# Entourage starts this week! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 3, 2007, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/entourage-starts-this-week/398577 "2007-04-03T16:50:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Improv\_Geek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b3f665/32.png) [@Improv\_Geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Improv_Geek)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2007, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/entourage-starts-this-week/398577/1 "2007-04-03T16:50:05Z")
Anyone else excited to get back into the world of Ari Gold and Vince and Drama? I’ve been watching the rebroadcast of the last season and am quite excited! – IG ---
**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2007, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/entourage-starts-this-week/398577/2 "2007-04-03T16:54:35Z")
Yeah. I love this show. A little Sopranos, a little Entourage. . .it’s all good this Sunday. ---
**Author:** ![yellowval](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/919ad9/32.png) [@yellowval](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yellowval)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2007, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/entourage-starts-this-week/398577/3 "2007-04-03T16:56:54Z")
Yes, Sundays will soon be my favorite days once again. If only Big Love were starting now too, I’d be in heaven. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2007, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/entourage-starts-this-week/398577/4 "2007-04-03T17:21:05Z")
I’m actually more excited about Entourage than the Sopranos. It’s just a lot of fun. I’m curious how they settle the dispute with Ari over the Ramones script. And I hope to see more of Lloyd this season. He’s an interesting character. ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2007, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/entourage-starts-this-week/398577/5 "2007-04-03T17:26:39Z")
Is Ari still a regular on the show? As I recall Vince and Eric officially fired him at the end of the last season. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2007, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/entourage-starts-this-week/398577/6 "2007-04-03T17:28:25Z")
There’s no way that Jeremy Piven’s not returning. Ari’s the best character on the show. ---
**Author:** ![Push\_You\_Down](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/push_you_down/32/9095_2.png) [@Push\_You\_Down](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Push_You_Down)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2007, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/entourage-starts-this-week/398577/7 "2007-04-03T17:50:51Z")
Ari is the only reason to watch the show as far as I’m concerned. And imagine Big Love is going to be back to take over the Sopranos spot in a few months since Sopranos is running a shorter season HBO has to put something in there. ---
**Author:** ![Improv\_Geek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b3f665/32.png) [@Improv\_Geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Improv_Geek)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2007, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/entourage-starts-this-week/398577/8 "2007-04-03T18:03:11Z")
I watched the sneak peek on the Entourage website. It shows Ari still present but Vince goes with another agent who is apparently drop dead gorgeous. So we’re going to see if Ari can recover after losing his star. And yes, I’ve fallen in love with Lloyd. His character is a great foil to Ari. – IG ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Goob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c77e96/32.png) [@Mr.Goob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Goob)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2007, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/entourage-starts-this-week/398577/9 "2007-04-04T03:25:03Z")
I’ve said Entourge is HBO’s version of Sex in the City for guys. ---
**Author:** ![corkboard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@corkboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/corkboard)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2007, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/entourage-starts-this-week/398577/10 "2007-04-04T12:12:40Z")
In the last few months, and with the aid of my Christmas present Tivo, we’ve discovered _Entourage_ and have become faithful disciples. We’re watching 4 eps/week (2 on Wednesdays, 2 on Fridays) as they’ve been running them in order to catch up to the start of the new season. It’s going to be a big letdown to only have one 30 minute ep a week, but we can’t wait. It’ll be a nice way to keep the Sunday HBO going after the stingy 9-ep final season of _Sopranos_. ---
**Author:** ![anamnesis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eb8c5e/32.png) [@anamnesis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anamnesis)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2007, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/entourage-starts-this-week/398577/11 "2007-04-04T17:46:10Z")
Huh, for some reason the start of this season is much earlier this year. I didn’t think the season would be starting until much later. This is gonna give me some kind of TV series jet lag … I’ve come to associate summer with new episodes of Entourage. 🆒 Just doesn’t feel right, I tell you. ---
**Author:** ![Improv\_Geek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b3f665/32.png) [@Improv\_Geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Improv_Geek)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2007, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/entourage-starts-this-week/398577/12 "2007-04-04T18:39:28Z")
My friends realized something last season, they could tell when I’d been watching Entourage as I would then channel Ari for the rest of the day. I’d be more lewd and boisterous. We’ll see if it happens again this year of if losing Vince made Ari lose his balls. – IG ---
**Author:** ![BabaBooey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/dfb087/32.png) [@BabaBooey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BabaBooey)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2007, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/entourage-starts-this-week/398577/13 "2007-04-04T19:14:04Z")
If I were to tell you that new seasons of two of the best shows on television were premiering back to back this Sunday, would that be something you’d be interested in? ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2007, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/entourage-starts-this-week/398577/14 "2007-04-04T19:43:19Z")
I don’t get HBO, so wait 'till the DVDs for the season are out and I have some quality time to myself - then I do a marathon. I can hardly wait to catch up on last season. (why yes, I am hopelessly behind the times - why do you ask?) Did anyone catch David Spade’s The Showbiz Show of late? There was a report that Jeremy Piven was barred from some super-hot restaurant (Nobu??) for life given his behavior. Spade then did a bit reciting a litany of shameless ego-polishing crap that apparently Piven has done. Hilarious, but really biting. Let’s just say that you could see where Piven gets some of his inspiration, namely himself, not just from the real agent Ari Emanuel (or whatever his name is…) Editing - okay - here is a blog commentary on what I saw: > [@](#): > > He [Spade] took particular delight in mocking Entourage star Jeremy Piven, Spade’s co-star in the flop 1994 comedy PCU, about his bizarre Travel Channel documentary that chronicled his spiritual trip to India. It was during that film that a shirtless Piven, showing off a physique only a high-priced trainer can create, memorably suggested that poor people in overcrowded Bombay shouldn’t “choose” to live there. > > “Let me get this straight,” Spade mused after running that clip. “They should move to Malibu?” > > Following another clip, Spade pointed out that Piven is “so sensitive” that “in a country where millions are starving” he was wearing a T-shirt with the words Eat Carbs on the front. And here is another brief description from another blog I stumbled upon: > [@](#): > > There was a bit on the Showbiz Show called “Jeremy Piven: Don’t You Know Who I Am?” It featured a few examples of ego-maniacal acts from Piven, including, “I’m the guy who went out to lunch with 12 friends and left a DVD of my own show as a tip.” It ended with a photo of the actor and the words “I’m Jeremy Piven, Motherfu#\*er.” You had to see it to find it funny.