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Katie Price’s Mucky Mansion TV show facing the axe after two series
KATIE Price’s Mucky Mansion series on Channel 4 is facing the axe, The Sun can reveal.
The broadcaster has failed to snap up a third series after the show lost 300,000 viewers - leaving the reality star's future up in the air.
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Seven episodes have already aired showing her get to work on renovating her crumbling mansion to turn it into her dream family home.
The property has some major ups and downs. In 2020, the mansion fell into disrepair after intruders ransacked it and caused damage throughout the home.
Katie was followed by TV crews as she embarked on reviving her "ruined" home, which she bought for £1.3million in 2014
It is now thought to be worth more than £3m after a collapsed ceiling and flooded kitchen were fixed.
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The broadcaster has commissioned two series of the show and a third was planned to be aired next year.
But viewing figures for the second instalment have been poor compared to the first series.
Figures show that a total of around 900,000 people tuned into the first episode of series one of the fly-on-the-wall series when it was aired a year ago.
And that prompted Channel 4 to agree to take a second series of Katie Price’s Mucky Mansion.
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But viewing data has revealed that just 393,000 people tuned in live to see the first episode of the new series when it was screened weeks ago.
A telly insider revealed: “A third series was always in the pipeline because the first set of shows did pretty well.
“Now it seems that the novelty value of seeing inside Katie’s house has worn off and the numbers haven’t been great for series two.
“It looks like the programme has now run its course – certainly on Channel 4 as the execs aren’t too keen on a third run at the show at the moment.”
The total audience went up to 626,000 when people who recorded the show were included.
That placed the series at 30 in Channel 4’s most-watched shows of the week.
A Grand Designs repeat has one place above with 629,000 viewers. Gogglebox topped the charts with four million viewers.
And the episode on 7 March attracted 281,000 live viewers against a total eventual audience of 579,000.
However, Channel 4 put all the episodes on All4 in the first week of the series' release, which may be why the viewing figures dropped.
The production company behind the show could go ahead and make a third series - despite Channel 4's snub.
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The episodes could then be bought by another channel.
Channel 4 have been approached for comment.
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