Dark Side of the Ring Producer on TNA Episodes For Season Seven Being “Emotional And Tragic”

As noted before, the upcoming new seventh season of VICE TV’s Dark Side of the Ring series will be featuring a three-part episode based on Jeff Jarrett and TNA Wrestling for its season premiere.

A recent episode of The Jim Cornette Experience podcast featured Dark Side of the Ring co-creator and executive producer Evan Husney as the guest. One of the topics discussed included Husney’s thoughts about the upcoming TNA episodes for the new season of Dark Side of the Ring and how it may not be what some fans are expecting in terms of being “LOL TNA.”

“At first glance, you may think this piece might be just sort of an ‘lol at TNA’ episode or story. But really beneath the surface is a really searing, emotional and very tragic story, that’s very emotional. I think that’s going to be very unexpected for a lot of viewers of the show.”

Husney also gave his thoughts about how the TNA story was originally planned as being a two-hour season premiere episode but they felt they needed more time after looking at everything they had filmed about the company.

“It was initially conceived to be a two-hour exploration that would open the new season. We had to go to the third hour, essentially.

We would have been trying to pack in too much. We would have breezed over too much. We would have left too much out.

We kind of went to the network begging and pleading for that third hour so we could let the story breathe a little bit more and we could get into a little more of the side quests along the way.

I knew that people’s reaction were going to be, ‘Really? Three hours for this?’ But I think once people see it, they’ll understand because we’re covering a long period of time here.”

Husney also gave his thoughts about the original plans were to create a standalone TNA docuseries similar to Who Killed WCW? before making the decision for it to be part of the Dark Side of the Ring series instead.

“Originally going way back when we did that Who Killed WCW? miniseries, that was sort of a separate doc thing we did. The idea was to continue in that tradition and do TNA as the next sort of deep-dive exploration that we would have done on its own.

Maybe we could have done ECW and it could have kept going as sort of like a promotion-by-promotion doc miniseries after miniseries. For whatever reason, Vice didn’t want to do that.

The only way to really keep that alive was to make it part of the Dark Side platform that we have. Originally it was going to be six parts. That’s what it was going to be as a standalone thing. It was going to be The Six Sides of TNA is what we were going to call it.”

Transcript h/t: F4WOnline.com