Drag Race UK is leaving the BBC aft 8 series, the broadcaster has confirmed.
A spokesperson for the transmission said it was facing "very hard choices" successful the look of "significant fiscal pressures".
The show, presented by RuPaul, is presently broadcast connected BBC Three and iPlayer. Future bid - arsenic good arsenic its spin-off vs The World - volition beryllium broadcast connected Wow Presents Plus, a streaming level owned by the accumulation institution down the show.
At its peak, the UK mentation of the planetary resistance contention averaged astatine astir 1.5 cardinal viewers per episode.
A spokesperson for the BBC said it was "proud [...] of this groundbreaking show" and thanked "RuPaul, World of wonderment and everyone involved, some connected and disconnected screen."
Started successful 2019, Drag Race UK brought British resistance into mainstream amusement successful the UK, and has made household names of resistance performers specified arsenic Danny Beard, La Voix and Tia Kofi.
The amusement sees resistance queens vie successful a bid of challenges to impressment judges Ru Paul, Michelle Visage, Graham Norton and Alan Carr, and often features large sanction personage impermanent judges.
Its go a staple of LGBTQ+ civilization and has been praised for its portrayal of the chiseled benignant of British drag.
The determination comes arsenic the corp is trying to marque £500m of savings, with director-general Matt Brittin antecedently telling unit "the standard of savings requires pugnacious choices."
A BBC Spokesperson said: "As the BBC continues to navigate important fiscal pressures and present the savings required of us, we person had to marque immoderate precise hard choices, nary of which person been taken lightly."
Announcing the quality connected Instagram, Wow Presents Plus said a "new era" of Drag Race UK was connected the way.
A caller series, Drag Race UK All Stars, which sees erstwhile fan-favourites instrumentality to vie again, volition premier successful Autumn 2027 exclusively connected Wow Presents Plus.
BBC News understands the existent bid of Drag Race UK, which launched successful September 2026, volition proceed to aerial arsenic mean connected BBC Three and look connected iPlayer, and each existing bid volition proceed to beryllium disposable erstwhile the determination is complete.
The BBC declined to remark connected whether aboriginal bid of different planetary versions of the show, including Drag Race Canada and Drag Race Down Under would proceed to air.
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