25:19","slug":"tmz-finds-its-way-on-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=1825","title":{"rendered":"TMZ Finds Its Way On TV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tvdecoder.blogs.nytimes.com\/2007\/12\/27\/tmz-on-tv-finds-its-footing\/index.html?hp\">Tne NYT reports<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/tabloidbaby.blogspot.com\/2007\/12\/ny-times-kid-blogger-gives-tmz-another.html\">Tabloid Baby responds<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The three-month-old television version of &ldquo;TMZ,&rdquo; which is based on the popular Web site about the foibles of Britney, J. Lo and the like, continues to rank as the top-rated new show in syndication.<\/p>\n<p>Harvey Levin, the managing editor of TMZ.com and the host of the series, said he has been thrilled with the popularity of the celebrity gossip show.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The Web site was such a breakout that a lot of people were scoffing at the notion that we would, as they put it, &lsquo;revert back to TV,&rsquo;&rdquo; Mr. Levin said in an interview this week. &ldquo;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&rsquo;t have the freshness of the Web site &shy; and I think it does.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The &ldquo;TMZ&rdquo; staff holds a 6:30 a.m. P.T. meeting to plot the day&rsquo;s coverage. The program is produced at 1 p.m.; a few affiliates broadcast it live and most others show it later in the day.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tne NYT reports (Tabloid Baby responds): The three-month-old television version of &ldquo;TMZ,&rdquo; which is based on the popular Web site about the foibles of Britney, J. Lo and the like, continues to rank as the top-rated new show in syndication. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=1825\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[221],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tmzcom"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1825\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}