If you’ve been disappointed in the past with Hollywood’s interpretation of high stakes poker (see: Casino Royale, Deal, Lucky You, etc.) then you might be pleased with this news byte.
If you’re a Weeds fan, you may have noticed multiple poker references as well as shout-outs to online poker rooms in recent episodes. An accident? Nope. Actually, the creators of the successful show that depicts the antics of a marijuana-selling suburban mother, are using poker as fodder a new half-hour show slated to air on Showtime.
Weeds creator Jenji Kohan and executive producer Matthew Salsberg, have developed Whales, a comedy about a group of young academics from Harvard and MIT who move to Vegas in hopes of striking it rich at the WSOP. It’s not a fresh idea by any means (see: poker’s version of 21), but if someone can breathe life into Hollywood’s warped vision of the poker world (see: full house loses to straight flush, which loses to royal flush), cable TV watchers and poker fans may just be ready to embrace it.
Salsberg, who has also worked on Entourage, is an avid poker player, so he may be able to inject the show with a good dose of poker realism. For her part, Kohan is the writer and producer on a pilot called Tough Trade, a show based on the Nashville music scene, and she and Salsberg have worked together on a show called Me & Lee, starring Lee Majors, currently in production on the SyFy Network.
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