Mumbai Calling - 'Grade cancels comedy series'

A darling Arcatiste within the bowels of ITV tells me that the broadcaster has cancelled comedy series Mumbai Calling. This may come as a surprise to the  show's production company Allan McKeown Presents which on its website reports, "Peter Fincham (programming chief at ITV) will decide on a second series by the end of July."

Alas, ITV boss Michael Grade has already axed it, apparently. He'd always hated the series, my mole tells me, and had allowed its debut series to colllect dust on the shelf for two years before reluctantly screening it as a cost saver.

Mumbai Calling sought in vain to raise a giggle from "troublesome turbans and coffee conundrums" at a call centre based in India. It featured accents.