No more chat for Johnny Vaughan...

Presenter Johnny Vaughan's chat show could be dumped by BBC bosses. The TV host was signed up in a big-money deal to entice viewers to BBC3 when it launched six months ago. But the station's controller Stuart Murphy has now indicated the show may not return.

Vaughan, who made his reputation as one of Britain's brightest broadcasters on Channel 4's The Big Breakfast, is now working on a new show. Murphy said that the fate of the chat programme could depend on the success of his new production. 'We might continue to do this instead of the chat show,' he said. 'The new show is still being developed. It's live, where I think Johnny is strongest.'

Vaughan also starred in the sitcom 'Orrible, which many critics said lived up to its name. Dom Joly too has no plans to do another series of his BBC3 chat show.