Created by Robert K. Weiss and Tracy Tormé, NBCUniversal Television Distribution’s sci-fi series “Sliders” ran for five seasons between 1995 and 2000, first on Fox and then on the Sci Fi Channel. Starring Jerry O’Connell and John Rhys-Davies, the series followed a group of travelers as they use a wormhole to “slide” between different parallel universes.
Nearly 20 years after its cancellation, could “Sliders” be ready for a comeback? At the Toronto Comicon over the weekend (via Flickering Myth), Rhys-Davies noted that while any sort of revival is far from set in stone at this point in time, conversations have at least taken place.
“Jerry had been pestering me for a number of years and we’re actually talking to NBC at the moment to see if there’s any possibility of rebooting the series,” Davies said at the event, Flickering Myth informs us today. “They’re looking into the basic question of who actually owns it? At the moment we don’t seem to be able to find that out.”
He continued, “I would do it again, if just to show how it should be done. It could have been the best show on television, it could still be on the air. I think maybe if we got another chance at doing it with the new technology, but also new stories, I think we could do something quite extraordinary. I wouldn’t want to do it for the rest of my life, but I would do it for a season or two if it was right.”
In the world of television, we’ve learned to never say never!