Yes, you read that headline correctly. The Entourage star plans to continue his career in television after the HBO comedy (drama?) wraps up its final season by producing a reality show tentatively titled Blow.
"The show focuses on famous New Orleans glassblower Josh Cohen and his band of misfits as they deal with each other and their demanding clientele," Dateline reports.
We're now at the point of reality show satuation where, believe it or not, there is already another occupation-based show located in New Orleans. Fortunately for Piven and team, they would have... let's call it a modest bar to clear in order to distinguish the forthcoming show from Big Easy Brides. Tara Bennett writes: "As if New Orleans hasn’t experienced enough pain in the last few years, now they have to suffer with the new WE reality show Big Easy Brides acting as a broke-ass ambassador for their fair city."
"Cohen is a unique and amazing artist who always tells us, 'If you can dream it, I will build it.' He has made everything from glass cathedrals to a wall filled with two-foot-large crawling glass bugs," a representative from Piven's production company, Lucious Mayhem, told TheWrap.
This isn't the first time Jereme Piven has ventured into the world of reality television. In 2006, he produced and starred in a Travel Channel special called Jeremy Piven's Journey of a Lifetime, which documented a spiritual trek across India.
Blown glass? Treks across India in search of spiritual enlightenment? Something tells me Piven would get along swimmingly with NFL running back Ricky Williams.
Lucious Mayhem is currently shopping the show to various networks, so there is no timetable yet for when we can expect to see Piven's show on the air.
For some reason I'm reminded of that awesome Portlandia sketch that's a fake commercial for glass blowing. If Blow's main character is anything like that guy, I'm in !