Netflix’s ‘Blown Away’ Takes Glass Art to New Heights
variety.comCarole Horst Glass-blowing competition series “Blown Away” returns to Netflix July 22, with new artists, judges and challenges.
The series, produced by Toronto’s Marblemedia, found fans on Netflix during the pandemic. The premise is simple: a group of glass-blowing artists come together in an enormous studio, or hot shop in glass-blowing parlance, and create glass art for specific challenges.
Much like a glass art version of ‘Project Runway” or “Top Chef,” the drama comes from the time constraints and challenges, and also from the fact that these artists are molding fragile glass and working with temperatures that soar between 1600 and 2000 degrees Fahrenheit.So how did Matt Hornburg, “Blown Away” executive producer and co-CEO of series producer Marblemedia, and Donna Luke, co-executive producer and Marblemedia senior VP of business operations come up with this concept? “We’ve been in business now for 21 years.
And we’ve had a lot of success in the game competition space,” says Hornburg, noting that they were looking at a show that would celebrate a different art form. “We had a group of people — a mixture of development people, interns — and we’re just jamming on a million different art forms and then glassblowing was suggested by one of the interns,” Hornburg says. “We all thought that sounded awesome.
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