<http://schema.org/articleBody>
"Will Mellor has admitted that he was disappointed with BBC Three for axing his series White Van Man. The actor told Digital Spy that he had started &amp;quot;to lose a bit of faith in the powers-that-be&amp;quot; following the show&amp;#039;s cancellation in April.  &amp;quot;I was so surprised - we were all expecting it [to get picked up],&amp;quot; he said. &amp;quot;The writer [Adrian Poynton] had been commissioned to write more scripts for the third series - we had it all story-lined and it was going to be a great series.&amp;quot; Mellor claimed that he still hears from White Van Man fans who are shocked by the show&amp;#039;s axing. &amp;quot;The response on Twitter and people meeting me in the street... they can&amp;#039;t believe it, because they got behind it,&amp;quot; he explained.  &amp;quot;It was repeated on BBC One and got a great audience. They say it was the highest-rated new comedy for BBC Three ever - bigger than Gavin &amp;amp; Stacey and all that, yet Gavin &amp;amp; Stacey got moved to BBC One and we get axed. &amp;quot;You don&amp;#039;t know why things happen, but they do. We did our job and the audience did their&amp;#039;s by watching it. When you tick all the boxes, you expect to be rewarded and instead we were cancelled. It&amp;#039;s disappointing and you start to lose a bit of faith in the powers-that-be - if we tick all the boxes and you still axe us, what are we supposed to do?&amp;quot; &amp;gt; BBC Three orders Batman Shootings documentary, new comedy series &amp;gt; The Fades axed by BBC Three after one series Mellor went on to blame the comedy&amp;#039;s cancellation on a regime change at BBC Three, with Zai Bennett replacing Danny Cohen as controller of the channel in late 2010. &amp;quot;Sometimes when you&amp;#039;ve got a new commissioner coming in, they want to bring their own stuff to the channel,&amp;quot; he suggested. &amp;quot;Our show was commissioned by Danny Cohen, who went to BBC One... so you can get caught in the middle of these little tug-of-wars of who owns what show and who gets the credit.&amp;quot; The second series of Will Mellor&amp;#039;s BBC One comedy In with the Flynns begins on Friday, August 17 at 9.30pm on BBC One. Watch a clip from series two of White Van Man below:      "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
<http://www.digitalspy.com/tv/news/a399138/will-mellor-on-white-van-man-axe-the-fans-cant-believe-it/>