Club kids
Lobbyists, Hill interns, Hill staff, chefs, even the chief of police. Washington has been fertile ground for the producers of TV shows of late, so it comes as little surprise that yet another show is in the works about … D.C. nightclub owners.
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The owners of Fly Lounge, the airplane-themed club downtown, have already filmed about “half a season” worth
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of material, according to co-owner Richard Eidman. He said he and his partner Chuck Koch are shopping the show to several interested networks.
The project began when Discovery Channel brass suggested a reality show that goes “behind the scenes of what it takes to create a successful nightclub,” Eidman said. The partners produced a three-minute teaser, which brought interest not only from Discovery, but from ABC, TLC and Sundance as well.
In addition to Fly, they are opening a new club, called Current, in the former Dragonfly space on Connecticut Avenue in three to four weeks, plus another Fly location in Aspen, Colo., on Dec. 1.
They’ve been filming for the past two weeks as well to gather more material — everything from “me yelling at contractors duringthe day to the glitz and glamour at night,” said Eidman. Befitting the aviation theme, they even filmed an employee day at a local airfield (Koch is a pilot).
And Wednesday night, they added celebrity spice, as they filmed a party at Fly hosted by Rosario Dawson for her Voto Latino organization. Also expected to attend were Benjamin Bratt, rapper Pitbull, Judy Reyes and John Leguizamo, who are all in town for the Hispanic Heritage Awards.
