Anyone else think Harvey is using tpc to advertise his tmz celebrity tours? He says it's because he wants opinions from people all over the world. How often are the people outside just new Yorkers? He's always asking where people are from.
Today he mentioned Kim Kardashian's name like 5 times. If I went on a celebrity tour she is the last so called celebrity I would want to see.
Obvious advertising. And phony. They try to make it seem like he's now a stop on the tour, but I'm seeing the same people on the bus over multiple days, so it's all a set up. And really, what tour bus would sit for an hour while they watch and comment on an episode?
I wonder how much overlap there is in audience. I watch TPC every day, but I couldn't give the slighted *bleep* about the personal lives of Hollywood celebrities and think TMZ is a blight on society.
I don't think they actually watch the show because if you notice before he asked them a question the first time he tells them what the case is about. Something he doesn't do when he's outside in NY.
I have a feeling that's why we see the same people because it's filmed all on the same day. He can spend 15 minutes with them and have enough footage for several episodes.
The day I was there, the court room cases weren't even being filmed. The ones we were asked about were already done, playing back to us in a very short clip on a small tv. I know back then, JMM filmed only a few days a week so she could be back in Florida with her family. So, yes, he just quickly asked us the question, then quickly gave the he said/she said, showed us the clip and asked away. I don't know if that whole process was even fifteen minutes.
This is where he filmed the outside sequences, at least back then.
https://www.bing.com/search?q=nyc+visitor's+bureau+in+time+square&form=APMCS1
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As I posted in another reply, Harvey's scenes have been filmed in Los Angeles for quite some time now.
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"He tapes after the peoples court episodes are recorded. He used to host full episodes from the Manhattan Mall then moved to the Times Square visitors' center. Since Levin is now based in Los Angeles with TMZ, the viewing area has moved to the Third Street Promenade in Santa Monica, California while production of The People's Court remains in New York."
This answer was posted five years ago online, so I saw him at least then if not six. Time flies. It seems like it was just a few years ago that I saw him in Time Square. I go to NYC 2-3 times a year and my schedule is usually pretty packed the two weeks I'm there, but six years ago I would've had more free time to stumble across Harvey--so it makes sense..
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he is never outside in NY he shoots in santa monica that is why he has the TMZ bus there
shareHarvey is just shilling his bus tour. The guy has no shame.
Shameless, indeed.
FWIW, I'm not exactly fond of Harvey, but over the years I've gotten used to his weaselly interludes between cases on TPC.
These segments remind me a little bit of Jay Leno's old "Tonight Show" interviews of extremely stupid/ignorant people on the street, except Harvey always asks the same loaded/leading questions-- mostly designed to elicit prejudices about what low-lives renters and other economically disadvantaged people are.
Tacky, but bearable. However, I can't take TMZ at all; it creeps me out. Maybe it's a generational thing. I'm old (60).
It reminds me of high school, where there were always a few "cool" teachers who seemed to attract and cultivate a fan-like student following-- usually they moderated the school newspaper or yearbook, constantly surrounded by their own student clique wherever they went.
In TMZ, Harvey is the "cool" teacher sitting in the yearbook/newspaper office, basking in cliquish glory as his goofy adolescent followers spew enthusiastic tales of sleazy celebrity gossip. It seems pervy to me, even if it's consensual.
I gather the show is popular, but I still wonder how that little weasel got what amounts to a glorified vanity project off the ground.
How often are the people outside just new Yorkers?Well, considering that Harvey's segments are filmed in Los Angeles, I'd say very few are New Yorkers!
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I found this.
Just $54 for the privilege of taking the tour bus. Such a deal by Harvey the moneymaker.
http://www.tmz.com/tour
They need to drop his whole segments.
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