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Ice Cube Puts Cool on Reality
Cube Vision Prods. will be teaming up with reality vet R.J. Cutler for an FX
series that examines race relations in the U.S.
Thursday, July 28, 2005
By Mark Umbach
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Ice Cube reality series puts an eye on race relations
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FX is back in business with reality producer R.J. Cutler. Cutler, who recently
produced Morgan Spurlock's documentary series 30 Days for the basic cable
net, is teaming up with Ice Cube and his Cube Vision Productions on a reality
series centering on race relations in the U.S. Cutler will serve as executive
producer with Cube Vision's Ice Cube and Matt Alvarez.
According to a report in Daily Variety, production on the currently-untitled
series has just wrapped. The project put one white family and one black family
under the same roof for six weeks. Rather than being part of the show by creating
competitions and instigating situations, the FX show takes a more "fly-on-the-wall"
approach and allows events to unfold as they will and watching the families from
a distance.
FX hopes to debut the series in 2006, and an exact number of episodes has not
yet been determined.
The Cutler/Ice Cube project will be the third time FX and the producer have
teamed up. In addition to 30 Days, which just wrapped its run, Cutler
worked on American Candidate, which originated on FX but moved to Showtime
after production costs began to rise. Outside of FX, Cutler's producing credits
include American High and Freshman Diaries. Cutler is repped by
CAA.
Cube Vision just recently got involved in TV production. The company's small
screen adaptation of Barbershop will debut on Showtime on August 14.
On the feature side, Cube Vision will soon be working on Teacher of the Year,
which Ice Cube will star in as well.
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