Tears flow from Santa Monica to Sydney.
In news not one person saw coming, the American Broadcasting Corporation, not to be confused with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, has officially cancelled season two of The Ultimate Surfer, a show headlined by Kelly Slater and shot, on location, at his inland wave pool, won by Zeke Lau, who just happened to make it onto the 2022 World Surf League Championship Tour on his own with the much ballyhooed “Ultimate Surfer Wildcard” going unused except by Tia Blanco.
Now there’s a sentence.
Per industry pub Deadline:
The show premiered in August 2021 and ran for eight eps but it struggled to find a big wave of fans with its opening episode being boarded by less than 1.5M viewers and a 0.3 in the demo.
The series featured top up-and-coming surfers training and battling it out at the surf ranch with men and women competing in individual and team challenges focused on specific surfing disciplines.
Male and female surfers were vying for the title of the Ultimate Surfer and the opportunity to compete on the WSL World Tour.
The competition series, which is produced by Lionsgate’s Pilgrim Media Group and WSL Studios, was shot at Kelly Slater’s Surf Ranch in Kings County, California.
Surf champion Slater was the lead consultant and also served as a special correspondent. Former NFL quarterback Jesse Palmer hosted alongside sports anchor Erin Coscarelli and the voice of surfing Joe Turpel as commentators.
It was exec produced by Craig Piligian, WSL CEO Erik Logan, UFC President Dana White and Faye Stapleton.
Shocking and tears flowing, today, from Santa Monica to Sydney.
Less as the story develops.
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Love his bit part in Free Scrubber
Is Zeke Lau a good surfer on the tour? Is there a tour?
I would dare to say that Tia Blanco’s wildcard is still slightly unused.
Could be an optical illusion, but it sure looks like Wardo’s daughter is reaching back and cupping that guys balls who resembles Jim Carrey from The Mask
Zeke had the best boobs out of all of them.
His photo is on every trannies wall I’m reliable told
That first quoted paragraph left a few things out
“The second season was slashed due to double overheads, and cutbacks”
“The series didn’t attract the groundswell of support anticipated”
“The wave of support was lacking”
“Ratings duck-dived, and went out the back door”
God thats awful
Kelly’s stressin’!! He was banking on that wildcard for 2023…
You can’t script this…
First WSL studios now Ultimate Surfer? What will be left to make fun of? Oh wait, everything else the WSL does will do
It may have been dropped by ABC, but word around the water trough says that it’s moving to NEGflix…
The sound waves he emits fall somewhere between a vuvuzela and bagpipes. Not annoying at all.
TAKE THE WORD BAGPIPES OUT OF YOUR FUCKING MOUTH!
ok, I asked Hot Stuff yesterday, but you’re a seppo so you should know…is “Take that word out of your mouth” a thing in ‘merica, or just Will delivering unscripted lines poorly?
It’s a Seppo thing. Not sure of the origins of it. Probs some movie or TV show. I’m curious now too.
It’s hood talk. Straight from the mean streets of Philly.
Ahhh, yes, that must be why I never heard it growing up the rough house that was Perth’s Western Suburbs.
Oh, no! I will miss Jen’s exclamation points so much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What?! There must have been at least a dozen people who watched the show. ABC canceled it? Go figure!
What show?
Rumour has it Logan already has one foot out the WSL door and spent most of his time at the Oscars trying to sell his script – a musical about a cute lil boy from the mid-west who moves to LA and takes over the world of outdoor action sports entertainment, called E-Loklahoma!
So you couldn’t actually script this.
Probly needed more trannies to be viable in blue states
One could have, fore-see-ably or forcibly, scripted this.
Sorry for your loss, Negs.
I don’t appreciate your snarky sarcasm when I am in pain.
Thoughts and prayers.