Entourage: Scripted Show or Celebreality?



Entourage's Season 4, which begins in mid-June took advantage of the celebrity clusterfuck that is Cannes. Are the writers just being colosally lazy or does this whole veering-across-the-line of scripted program into the gauze of celebreality have some merit? From Variety:

"After episodes filmed on Main Street in Sundance and Variety's offices on Wilshire Boulevard, how could the fourth-season finale of 'Entourage' take the show to a whole new level? Producers decided to go global and take the show to the Cannes Film Festival, where they could take advantage of stars and plenty of extras as backdrop.
It was an obvious choice for exec producer Doug Ellin.

"But it wasn't an obvious choice for Cannes. Despite numerous indies and documentaries having filmed there, the festival had never brought its ceremonies to a halt or closed off locations to the public for the sake of a film.

"But then, this is 'Entourage,' which is used to breaking the rules and blurring the lines between fiction and reality.

"Ellin imagined the boys taking their arty movie 'Medellin' to the granddaddy of film fests. Season four, which begins June 17, kicks off with the gang getting a greenlight for 'Medellin' and concludes with its presence on the Riviera."

The Riviera. Vegas Strip Clubs. The Playboy Mansion. Brett ratner's Benedict Canyon home (AKA, "The House of 1,000 Pleasures." Those guys need to stop working so hard and learn to have fun once in a while. Jesus. (Variety)