DANGERLION

In a week I embark on a path to live the modern American dream – star on reality television.

Might as well start with this jazzy description of the TV show:

HOUSE OF CARDS, a half hour special, will chronicle the lives of a group of top-flight online poker players. All close friends who met on the internet, they’re considered the best online players in the world. We’ll hear their stories and vicariously experience a dream life through their eyes, enjoying the best that high-end Las Vegas luxury has to offer. From the hottest clubs to the top hotels and restaurants, the boys are heroes to kids like them around the Globe. Along the way they’ll win and lose money in competitive games against other players of their skill level. House of Cards will be a compelling look at the minds and personalities of the elite online poker subculture.

Basically it’s Entourage but instead of acting, it’s online poker.  I hope I get to be E because Sloan is super hot.

Here are some other fun facts:

-this project was in development for almost 18 months before we got the greenlight.  It was shopped around at MTV, HBO, and a buncha other networks that passed for various reasons, some of which included that “they wished one of us would have a drug addiction or go broke,” or “loved it!  now make two of them girls!”  21 doing well at the box office reignited interest.

-we are headed out there for 2 weeks to film the pilot.  If the pilot is good, there’s a high likelihood we will get a 6-8 episode series.

-it’s gonna air on American teevee on a cable network I’m not allowed to name yet!

-our showrunner won an Emmy for Extreme Makeover Home Edition

-the premise of the pilot is that we will all be playing poker over the course of 1 week trying to meet some arbitrary cumulative $ goal.  The person who earns the least will be forced to do some ridiculous stunt, dare, punishment, etc.  There will be a big party and some other sweet sillyness, like footage of my dunk training and possibly flying F14 jets.  There is an awesome house.  We live in it.

-the 4 main characters are myself, whitelime, FWF, and flawless.   I’ll hopefully be allowed to post updates here as we shoot and give some insight into how this kinda thing works, and maybe some more backstory on how this little project started way back when (while I’m here, a TY to Jason Nadler of ZBT and now UTA for putting me in touch with Brandon Gross in 2006)

Only in America.  Where was reality TV when we were trying to win the Cold War?  All we had to do was ship some Real World DVDs off to Moscow and it woulda been game over.

Team Israel is: HOUSE OF CARDS.  Stay tuned.