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There will no third season for Apple’s surfing docuseries Make or Break. The streamer has canceled the series after two seasons, sources confirm to Deadline.

The series followed World Surf League elite champions Kelly Slater, Stephanie Gilmore, Gabriel Medina, Tyler Wright, Italo Ferreira and Tatiana Weston-Webb as they battled for the World Champion title.

The first season followed the 2021 competition, navigating as the league responds to the global pandemic, while exploring the surfing culture along with issues including diversity, mental health, and the physical impact of the sport.

Make or Break was produced by Box to Box Films with Amy producer James Gay-Rees, Formula 1: Drive to Survive producer Paul Martin and Wsl CEO Erik Logan and Wsl Studios chief Ryan Holcomb exec producing.

Deadline’s sister site TVLine was first to report the cancellation.

Make or Break is back for another season, continuing to follow some of the world's best surfers as they compete for the World Championship title. The show offers new levels of access to the sport's top competitors including 11-time champion Kelly Slater, 8-time champ Stephanie Gilmore, and 3-time championship winner Gabriel Medina. Make or Break not only strives to raise the bar for how the physical act of surfing is filmed, but also shine a light on the physical and mental obstacles faced by the athletes themselves.

Of course, surfing is much more than a sport; it's a lifestyle, complete with its own deep-rooted culture that helps Make or Break stand apart from other sports documentaries. Part of the unique culture of surfing is the music, which is why Make or Break turned to composer Cj Mirra. Mirra has contributed to a number of surf-related projects since he was first...

The highly anticipated second season of the acclaimed documentary series “Make or Break,” featuring behind-the-scenes access to the world’s best surfers as they battle for the top title at the World Surf League Championship Tour, is set to premiere with four episodes on Friday, February 17. An additional four episodes debut on Friday, February 24.

With unprecedented access, “Make or Break” returns to the world of professional surfing, offering an intimate deep dive into the aspirations, challenges, accomplishments and personal lives of the surfers who compete to remain on the elite Men’s and Women’s World Surf League Championship Tour. This season will take viewers on location for the 2022 competition season to stunning surf locations across the globe, capturing the highs and lows of the “Dream Tour,” including the first-ever mid-season cut, international rivalries and record-breaking upsets.

Each episode in the eight-part season of the series spotlights internationally recognized surfers...

Apple TV+ has set a Friday, February 17, 2023 premiere date for season two of Make or Break. The surfing documentary series also dropped a new trailer ahead of its second season release.

Season two will consist of eight episodes, with the first four episodes arriving on Feb. 17th. The final four episodes will launch on the streaming service on Friday, February 24th.

Make or Break season two will include interviews with surfers Kelly Slater, Tatiana Weston-Webb, Stephanie Gilmore, Owen Wright, Tyler Wright, Jack Robinson, and Morgan Cibilic. Gabriel Medina, Filipe Toledo, Kanoa Igarashi, Griffin Colapinto, Italo Ferreira, Matthew McGillivray, Johanne Defay, John John Florence, and Brisa Hennessy are also featured in the upcoming season.

Academy Award and BAFTA Award winner James Gay-Rees (Exit Through the Gift Shop), BAFTA Award nominee Paul Martin, Warren Smith, and World Surf League CEO Erik Logan serve as executive producers. The series comes from Box to...

Right on the heels of the news that Elon Musk is nearing a deal to buy Twitter, a television documentary about the polarizing businessman has been announced to premiere this May.

Titled “Elon Musk’s Crash Course,” the upcoming film is the latest in FX and The New York Times’ collaborative documentary series “The New York Times Presents,” which provides in depth looks at prominent people and events, ranging from Janet Jackson to Juul to the 2020 Australian bushfire disasters. The series is best known for its two in-depth films about Britney Spears, “Framing Britney Spears” and “Controlling Britney Spears,” which helped contribute to the eventual end of the singer’s conservatorship.

Directed by Emma Schwartz, “Elon Musk’s Crash Course” is an exposé into Musk’s company Tesla, and its work on self-driving cars. Featuring the reporting from Cade Metz and Neal Boudette of The New York Times, the film...

Apple is looking to keep riding the wave.

The streamer has renewed its surfing docuseries Make or Break for a second season – ahead of the premiere of its first season.

The series, which launches on April 29, follows World Surf League elite champions, Kelly Slater, Stephanie Gilmore, Gabriel Medina, Tyler Wright, Italo Ferreira, and Tatiana Weston-Webb as they battle for the championship.

The seven-part series also explores the aspirations, challenges, accomplishments, and personal lives of the surfers who compete to remain on the elite 2021 Men’s and Women’s Wsl Championship Tour.

The first season follows the 2021 competition, navigating as the league responds to the global pandemic, while exploring the surfing culture along with issues including diversity, mental health, and the physical impact of the sport.

Production has already started on the current competition season for season two.

It is produced by Box To Box Films with Amy producer James Gay-Rees,...

The 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan, are officially underway (in 2021, of course) with the lighting of the cauldron at National Stadium. Now, the best athletes in the world will vie for medals across 339 sporting events over the next 16 days. With so many stories swirling around, it can be hard to decide what to watch and who to follow so that you’re the Olympics expert in the room when watching.

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The names to follow are easy enough to look for, but...

While Stephanie Gilmore’s high school friends stressed over choosing college majors, the New South Wales, Australia native faced her own future with uncommon certainty. “I remember just having a really strong feeling that surfing, and professional surfing, was what I was going to do for the rest of my life,” she recalls in Rolling Stone’s “The First Time” video.

Seven World Titles later, there is no disputing that Gilmore, now 31, proved her teenage-self correct. Gilmore has dominated the sport since her arrival on the scene. She even claimed...

Australian surfer and seven-time world champion Stephanie Gilmore is in good shape to qualify for the first Olympic surf team ever in 2020, but surfing’s not the only thing on her mind. In addition to hauling her board and other gear on tour, Gilmore travels with a guitar from her treasured collection: maybe a Fender Jazzmaster or a vintage Epiphone Crestwood that’s faded from Pelham blue to, fittingly, surf green. “I’m gonna be drowning in a sea of guitars one day,” she says. “I just love buying them.

Michael Strahan is a man who doesn’t mind getting down, dirty and even slimy for a job.

The former Super Bowl champion and current “Strahan and Sara” co-host is returning to Nickelodeon to host the “Kids’ Choice Sports 2019,” the network announced on Thursday.

“Nickelodeon’s ‘Kids’ Choice Sports’ is a one-of-a-kind awards show that brings all-star athletes, kids and of course, slime together,” Strahan in a statement. “When I hosted the first year of the show, I loved it — the energy, stunts, kids, crowd and slime … a lot of slime!

“Hosting this show has been one of my favorite things I’ve done, and this year is going to be the biggest, the baddest and the slimiest,” he added.

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Serena Williams, Stephen Curry and James Harden lead this year’s nominees with four each,...

Vimeo has announced the winners for its 2018 Best of the Year Staff Picks Awards. Unlike previous years, Vimeo brought in a distinguished jury to screen the nominees in each category and decide the winner. Jury members included actor Alan Cumming, Oscar-winning documentarian Roger Ross Williams, “Monsters and Men” breakout director Reinaldo Green, “21 Jump Street” co-director Phil Lord, and more.

All seven award recipients below will receive a cash prize and a physical trophy, in addition to the Best of the Year badge. The winning films will also be screened at Nitehawk Cinema in Williamsburg, Brooklyn on January 17. To decide the nominees, which were announced January 7, Vimeo’s in-house curation team chose 93 titles with the Staff Picks badge from 2018 in seven categories. Last year alone, there were over 1,200 Staff Picks.

The 2018 categories include Best of Action Sports, Best of Animation, Best of Comedy, Best of Documentary, Best of Drama, Best...

In sports, you can have it all one moment, and be left with nothing the next. A corner kick will find the net, or maybe an outfielder will leap and snag the ball that was going to be a home run—it's these kind of things that come with the territory of being an athlete. But what happens when it's the outside world that changes thing? That's the question explored in the upcoming documentary, "Stephanie In The Water." Directed by Ava Warbrick, the film chronicles Australian professional surfer and world champion Stephanie Gilmore, who became the first surfer of any gender to win four consecutive world titles beginning with her rookie year. Everything seemed to be going her way until one evening in 2010, she was attacked outside her home. It shone a different kind of spotlight on the athlete, and the doc explores her career, surf culture and how she...

Thanks to the success of Savage Cinema in the 61st edition of the San Sebastian Film Festival, this new section launched in collaboration with Red Bull Media House is shaping up to be the international reference in the exhibition of adventure and action sports films.

Last year’s Savage Cinema saw the screening of six world or European film premieres , which had a huge public success thanks to their exciting and original images and stories. A top notch selection of works with feats from the snowboard, surf, ski or rock climbing worlds, thrilled film lovers and action sports aficionados alike.

A crucial factors in the incredible success of this new section is the support of the filmmakers, producers and athletes who presented their films and enjoyed the Festival atmosphere, turning the event into a meeting place between the universes of film, sports and adventure. World champions like David Lama (who climbed one of the edges of the Kursaal Centre) and Stephanie Gilmore (surfing), surfers such as Dave Rastovich and Chris del Moro, directors like Andrew Kidman, David Zieff, Murray Wais, Thomas Dirnhofer and Dave Mossop, or the producer Martha Mitchell were some of the professional guests who shared with us this first adventure.

Savage Cinema launches now its second edition with the goal of raising last years show to an even higher level in and outside the movie theaters. Films on subjects related to action sports, adventure and the outdoors, in any genre, produced in the last year and wishing to participate in the 62nd San Sebastian Festival can be submitted online until July 16.

The 62nd San Sebastian Film Festival will take from September 19-27 2014...

Making much of the year’s top athletes, the 2013 Espy Awards too place at Los Angeles’ Nokia Theatre La Live earlier this evening (July 17).

With Vintage Trouble serving as the house band and Jon Hamm manning the emcee position, the 21st edition of the Espys was a raging success, complete with plenty of Tinseltown celebrities as well as sports stars.

The night’s big winner was the Miami Heat, which scored the top prize for best team, while LeBron James and Serena Williams took home the awards best male and female athlete respectively.

As for the celebrity presenter roster, folks like Don Cheadle, Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs, Ben Affleck, Selena Gomez, Jason Sudeikis, Chrissy Teigen, Lake Bell, and Kevin Bacon all turned out for their chance to pass out the evening’s trophies.

The complete list of 2013 Espys Winners is:

Best Male Athlete

Miguel Cabrera, Detroit Tigers

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Nikon has released the latest installment of its ‘I Am’ campaign featuring Aussie surfer Stephanie Gilmore, the face of Nikon’s ‘shockproof, waterproof and freezeproof’ camera, the Coolpix AW100.

The ad was directed by Anthony Rose through Flying Fish. The music track, ‘Welcome Home’, is by American band Radical Face.

The campaign breaks on Sunday.

The Japanese camera maker has also released a making-of video from the ad.

The campaign also has a print and online component.

Credits:

Advertising Agency: Studio Woo

Production Company: Flying Fish

Director / Videographer: Anthony Rose

Music: ‘Welcome Home’ by Radical Face...

Academy Award-winning actor and producer Sean Connery, best known as the original James Bond, has joined the International Advisory Board of Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, the world’s leading marine wildlife conservation nonprofit organization.

Connery joins the Sscs advisory board alongside two valued new additions: four-time Women’s World Surfing Champion Stephanie Gilmore and Emmy Award-winning Writer, Producer and Director/Co-Creator of The Simpsons, Sam Simon.

In announcing her husband’s alliance with the leading global marine conservation non-profit, Micheline Roquebrune, Connery’s wife of 36 years, said, “It’s natural that Sean and I bring our support to the mandatory mission of Sea Shepherd.”

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Home and Away star Tessa James is still with Nrl player Nate Myles, according to reports. The Australian actress, who used to play Nicole Franklin in the soap, was believed to have called off their engagement and scheduled December wedding after deciding to embark on a Hollywood acting career, but Myles's spokesperson insisted that the rumours are false. He told The Daily Telegraph: "They're still getting married and everything is on track as far as I know." The couple are now reportedly having a private wedding on December 23 in her hometown of Melbourne. Myles, however, was spotted at a Gold Coast pool party at Jupiters Casino without James at the weekend. Instead, he posed for photographs with his new Titans teammate Scott Prince and sports star Stephanie Gilmore. Also in attendance were singer Rob Mills, Dancing (more)...

Rafael Nadal has tasted victory over Roger Federer once again. This time, it came from off-court. The world's No. 2 tennis player bested over the former world's No. 1 at the 19th Annual Espy Awards as he was announced the winner of Best Male Tennis Player on Wednesday night, July 13.

While he successfully took over the title from Roger, 25-year-old Nadal didn't sweep clean his nominations. The Spanish star lost the Best Male Athlete trophy to Dallas Mavericks star player Dirk Nowitzki, who became the first NBA player to win the category since Michael Jordan in 1993.

One of the big winners, Dirk said in his acceptance speech, "I'm so humbled and honored by this. It's been an unreal year for all of us on the Mavericks." The 33-year-old athlete, whose NBA team won Best Team, has also scored another kudo as he beat the likes of Kobe Bryant and LeBron James for Best NBA Player.