Changing Rooms is being dropped by Channel 4 after just two restarted series amid falling ratings, it has been claimed.
The home décor show returned with two series last year after its smash success on the BBC in the 1990s.
However, it failed to impress TV bosses when the expected number of viewers couldn’t tune in..
Make up? Changing Rooms is being phased out by Channel 4 after just two series restarted amid falling ratings, it has been claimed (presenters Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen and Anna Richardson pictured)
A TV source said Sun: ‘Changing Rooms has been dropped by Channel 4 and will not return for a third series.
‘It’s a blow to everyone who worked on the restart. He put a lot of passion into making the first two series, but it didn’t turn out like that.
“The ratings were lackluster, and while the show was fun and upbeat, it didn’t seem to grab the audience the way it used to.
A Channel 4 spokesperson told MailOnline: ‘Laurence is returning later this year in Outrageous Homes with Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen, so she won’t be off our screens for long!
Return: The home decor show returned for two series last year after its smash success on the BBC in the ’90s. [pictured is one of the makeovers]
Back Then: Original host Carol Smilie notably wasn’t asked to return, even taking to social media to like a series of tweets from fans lamenting her absence from the reboot. [pictured in 2000]
“We are extremely proud of our Changing Rooms reboot and would like to thank everyone involved with the series.”
The first episode of the reboot series. it drew just 1.3 million viewers, down from 11 million at its peak.
The show regularly drew an audience of 11 million and reached a high ratings in December 1999, when it drew nearly 12 million viewers.
The show returned to the screens last summer, with Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen co-hosting the show alongside Anna Richardson.
Notably, original host Carol Smilie was not asked to return, even taking to social media to like a series of tweets from fans lamenting her absence from the reboot.
Unpleasant! Carol’s original co-star Laurence expressed her relief that Carol was not involved.
After the show aired in August, the Scottish star, 59, took to Twitter for messages from fans who admitted it was “a shame” she didn’t appear on the show, while also noting a message from Anna. , who called her ‘an icon and mentor’.
Carol hosted the hugely popular show from 1996 to 2003, while Laurence graduated from designer to host until the show’s end in 2004. He is the only cast member to have been asked to return.
Tweets from fans read: ‘Hi @carolsmillie1 you were great on the show, shame you don’t xx… I don’t know but I’m upset @carolsmillie1 wasn’t there.’
She also liked an awesome message of support from new host Anna saying Carol is my icon and mentor!!! Brilliant presenter.
Laurence spoke to The Sun about the prospect of Carol’s return ahead of the show’s relaunch.
Like: After the show aired, Carol, 59, took to Twitter for messages from fans who admitted it was “a shame” she didn’t appear on the show, while also highlighting a message from Anna , who called her ‘an icon and mentor’
Asked if he would like to see her return, the flamboyant star said: “No, and honestly what the producers and Channel 4 have done is really very smart…
“They’ve moved on and it wouldn’t have worked if it had been Jurassic Park, it had to be a reimagining. And to be fair, I resisted for a long time. I was very interested that they should really look at possibilities with other people.
“Otherwise it would just be a revival, actually it always had to be a reboot.”
Now: Carol hosted the hugely popular show from 1996 to 2003, while Laurence graduated from designer to host until the show’s end in 2004. He’s the only cast member ever asked to return. [Carol is pictured in June]
Back then: In August 2021, Carol said she would be open to returning to Changing Rooms, telling The Sun: ‘It was definitely the favorite show of my career, hands down. It would be the only program in which he would return to TV’ (the team represented at the height of the program)
In August 2021, Carol said she would be willing to return to Locker Rooms and told her Sun: ‘It was definitely the favorite show of my career, hands down. It would be the only program for which he would return to TV.
In a 2017 interview for the Daily Mail’s Weekend magazine, Scottish television personality Carol described the show as “the best television experience in [her] race’.
She said: “In 1996, I was the original presenter of BBC2’s Changing Rooms – it was one of the first reality shows and has been credited with starting the DIY craze of the late ’90s.”
“It was the best television experience of my career – we were a happy bunch who started it naive but ended up as household names with a BAFTA nomination and invitations to both Downing Street and Buckingham Palace.
It was the stuff of dreams, and all to watch the paint dry!
Wanted: The show regularly drew audiences of 11 million and reached a ratings high in December 1999, when it drew nearly 12 million viewers.