Second season?
I just finished this and I looved it....any news on it they will be back again?
sharehope so i enjoyed it
MovieChat Forums > SLiDE (2011) Discussion > Second season?
It has been officially cancelled.
Excerpt from an interview with Foxtel's Director of Television Brian Walsh (full interview located here: http://www.tvtonight.com.au/2012/02/programmers-wrap-2012-foxtel.html)
In the area of local Drama, Walsh confirms the end for teen series SLiDE.
“We’ve elected not to go with a second series. We thought it was a fairly brave Drama experiment and the idea was to develop a scripted piece of television that young viewers could follow online and on air. I think we probably were a bit early with that concept,” he says.
“While it found a niche with a core audience of teens they really weren’t there in the numbers that I would have liked to justify a second series.
“But we probably need to broaden out our Dramas so they do deliver the numbers and then you can start looking at how you can add the online elements to enhance the viewing. Social networking is a part of television but we’ve still got to get the storytelling right.”
But Walsh also leaves open a glimmer of hope.
“We’ll look at revisiting SLiDE probably down the track but it won’t be in 2012.”
Makes logical sense I guess no second season of Slide due to disappointing numbers, and the recruitment of Eddie McGuire and Matthew Johns for 2012 shows. Comment would also seem to indicate that if it were to continue it wouldn't be with the same cast - who for mine made the show work.
With the amount of rubbish Fox air, especially repeated rubbish, surely there has to be room for a brilliant show like this?
I almost came as a Shark actually, but then I realised that an Eagle was slightly better.