Staying Obsessed on Satellite TV

Critics of our society have long since declared America "celebrity-obsessed." Truly, we have a yen to know about the goings-on about town, who showed up where, who's dating whom and so on. For most people, celebrities are like us -- how we would be if we got paid millions of dollars to appear on television and in the movies and suffered the consequences. More than a few us of trudging through our day-jobs would probably take the plunge, given the choice.

Until that big break, there's always satellite TV to check in on what's happening in Hollywood, or even Bollywood for that matter. If you need a dose of Britney vs. Lindsay, Jen vs. Angelina, or Paris vs. Anyone, you need look no further than the E! Channel. While many television stations, not to mention programs like Hollywood Reporter, have been known to deliver on the celebrity front, the E! Channel has taken that idea to its logical extreme. Twenty-four hours of movie star feuds, best and worst dressed lists and Wild On..., the show which features a model on a worldwide tour -- that's what E! does, and they do it well, now available in HD technology.

As we all know, nothing gets a celebrity watcher going like a televised trial. E! fed viewers what they wanted with the trial of Michael Jackson (not televised, though it seemed that way). Since the judge did not permit cameras inside the courtroom, E! obliged its viewers with a simulated version, using actors and the courtroom transcript. It could have seemed anticlimactic, compared to the celebrity trial to end all others: the OJ Simpson saga.

In some ways responsible for the all-out celebrity obsession of today's society, the O.J. Simpson story was almost too strange to believe. Just watching a live police chase involving one of football's greatest stars was weird enough. Upon learning he was suspected of killing his beautiful wife, the sordid details began to creep out, culminating in one of the most bizarre events in television history: his live murder trial. Checking out replays of the event on channels like Court TV HD, now available on satellite TV, you can see that in many ways O.J.'s story will never be topped. Unless, of course, you followed his trial and conviction last year on charges that he stole sports memorabilia items of -- you guessed it -- O.J. himself.

Perhaps you have a more dignified approach to following your favorite stars, the men and women who generally behave themselves and haven't degenerated into tabloid fodder (yet). Check out the popular Inside the Actor's Studio, in which actors discuss their craft with the uber-serious James Lipton. Even the notoriously private Robert DeNiro went under Lipton's careful microscope -- though he didn't look comfortable doing it.

Going the dignified route is not mandatory, however. For the juiciest tidbits, tune in to TMZ.com's new show on Fox and watch the stars in all their degrading glory. Any way you cut it, satellite TV will keep your celebrity watch going, twenty-four hours a day.

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