| SLiDE | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Teen drama Comedy |
| Starring | Adele Perovic Ben Schumann Brenton Thwaites Emily Robins Gracie Gilbert |
| Theme music composer | Shave |
| Opening theme | "Change Your Heart" (SLiDE Mix) |
| Country of origin | Australia |
| Language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 10 (List of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Location(s) | Brisbane, Queensland, Australia |
| Running time | 42 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Hoodlum Playmaker Media |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | Fox8 |
| Picture format | 576i (SDTV) 1080i (HDTV) |
| Audio format | Stereo |
| Original run | 16 August 2011 – present |
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| Website | |
Slide (stylised as SLiDE) is an Australian teen drama series which premiered on the 16 August 2011 on the Fox8 subscription television channel. The series follows the lives and exploits of five teenagers making their way into adulthood in the city of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
The series is multi platform and encourages the viewer to view extra content online via apps and social networking such as Facebook and Twitter. Webisodes of events that take place before and after episodes are also available on YouTube. The series is the second multi-platform scripted series on Australian television, after the ABC's Fat Cow Motel in 2004 [1].
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SLiDE tells the story of five Brisbane teenagers making their way from school to adulthood. Tammy and Ed have been friends since they were five years old. Luke knows Ed from scouts and school, but he moves in a different crowd. Eva is at school with them but she keeps to herself. They all spend their weekends in The Valley, seeing music, going to parties, stealing experiences they’re not yet entitled to. When Scarlett arrives from Melbourne an unlikely friendship grows between the five.
Ed Newman (Ben Schumann) is the central character of the show. He is best friends with Tammy Lane, having known her since they were five. He was also friends with Luke Gallagher until they started to move with other crowds. Ed is an awkward computer geek who develops a crush on Scarlett Carlyle when they first meet at her fathers hotel where Ed works. Being the awkward but friendly guy that he is, he tries to get with any girl he can see. Being easily attracted to a naked concrete statue on episode 4, after trying to get a fake I.D and getting caught, he finally gets into notorious club "Duck Duck" after Eva steals an I.D and Ed posing as a transgendered female, gets let in. Upon entry he spontaneously kisses his boss earlier that day, sparking a real kiss between the both. He lost his virginity to next door neighbour, Phillipa, whom he does not care for. Eva sympathetically sleeps with him after he gets depressed because he kissed a man and he tries more than ever to fit in with the crowd. In episode five he begins to like Eva after their one night stand and he is not sure how to approach her. In Episode 7 Scarlett kisses Ed as a goodbye present for leaving the gang unexpected. In Epsiode 8 Ed loses a chance of getting a car and he says to Phillipa, "Fucking you was the worst mistake I ever made!". In episode 10, he admits he loves Tammy and has sex with her at Luke's house.
Tammy Lane (Gracie Gilbert) is Ed's Best friend, list maker and hard worker. She has an eccentric dress sense and is an aspiring music journalist and frequents music gigs in the Valley. She dislikes Scarlett, having labelled her a "troll" in the first episode. Tammy is frequently thought of as a stereotypical good girl, but occasionally attempts to break her image. She has a budding crush on Luke as he finds he also has for her and their relationship progresses throughout the season. With her opening up more, she finds that she can accomplish anything that she sets her mind on, if only she were as confident as Scarlett. Episode 4 finds Luke getting jealous at other men watching her as they both work at a party, her being labelled a "prostitute dressed in lycra". They end up in the club and finally take the jump to get together, much to Scarlett's jealousy. In episode 6 she breaks it off with Luke for him having sex with Scarlett at Tammy's house in episode3; and in episode 8 she exclaims her love for Ed, only to be thrown back like a rag. In episode 10, she wants to lose her virginity after schoolies is over, she then goes to Luke's house and loses her virginity to long time best friend, Ed. She later sneaks out and has sex with Luke.
Scarlett Carlyle (Emily Robins) is the Female Central Character of the show and fashion conscious spoilt girl that lives in a fancy hotel. Originally from Melbourne, with her troublesome ways and antics, her mother sent her to live with her father at Urban Hotel in Brisbane. Being that her father is constantly busy with work, she feels that she must be bad in order to get any attention from her father. After meeting Ed on episode 1, she arranges a birthday party for him, telling him to invite heaps of popular people. When everyone arrives, Ed and Tammy are nowhere to be seen, the party gets out of control after Luke texts everyone he knows to join them. After a burning lounge chair falls off the top of the penthouse building in the hotel, she gets into a heated argument with her father, because any attention is good attention to her. Episode 3 finds her trying to vie also for Luke's attention, but she sees that he is infatuated with Tammy instead and continuously tries to get him to pay attention to her.
Eva Lee (Adele Perovic) is a rebellious tough girl with pink hair and an "eff you" attitude. Known to being a lone wolf person, she finds comfort in the art that she illegally creates all over Brisbane. Known for rebelling against authority, she speaks the truth and doesn't hold back, to the expense of the four new friends she's made. After spontaneously sleeping with Ash; whom she met in episode 3, she finds out that she isn't as tough as she thought and that her new found friends may be exactly what she needed all along. Eva is adopted and in one episode met her biological brother and was close to meeting her birth mother, but ended up not wanting to.
Luke Gallagher (Brenton Thwaites) is the cool attractive surfer guy that everyone wants to date. After meeting Tammy, he finds that he is deeply attracted to her. Not feeling anything like it before, he is unsure how to approach her as she is very different to the girls he's use to. After getting jealous of other men staring at Tammy at a party Ed, Tammy and himself worked at, he realises that he can't let any opportunity slip through his fingers and begins to open up to her more. While in the infamous "Duck Duck" night club, he kisses her after much sexual tension throughout the first few episodes, making room for a new relationship. Luke's parents passed away when he was younger and he lives with his older brother, Dylan. He got in a car accident in the second to last episode and suffers a concussion.
The series is a co-production between Hoodlum and Playmaker Media for Foxtel. The ten part, hour long television series was devised as a multiplatform online/television drama, for FOX8 and will feature an online and social media experience (utilizing Facebook and Twitter) to communicate with the audience, including a graphic novel that will coincide with the events of the series.[2] The series was commissioned as part of Foxtel's initiative to produce more Australian made content across its owned channels and encourage Australian production to other cable channels in Australia.
Early screenings of the first episode have had the series be described as "Furiously funny and fearlessly frank" and has been likened to a more upbeat, comedy focused version of the British series Skins.[3] The series is the biggest scripted project FOX8 has ever commissioned.
It is yet undecided whether or not the series will be renewed for a second season.
The series, in its first season, has so far received generally positive to mixed reviews. Many articles and blogs have compared the series to the British series Skins. Online media blog TV Tonight said about the series "it is hard not to pigeon-hole the show as an ‘Australian Skins.’ But this is lighter in tone, if less emotional. Bris-Vegas offers a little more hope and sunshine than bleak Bristol, but in its first outing there isn’t as much character".[4]
The first season of Slide will be released on DVD on March 1, 2012.
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