Television, movies, a Dana White backed competition show!
Oh what happy news. What wonderful happy news and you should be as thrilled as the World Surf League’s President of Content, Media and Angry Posted Then Subsequently Deleted Twitter Letters Aimed At Young Women Erik “ELo” Logan for he has gone and done it.
He has gone and inked a development deal with the “trailblazing production company” Pilgrim Media, part of Lionsgate, to produce “…a variety of surf-centric sport and lifestyle content across all formats and platforms. The endeavor is the first to be announced by WSL Studios and will involve live and non-live unscripted projects, as well as a range of distinct scripted opportunities.”
Breathless.
I’m breathless so would you allow me to collect myself while you read the rest of the press release?
Pilgrim, a Lionsgate Company, and WSL Studios have two major undertakings in the pipeline already – a feature documentary and a fresh nonscripted competition format for which the parties partnered with the UFC’s Dana White – with several other programs in active development. The venture will feature traditional surf content like contests and clip shows, and will also shed light on surf culture – spanning its roots to the worldwide emergence of its own language and literature; music, film, fashion and other art; lifestyle; social impact; as well as environmental and conservation efforts.
“Partnering with Pilgrim from the onset of WSL Studios sets the bar for the level of quality we are endeavoring to achieve,” said WSL President of Content and Media, Erik Logan. “Their talent for producing top-notch unscripted programming, particularly when it comes to emerging sports, and their unmatched ability to capture the inaccessible for audiences around the world make Pilgrim an incredible partner for the WSL.”
Ok ok ok ok ok ok. So much to discuss.
Who’s going to be in the Dana White show?
Who’s going to become the brightest celluloid star out of the entire WSL stable?
Should the WSL produce a Friends-style sitcom about life in the booth starring Noah Jupe as Joe Turpel, Keanu Reeves as Ron “Dog” Blakey, Tim Allen as Peter Mel and the robot from Short Circuit as the ’89 World Champion Martin “Pottz” Potter?
Tell me you’re not feeling it.
Tell me you aren’t breathless too.
Can we get a reality TV show about life on the WQS please?
The dream tour is already dead, so we may as well indulge in the drama tour instead – all the bratty meltdowns, broken dreams, debauchery, travel-stress, dodgy accommodation, groupies, missed flights and bitchy rivalries, peppered with some occasional low-fi surfing in “challenging” conditions at average beachbreaks in party-towns.
Chaz, amazing casting. If this surf journalist charade doesn’t work out for you, might be moving North to Venice-adjacent Hollywood
Pilgrim? The woke crowd is going to love that…
WSL to become The Real Housewives of OC?
How about a “surf” reality show on HSN (Home Shopping Network) where you can purchase WSL branded product that you rollover on screen? It will be first show to combine reality TV and shopping in realtime. If we’re going to wreck it all, let’s do it right!
This is my idea, for the record. I want in.
– John Non John
3 hours of silent hostile staring, interrupted by bubbling noises every 10-15 mins, scissors and a a cough or 2. Chair squeaks occasionally, and towards the end the host proffers a three word question, to which wigs replies “if you’re not gonna shut up, you can fuck off..” and continues staring. Cut to credits.
Is Dana white that character off entourage?
Feeling hate.
Gidget’s Endless Summer at Echo Beach rolls on …….
This bloke from an Old Australian TV Series could possibly play the role of the White Male ?
https://m.youtube.com/watch…
For those who never saw Kingswood Country the hirsute chap on the right of screen is playing the role of his son-in-law
Ockers better not fuck up against pommies, Bicko.
No one was more surprised than me when I woke to find our boys in the final.
Sentiment here is we would rather play ockers than pom cunts. But to beat either of you bastards in cricket is always good. Happens fukkall, I know.
We don’t want to get ahead of ourselves , you know … um , ball by ball , run by run , over by over ……WSL interview speech type answer . Astro ,your nation of 50 million Sheep , 15 rugby Players , 7 Net Ballers , a couple of Sailors and 11 cricket players just took down over 1billion + Indian Cricketers. Time to Gloat and rock the boat !
It’s a fucken shame, Jim. When I was a young fella we had 77 million sheep, the all blacks, netball was a girls game and we sucked at cricket. We’ve always batted above our weight in sailing coz it blows like fuck here. No gloat from me mate. Sport is great, cept for pro surfing, which is sucky.
I trust the Indian bookmakers would have not made a loss on last nights tremendous result.
1 1 1 – you can’t script that.
This time of year I always follow the Tour, throw JBay in there and faaarrk. Can’t do the all night shit but Sky have a 2 hour package that kicks off at 6 am. And I have to say, the two Aussies that do the commentary are fucken excellent. Same 2 every year. Robbie and umm, I forget. Both of them – top notch.
I was 8 in 73 and did a school Project and discovered we had 180 million Sheep . At the time ,that was about 18 sheep for every man , woman , Derek and Ugg boot . As for Pro Surfing , if you compare yourselves to a country like Portugal , a country pouring money into surfing , with a CT and QS10000 , who currently have no CT surfers ( Frederico is an injury wildcard ),then you guys are killing it and have two ?
Nice sentiment.
Reality says not for very much longer.
Although I think Ric has much improved his game but man, it’s brutal at that level. Put Ric against Wade, sorry Ric I’m backing Wade every single time.
Do you think the young bloke from the land of the long white cloud with a very long name , Te Kehukehu Mokoia Ngawhika Patara Butler ,holds the keys to unlock the doors of future success ? Had Rick grown up at Avoca or San Clemente or had , like Kanoa and Leo , been to every single CT event since they were 12 , than he might have had to do less grinding and got more years on the CT to perfect his game … ?ps The cycling guys are Robbie McEwen and Matt Keenan who took over from Phil Liggett & Paul Sherwen ( legends ) .
Short term Billy Stairmand, he’s most likely imo to have a shot.
Maybe Teke, young astro been surfing with him a bit says he rips. Dunno, I haven’t seen him in the flesh. Lotta competent surfers here, fukkall at top qs level. Tell ya one thing, there’s a shit load who think they are tho. The wank factor is strong here in nz.
Big Fish , Little Pond Surfing Syndrome ! F*ck I am ripping ! Yes ,but compared to who ? … Jeez Billy got so close a few times but his cause has suffered , like so many who were left to fend for themselves when Oakley pulled out of surf Clothing (to concentrate their cash on eyewear).Watched his vlog , blog from rag Land once , quite funny …
Yea – dont know the bloke.
Seems ok.
Like Ric, down to earth, got a few skills and having a go.
On them. No chest beating. I like the style coz kiwi.
Kelly Slade
“and the venture will also shed light on surf culture – spanning its roots to the worldwide emergence of its own language and literature; music, film, fashion and other art; lifestyle; social impact”. Why can’t they just leave us alone………
You like has E-Lo and Dick Ziggler are now owners of “our” surf stuff?
No way ELO “inks” a deal. I’ll bet he shaka jizzes a deal.
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So WSL are gonna create some VAL shit with ex/current UFC fighters who have taken up surfing going on a surf trip?
Number 5 is alive!
Sal?
Well, Dirk and Natasha have got the money– hard to stop a billionaire when he’s hell bent on something. He is (with Elo’s help) gonna try to keep selling surfing to the masses come Hell or high water it seems……..
Iweararashie’s road ….. that’ll be first of many.
Ugghhh – it’d be unbearable. There’s no fucken way I’d watch it.
The same demographic of NY Film school graduates will write this using cliches and stereotypes as research and there will be a miraculous crescendo for the ending as the unlikely character prevails against all odds man and sea.
Just my guess.
Sounds pretty spot on except almost all of the script writers oddly wen to NYU and Columbia Law Schools, not film schools.
Isn’t that the demo that the WSL seeks?
I think it would be called “In the Shed You Cuntard with Wiggs.”