Duty F.

Harvey Levin hot gold with this fast paced, celebrity gossip/news program. They "report" miscellaneous and headlining celebrity news with often funny commentary from TMZ staff. Some of the stories are obscure, or not widely reported but still of interest to those of us interested in the lives of celebrities & wannabe-celebrities.

TMZ generally does a good job keeping "politics" out of the commentary only occasionally allowing "pontification" on the liberal leanings of himself and staff. Levin has also chosen many educated, funny, interesting, light-hearted "reporters" that provide the commentary. It's not heavy, boring, depressing ol' news, it's light-hearted & fun.

However, TMZ does have one commentator named Raquel (Harper) who is the most unbearable, unintelligent, loud, arrogant, intolerable portion of the show. Her vocabulary is limited to two phrases - "it's tricky cuz" and "throwing shade" - with some "fo' reals tho'" thrown in occasionally. Seriously, I like the "Jew lawyer" that everyone TMZ, seemingly, dislikes better than this loud, obnoxious, obese woman. She comes on, I flip the channel.

Overall, TMZ is an enjoyable "guilty pleasure" for the celebrity "interested/obsessed". Just keep the remote handy for turning it when Raquel appears.