The Sun’s TV Mag reports ITV plans to revive the Wild at Heart TV show. Set in South Africa, Wild at Heart features an English ex-pat veterinarian, who along with his family, sets out to rehabilitate a game reserve and start an animal hospital.
The cast of Wild at Heart includes: Stephen Tomkinson, Deon Stewardson, Nomsa Xaba, Thapelo Mokoena, Lucy-Jo Hudson, Hayley Mills, Amanda Holden, and Olivia Scott-Taylor. Holden broke the news in a weekend interview.
The Sun’s TV Mag says:
Amanda Holden has revealed that there are plans for a revival of much-loved ITV drama Wild At Heart.
The Britain’s Got Talent judge played Sarah Trevanion of the popular show for three series before being forced to quit the show to focus on ITV’s talent competition.
Despite her character being tragically killed off in a shock storyline which saw her burned alive, Amanda has teased that producers have approached her about returning to her role.
She told TV Mag exclusively, which is available in Saturday’s edition of The Sun: “I went out in spectacular fashion. I was burned to death. But now I think they’re thinking of bringing it back.”
“The producer told me: ‘We never found your body!’. I’m like: ‘Film it in Cape Town and I’ll come back!’ It’d be like Bobby Ewing in the shower [in Dallas] – I’ll bob out of the bush having been nurtured by a family of cheetahs.”
Back in 2012, when it was announced that the seventh season of Wild at Heart would be the last, some people pointed to ITV’s expensive Titanic mini-series from Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes. Here is more from an April 2012 article, in Daily Mail:
After becoming a washout with viewers, Julian Fellowes’s poorly received remake of Titanic has reportedly caused further casualties.
The big budget ITV mini-series has been blamed as the reason behind the popular Wild At Heart being scrapped.
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Insiders on the wildlife drama have pointed the finger at Titanic and its mammoth production cost as the sole reason the seventh series of the show will be its last.
A source told the Daily Mirror newspaper: ‘The feeling is that they sunk so much money into Titanic that they are having to make savings elsewhere and we are bearing the brunt of that.’
Wild At Heart proved a ratings winner with its family orientated story lines and it had an average audience of 7.5 million, which was over twice the amount of people that watched the finale of Titanic.
The source told the newspaper: ‘We’re all gutted that it has come to this. There are shows that would kill for 7.5million viewers.’
The programme, which also stars Lucy-Jo Hudson, Jill Halfpenny and Olivia Scott-Taylor, will now end in a two-hour special to be filmed this later this year which will bid farewell to the safari park where Wild At Heart is based.
With claims that the £11 million Titanic has forced ITV to make savings wherever they can, 64 episodes and seven series have been brought to a premature end.
What do you think? Were you a fan of the Wild at Heart TV series? If ITV brings Wild at Heart back for an eighth season, will you watch? Tell us!
PLEASE BRING BACK WILD AT HEART ITS THE BEST DRAMA ON TV
MY FAMILY LOVE IT WE MISS IT AND PLEASE LET DUPE LIVE HES GREAT
I agree bring the show back best thing on tv for a long time .
Aside from Downton Abbey, this was the best TV series I have ever watched! I am just finishing up my 2nd round of viewing it. The characters are brilliant and the animals adorable, but truly, the stars of the show were Dup (#1) and Danny (#2). As much as I would love another series – I can’t imagine it without Dup! I would have loved to have known someone just like him and am saddened by his death.
It was my favorite program i miss it, please bring it back
Brilliant show another series and then another ongoing. Anders can come back he feel asleep due to an illness and hence did not die. Never been completely sure about Alice, maybe Sarah could be back from a walk about having been injured during the fire and lost her memory – a bit like harold!
Please bring back Wild at heart, it’s a great programme with great characters and great stories. Good all round family entertainment……..few and far between these days
Please make another series – superb programme for all ages. As we didn’t actually see Anders die – only led to assume he had gone! Bring him back, loved him. all the cast were great!
Exellent show bring it back
Bring it back one very good show
We loved Wild at Heart BRING IT BACK!!!! It had a story line excitement animals educational for our younger viewers – showing the importance of caring for endangered animals. BRING IT BACK PLEASE!!!!
I loved Wild at Heart, it brought back so many nostalgic memories of my holiday
there in 2007, really heartwarming and very funny. The cast was just outstanding. I would love to see it back on our screens.
I must agree with all Alexis says I am also watching Wild at Heart again on itv3 and would love to see it back on TV again so fingers crossed.
I’m watching all the old episodes on itv3, I wish there was a new series but has to star Deon Stewardstone, Hayley mills, Steven Tomkinson and the actor who plays Fatani, great actors and a great show, we need more family shows like this on tv
Please bring Wild At Heart back. It was a wonderful program and should never have been cancelled
Please please bring wild at heart back loved it never missed well cool going to miss it
When will the tv series be made available for region 1-USA? I want to purchase, as reading online-so do many others. Doesn’t seem fair it hasn’t been converted except first 2 seasons. Please help us to make that happen…
Thank you
Deb Barrow
Faithful watcher/lover of this series!!
I just discovered Wild At Heart ,and my 6 year-old granddaughter and I think it’s wonderful! Please bring it back! Now, almost everyone I know thinks it’s a fantastic, family oriented show– many, many fans want it returned!