Graham Norton brands his flop ITV show The Neighbourhood 'disastrous' following its cancellation after just one series

Published: 07:14 EST, 10 November 2026 | Updated: 07:20 EST, 10 November 2026 Graham Norton has branded his flop show The Neighbourhood 'disastrous', after the programme's cancellation in August. Speaking on his Wanging On with Graham Norton and Maria McErlane, he detailed his feelings on the show - which he himself slammed. While discussing the prospect of Celebrity Traitors, he mused: 'I can't because I did my big disastrous ITV show last year', to which Maria exclaimed: 'It wasn't that disastrous! however he pushed: 'It really was.'He then joked that the show was 'not the biggest disaster ITV have ever had' - yet insisted The Neighbourhood 'was for a minute'. Graham did not specify what ITV's 'big disaster' was following The Neighbourhood. Daily Mail have contacted ITV and Graham for comment. It was revealed in August that the show was axed due to being panned by viewers and received poor ratings. ITV bosses even said they won't make a show like it again and will stick to tried and tested reality formats like Love Island and Big Brother. Graham Norton has branded his flop show The Neighbourhood 'disastrous', after the programme's cancellation in August He then joked that the show was 'not the biggest disaster ITV have ever had' - yet insisted The Neighbourhood 'was for a minute'The broadcaster's Entertainment Commissioning Editor Joe Mace said that ITV has 'learned lessons' from the TV flop, which aired earlier this year.Speaking at the Edinburgh TV festival, Joe said the show was an experiment that didn't work as they planned to leave it in the past.Joe said: 'We talk about taking risks and then we like to put it into action. As a format, people loved the idea of creating a neighbourhood where you were judging people and how they would behave as families…It had a lot of really good ITV ingredients.'One of the lessons we've learned from that is that people come to ITV for fast turnaround, live reality TV first and foremost. They've been served the best in those shows in Love Island and Big Brother and we should stick to that probably.'There's a lot of great post-produced reality TV out there, and that's perhaps not the lane ITV should be in. That's our ambition now.'An ITV Spokeswoman said: 'We're really proud of The Neighbourhood – it was big, bold and ambitious – and we'd like to thank everyone in front of and behind the camera for all of their hard work and dedication in launching the series. Unfortunately, it won't be returning for a new series currently.'With a glossy launch and an enormous marketing budget, it looked set to be Graham's starring primetime role. The broadcaster's Entertainment Commissioning Editor Joe Mace said that ITV has 'learned lessons' from the TV flop, which aired earlier this yearBut in an embarrassing U-turn, ITV relegated The Neighbourhood to the 'graveyard' slot mid-series, amid poor reviews and plummeting ratings.The programme, which was announced to great fanfare, was set to launch Graham on the channel and rival the BBC's popular The Traitors.However, it failed to get the curtains twitching, and ITV made the brutal decision to put the rest of the episodes straight onto its streaming platform ITVX and shift its slot on ITV1 from 9pm to 10.45pm, after the evening news.The launch attracted 1.2million viewers. However, by the third episode, just 500,000 tuned in.The series, which was Graham's first reality project, sees real life households compete in a series of games which ultimately culminates in the most popular family winning £250,000.