ITV has cancelled its DCI Banks TV show after five seasons (series). Radio Times reports the fifth series will be the final outing. The program ends with the two-part finale, “Undertow, which will serve as the DCI Banks TV series finale.
Stephen Tompkins starred in the title role of ITV’s adaption Peter Robinson’s Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks book series. Andrea Lowe, Caroline Catz, Jack Deam, and Samuel Anderson also starred.
DCI Banks TV Series Cancelled After Five Seasons on ITV
Here is more, from Radio Times:
The broadcaster said that the fifth series, which aired earlier this year, will be its last.
“After five series, ITV has taken the decision not to recommission DCI Banks. We’re grateful to the production team at Left Bank Pictures for creating the world of DCI Banks and the actors Stephen Tompkinson, Andrea Lowe and Caroline Catz for the commitment and dedication they’ve shown to their roles.”
What do you think? Are you DCI Banks fan? Should ITV have cancelled or renewed it for a sixth season?
It is really a shame that a good series like DCI Banks would have to get cancelled. There are so little good shows left and they seem to keep cancelling the good ones! Are you planning on replacing it with something as good or better for a change!! I miss Lewis, Morse, and Miss Fisher so much and now Banks is going to be taken away! It’s not fair!!
Why cancel a perfectly wonderful show? The least ITV could do is give the audience a reason.
Here in the US I just finished series 5 on Hulu and went to Google to find out about series 6, only to discover ITV cancelled it! What an awful decision to leave viewers hanging like that! Just dreadful. It was a great show but to cancel with a cliff hanger like that – right in the middle of an investigation into a major character’s murder??? What nimwit made that decision? They should be fired.
Considering just how much dross we must endure on T.V. these days – Banks is way too good not to return. Just get it done ! I now live in the U.S. I am married to a U.S. citizen. She will only watch British police dramas like this/Midsommer murders/Inspector Morse/ Lewis etc. She says they have way more “class” and MUCH less violence than anything the U.S. has to offer !
This is one of the finest police shows on television. I applaud the British for making these and implore them to reconsider cancelling this intelligent and entertaining series. SO much better than anything the US produces.
loved the series please reconsider
I’m so disappointed I love this show ! Excellent British Mystery. One of the best. So I don’t understand it. In the States where I live this is common to cancel round five seasons/series. In the UK they go on so much longer, often times. Why can’t DCI BANKS also be one of those? This is definitely bad news.
Why? One of the best police programs on TV. I hope the powers that be will reconsider their decision and respect the program’s millions of fans. It’s a shame.
Say it isn’t so. We love the show!! I have read all the books and was ecstatic when the series first came on. Nothing has changed my mind. Please don’t cancel it!!
With 6 million viewers, why would you cancel this series? Great show.
Please bring it for another season, it’s so good 🙁
Please bring it back, one of the best detective shows on OPB here in Oregon, good character development, love the show, tell whoever bring it back!!!!
I can’t believe how devastated I was by Annie’s death. Finally, I thought, Banks and Annie will get together. Robinson’s most recent books deal with serious issues in England and would certainly be the basis for a season six.
Banks and Cabot are so perfectly cast, when I read the books, I imagine the actors playing these parts.
I love DCI Banks. Great acting by all the cast. Very disappointed that this series will not continue.
Have recently found out that DCI Banks is to be discontinued. This is a very big shame as it rrepresented all that is good about British Police TV series. I really feel that ITV should reconsider this decision.