Paparazzi IV.

Anti-Semitic rants from comedians, pop stars' panty-free romps and the drunken tirades of Hollywood hotshots have become Internet staples.

Now, through a deal with Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution, an entertainment show on the Los Angeles-based celebrity gossip Web site TMZ.com, they will air this fall on Fox stations nationwide.

The daily tabloid-style show called "TMZ" will run for a half-hour on weekdays and expanded to one hour on weekends. Local sites will feed news live to affiliates round-the-clock and provide TMZ-branded news reports.

The footage will be available for use in local news telecasts, as well, and refer viewers to the TMZ.com site for additional detail. Fox TV stations will be able to post TMZ.com content on their Web sites. Fox owns 35 stations in 26 markets, though plans are in the works to sell the show to other stations in more markets.

"It's a triple-threat, a cross platform solution," said Ken Werner, president of Warner Bros. domestic distribution. "Shows like 'Extra,' 'Entertainment Tonight' and 'Insider' skew much older, 25 to 54 years old, and are much more heavily female. We want to go for a younger, more gender-balanced audience by embracing a different visual perspective and storytelling method."

The show will be produced in Los Angeles by Warner Bros.-based Telepictures, Harvey Levin Productions Inc. and paraMedia Inc. The show will have a host, though no casting decisions have been made at this point and there is no word on who is being considered for the job.

"We need a personality that's evocative and consistent with the feel of the show," Werner said. Harvey Levin, managing editor of TMZ.com, will be "closely involved" with the project and serve as a co-executive producer, but won't host.

TMZ.com is a joint venture between America Online and Telepictures Productions, first launched in December 2005. It has seen its unique user visits skyrocket to 16 million since this summer, when the site gained national notice by posting the police report on Mel Gibson's drunken driving arrest and his subsequent anti-Semitic rant. It also posted video of Michael Richard's enraged racial tirade against two black hecklem during a performance at the Laugh Factory comedy club in West Hollywood. The site also has blogs from Levin--a former producer of "Celebrity Justice"--and Claude Brodesser, host of National Public Radio's entertainment program "The Business," as well as a growing archive of paparazi photos.

"A lot of television companies, being publicly traded, can't publish large-scale on the Web because they would need so much more staff to do that and such an undertaking costs a lot," Werner said."

Financial terms of the deal were not released.

Staff reporter Anne Riley-Katz can be reached at [e-mail] or at [phone], ext. 225.