In news that should excite many, WWE Hall of Famer Edge has confirmed that the WWE Network original series The Edge and Christian Show That Totally Reeks of Awesomeness will be returning for a second season. The catch, however, is he doesn’t know quite when he’ll have time to film it. Additionally, he stated that he wants to have the entire show written ahead of time instead of writing it as they go, which they often did for the first season.
This news come from an interview he did with Crave Online. In it, he discussed a number of topics including his acting career and his wrestling career. Below are his comments on the Edge and Christian Show, including on their freedom of writing whatever they wanted:
On Their Freedom To Write What They Wanted:
“I still don’t know how we pulled it off. Honestly, I really don’t. We didn’t hit any barriers. We didn’t have any handcuffs put on us. Part of the process of even getting us to do it was freedom. We went into this thing with a blank canvas with the freedom to write and produce this thing and we thought ‘We’ll see what gets ixnayed and what doesn’t and nothing did [laughs].
Our take from it was that we are going to make fun of everybody. Nobody is safe but we’re going to make fun of ourselves more than anyone else. I think at the end of the day, anybody who might have got offended could watch and go ‘Okay but now they’re having therapy with Bayley and tag team marriage therapy so you can’t really get mad at them.’”
On Writing For More Knowledgeable Wrestling Fans:
“We threw in some weird obscure references for true wrestling fans. You’re not going to be a casual wrestling fan and get our show. If you’ve never watched wrestling, you’re not going to understand it at all. That show was for the pure wrestling fan that understands a Bastion Booger reference and understands when I reach for the golden kazoo and go, ‘It’s not hot.’ You have to be a wrestling fan to understand we’re mocking Hulk Hogan in the Dungeon of Doom skits.
We wrote it with all of that in mind. If they have the WWE Network, they’re probably big wrestling fans and even if we are referencing stuff before their time, they can go back and look it up.”
On an upcoming second season:
“Yeah, it’s really just a matter of timing, honestly. Now that I’m filming Vikings it’s going to be a lot more difficult to squeeze it in and the only thing that Jay [Christian] and I want to do with a second season is have it all written beforehand because a lot of this was writing as we went because of the time constraints. Initially, we were told we would have a pilot episode and one week to film it to flesh out what the show was and get on board with the other producers. Then we got up there and they needed three episodes in three days [laughs].”
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