The Completely Made-Up Adventures Of Dick Turpin was Apple TV+'s high jinks vehicle for the very best of British comedy talent, but there's nothing whimsical about the series coming to a clattering halt this week.

The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin is not Apple TV+’s first cancellation, but news of the streamer’s cancelled shows doesn’t come with anything like the regularity of Netflix’s culling sprees. That’s in part because Apple TV+ commissions far fewer shows in the first place.

Season 2 of The Completely Made-Up Adventures Of Dick Turpin has been scrapped after Noel Fielding reportedly pulled out more than halfway through the shoot. The Apple TV+ comedy was reportedly left with no other option after the lead actor “failed to come to work” following the Christmas break,