Kanye Might Have To Stick To Music, Blogging

Kanye West’s long-discussed television collaboration with Curb Your Enthusiasm producer Larry Charles appears to be dead, according to Charles, because the show was “too hardcore.” While the idea of Kanye on television every week is a dream come true for me as a blogging professional, is it possible HBO is passing on the show because it’s just not a great idea?

Charles described the show as “like a Kanye-and-Curb show, it’s kind of improvised about the situations and stuff.” Sure, that sounds amusing in elevator-pitch form, but it seems like it would be difficult to keep the show interesting over more than, say, two episodes. After all, any show described as a slightly different version of a previous show isn’t likely to be destined for creative greatness. Still, Charles did get one somewhat odd cheap shot in at HBO saying that the network “doesn’t have a good track record when it comes to black shows.” Although it would be difficult to find a network with a really great track record with black shows (Baldwin Hills isn’t exactly Native Son, after all), I think HBO would have some room to disagree between Def Comedy, Def Poetry, The Chris Rock Show (and his recent comedy special) and, to some extent, The Wire.

Kanye West’s TV Show ‘Too Hard-Core’ For HBO, Larry Charles Says [MTV]