Slide (TV series)
| SLiDE | |
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| 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 |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 10 |
| Production | |
| Location(s) | Brisbane, Queensland, Australia |
| Running time | 45 minutes (approx.) |
| Production company(s) | Hoodlum Playmaker Media |
| Release | |
| Original release | 16 August – 18 October 2011 |
| External links | |
| Website | |
Slide (styled as SLiDE) is an Australian teen drama series which premiered on the Fox8 subscription television channel and aired from 16 August to 18 October 2011. The series follows the lives and exploits of five teenagers making their way into adulthood in the city of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. FOX8 confirmed in February 2012 a second season was not commissioned.
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 each episodes —titled Before and After Bits— are also available on the show's official YouTube account. The series is the second multi-platform scripted series on Australian television, after the ABC's Fat Cow Motel in 2004.
On 16 August 2012, the show premiered on the American cable network TeenNick.
SLiDE tells the story of five Brisbane teenagers in their final year of high school 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 teenagers.
Ed Newman (Ben Schumann) is the central character of the show. He spends most of his time with Tammy Lane who has been his best friend since they were five. He has also been friends with Luke Gallagher since they were kids, but they began to moving with different crowds a few years back. Ed is a geek who develops a crush on Scarlett Carlyle when they first meet at her father's hotel where Ed works. He is a bit socially awkward, and is quite embarrassed about being a virgin for the first few episodes, but remedies the situation with his neighbor (whom he does not care for) early on. 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 transgender female, gets let in. Upon entry, he spontaneously kisses his boss from the catering job he did earlier that day, sparking a real kiss between them. Eva 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 5, 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 unexpectedly. In episode 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, then finds out Tammy later on sneaks out and has sex with Luke. Ed is extremely preoccupied with sex, which leads him to do terrible things to his friends in the name of achieving it. He seems generally friendly, comes off as nice, but does so many asinine things to his friends, one wonders why they keep being his friends. He actually better fits the stereotype of Luke's blonde surfer-boy persona than Luke does.
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