I note that Footballers’ Wives has been axed. Good. But there’s a great bit of doublespeak in what’s obviously a re-worked press release:

Eileen Gallagher, the managing director of Shed Productions, which makes Footballers’ Wives, said the decision to ditch the show had been taken jointly with the ITV director of drama, Nick Elliott.

Jointly hey? Yup, I’m sure Shed were sitting there thinking “this show has run its course, and if ITV were to ask us for another series, we couldn’t deliver creatively and would just say no.” Methinks that it works slightly differently to that.
In other news, Commander in Chief has been pulled. Read more about it here. I would, however, disagree with Broadcastnow’s description of the show as “controversial”. No it wasn’t – I think a black president on 24 was probably more “contraversial” than Geena Davis’ portrayal. And neither is an accurate description.