New York Magazine's 'Approval Matrix' Comes to Bravo

Wondering where the latest pop-culture blips rate on a scale of "Highbrow Despicable" to "Lowbrow Brilliant?" Well, wonder no more -- New York magazine's back-page feature, 'The Approval Matrix,' is becoming a TV series.

The New York Post reports that Michael Hirschorn, a former executive editor at New York magazine and now a TV producer, sold the show to Bravo last week. The series, also to be called 'Approval Matrix,' will feature four "rotating pop culture pundits" debating the week's "buzzworthy news items."

Wondering where the latest pop-culture blips rate on a scale of "Highbrow Despicable" to "Lowbrow Brilliant?" Well, wonder no more -- New York magazine's back-page feature, 'The Approval Matrix,' is becoming a TV series.

The New York Post reports that Michael Hirschorn, a former executive editor at New York magazine and now a TV producer, sold the show to Bravo last week. The series, also to be called 'Approval Matrix,' will feature four "rotating pop culture pundits" debating the week's "buzzworthy news items."

Like the magazine feature, the panel will decide where the item falls on the "Highbrow/Lowbrow" scale and also whether it's "Despicable" or "Brilliant."

For example: This month's "Approval Matrix" feature ranks Sigourney Weaver's statement that 'Avatar' should have won the Best Picture Oscar as "Highbrow Despicable" and Titus Welliver's scary turn as the title character in the indie film 'Handsome Harry' as "Lowbrow Brilliant" and "even creepier than his Man in Black on 'Lost.'"

Hirschorn is a former VH1 programming exec who developed 'I Love the '80s' while he was at the network and continues to produce shows for VH1 and MTV, including 'T.I.'s Road to Redemption' and 'Paris Hilton's My New BFF.'