The third season of 100 Foot Wave is all set to premiere on HBO on May 1 at 9:00 PM ET/PT. 100 Foot Wave Season 3 will then continue to air new episodes every Thursday on HBO, followed by their availability for streaming on Max the following day.
The upcoming edition of 100 Foot Wave will once again see Emmy Award recipient filmmaker Chris Smith taking on the director's role, alongside Golden Globe and Tony Award winner Joe Lewis serving as the executive producer.
Here's everything that we know about the upcoming five-part documentary.
100 Foot Wave season 3 complete release schedule
Keep reading to know more about the complete release schedule of the upcoming HBO documentary:
- Episode 1 - Risk - Thursday, May 1
- Episode 2—Undertow—Thursday, May 8
- Episode 3—Cortes Bank—Thursday, May 15
- Episode 4—The Eddie—Thursday, May 22
- Episode 5—Family Business—Thursday, May 29
What is 100 Foot Wave Season 3 all about?
The latest edition of the documentary will once again feature the adventures of real-life big wave surfer Garrett McNamara alongside his family that comprises of him and his children. Joining McNamara would be CJ Macias, Justine DuPont, Andrew “Cotty” Cotton, Lucas “Chumbo” Chianca, Nic von Rupp, Tony Laureano, Ian Cosenza, Michelle des Bouillons, Nic von Rupp, Kai Lenny and Pedro “Scooby” Vianna among others.
The show will be moving across several attractive locations deep in the Pacific, including Cortes Bank, Morocco and Hawaii. Viewers would once again be brought right to the forefront of the adventure sports undetaken by the big wave surfers as they brave the waves in their quest for glory.
100 Foot Wave Season 3 creator shares his insights about the show
As the upcoming third season's release date edges nearer, executive producer Joe Lewis spoke exclusively in an interview with Surfer.com, during the course of which he shared quite a few revealing insights from the upcoming installment of the HBO documentary:
"We’ve been shooting this show for six years now, basically without a break. Really, it just takes a long time to put the show together. For season two, we shot like 3,500 hours, and you have to cut that down to five-and-a-half. It takes a long time to get these things in shape. Great productions take time, and I’m really happy with how it all turned out."
He further added:
"The show has a really long narrative. After season three, we’ll have 17 hours. We wrapped like two years ago. But no, the nature of the show is that we capture the show for that time period, and then we package what we captured up, and present it to the world. When you spend so much time going over the footage and honing it in, by the time it comes out, it feels like what it was meant to be. Obviously, so much has happened in big wave surfing – like the swells from last December and January – which were epic. But I don’t regret that they’re not in season three. It may sound cheesy, but it’s like surfing in general, we just show up as prepared as possible, then see what happens."
100 Foot Wave Season three will drop on HBO on May 1.