HENPOCALYPSE: COMEDY AXED BY BBC AFTER ONE SERIES

The BBC have axed comedy Henpocalypse after one series. An insider told The Sun newspaper: "It just didn’t get the audience figures to justify it returning."

Written by Caroline Moran (Hullraisers, Raised by Wolves), the series is a high-energy comedy romp, through the eyes of five women on the ultimate hen weekend, which goes very wrong leaving them in the ultimate fight for survival.

When bridezilla-to-be Zara’s hen-do is interrupted by the end of the world, she and her four fellow working-class West Midlander best mates wait out the breakdown of human civilisation in an isolated holiday cottage in Wales.

Emerging from quarantine into the harsh new post-apocalyptic world, they find the male population has almost entirely wiped out and Britain is now a hellscape in which only the very fittest will survive. It’s inevitable on a hen do there’ll be fractious dynamics between friends so how will they come together to work out what to do with the male stripper, the only man who seems to have survived?

The cast included Elizabeth Berrington (The Responder, The Pact) who played Zara’s formidable mother Bernadette, Lucie Shorthouse (We Are Lady Parts) as demanding bride Zara, Callie Cooke (Cheaters, Peacock) as put upon chief bridesmaid Shelly and Lauren O’Rourke (White Gold, Drifters) as conspiracy theorist beautician Veena.

Henpocalypse is available now on BBC iPlayer.