Which shows will get axed next year?

2010 was a bad year for many long running shows being ended. Big Brother, The Bill, Heartbeat, Shipwrecked, Last of the Summer Wine, all were given their P45s this year, which begs the question what's likely to be axed next year.
My money would be on I'm A Celebrity, which is starting to get tired out and for all it had a revival last year, might get axed if viewers don't take to the celebrities. Also surely it's time My Family went, as 11 series is too much and it's well past its peak. I can also see TV Burp, whose ratings are falling and the material is getting poorer, getting a P45 and, if the ratings fall again, wouldn't it be an outside bet Doctor Who doesn't get renewed( mind you I hope not).
 
Out of the shows you've mentioned, My Family is most likely to go. I think they've already filmed next year's series and given that its ratings have fallen in recent years, I think that'll be it for the show. It's well past its peak.

Doctor Who's not going to be axed, that's the BBC's flagship drama (bar EastEnders). I'm a Celebrity is not going anywhere, its most recent series was the show's most popular series in 5 years, and according to reports ITV have asked the Australia authorities to let them continue till 2014. As for TV Burp, ITV has the option to extend that till 2012 at least and considering it's getting 5m+ against the BBC's biggest entertainment show, it's going nowhere.

Not sure how long is left in Fifth Gear's contract, but I think FIVE will pull the plug on that one. I don't think there'll be any other long-running shows on BBC/ITV1/C4 which will get axed.
 
Doctor Who is an outside choice and I'm a fan, but I found some of the stories to be substandard this season and it lost 2 million viewers, so the BBC had better do something.
A possible bet for the axe could be Hollyoaks. Ratings this year have been the lowest since it started and it seems to be struggling.
However, one thing we will be spared of next year on terrestrial television are the Katie and Peter type shows as Jordan has moved to Living.
 
Oh yes, I forgot about Hollyoaks. That's definitely in bad terriory at the moment and neeRAB to improve. But I think Channel 4 will keep it because the channel as a whole is in a poor state at the moment and can't be losing anymore of its established shows, even Hollyoaks, which could go back into a good patch after a period of decline like what other soaps have done in the past.
 
Hollyoaks is climbing again with the new producer and much improved quallity. Doubt that will be axed.

Wild at Heart might be simply because it is very expensive to film in Africa and they are giving Stephen Tomkinson a bigger run on his new detective series DCI Banks after the recent pilot.

So this might be a way of easing the end of Wild at Heart on ITV - unless in the story he moves back to the UK and runs a wildlife park - which would keep the essence of the show but make it much cheaper. :)
 
Bit controversial perhaps, but how about the longest running show of them all - Blue Peter. I can't seeing that series surviving much longer.

I used to love it as a child/teenager but I feel kiRAB these days are less interested I suppose the amount of choice of children's channels doesn't help either.

In recent times they have reduced it's output. The studio seems tiny now too. Is it still broadcast live?

I suppose no show is truly safe no matter how popular they are. It only takes a new controller to be in charge and the axe comes out.
 
Plus it attracts Channel 4's favoured audience in the evening, teens and twentysomethings. However, if there is no significant improvement this time next year, it could go.
One show that I don't think will be recommissioned is The Old Guys. An excellent cast was wasted on such a badly written and unfunny sitcom.
 
I think Waking the Dead might be axed. It still gets great ratings but Trevor Eve has made some negative remarks about the BBC recently and it's been rumoured anyway that the next series would possibly be the last one.
 
I could add that for all Channel 4 cancelled it, Big Brother looks like it will be without a new broadcaster for next year. The rumours Five were going to buy it have come to nothing as Endemol wanted too much for it and Channel 5 does reasonably well with its films, football and imports in the 9-12 slot.
I can foresee BB being cryogenically frozen as one fan put it and possibly could return as a one off in five years time to test the water.
 
Bad year? I'd say it was a good year with most of the shows you mentioned ending.

Big Brother - if the loathsome Josie can win BB11 then something is very wrong and the show definitely neeRAB to end.

Heartbeat - a police series set in the sixties that was on screen for about twenty years. Err, didn't the sixties only last for ten?

Shipwrecked - don't get me started!

Last of the Summer Wine - should have been axed 37 years ago, it wasn't funny in 1973 and certainly wasn't funny in 2010.
 
I'd be more inclined to agree if the AI had dropped as well, but it didn't. Plus it still averaged overall (for the entire series 5) 7.4m on overnights, 8.25m for the final figure average.

Though it'll be interesting to see next year how splitting the series in half will help, because half the problem around ep 9/10 of Who has always been that it's on too early on the type of Saturday evenings when people are likely to be out lol. :o
 
It didn't help there was a heatwave during the last three episodes. However, a lot of fans have said the series didn't seem as good this time- the vampire story in Venice was a wasted opportunity- but some decent episodes such as the killer pensioners made up for this. I am hoping the split series and some better scripts get the Doctor back to the heights of the Tennant era.
 
In terms of the forums, it's no change to past series when a host of people were lining up to slate many episodes of the RTD era. It's impossible to produce a series that pleases everyone. The AI's show no drop off in appreciation for the show from the wider audience at all. What has happened is some people for the first time since the show returned have found themselves in the group of fandom not satisfied with the show. Even within fandom, if you look at the episode polls you will see this series was actually as popular as ever with people on RAB overall.
 
Torchwood is an odd choice, given how successful Children of Earth was and the fact that they have just started a funding partnership with Starz making it a joint UK and US venture. Plus the new series only starts filming in the New Year.
 
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