Netflix axed Hard Cell without telling me says Catherine Tate
- Netflix cancelled Catherine Tate's prison mockumentary Hard Cell, without telling her the comedian has revealed
- Tate, who has just returned to screens in the BBC sitcom Queen Of Oz about a dissolute princess banished to Australia, says that "Netflix never actually told me ... I've never had the call"
- She complained to Zoe Ball on her Radio 2 Breakfast Show: "Isn't it just rude? I heard from someone else's agent ... Isn't that awful?"
Netflix axed Catherine Tate's prison comedy Hard Cell without telling her, the comedian has revealed.
The mockumentary, in which Tate played a range of characters, ran for six episodes on the streamer last year but was critically panned.
And Tate, whose latest sitcom, Queen Of Oz debuted on BBC One last night to similarly lacklustre notices, told Zoe Ball on her BBC Radio 2 Breakfast Show yesterday that she only discovered Hard Cell would not be getting a second series through the grapevine.
"Netflix never actually told me" she recalled. "I've never had the call to say ... nothing.
"Isn't it just rude? I heard from someone else's agent. That was nice. Isn't that awful?"
A spokesperson for Netflix confirmed Hard Cell's cancellation to British Comedy Guide but declined to comment further.
Tate co-wrote, co-directed and produced the series for Leopard Pictures (Worzel Gummidge) and played six characters in the show, including prison governor Laura, guard Marco and feared alpha female con Big Viv. The supporting cast included co-writer Niky Wardley (Catherine Tate's Nan), Christian Brassington (Semi-Detached) and Lorna Brown (The Catherine Tate Show).