Evan Husney discusses producing season 3 of Dark Side of the Ring amid the global pandemic.
Season 3 of Dark Side of the Ring had the most episodes, with 14 total. That season was also produced during the global COVID pandemic. During a recent interview with Sean Ross Sapp, Evan spoke about the challenges of producing season 3, which had more episodes than any other season, and the production team faced the challenges of the uncertain times of COVID.
"Season three is almost like two seasons because it is the largest. It's 14 episodes. It was kind of a crazy order that VICE made that made us do a double take like, ‘Oh my God, 14 episodes.’ That was crazy," he said. "That was in 2020 and that was during the pandemic. So everything was unprecedented in terms of production and not just production, but everything was unprecedented as we were entering that year.
"It was crazy. We didn't fly producing that season. We drove the whole way across country in an RV up and down, cross country like four or five times. It was nuts," he continued. "But we made that big season, and I think it was right around then we were developing Tales from the Territories as sort of a spin-off show that we did with Seven Bucks. We wanted just to do something different. We had done 30 episodes of the show, Dark Side up to that point and the thought of doing two shows at once was kind of intimidating because we like to be involved and hands on."
Evan Husney also spoke about the difficulties of producing both Dark Side of the Ring and Tales from the Territories, admitting that they were excited to see if they could create something different but that the territory show took up more of their energy.
"We just kind of wanted more than anything just to put all of our energy in trying something different and so we did that. Now we're making right now we're making two shows at the same time, something that's not wrestling-related, but it's been very challenging. So I'm glad that I didn't do that back then. But, then we sort of came back around to Dark Side for four and five which we produced simultaneously as well. So yeah, it was nothing more than just wanting to give all of our attention to Territories at the time and to try and see if we can do something a little different."
Learn more about Husney's take on what makes for a good episode of Dark Side of the Ring here.
Season 6 of Dark Side of the Ring began on Tuesday, March 25. Check out the full lineup of topics here.
Check out the full interview with Evan Husney, which is embedded at the top of this page.
