Photo by Antonio Guillem.
Vice has taken its cameras into North Korea, done acid at the Westminster Dog Show, and inadvertently revealed the GPS coordinates of one of its documentary subjects on the lam.
But none of these adventures would come close to the ultimate TV coup: creating a successful, watchable reality show about D.C, a notoriously challenging task.
Looks like Vice is up to it, based on this casting call flagged by The Hollywood Reporter.
VICE Studios is casting for an experimental unscripted series that will bring together 18-45 year-olds from all walks of life and political extremes to live in close quarters in Washington, DC. If you are passionate about your political beliefs and will go to any length (including appearing on “reality TV”) to get your voice heard, we want to hear from you. Whether you have dreams of becoming a politician, or you think all politicians are crooks; whether you think its better to be judged by twelve than carried by six, or think that Obama really should have taken everyone’s guns away; or if you quite simply want to change the world and are bold enough to put your beliefs up against your political opposite in the most public setting imaginable, then we want to hear from you.
A production post on Backstage says the show hopes to shoot in spring 2018 around the District.
They’re not the only ones who’ve tried to mine the nation’s capital city for catfights and confessionals. The executive producer behind Catfish sought “Capitol Hill staffers and D.C. influencers” for a show over the summer. And, then, of course, there’s the news.
Rachel Kurzius