Martin Clunes' sitcom Warren cancelled after one series
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22 May 2019 - 11:00 AM

Martin Clunes' sitcom Warren cancelled after one series

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\'Warren\' has been cancelled after just one season.

The BBC One sitcom - which starred Martin Clunes as a grumpy and unpleasant driving instructor - wasn\'t the hit the channel wanted with viewers or critics, and now creator Jimmy Donny Cosgrove has confirmed the show has been axed.

Taking to social media, he tweeted: "Today I bought the DVD of my very own TV series #Warren. Sadly, the BBC never bought the second series of my very own TV series #Warren but thems the breaks.

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"Thanks to everyone who watched, supported, and encouraged. Hopefully this isn\'t the end, but just the beginning. JDC x"

Martin, 57, had previously heaped praise on the show before its launch and even credited the script with convincing him to return to sitcoms after \'Reggie Perrin\' flopped.

He said: "I didn\'t want to do another half-hour comedy, but this was so funny, I didn\'t want anyone else to do it. I didn\'t want anyone else to do it.

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"The script was sent to me by my friend Jimmy Mulville, who runs the production company. I\'ve known him 30 years. We did a play together and stayed in touch, so I knew it was going to be good.

"I did \'Reggie Perrin\', which I really enjoyed, but it didn\'t go down well and the BBC dropped it, so I thought maybe that\'s enough. Then \'Warren \' came along and there just wasn\'t a good enough reason to say no."

Meanwhile, Martin has previously admitted it would be a struggle to get \'Men Behaving Badly\' - which ran from 1992 until 1998 - made in 2019 in the current TV landscape.

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He quipped: "These days, it\'d have to be \'People of No Particular Gender Behaving Badly\'."

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