Mike Darnell is the new Sheila Nevins

By the way, Fox's Octomom special was chilling, frightening, unflinching, compelling, eminently watchable television. Crafted in true verite form without narration, editorializing, bells or whistles, it was a chancy two hours of prime time that allowed viewers to judge for themselves while demonstrating clearly there were no network newsmagazine-style deals in place to make Nadya Suleman "look good." And she didn't. Neither did the TMZ-infected "paparazzi" with their cellphone cameras nor the unseen doctor who allowed it all to happen in the first place. The only ones who looked good were the producers-- including Tabloid Baby pal Doug Bruckner-- and Fox reality chief Mike Darnell. Had Octomom: The Incredible Unseen Footage run on HBO, it would surely be up for an Emmy. Had HBO given it a theatrical run, it would be nominated for an Oscar®.

Octomom special shows the kids being born

If you're going to watch the Octomom special on Fox tonight, stick around til the very end.

We've learned exclusively that the two-hour Octomom: The Incredible Unseen Footage special about Nadya Suleman, her octuplets and six other kids closes some really incredible footage: more than four minutes of video showing the octuplets' birth.

The footage is shot inside the delivery room by one of Nadya's friends. Nurses hassle her and try to cover her lens but she gets the video of the babies coming out.

We told you a couple of weeks back that the special features the birth tape. For some reason, Fox has not been giving a lot of publicity to that very teaseable part of the program.

Fox running Octomom birth tape

August 19th.

Fox is running a two-hour special featuring the footage "no one knew existed"...

Octomom Nadya Suleman... giving birth... popping out eight little ones...

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TMZ uses Octocharade to push another pornsite

The pseudojournos at the corporate porn-pushing gossip site TMZ.com began the day with a ridiculously concocted story that one of its porn-pushing partners had offered the mother of octuplets $1 million to appear in an x-rated movie, and now end the day with another stunt extropolation that manages to give the Internet address of yet another pornography distributor.

The crass, distasteful, shameless and shameful story, based on a "letter" obtained "exclusively" by the breeder-bashing TMZ, was most obviously a stunt that the AOL Time Warner subsidiary and CNN corporate cousin had cooked up in cahoots with the porn company, whose product TMZ has pushed in the past and, as we showed you this morning, pushed today.

TMZ and porno pals cook up OctoMom story

Can they make it any more obvious? Now the corporate porn-pushing gossip site TMZ.com has gone from promoting and selling pornography to making it up. On a morning when its corporate overlords at Time Warner and AOL might be chuffed to see the sewer site cited as a source by Maureen Dowd in the New York Times, shaved bronzed midget frontman Harvey Levin and his rentboy crew show what really butters their bread, and slathers their misogyny off the edges of the crust with a banner story obviously cooked up with their cohorts at the pornography company.

OctoMom Offered $1 Million to Make A Porno continues the site's sadistic taunting of the woman who may be mentally or emotionally disturbed but is unquestionably the mother of fourteen children. And the TMZ post's lead to the story, while considered the height of Wildeian wit in the steambaths and locker rooms where the TMZ crew gathers, will surely disgust any decent reader and should, one hope, cause at least a twinge of shame to at least one female in the organization who does not equate pregnancy with a pornographic orgy:

"OctoMom is used to having multiple people inside of her at once -- and now one porn company is willing to shell out big bucks to harness that skill on film."

In keeping with TMZ's tradition of leading viewers to the porn site it is pushing, this morning's post contains the website address of the company that is supposedly offering the $1 million (right). It also links to the supposed letter from the porn company, which is little more than an advertisement for a recent release of a pornographic video featuring a former Miss USA.


Expect TMZ's immoral rampage to continue as long as the site is considered to be a serious source by dying mammoths like the New York Times whose precarious staff obviously haven't noticed that Levin's dream is to expand into their Washington political turf. A quick probe of what's behind this latest "exclusive" would surely delay those plans. Meanwhile, TMZ staffers can continue to keep us update here, secure in knowing their tips will remain anonymous and confidential.