CHRIS AND ROSIE RAMSEY'S HIT BBC COMEDY SERIES IS SHELVED BY BOSSES DESPITE GETTING PRIMETIME SLOT
Chris and Rosie Ramsey's chat show has been shelved by the BBC after only two series.
The comedy show first hit screens in 2022 on BBC Two however executives have now hit pause on the production of the series.
Chris and wife Rosie, both 37, invite other celebrity couples onto the sofa for a candid chat about their relationships.
Previously they have had Martin and Shirlie Kemp appear as well as Strictly's Craig Revel Horwood and his fiancé Jonathan Myring.
The second series saw Ronan and Storm Keating open up on their relationship, while Fred Sirieix and his fiancée Fruitcake also made an appearance on the show.
The Sun revealed on Monday that the BBC has been forced to shelve the show due to a schedule clash.
An insider told the publication: 'The BBC absolutely love Chris and Rosie, they're a hilariously entertaining duo but most importantly, real.
'They want to continue producing The Chris and Rosie Ramsey Show for audiences but due to schedule clashes they can't make it work right now.
'While the show has been paused for now, behind-the-scenes the BBC are continuing to look at ways the show can continue with Avalon [the show's production company].'
Trying to work around the schedule clash it has been reported the BBC are looking at moving the filming to a different time of year.
MailOnline have contacted the BBC for comment.
The news comes after the BBC axed hit comedy show Motherland after three seasons despite winning the BAFTA award for Best Scripted Comedy in 2022.
Diana Morgan, one of the shows leading women who plays single mother Liz, revealed that BBC bosses have decided to drop the show.
The 48-year-old told RadioTimes: 'I hate to say it because I still get women running up to me with prams in the street asking me when it’s coming back.'
However, she did drop hints that a spin-off featuring Lucy Punch's character Amanda is in the works.
She said: 'It'll live on through her. The ladies with the prams will be pleased, hopefully.'
The corporation's Annual Plan shows that in the next 12 months viewers will be getting fewer new shows, due to 'ongoing pressure on the BBC's finances and the increasing cost of programming'.
The Annual Plan for 2024/25, released earlier this year, revealed that the 'commitment' to 'first-run original drama' will dip by 13 per cent to 350 hours, in part reflecting the broadcaster's decision to axe BBC1 daytime soap Doctors.
Entertainment and factual entertainment shows will have an even bigger drop of 15 per cent fewer hours, down to 850 hours in the financial year from April.
There will be ten fewer hours committed to new content across CBBC and CBeebies.
It is understood that the reductions mean that overall there will be 105 hours less of original TV programming in the year ahead.
The Annual Plan confirmed that dramas including Silent Witness, Call The Midwife, Death In Paradise, Shetland and Beyond Paradise would return, as well as entertainment shows Gladiators, Claudia Winkleman-fronted The Traitors and RuPaul's Drag Race UK.
It also revealed Andrew Flintoff is set to return to our screens for the first time since his horrendous Top Gear accident in December 2022.
The former England cricketer will front a new series of his BBC1 cricket documentary Field of Dreams.
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