Radio personality Anthony Cumia’s web show, which broadcasts live from his Roslyn Heights residence, may soon find a home on television.
During the August 10 episode of “The Anthony Cumia Show,” the shock-jock host hinted at the possibility of his life getting the reality-show treatment.
“Apparently, there’s some interest in the idea that an idiot who does a talk show from his home and has an outrageous lifestyle and now goes into the city and has creepy, weird, twisted, some-normal-some-not friends, some people have decided this might be interesting,” he said. “So we are moving ahead. We have been approached and things are in motion.”
“How about that one?” he added. “Who saw that part of this whole thing coming? I sure didn’t.”
Cumia’s producer, Keith Maresca, said during the episode that interviews for a potential series have already been filmed, with more footage still to be shot in the coming weeks.
They were unable to disclose the network with whom Cumia is negotiating a deal, and did not say whether an agreement for a show is imminent.
Once half of the radio show team “Opie and Anthony” alongside co-host Gregg “Opie” Hughes, Cumia was fired by Sirius XM Satellite Radio last summer following a series of racially-charged tweets alleging he was assaulted by a black woman in Times Square.
He then began recording a subscription-based web radio show out of his Roslyn Heights estate that featured guests and friends from the entertainment industry.
Cumia, who recently recorded an episode of his show from a studio in New York City, and has expressed plans to record future episodes there, said a reality show would not mark the end of “The Anthony Cumia Show,” but would cultivate its material largely from his radio program.
“The background part of the [reality] show would be this show. Just like ‘I Am Cait,’” he said, referring to the E! series documenting former Olympian Bruce Jenner’s life as a transgender woman, which he critiqued during the episode.
