Shark Bytes

This show needs to have the plug pulled. They are profiling really obscure people. It's bad enough that reality TV has saturated the market, but do we need to have every person who was on every reality show profiled? This is probably not too far off:
"Coming up next on E! True Hollywood Story; The first contestant to leave American Idol in the 2008 season."

Enough already!

This show was pretty good in the 90's. I remember that I would watch it every now and then because they would talk about wierd stuff (Poltergeist) or document cult actors (The Divine one comes to mind). However it jumped when it just showcased tennyboppers and crap...

Agreed that E! True Hollywood Story JTS when they changed their format from:

1) Stars humble beginnings.
2) Stars meteoric rise to fame.
3) Stars fall from grace.
4) Stars tragic end OR triumphant redemption.

To:

1) Some half-assed quickly produced biography of some flavor-of-the-month celebrity.

OR

2) The current trouble of some Hollywood personality in her/his mid-twenties, in which they seem to need to add a new ending to every ten days.

I really enjoyed the THS of The Little Rascals, Rick James, Married With Children, and even Leif Garrett and Milli Vanilli because once their stories were told, there was nothing left to tell.

Do we really need stories like Britney, Paris, Rock Star wives etc., that seem to change every five minutes?
2)

this show seems to have jumped when it changed theme songs. I hate that red one. I like the black one with the drums... anyway, it jumped when it went more to kissing celeb butt and profiling stuff like diet fads. I don't like that. I like the old version of this, it was WAY more interesting. I still watch if its something interesting. But I used to love this show. Now it stinks...

Actually u are all wrong. It JTS when the stories stopped being salcious stories about the downfall of tragic starlets (ie dana plato) and it became a promotional vehicle for stars (ie rachael ray, barf) or any one promoting a new movie (ie reese witherspoon, Americas golden girl). There is no dirt anymore; its worse than intimate portrait. I did like the sitcom profiles, however, esp Family ties and Golden Girls.

E true hollywood story has that unique campiness to it that makes it interesting to watch. I was watching one the other day about Spring Break gone wrong or something, and I even found myself wondering why in the hell am I watching this.. It's one of those shows you dont want to watch but you do anyway..

Plain and simple: Stories about non-celebrities + lack of new episodes = sharkbite.

I love how Chelsea Handler made fun of this show by interviewing the guy from "Fresh Prince" and one of the cast members from "Suite Life of Zack and Cody." I never really cared for this show. It's obvious that you are going to hear and see people like Lindsay Lohan, you know? With that in mind, I hope Chelsea makes fun of celebs more by doing parodies of this show. If you haven't seen them, I know you'll love them.

I really miss the old Mysteries and Scandals shows on E!. Please bring them back. Also, wonder what happened to the host on them. Liked his delivery. All disappeared.

It jumped when they started doing a True Hollywood Story about every flavor-of-the-week ingenue who doesn't know how to call a cab.

THS jumped the shark.. when the awful movie MEAN GIRLS.

I saw the one on the Poltergeist curse and it was pretty good. Really in-depth.

Agree they do a lot of throwaway shows on "who cares" nobodies, but I am waiting for the day they do one on the behind-the scenes ugliness of The View!!

I like the format...the gossip..the glitz...the glamour. At least it is about people I see over there on TV not here next to me @ the water fountain in the office.
I like it when they do the fallen heroes...but then again I am a macabre -loving sort

This show is kistch. Period.

E!True Hollywood Story could easily be subtitled: 'Let's Watch The Implosion of A Celebrity', or 'The Obsession With Hollywood Has Beens'. It's just that trite and insipid.