After the series finale a couple of weeks ago I was definitely in two minds about Cape Wrath. Was it a wolf in sheep’s clothing or was it just a dog in the manger seen in those blurry few seconds between waking and putting your glasses on? I’d stuck with it for its entire run, something most people can’t say, but in the end was it worth it?

Before we’ve hardly had chance to work out the answers to these admittedly rather rhetorical questions, the decision has been made for us. Channel 4 have dumped it. By part four the viewing figures had slumped to an alarming 4.9% audience share (less than a million). Presumably the figures for the final three episodes are either too embarrassing to reveal or too tiny to register. “Cape Wrath was a high concept, experimental drama which attracted a fantastic cast,” say Channel 4. Unfortunately it didn’t attract such a fantastic audience. They still have a “strong commitment to drama series” though, apparently. Which sadly isn’t the same thing as having a commitment to strong drama series. [via Waveguide]