Live from Studio Five axed for OK! TV replacement

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Live from Studio Five axed for OK! TV replacement
Live from Studio Five axed for OK! TV replacement (Image credit: PA Archive/Press Association Ima)

Five's daily magazine programme Live from Studio Five is being cancelled and replaced by OK! TV, a spin-off from the celebrity magazine. According to the BBC, the show which is hosted by Jayne Middlemiss and Kate Walsh, has seen ratings fall since it began in September 2009. Originally branded as a 'forthright and chatty' news magazine show, Live from Studio Five was hosted by Kate, former model Melinda Messenger and ex-footballer Ian Wright. Melinda quit the show last year while Ian's contract was not renewed following his complaints about halving the hour-long show's running time. According to overnight figures Live from Studio Five averaged just 300,000 viewers on Monday night. The decision to replace the show with OK! TV is part of a rebrand of the channel following Richard Desmond's takeover last July. Despite previously airing in 1999 and being axed after one series, OK! TV will now take its place on the channel from 14 February.

Patrick McLennan
Patrick McLennan

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 

An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.