“It felt to us like a fun way to keep the show at its core but to add a new layer of competition that would be kind of fresh and interesting,” he added. I asked where that idea came from. “We’re always looking for ways to add a layer of creativity or freshness to a season, without changing a show too drastically,” Smith told me. The twist this season is that Face Off has individual, um, face offs in each episode. … The final challenge this year is really exciting. Still, citing the strength of the contestants and the final challenge and said, “If this had to be the last season, it’s a pretty good one to go out on. That’s because producers “did not know when we went into production” that it would be cancelled, Smith told me. “So there’s always a new wave of artists coming along.” The idea for Face Off: Battle Royale-and future seasonsįace Off: Battle Royale (Syfy, Tuesdays at 9) has returning contestants and an epic title, but it was not planned as the final season. “One of the great things about Face Off is that we started to generate our next wave of contestants because there were viewers who discovered this as an art form, and started going to make-up schools and started to do it because of the show,” he said. We have very heightened deadlines and very short timelines, and I think that’s where certain people excel and some people get tripped up,” he added.įace Off, which debuted in 2011, was actually helping to create its own future contestants, in the same way that RuPaul’s Drag Race has inspired people to become drag queens and then apply to the show where they learned about drag. “The world of Face Off is a very specialized world-it’s not what you go through in the real special effects make-up world. And there are other people that you have high expectations for, and sometimes they don’t deliver,” Smith said. “When you put people on the show, there are always some people who blow you away because you weren’t expecting that level of talent from them. So for us, it’s disappointing, at least for now, we won’t be able to do that.”Īs to the contestants, he said “it’s always been a fairly limited talent pool because it’s a very specialized skillset, and it’s something that takes a fair amount of practice and training and study and education, in order to master at a certain level. I think there are certain seasons we’ve seen stronger people than others.” “There’s tremendous potential for the show to go far beyond where it is now. “I personally feel like Face Off still has a lot of gas left in the tank,” he told me. Was the show nearing the end of its life anyway? Perhaps running out of contestants, as some viewers have suggested? Ratings are down across the board,” he added, and “ratings on Face Off had been trending downward.” (That’s true of most TV shows, as the number of programs and outlets has increased.) “Our business as a whole is really challenging right now. Why was it cancelled? “They haven’t given us a lot of information on that,” Smith said. The bad news: Syfy owns the show and format, which means it’s highly unlikely it would be revived by, say, another network or Netflix.Īnd Syfy’s programming priorities seem clear, at least to me: After Face Off ends, there will not be a single reality or unscripted show on the network. “It means a lot to all of us on the show to hear their disappoint, their sense of loss, and their hope to keep the show alive,” he added. We always knew that Face Off had really, really passionate, hardcore fans, and I think they’re proving that to be true.” Smith, one of its executive producers and the c0-founder of its production company, Mission Control Media, told me that “the outpouring of support and passion from our fans has been incredible. More than 12,000 people have signed signed a petition to try to save Face Off, the Syfy special effects makeup competition series, which the network unceremoniously cancelled by revealing that season 13 would be its last.ĭwight D.
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