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FROM L.A. LAW TO BARELY LEGAL
Over the course of his 30+ year career, Steven Bochco has built a reputation for adding quality and originality to primetime TV drama. So it's a little surprising that Bochco's first major venture into the world of Internet content places no value on quality. In fact, it's about as lowbrow as it gets.
FROM L.A. LAW TO BARELY LEGAL
Café Confidential, a partnership between Bochco and Metacafe, offers webcam-equipped exhibitionists and their voyeuristic counterparts the opportunity to expose themselves. But it's not a virtual strip show -- the private moments on display are just embarrassing stories told by attention seekers.
Here's the ad copy from the Café's main page: "Pour yourself a hot latte and listen in as the girl
next door and the guy across the hall reveal their most personal
stories. No scripts, no sets, no special effects - here at Café
Confidential, you get real stories from real people, handpicked by
hollywood producer Steven Bochco."
Unfortunately, what could have been an interesting, innovative way of exposing audiences to the world comes off as more of a mash-up of Girls Gone Wild and Taxicab Confessions. Really, does the world need to listen to "Miss Ubiquitous" talk about her "wildest drinking story" or hear "Bigstuff" talk about his "craziest sex experience?" Maybe so. Either way, let's hope this goes the way of Cop Rock, and not NYPD Blue.