The Great Indoors won't be going out any more...

Stephen Fry’s American comedy series The Great Indoors has been cancelled.

Fry played the old-school patriarch of an adventure travel magazine, with Community’s Joel McHale as a renowned reporter who becomes a desk-bound boss to millennials trying to take the publication into a digital future.

The sitcom launched in October with almost 9 million viewers, but slumped to 4 million his week, when the CBS moved it from Monday to Thursday, where it had been inheriting a strong audience from Big Bang Theory.

ITV2 had bought the rights to broadcast The Great Indoors in the UK, and has been airing it at 9.30pm on Mondays.

Here is our review of the first episode.

In other news from the upfronts week in American TV, where the fate of many programmes are sealed:

• Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Andy Samberg’s ensemble cop comedy that’s a staple of E4 in the UK, has been renewed for a fifth season by  Fox

• And 2 Broke Girls, starring  Kat Dennings and Beth Behrs as waitresses who dreamt of opening their own business, has been cancelled by CBS after six seasons

Published: 14 May 2017