Former EastEnders star Danny Dyer’s latest project has been axed after just one series.
The actor, 47, played Mick Carter on the BBC One soap until he was spectacularly killed off at Christmas 2022.
Following that he was cast as a fictional version of himself in BBC Two comedy Henpocalypse!
The six episode comedy, written by Caroline Moran, centred on a group of Birmingham women on a hen-do in remote North Wales when an apocalypse of crab measles threatened to wipe out human civilisation.
Danny’s role saw him appear in a series of dream sequences throughout the series. The first episode reached almost a million viewers, but that number dwindled across the run.
A spokesperson for the BBC confirmed to Metro.co.uk: ‘We are very proud of Henpocalypse! but in order to make room for new comedy shows sometimes difficult decisions have to be made and we currently have no plans for another series.’
At the time, Moran revealed that she had written Danny into the script before he even knew the project existed: ‘There’s only one Danny Dyer. He’s fantastic. He was everything and more than I could’ve hoped for’ she said.
‘I emailed him, begging, going, ‘You’re amazing, you’re a national treasure – what do you say?’ He was up for it.’
Sadly, a source has gone on to tell The Sun: ‘It just didn’t get the audience figures to justify it returning.’
In a recent chat with Metro, Danny expressed his interest in starting a production company to provide more job opportunities for working class actors.
‘I do want to potentially start my own production company, and I have a bit of a thing going on with the amount of working class people within the arts,’ he explained.
‘I found out that it’s about 6%, and that worries me. So, I would like to, if I could possibly give something back to this industry, because it’s done a lot for me, it would be to try and give some real working class kids hope and opportunity.’
He continued: ‘Classism is a thing. There’s a lot of “isms” in this world. Everyone experiences it at some point, but it shouldn’t define you. It should, if anything, spur you on, because, in my eyes, working class are the most talented people, because they’ve got the most trauma. It takes a bit of trauma to be creative!’
