"Some gnarly news for those who love to hang 10."
“Some gnarly news for those who love to hang 10” dropped this morning as the World Surf League has officially admitted that the much-loved Apple TV+ program Make or Break has been cancelled after just two seasons. Surf fans have been logging into smart televisions for weeks, now, terrified that they might miss the premier. Alas, that terror now transformed into run-of-the-mill depression.
The “newly minted” (i.e. demoted) WSL Commissioner Jessi Miley-Dyer was forced to almost admit to the failure at the recent “Winning: Women & Sports” conference, declaring, “Make or Break‘s on hold. Obviously, it’s been a great show for us. It’s been really valuable. But the most important thing we’ve had are the relationships through Make or Break, and we still have that exclusive relationship with Box to Box [Films], the production company.”
“On hold” a common euphemism for “shit canned.”
Miley-Dyer continued attempting to apply lipstick to a canceled series, hinting that “other things are in development” including “Pipe Dreams” and “Inside Pro Surfing” but “This one’s on hold, obviously.
One surf fan, preferring to remain unnamed, responded, “Obviously? It wasn’t obvious to me. I’ve been waiting to see the behind-the-scenes around champion Filipe Toledo’s shock withdrawal at the start of the season for months. I guess I’ll never get to know the reason now. Gnarly news.”
Pipe Dreams, though. Do you imagine its a film adaptation of the culturally important Kelly Slater biography which takes us:
From Beach Blanket Bingo to Baywatch to Blue Crush, surfing has fascinated people for years, and Kelly Slater is the sport’s hottest star. He has won more world championships than any other competitor, and he continues to change peoples’ minds about what can and can’t be done on a surfboard. His wild ride has included fame, fortune, a stint on Baywatch, and a high-profile relationship with Pamela Anderson. Not bad for a skinny kid from a broken home in Cocoa Beach, Florida.
Not bad at all.
More as the story develops.
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On hold is the legacy that surfing fears most but alas is forever present.
Sir Chaz. Going surreptitious Bannana Cake Acumen. A very Coigh chap.
Fret Not. Steph Lives Down the road from me. I’ll give her a call &book another Reflexology Consoltation. 🙏🏻👍🏻🎄✨🌌
Im not familiar with the whole Gorilla thing ??
But im zure its tre cool!!
Youre welcome.
Much better than de nada
professional*
Maybe they could Make or Break the ELo Brazil thing
Make or Break hymen
The elo story
14 years is a long time
A turd barely worth being pissed on. The hubris of these Wsl execs to think a pro surfing reality show was actually sustainable.
Part of the problem is that they’ve whitewashed a bunch of thugs, drug addicts, mental patients, morons, and garden variety assholes for so long. I think that an authentic look behind the scenes would be riveting, but nobody would ever make that for a long list of reasons.
‘Canceled’— more proof it seems, that the general public (surfing and otherwise), are not that interested in pro surfing.
Poor Dirk, what’s a billionaire to do, his dreams of a global surfing empire being shattered almost on a monthly basis—(but at least Natasha’s happy).
Happy wife—happy life.
I guess surfers would rather surf, than let, tv rigor-mortis set in.
Pip Dreams
John from Cincinnati was good. Bummer it got canceled. I knew someone who worked on it and gave me some idea about where the plot was going. I would like to have seen it unfold.
Pro surfing, though? It’s not that interesting. The surfing is, but the backstory, once sanitized, isn’t. The real story might be, but nobody will ever tell it.
I saw another ground squirrel drinking from the coyote bowl. So brazen.
Doesn’t sound like much more will develop here.
It rarely does.
DAMNIT! I wanted to hear about how Stephen Gilmore was hired to be the, “hot girl at the beach”.
Don King is running?
and then Kelly said…you’ve got to lit it go broo
Break
Hate to imagine what looking at BG would be like on a normal browser. Even DDG is struggling atm.
Make or Break may have been cancelled, but I’m hearing strong whispers of a Chad Smith directed 30 for 30; When Sports Administrators Go Rogue – The Rise and Fall of Elo.
It was I. I am the curious one.
I’ve also been waiting to see the behind-the-scenes around Erik Logan’s shock dusmissal for months. I guess I’ll never get to know the reason now. Gnarly news.
I’d also like to see the behind the scenes of how someone so obviously useless as Her Roundness can keep a job at wooz – but not holding my breath.
If a semi alive cheesebrain can be POTUS, anythings possible.
Spot on
Makes you wonder who the fuck has propped him up and why.
xox
It could be another cons Piracy!!!
You do the math!
Xox
Compared to a grifter psyco rapist in diapers give me the cheesebrain any day..
Hes all yours
“Her Roundness”
LONG ………..SLOW………..CLAP
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