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A BBC show hosted by a Strictly Come Dancing star has been brutally cancelled after one season.
Bring The Drama was hosted by Bill Bailey, who won the dance show in 2020 with pro Oti Mabuse, and gave aspiring actors the chance to fulfil their TV dreams.
But despite rave reviews and a number of celebrity cameos, it will not be going ahead with a second season, according to reports. TV Zone.
Eight stars were mentored for six weeks by casting director Kelly Valentine Hendry as they joined the casts of some of the UK’s biggest dramas including EastEnders, Peaky Blinders and Silent Witness.
There were also guest mentors from each show to help out and at the end of the process Kelly, who has worked on Bridgerton, Fleabag and Broadchurch, selected three actors she felt were the best.
A BBC show hosted by a Strictly Come Dancing star was brutally cancelled after one season
Bring The Drama was hosted by Bill Bailey and gave aspiring actors the chance to fulfil their television dreams.
They then present their showreel at a major industry exhibition for the chance to secure representation from a leading agent.
The BBC said: “There are no current plans for another series of Bring the Drama on the BBC.”
There were a host of celebrity cameos, including Natalie Cassidy, who plays Sonia in EastEnders, who directed the aspiring actors in a scene from the soap.
They staged a scene from EastEnders in 2019 in which Sonia saves Ben Mitchell’s life at the Queen Vic with rudimentary instruments after he is shot.
They filmed at the real Queen Vic and Natalie directed.
Actors from other shows also directed the amateurs, including Ed Speleers (Downton’s Jimmy Kent) and Rochenda Sandall (Line Of Duty’s Lisa McQueen).
In another episode they were sent to the set of Silent Witness, which famously stars Emilia Fox.
In the episode, all of the contestants competed to be cast in the lead role of Fox, with aspiring actors Jordan and Rehanna being chosen to play the doctor in two competing casts.
Eight stars were mentored for six weeks by casting director Kelly Valentine Hendry as they joined the casts of some of the UK’s biggest dramas including EastEnders, Peaky Blinders and Silent Witness.
There were a host of celebrity cameos, including Natalie Cassidy, who plays Sonia in EastEnders, who directed the aspiring actors in a scene from the soap.
In another episode they were sent to the set of Silent Witness, where the famous Emilia Fox appears.
Viewers loved Rehanna and said she would be great on the show, commenting: ‘Rehanna sounds so natural!’
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“Rehanna had to be chosen as actress of the week. She was fantastic. I believed in her completely.”
‘@EmiliaFox someone is in your office, watching BBC 2 Bring the Drama!’
Kelly said at the start of the programme: ‘Growing up in certain communities, if you said you wanted to be an actor, you would have been laughed at.
‘And then there’s the finances: you had to go to drama school and you had to live in… London To get a job as an actor.
“Everything requires money, so acting has been an area of privilege.”