When you’re dependent on an antenna to serve your TV needs, you’re limited in what’s available to watch.

Daytime TV as served by an antenna, even more so. It turns out that nearly all the major channels–NBC, ABC, FOX, CW–happen to love court shows. You’ve got Judge Joe Brown, Judge Hatchet, Divorce Court, and People’s Court, among others.

ME and I were very well acquainted with court television the first two weeks of the semester, when we were waiting for Comcast to come and turn on our cable.

We watched it so much, that we noticed things that we probably shouldn’t. That people always refer to Judge Joe Brown as Judge Joe Brown. That the Divorce Court judge shouldn’t get so friendly with the bailiff in chamber. That the funniest thing on People’s Court is when Judge Marilyn Milian says “are you picking up what I’m putting down?”

Also, we noticed that non other than Harvey Levin is the outside legal reporter. You know, the guy who stands outside in front of the crowd and asks them what they think of the case. And if you don’t know who Harvey Levin is, he’s the head editor for TMZ.com.

At first I didn’t believe ME at first when she pointed it out, but a quick check on IMDB shows her to be correct. His IMDB profile shows that he gets around, but it just struck us as funny that the guy who would stand outside and ask for opinions on stupid People’s Court cases would now be the head editor for the most popular gossip blog ever.

And we can’t wait to watch TMZ on TV. Harvey really knows how to work a camera.

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