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Daisy May Cooper’s show Rain Dogs hasn’t got another season on the way (Picture: Brian J Ritchie/Hotsauce/REX/Shu)

The BBC have axed Daisy May Cooper’s drama Rain Dogs, it has been reported.

Starring the This Country comedy icon, 37, Jack Farthing, Ronke Adekoluejo, Adrian Edmondson and Fleur Tashjian, Rain Dogs first aired in March last year.

Now it looks as though season two of the BBC show isn’t on the cards, after we got to know writer Costello Jones (Daisy), her daughter Iris, and a privileged gay man called Selby in the drama, written by Cash Carraway.

Daisy, who has just welcomed her third child, is said to be ‘disappointed’ with the reported axe.

A source told The Sun: ‘It’s disappointing for Daisy as Rain Dogs was a good opportunity to make some inroads in the US. But unfortunately, it didn’t rate too well on both sides of the pond.

‘So the production company behind it, Sid Gentle, agreed with Cash it was time to move on. Some critics praised the writing but ultimately it just didn’t pull up any trees.’

Daisy welcomed her third child this week (Picture: daisymaycooper/Instagram)

Metro.co.uk understands that, while there is no second series planned for Rain Dogs, there is a second series of Am I Being Unreasonable? coming, starring Daisy.

The BBC is also talking to Cash about potential other future projects away from Rain Dogs.

The show has been pulled despite rave Rotten Tomatoes reviews for the series, with 93% on the Tomatometer and an audience score of 79%.

One review written by Dena M on Rotten Tomatoes said: ‘I loved this show and all of the characters! I love how I haven’t quite figured everything out, and I feel that the story hasn’t quite been told. I would love to see another season!’

Tansy S commented: ‘A show you can watch again and again and I cannot usually watch any series twice.

They added: ‘Hope there is a season 2, Daisy May Cooper needs to be in more stuff.’

Soop C wrote: ‘Didn’t expect it to be so good. Not even one single boring moment. It was a bit difficult to figure out their relationship in the first 2-3 episodes.

Daisy set the world of comedy alight when This Country aired in 2017 (Picture: Scott Garfitt/BAFTA via Getty Images)

‘There wasn’t any ‘explanation’ either. It would get you thinking and eventually you’d get it. What an engaging story!’

After her BBC debut in This Country – which she also co-wrote – Daisy’s follow up in twisted comedy Am I Being Unreasonable was also met with rave reviews.

Daisy’s big acting break came via mockumentary This Country, which followed Kerry (Daisy) and her cousin Kurtan (who is played by Daisy’s real life brother Charlie Cooper) as they kick around the Gloucestershire countryside living small town life.

This Country also starred Daisy and Charlie’s real life dad Paul Cooper, who played Kerry’s truly terrible fictitious father, Martin Mucklowe, in the series.

The news of Rain Dogs ending comes after Motherland fans were left devastated when it was announced in March the beloved sitcom would not be returning for another season.

The comedy series, starring Cunk On Earth’s Diane Morgan, followed the trials, tribulations, and generally cut-throat world of middle-class motherhood.

Diane said: ‘I hate to say it, because I still get women running up to me with prams in the street asking me when it’s coming back.’

Metro.co.uk has contacted the BBC and HBO for comment.

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