Had potential to be the greatest show ever

https://www.quora.com/What-happened-to-the-sci-fi-fantasy-show-Sliders-How-did-it-begin-going-down-Why

It goes like this, after the first and second seasons were done, which were actually just one season that was split up, the studio fired Tracy Torme (creator and producer) and brought in David Peckinpah to replace him as the showrunner. Peckinpah had previously produced a terrible series called Silk Stalkings which was a show that aired late at night about a pair of detectives who solved sex related crimes.

Peckinpah had no experience with either sci-fi or intelligent scripting, and it showed. The intellectual questions that were the heart of the show were tossed out in favor of simply copying famous movie plots. Most of the episodes from season 3 on were easily recognizable as being lifted from well known films. The cast were unhappy with the new direction and John Rhys-Davies let his opinion be known at the company christmas party were he called Peckinpah out as an untalented hack in front of everyone. Unshockingly the character of Professor Arturo was killed off soon after and replaced by Kari Wuhrer who was hired because of her bra size to ‘sex up’ the show (she sure wasn’t hired for acting ability).

Eventually nothing could be done to keep the star (Jerry O’Connell) on the show. O’Connell’s departure meant Peckinpah was free to ditch Jerry’s brother Charlie in one of the most nonsensical ways ever written (seriously it was worse than one of the ‘All My Circuits’ plotlines).

Continuity suffered as well as whoever was brought in to write episodes didn’t seem to know the rules of how the timer worked nor how natural laws functioned.

I was a big fan of the show in the first two seasons (aka season one) and had to watch this wonderful show slide (pun intended) into ignominy at the hands of Peckinpah.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/why-has-there-been-no-reboot-of-sliders-yet.59918/post-11099799

Sliders was a fine for what it was and being a product of its time and in large part the victim of network meddling by Fox and later bullshit that limited its potential, also not helped Sci-Fi network TV shows has pretty much always had a niche audience and typically struggle, after it got moved Sliders was the highest rated show on the Sci-Fi Channel even as it was abruptly cancelled so it was popular enough. It wasn't so much serialized but that could easily be changed to have mini-arcs Tracy Tormé did want to have some light serialization and with some arcs and everything but Fox didn't like it and what little there was got thrown out of order or dropped, worse when he was forced out and that hack David Peckinpah (who thought Wade Wells being captured and sent to a Kromagg breeding/rape camp was funny) got put in place in the third season.

Only one left was Rembrandt, and the final episode ended on a somber yet hopeful note. As Rembrandt was the only one who made the final slide and it was suppose to be the slide that would take him home. It didnt show if he made it home, but he did slide.

Everything about that article is empty talk and speculation. Of course there's interest from the studio, but no one knows who even owns the rights at this point. Some of the original cast like O'Connell and Rhys-Davies are open to the prospect (as in, "Yeah, I'd be interested in getting work"), though nothing is set in stone. For right now, this is the closest we'll get to a Sliders revival:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtasHWLKWSM

Yeah, that worked well.


Who the fuck is Jerry O’Connell? Really??

And, Chris, I respect you very much. I just think this an entirely bad idea.

People seem to love blaming Kari Wuhrer but truth be told, the show was already going way downhill before she arrived. John Rhys-Davies knew it and was vocal about it, that´s why they fired him and she became his replacement.