Ed Sheeran's TV show cancelled post 1st season

Ed Sheeran's fiction drama television series 'The Bastard Executioner' has been axed after just one season.

Screenwriter Kurt Sutter, who cast Ed as Sir Cormac in the show, revealed that the show had lost more than half of its audience during its first six weeks on the air, due to which he had to pull the plug, Channel24 reports.

In an advertisement in a magazine, Kurt said that the audience had spoken and unfortunately the word was 'meh,' adding "so with due respect, we bring our mythology to an epic and fiery close.