Shark Bytes

I loved that show. I wish it was on DVD.

The prior poster who said E! shows nothing but crap now is 100% correct.

I never watch E! anymore. It's dumbed completely down.

Stuttering John was asking for that attack, and he's a tool for ignoring his stuttering roots at his new job: announcer at the Tonight Show. Everybody walks around pretending he didn't come from Stern. And Chelsea is hysterical. Shut up.

This series was a lot of fun and very interesting. Why did it get cut?

They don't make shows like this on E! anymore. I can't believe that good stuff like Mysteries and Scandals get taken off the air, yet garbage like The Simpleton Life, Hef's Harem Next Door, and whatever unfunny thing that Chelsea chick is hosting are polluting the airwaves. I miss the old E channel.

I wish E! was still showing this show in reruns. It makes me wish that E! would have another channel where they show all their old shows like this and the older (and more entertaining) True Hollywood Story episodes.

this is so lame

This show NEVER jumped! I started off cheesy (fake fog anyone?) but, it covered lesser known stars who had fallen from grace which is ALWAYS entertaining. The low budget 'dramatizations' were beyond hilarious. Did any sane person need a disclaimer at the bottom of the screen informing us that the footage we were seeing wasn't real? Is someone out there that stupid to think a camera crew was actually at the scene when a star committed murder or suicide? Either way, this show was probably one of the better shows on E! Before E! started pandering to 14 year old girls and covering stories on stars that are already over saturating the media, E! actually gave a nod to old Hollywood and the forgotten people who actually made show business interesting. E! should have stuck to that premise but, they bailed and now we have specials about Paris Hilton and K-Fed. Either way, the show was cheesy but it was gossip-y, cheap and a whole lot of fun. There's nothing better than a story about a washed up star who died penniless and disgraced. I miss the old E!

This was a great show! Finally, a history lesson on E!. Too bad they never show it anymore.

When A.J. Benza attacked Stuttering John on The Howard Stern Show it was art imitating life. Now A.J. Benza should be fired and Stuttering John should host a special Mysteries and Scandals all about pathetic bully A.J. Benza. And right after all that happened they re-edited or re-shot A.J. so he never says: "Fame, ain't it a bitch?" Yep that's right A.J. now it's you.

NEVER! This show can't jump the shark. It's not a sitcom or a drama, it's just an old fashioned tabloid show! I mean come on! To go so far as to insult A.J. Benza?! People we need to lighten up here! I do agree with the "reenactment" comment, though. Funny!

I was a bit disoriented when they did a segment on Linda Darnell, the pretty but not spectacularly talented actress from 1940's Hollywood. After drooling over her bigger films -- A LETTER TO THREE WIVES, FOREVER AMBER, UNFAITHFULLY YOURS, etc. -- they wrapped up the show with something like, "...but this now forgotten star..." Excuse me, but with directors like Preminger, Mankiewicz and Sturges on her resume, Linda Darnell doesn't exactly qualify as a "forgotten star". I bet she'll be remembered a hell of a lot longer than A.J. Benza!

Oh my gosh, whoever the poster was who wrote about the editor's compulsion to place the word "reenactment" at the corner of those B&W scenes....I absolutely agree 100% and think your post was HILARIOUS. I thought I was the only one who thought "how in the world could any moron think that someone was at the scene of a dead star's suicide and filmed it with a grainy hand held camera and THEN they show the film on this cable show....DUM DA DUM DUM." ANY time AJ is talking about an episode in some person's personal life....there would not be a camera there FILMING it, for God's sake. HILARIOUS post. I also read somewhere that someone called AJ Benza a "fat poser." That is SO rude and mean....I actually like the guy....and I am not sure exactly why. But this show is a guilty pleasure for sure. Trashy and fun.

A.J. Benza is upstaged by the fog

How about the grainy, hand-held reenactments that crop up every ten seconds, where they put someone in a wig and bad period wardrobe and try to avoid showing their face? They introduce every single one of these sequences with "reenactment" boxed into the corner, as if they think we're going to mistake them for actual newsreel stuff or something. ("Hey, look! That must be rare footage of someone twirling a home movie camera around Marilyn Monroe while she overdosed! Why didn't they STOP her?!?")

Oh god, it's so bad, it's deadly! AJ Benza should be shot for telling awful lies like they are the truth! He's terrible! He's Kenneth Anger, Jr! Shame SHAME on you AJ!

This is a good show. A.J. Benza is terrific. However, every episode is about something that took place before 1950. Silent film stars, WWII, etc. How about something in color!!