Dirt and Ugly Betty

I love the show Ugly Betty, but I am rather worried about the plot tonight. It's airing as I write-the whole Alexis(played by Rebecca Romijin) plot is walking the line. I mean as long as no one kisses Alexis the transgender character who was formerly Alex-Daniel's long lost brother. It's just not a plot that is funny the ick factor is too high. On the other hand it does promise to be funny if it is played right..
Also I can't wait until Betty dumps Roger for good, he's too boring and I like her co-worker better..
http://abc.go.com/primetime/uglybetty/index.html

DIRT- I hate to say it http://www.fxnetworks.com/shows/originals/dirt/ is going to go off the air. And it's not because Courtyney Cox is ugly, a bad actress, or even wrong. She's great on this show, she plays her character very well. Her performance is nuanced, shows some vunerability and her character's drive.

The show is actually well cast, attractive and interesting..the problem is the show fails to capture true nature of the Paparazzi/stalkerazzi industry. Lucy is way too nasty. She has almost none of the characteristics that I saw in people who actually worked in the Entertainment/gossip industry. The reality is that the people who work at these magazines, television networks and take the pictures are really the biggest fans.

They are just the craziest most obsessed fans more so than the people who read the magazines. They feel a kindred relationship with these people. When Julia Roberts and Ben Bratt broke up, everyone in my office was heartbroken and we knew first..when Jack Lemmon died we all felt so sad.

What turned me off is that I was not one of these people who wanted to spend my life thinking about Britney Spears and all these celebs who were glitzy enough and public enough for these productions. I wanted to do something more meaningful with my life.

What doesn't play well is that the whole show of Dirt is too overdone. Everything is too weird, it's too dramatic, Lucy is never pursuing pictures of babies or weddings...just the really nasty stuff. And the reality is I don't think a magazine as bad as Dirt would survive very long...the show is cliched and it's only been on for a month. I expect the drugged up actress to become gay, I expect the brother to want to ruin his cheating/pretending to be straight gay lover as happened this week. I expect Lucy to not want the cute down to earth guy because she's scared of intimacy..

I think the crux of the problem is this show was created by the people who hate the paparazzi. But I doubt they called in anyone who actually knew how they think..and they do want the story, it's just that behind the fierce story pursuit, the boundary pushing, and all of it, is money from sales, stories and ideas that were created by people who are just really nuts about the stars. And in the end it's mostly harmless and builds sales for movies, TV shows, books, and products. At least for the people who are not talented enough to avoid the limelight and just sell their talent and get success that way..