No reality show pushes celebs to their limits quite like SAS Australia and following an intense and dramatic 2023 season, fans were shocked to uncover that the show had not been renewed for another season.
Despite the training course being off the air for 2025, the programme could soon be making a comeback to our screens, with Chief Instructor Ant Middleton revealing that the show will be making a comeback.
“Of course, we’re coming back. SAS Australia has gone nowhere. You’ve heard it from the horse’s mouth,” he told Yahoo! Lifestyle in October 2024.
“We just need to make sure we’ve got the right cast, that we’ve got the right location, and with SAS Australia, you can’t rush it,” he added, continuing to say that the show is “about keeping it authentic and keeping it real and keeping it raw.”
While he alluded to the show’s cancellation on Seven, Middleton hinted that SAS Australia could potentially be seeking the involvement of another network, adding, “We need the right production company on board.”
Middleton, who most recently traded his camouflage for rhinestones on Dancing with the Stars quipped that his fellow dancing celebrities may soon be roped into the social experiment, sharing, “I’m always recruiting everywhere I go. Especially at the Logies!”
“It’s great because I’ll go to the CEO or the head commissioner of SAS and I’ll go, ‘What about this person?’ and before you know it, they’re stood in front of me in a quivering wreck.”
Why is SAS Australia cancelled?
Although the exact reasoning is uncertain, sources speaking to the Daily Mail alleged that despite being slated for renewal, SAS Australia did not return to screens in 2024 as a result of failed programming negotiations.
The publication shared that negotiations between the series’ production company Screentime and Seven “fizzled out” ahead of production, with sources at Screentime reporting that casting discussions had taken place in preparation for a 2024 season.
Speculating on the future of the survival programme, insiders told the publication that the show may potentially be revived by a rival network, stating, “Channel Nine have shown interest in picking up the show for 2025.”
