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. Love the show and all the people on it.b
We absolutely loved the show. Now that we’ve watched all the series, we miss it very much and would love to see this show renewed. The characters, setting, nature, and story lines were amazing and heart warming.
Love the show, keep it going.
I have just found Wild at Heart on Acorn..love it…keep it going and where is it filmed…I want to go there!
Yes! Please bring Wild at Heart back. We loved the show and were so disappointed when it was over.
I was addicted to the series once I found it. It was amazing and the scenery and animals just breath taking. Bring it back!! Not for a finale, but more series. Thank you and look forward to hearing it is back in the production schedule.
I binged watch Wild At Heart and would like to see more episodes. It was captivating and found myself intrigued with the series. Please bring back to include everyone.
Please please bring Wild at Heart back. The stories and cast a great. Have really missed the show. There’s nothing else like it on TV. I would say the viewing figures means I’m not the only one who would love to see it back on our screens
Yes. I would really love Wild at Heart to come back on TV. I really loved it. Please bring it back !!!!!
I love this show and I just watched the finale episode.. I was hoping Season 8 Episode 1 mean’t it would come back with some more episodes but apparently it isn’t coming back on. Get family show and great ending but sad.
I have just discovered this series on the tubi tv app. I am completely taken with the adventure! I live in the United States in (Rochester, Minnesota). Africa, until now has just been a place on a map. I’ve only seen these animals at the zoo or portrayed in National Geographic. I’m an animal lover and I love to see people interacting with them. I appreciate that the show is very family oriented. I look forward to viewing the full series!
I am watching the final episodes of this wonderful show and am saddened to learn that it will not back for any more seasons. I have a feeling the American take off won’t compare.
Please bring show back it was awesome I can’t believe it was cancelled great family show we want more like this it is so much better than all these fake reality tv shows that we are forced to watch because there is nothing better on bring it back it would be a perfect time and would smash the rating
This was a great series. My husband and I watched it on tubi every night. We really looked forward to watching every night. So sad it is over.
Very sad after watching the “last” episode of Wild at Heart. Of course bring it back. I loved
it.
Please bring Wild At Heart back. It is a Fabulous show especially with so many animals endangered. TV programming needs to have more shows like this.
Please bring at least all the cast that is in it! Especially the ones for the first 7 seasons!
It wouldn’t seem right without any of them! When Sarah died, I cried & cried.