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 Wild At Heart back. It was a brilliant programme. I am watching it on ITV 3 at the moment.
Just bought the complete set of dvds.One of the best shows i have watched.I will miss dup.Please bring it back.
Please
Bring Wild at Hert back, Please
plz plz bring it back i have just spent the last two weeks watching it back to back to watch the episodes i missed its such a feel good drama makes u instantly relax and forget the bad day u have had and i hope u bring back dup he was funny as hell if i remember correctly he did lie on the rock but wasnt clear he died but what ever the story line bring it back plz plz plz
Live in Los Angeles, originally from Greenock Scotland. Ran across this Gem of a show and fell in love with it immediately, bring it back, it’s brilliant,,,
Please bring wild at heart back ive watched my box set over and over the animals the characters the stories are brilliant with or without dup and sarah theres so much more brilliant storylines out there BRING IT BACK please
I loved the show. Every episode, every character, every animal, all the scenery. How will it go on without Dup? What a shame it is over.
Wouldn’t be much of a series without Dup. He made the show what it was. Such a brilliant actor. Alice is also a much better actress than was Sarah. The cast together made for a really great series, but Dup was the star.
Pleeeeeeeeease!!! Please, please, bring it back!!!!!! Just watched the series finale n cried like a baby. Quality viewing throughout all the series. Superb acting.
Dear Sirs. There are now few TV Programmes of the quality of Wild at Heart. The actors are a class act! Is Hayley Mills a natural class act or what? The story lines are so natural and one is just enthralled by every episode! The setting is perfect and the animals star! This series could go on as though it never stopped: believe me. Straight out of the box a winner! Having seen “Anders” and “Danny” being interviewed on TV it came across so naturally that they were best friends in real life to! This is what this programme has… Read more »
Yes definitely please bring it back it was one of the best programs on telly definitely definitely definitely bring it back bring it back
Please please make more wild at heart fabulous story lines and brilliant acting, have been watching again on itv 3 will miss it now it’s finished.
Ooh please bring back Wild at Heart but something would have to be done to bring DuPlessis in. The show wouldnt be the same without him.
bring wild at heart back with duplessis danny could find him passed out and give him a shot of adrenalin there you are problem solved and one of the best series itv have made back on track and then do something about darling buds of may