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Fly-on-the wall reality show following very unlikely TV star and his family ends after just one series
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BEING TV's poshest ever reality show hasn't saved Meet The Rees-Moggs.
I can reveal the fly-on-the-wall documentary featuring top Tory toff Jacob Rees-Mogg and his family, which launched with a blaze of publicity last year, has been axed and won't be returning for a second series on Discovery+.
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Meet The Rees-Moggs won't be returning for a second series on Discovery+.
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Jacob was seen in the show losing his seat at the General Election last July
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It is another setback for the former MP, who was seen in the show losing his seat at the General Election last July.
A TV insider said: 'Although the critics seemed to lap up the ridiculousness of the show, it didn't quite get the response from audiences they had hoped for.
'Though it was easy to see how the series could run and run, the feeling among the execs was this should be a one-off capturing of a moment in time, namely the last general election.'
Jacob felt that making the Keeping Up With The Kardashians-style show was a way to help 'get the Conservative message out there' while admitting it was a 'calculated risk'.
But it doesn't seem to have paid off.
When it aired last December, it followed him and his incredibly aristocratic wife, Helena, plus their six children — Mary, Peter, Thomas, Anselm, Alfred and Sixtus.
The family provided a snapshot of their privileged and eccentric lives as well as charting the MP's bid to hold on to his seat in North East Somerset constituency.
Discovery+ were approached for comment.
JOHNNY ON ADHD AND ART
JOHNNY VEGAS is back with a new documentary.
The comedian, who took a break from his Channel 4 series Carry On Glamping after struggling with his ADHD, will head back to his hometown of St Helens in Merseyside to create a piece of artwork for public display.
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Johnny Vegas will front new documentary Johnny Vegas: Art, ADHD And Me
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His most personal project yet, Johnny Vegas: Art, ADHD And Me will follow him on a journey of self-discovery after his ADHD diagnosis in 2022.
Johnny said: 'I used to sit at a potter's wheel on stage, and people thought it was a gimmick, but I actually started out as a dedicated wannabe ceramicist.
"Art was my educational saviour.
'Over years of an ongoing decline in educational commitment to the very same arts, I felt it was time to kick-start a debate about culture in general, whilst giving something of a visual a symbol of gratitude back to my honestly beloved town.'
The two-parter will be shown on Channel 4.
SKY Max has confirmed that its rebooted version of panel show Never Mind The Buzzcocks will be returning for another series.
Greg Davies will be back in the hot seat for the fifth season of the show, which previously aired on BBC Two from its launch in 1996 to 2015.
LAUREN RETURNS AS TV TEC
LAUREN LYLE will be getting her detective uniform back on as ITV cold case drama Karen Pirie returns.
The actress, who plays DI Karen Pirie, will be joined by her loveable sidekick, DC Mint (Chris Jenks), and the romantically complicated DS Phil Parhatka, played by Zach Wyatt.
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Karen Pirie is returning for a second series with Lauren Lyle
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The story, based on the novel Darker Domain, follows the discovery of a man's body linked to the first series' spine-chilling kidnap of a young heiress and her baby son.
The discovery will put Karen under closer scrutiny from her boss, the media and sinister forces linked to the crime which begin to come to light.
It will air on ITV this summer.
RUTH HAS WILL FOR NEW ROLE
SHE waved goodbye to her role in Gavin and Stacey when the series ended last Christmas, but now Ruth Jones has her eyes set on a new character.
The actress, who has just released her fourth book, hopes to have her latest novel turned into a TV series so she can play the leading lady.
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Ruth Jones wants her latest novel turned into a TV series so she can play the leading lady
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By Your Side features Linda Standish, a divorced, plus-sized Scots woman in her fifties working at the Unclaimed Heirs Unit, which traces family members of people who die without a will.
And it follows her last case before retiring, involving Welshman Levi Norman.
Revealing fans ask who she would cast as a character like Linda, Ruth said: 'I'm in my fifties, and I'm a plus-size woman, but admittedly I am not Scottish!'
PANEL show Sorry, I Didn't Know has landed its sixth series on ITV.
Jimmy Akingbola will be replaced by former Holby City actress Chizzy Akudolu – who will join team captains Eddie Kadi and Richard Blackwood.
Filming will take place this summer.
CYNTHIA'S LESSONS IN FAILURE
AS Miranda Hobbes in Sex And The City, Cynthia Nixon has seen her character have no shortage of mishaps.
But far from getting her down, the actress says she has learned a lot about how to deal with things going wrong.
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Cynthia Nixon as Miranda Hobbes in And Just Like That...
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She told Elizabeth Day on the How To Fail podcast: 'Right from the get-go, we've seen Miranda fail at a lot of things – and that was the best thing to happen.
'She didn't actually fail at being a lawyer, I think she realised that her life quest to be on top of the corporate law world was a mistake.
'That's the wonderful thing about the show, it shows there's enough time to make a change.
'A lot of people identify with Miranda, and as years have passed, more of them identify with her. I love her.'
Series three of spin-off And Just Like That . . . is available to stream now on Sky.
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