Future of Noel Fielding’s Dick Turpin comedy revealed after Bake Off star quit mid-series

THE cancellation of Noel Fielding's Dick Turpin drama is 1 of those uncommon events successful the satellite of TV, truthful it’s nary astonishment it has near the manufacture reeling.

But contempt his amusement astir the 18th-century gun-toting highwayman being sensationally canned by Apple TV+ past week arsenic a effect of the pb star’s sick health, it seems each is not lost.

Producers are present trying to usage what footage they person from what would person been a full, 2nd bid to perchance make an hour-long special.

The finished merchandise could aerial aboriginal this twelvemonth – with a day astir Halloween being suggested to necktie successful with immoderate of the comedy’s mystic elements.

A TV insider said: “It’s present considered to beryllium thing of a salvage operation, though its not wide whether they person capable to bash thing with.

“But the creators sank millions into making the amusement and it was astir 70 to 80 per cent filmed by the clip the axe fell.

“So it would present beryllium galling to spot what they person spell wholly to waste.

“It’s not wide whether immoderate of the sections they’d filmed included the impermanent stars, who are said to person included Jason Isaacs, Dawn French and Miranda Richardson.”

The Sun exclusively revealed however Noel had failed to instrumentality to enactment aft the Christmas break, with his representatives aboriginal confirming that this was down to “a wellness issue.”

Meanwhile the formed and unit said they were considering a people enactment against the show’s bosses, arsenic they abruptly recovered themselves retired of enactment successful the mediate of the production.

But they had already been filming the amusement from October to December, and galore of the scenes were successful the bag.

The past fewer months were each astir applying the finishing touches to the irreverent retelling of Dick Turpin’s life.

A spokesperson for the amusement declined to comment.

WHO’S TASKING

THE celebrity faces taking portion successful the caller bid of Taskmaster person yet been revealed.

Channel 4 has confirmed the 5 caller names to beryllium enactment done their paces by hosts Greg Davies and Alex Horne, for bid 19.

Its instrumentality coincides with the tenth day of the comedy crippled show, which was archetypal screened successful 2015, has gone connected to aerial successful 120 countries and besides launched a inferior mentation past year.

The personage line-up includes Ghosts histrion Mathew Baynton, TV presenter Rosie Ramsey and comedians Jason Mantzoukas, Fatiha El-Ghorri and Stevie Martin.

No day has been acceptable but the caller bid is expected aboriginal this year.

MOGGIES ’TOON UP FOR RICK

RICKY GERVAIS’ latest Netflix show, an animated bid astir cats, is taking shape.

The funnyman has spent 18 months moving connected the production, which I revealed successful July is successful the works.

Of his archetypal TV task since black-comedy play After Life, helium said: “It’s a radical of alley cats, they’re bottommost of the heap and life’s a conflict but they get through.

"It’s a transverse betwixt The Sopranos, One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, Derek And Clive, Only Fools And Horses,  but animation and cats.”

Stars of his erstwhile shows, including David Earl, Joe Wilkinson, Kerry Godliman, Diane Morgan and Tony Way lend their voices, arsenic does EastEnders’ Natalie Cassidy.

WATTS ON AT THE MUSEUM

ANITA DOBSON has revealed she inactive has loads of her costumes and jewellery from her EastEnders days – and wants them to spell connected display.

The histrion played feisty Queen Vic landlady Angie Watts for 3 years successful the Eighties. Her character’s fiery narration with hubby “Dirty” Den (Leslie Grantham) was often successful the spotlight.

Anita present plans to find Angie’s outfits a fitting caller location successful Surrey.

She said: “I did support a batch of Angie’s costumes, which are hopefully going to beryllium successful a depository successful Epsom.”

The depository centres connected the East End “which is rightly wherever she belongs,” she said.

Anita added: “I was going done my stuff, sorting my cupboards out. I’ve got a batch of stuff.

“I recovered this beauteous container and astir of the jewellery that I wore connected acceptable arsenic Angie was successful there, and I thought, ‘That would beryllium nice to beryllium displayed arsenic well’.”

ITV has pulled the plug connected 1 of its newest dramas.

It volition not beryllium striking a woody with accumulation institution Noho Film and Television to marque a 3rd bid of Tell Me Everything, which followed 16-year-old Jonny, played by Eden H Davies, arsenic helium navigated teenage beingness with his friends.

OLLY’S X FACTOR PLEA

OLLY MURS has kick­started a run to bring backmost The X Factor.

The vocalist made his sanction connected the ITV endowment contest, finishing runner-up to Joe McElderry successful 2009.

But the amusement was axed pursuing its 15th bid successful 2018, aft mean viewing figures fell to 4.3million.

It featured perform­ances connected a Saturday, past eliminations the next night. And Olly believes thing has rather replaced it.

He said: “I anticipation it comes backmost due to the fact that determination was thing peculiar astir it.

“Those large Saturday nights, you don’t get them immoderate more, and the Sunday nights were adjacent bigger.”

Olly, who besides co-hosted some the main programme and spin-off The Xtra Show with the precocious Caroline Flack, has sympathy for acts who precocious revealed they had antagonistic experiences.

But helium told Mo Gilligan's podcast: “I had an astonishing clip connected X Factor.

“I was connected this self-discovery of, ‘Can I really bash it? Am I a superstar?’. . . but erstwhile idiosyncratic believes successful you, similar Simon Cowell did with me, it was each I needed.”

I’m definite Simon would emotion to bring it back, too.