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 followed the lives of five teenagers making their way into adulthood in the city of Brisbane. FOX8 confirmed in February 2012 a second season was not commissioned.
The series was multi-platform and encouraged 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 was 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.
Plot
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.
Cast and characters
Main
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. It's revealed, they had made pact awhile back to lose their virginity to each other if they couldn't find anyone else to do it with. Ed has also been friends with Luke Gallagher since they were kids, but they began 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 very socially awkward, and is quite embarrassed about being a virgin for the first episode, but remedies the situation with his neighbour, Philippa, 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 woman, 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!". Which prompts her to show the video of them having sex to the whole mall as revenge for him being mean to her. When Tammy sees the video, she angrily punches Ed in the nose and their friendship is strained a bit. 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 and being cool, which leads him to do terrible things to his friends in the name of achieving it.