63-year-old actress Susan Sarandon is developing a ping pong reality show. Sarandon, self-proclaimed “Johnny Appleseed of ping-pong,” invests in SPiN, a ping-pong nightclub with a unique 13,000 square foot table-tennis social club located off of Park Avenue in Manhattan’s Flatiron District, with close friend Jonathan Bricklin.
But don’t be too afraid of a new reality TV show. Sarandon assures “it won’t be the ‘Jersey Shore.’”
Sarandon’s aims for the show include highlight the club’s growing business and community. There are even several individuals that could potentially make it to the Olympics.
It will be an “episodic documentary,” Sarandon says, incorporating humor and sure to be “quite different than anything else that anybody’s seen before.”
The show is only in its earliest stages of filming. But the subculture of ping-pong seems to have garnered at least an undercurrent of popularity, including celebrities like Edward Norton, Heather Graham, and Scarlett Johansson.
