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Network and studio struggle with how to recut existing footage they have since the final episodes cannot be shot as plannedA month after a diarrhea outbreak shut down production on NBC’s new competition series “Ultimate Slip ‘N Slide,” the network and Universal Television have yet to figure out how to reshape the $18 million competition show without the final episodes, TheWrap has learned.With weeks of closed-door meetings and health experts weighing in on options, further details of the outbreak have emerged, including the fact that a stunning 65% of the show’s staff were infected by the giardia outbreak, according to a knowledgeable insider. As TheWrap previously reported, at least one person on set tested positive on June 2 for giardia, an intestinal infection caused by a parasite, while multiple individuals reported symptoms, according to Universal Television Alternative Studios, which is producing the show for NBC.Tests on the location’s well, pond, the slide pool, water truck and the restroom sinks all came back negative, but additional testing has revealed giardia in the dirt around the set’s 65-foot yellow Slip ‘n Slide, Universal said. This means that there is no way to resume shooting the final episodes as the production kicks up dust that could again contaminate the water.Universal Television Alternative Studio is currently working through several options for how to handle the show, which was shut down after seven weeks of shooting with another five days to go — including the crucial final competition that had promised a huge cash-prize winner, two individuals close to production told TheWrap. They have ruled out moving or rebuilding the show’s $6 million set from the remote Simi Valley, California, ranch where the giardia outbreak occurred. But the studio is scouting a safe new location to move the large set for potential future seasons.
