Worst show on TV? From this view, it's ET
10/07/09 11:50 AM
By ED BARK
What's the worst show on TV?
Or to put it another way, what show curls your toenails, assaults your sensibilities, prompts projectile vomiting and has you screaming like a banshee at your otherwise poor, innocent TV set?
For me it's Entertainment Tonight, inflicted on D-FW weeknights at 6:30 p.m. on WFAA8.
Technically it may not be the pound-for-pound worst thing on the air. That title probably should go to something starring either the Kardashians or the Gosselins.
But without question, ET's the one that sets me off.
Its incessant bone-picking "investigations" and never-before-seen videos are nausea-inducing. Its constant, knee-bending fealty to Donny and Marie Osmond is unfathomable. Its so-called "Only ET was there" exclusives are nothing more than pure puffery for movies, TV shows and stars selling their wares.
Through it all, hosts Mary Hart and Mark Steines -- in league with the show's toadying corps of "correspondents" -- unfailingly coo, gush and promote themselves in a manner that almost cries out for repeal of the First Amendment.
But maybe that's just me.
Surely you, too, have a show that makes you nuts. A show that should be reserved for your worst enemy's private hell. A show that shouldn't go on, but does.
So what is it? Hit me with your hot button pushers in the Comments section. Fellow sufferers will thank you.