Rotten Tomatoes Jumps From Web to TV

Popular movie reviews and news aggregator Rotten Tomatoes has teamed up with the cross-platform upstarts at Current TV to produce a half-hour hybrid aptly named “The Rotten Tomatoes Show” on Current.

In production now with a target air date of early 2009, the program will import the site’s Tomatometer metric and feature crowd-sourced lists and opinions, distributing them online and on Al Gore’s cable channel.

“These are film reviews for the audience and by the audience,” explained David Neuman, Current’s president of programming, in a press release. “The Rotten Tomatoes Show on Current will be as much a collaborative process as Rotten Tomatoes.”

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