{"id":333746,"date":"2011-03-24T02:15:55","date_gmt":"2011-03-24T02:15:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/03\/24\/vanessa-feltzs-show-facing-axe-as-viewing-figures-continue-to-drop\/"},"modified":"2011-03-24T02:15:55","modified_gmt":"2011-03-24T02:15:55","slug":"vanessa-feltzs-show-facing-axe-as-viewing-figures-continue-to-drop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/24\/vanessa-feltzs-show-facing-axe-as-viewing-figures-continue-to-drop\/","title":{"rendered":"Vanessa Feltz&#8217;s show &#8216;facing axe&#8217; as viewing figures continue to drop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div readability=\"88.5\">\n<!-- google_ad_section_start(name=s2) --><\/p>\n<p>\nBy<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/home\/search.html?s=y&#038;authornamef=Paul+Revoir\" rel=\"nofollow\">Paul Revoir<\/a><br \/>Last updated at 2:15 AM on 24th March 2011<\/p>\n<p>Vanessa Feltz&#8217;s new Channel Five show could be axed as viewing figures for the programme continue to disappoint.<\/p>\n<p>Last night TV insiders claimed channel chiefs were considering the future of the series after the it failed to capture the public imagination.<\/p>\n<p>The larger-than-life presenter made her daytime TV comeback on January 11 with The Vanessa Show and drew in 170,000 viewers for the first show. <\/p>\n<div readability=\"7\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/d1b51693191_468x599.jpg.jpg\" width=\"468\" height=\"599\" alt=\"Struggling: Vanessa Feltz's Channel 5 show has failed to attract big ratingsStruggling: Vanessa Feltz's Channel 5 show has failed to attract big ratings\" class=\"blkBorder\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Struggling: Vanessa Feltz&#8217;s Channel 5 show has failed to attract big ratings<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Yesterday&#8217;s outing got an audience of 140,000, but one episode saw figures fall to just 60,000.<\/p>\n<p>It was recently moved to a new 2.15pm slot to follow Home and Away and Neighbours, but it has still failed to take off.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>One television critic recently suggested, the decision to have Vanessa&#8217;s fianc\u00e9, singer, Ben Ofoedu as co-host may be to blame.<\/p>\n<p>Five had high hopes for the show, which it dubbed &#8216;the most promising new show in daytime television&#8217;.<\/p>\n<div readability=\"7\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/4f1e531f174_468x286.jpg.jpg\" width=\"468\" height=\"286\" alt=\"Celebrity guests: Stars such as Myleene Klass have failed to pull in more viewers\" class=\"blkBorder\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Celebrity guests: Stars such as Myleene Klass have failed to pull in more viewers<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>It also features Vanessa&#8217;s fianc\u00e9, singer Ben Ofoedu, who acts as the show&#8217;s roving reporter.<\/p>\n<p>It was meant to be Vanessa&#8217;s big TV comeback after the show was axed in 1999 when it was unable to recover from the scandal surrounding its fake guests.<\/p>\n<p>It was revealed that some of the guests were actually actors but despite having no involvement in booking them, Vanessa got the blame and the show was cancelled.<\/p>\n<p>Vanessa at least has something else to fall back on having taken over\u00a0 from Sarah Kennedy in her new early morning Radio 2 show.<\/p>\n<p>Channel Five denied the show had been axed.<\/p>\n<p><!-- google_ad_section_end(name=s2) --><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/d1b51693191_468x599.jpg-150x150.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Go here to see the original:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/tvshowbiz\/article-1369392\/Vanessa-Feltzs-facing-axe-viewing-figures-continue-drop.html?ITO=1490\" title=\"Vanessa Feltz's show 'facing axe' as viewing figures continue to drop\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Vanessa Feltz&#8217;s show &#8216;facing axe&#8217; as viewing figures continue to drop<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> By Paul Revoir Last updated at 2:15 AM on 24th March 2011 Vanessa Feltz&#8217;s new Channel Five show could be axed as viewing figures for the programme continue to disappoint. Last night TV insiders claimed channel chiefs were considering the future of the series after the it failed to capture the public imagination. The larger-than-life presenter made her daytime TV comeback on January 11 with The Vanessa Show and drew in 170,000 viewers for the first show. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-333746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Vanessa Feltz&#039;s show &#039;facing axe&#039; as viewing figures continue to drop - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/24\/vanessa-feltzs-show-facing-axe-as-viewing-figures-continue-to-drop\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Vanessa Feltz&#039;s show &#039;facing axe&#039; as viewing figures continue to drop - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"By Paul Revoir Last updated at 2:15 AM on 24th March 2011 Vanessa Feltz&#039;s new Channel Five show could be axed as viewing figures for the programme continue to disappoint. 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