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BBC Two has cancelled a comedy show featuring a major soap star after ratings plummeted.
Henpocalypse!, a show starring Danny Dyer in a sensational supporting role, was cancelled after just one season.
The show featured a group of women at a bachelorette party when an apocalyptic pandemic strikes.
Despite nearly a million viewers tuning into the 10pm show when it launched last year, the audience failed to stick around.
A source said Sun“It just didn’t get the ratings to justify its return.”
BBC Two has cancelled a comedy show featuring Danny Dyer after ratings plummeted.
The six-part comedy series Henpocalypse!, in which Danny made a sensational cameo, lasted only one season.
The six-part film saw Danny in a series of dream sequences, which included Danny dressed as a sexy gentleman.
Creator Caroline Moran revealed that she had included Danny in her script before he even knew the project existed.
She said: “There’s only one Danny Dyer. He’s fantastic.”
‘He was everything and more than I could have hoped for.
“I sent him an email begging him to help me: ‘You’re amazing, you’re a national treasure. What do you say?’ He agreed.”
It comes after Danny said it was a “fucking disgrace” that working class people don’t get the same opportunities to star on stage and screen as “posh” actors.
The TV star, best known for playing pub landlord Mick Carter in EastEnders, said “suburban children” should be given priority now that Labour is in power.
The married father of three, who also has three grandchildren, is also known for starring in the films Human Traffic and Mean Machine, but also two Harold Pinter plays in the West End and on Broadway.
The show featured a group of women on a hen night when an apocalyptic pandemic broke out, and despite nearly a million viewers tuning in when it launched last year, the audience failed to stick around.
Creator Caroline Moran revealed that she had included Danny in her script before he even knew the project existed.
Each episode was 30 minutes long and was commissioned in 2022 before the first show aired on 15 August 2023.
This comes after Danny Dyer said it was a “bloody disgrace” that working-class people don’t get the same opportunities to star on stage and screen as “posh” actors.
Last month, Danny said there was a “huge disconnect” between the elite and the rest of the country.
He said: ‘The new government must start to address the lack of working-class people in the arts.
‘It is vital that we give young people from the suburbs the opportunity to do something with their lives.
‘There has never been such a disconnect between the elite and the rest.
“It’s a damn disgrace.”
This is not the first time Danny has openly expressed his political views.
In 2018, he called David Cameron a “moron” over Brexit and said he was “down to earth” in France after resigning as prime minister.
