Chef Nigella Lawson's TV show 'The Taste' to be cancelled

Chef Nigella Lawson's TV show 'The Taste' will be facing the axe, it has been revealed.

American network ABC had been said to ditch 'The Taste' after ratings halved from 5.8million an episode to 2.6 million, the Daily Star reported.

The news came two years after 55-year-old unveiled the show in a blaze of publicity and just months after Channel 4 declined to order a second series of the UK Taste.

It lasted just one series on British TV after viewers branded the programme "boring" and "flat".