Mark Wright's Hollywood Nights axed by ITV2

Mark Wright's Hollywood Nights axed by ITV2
Mark Wright's Hollywood Nights axed by ITV2 (Image credit: PA)

Former TOWIE star Mark Wright will not be given a second series of his new reality show Hollywood Nights, following a poor reception for the first series earlier this summer. The show, which followed Mark and his entourage of Essex friends having adventures and playing pranks around Los Angeles, was slammed by critics - and ITV2 boss Angela Jain has now admitted it was not a success. "We didn’t get the format right at the beginning," Jain said. "The first couple of episodes, I didn’t know what I was watching. "We love Mark Wright and will carry on working with him but there was never going to be another series of Hollywood Nights." Mark Wright quit The Only Way Is Essex last year to appear in I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out Of Here! in which he finished second. He has since gone on to co-host Take Me Out spin-off series The Gossip, as well as making Hollywood Nights. ITV2 chiefs also said they would not be making a second series of The Exclusives, the Apprentice-style reality show in which aspiring journalists competed to win a job at publishing company Bauer Media. "It was compared with The Apprentice and, quite rightly, it was said it wasn't as good as The Apprentice," Jain admitted.

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.