IT may not have ranked highly on the evening headlines last week, but the BBC’s decision to axe one of my favourite shows got me wondering what direction the corporation is heading in.

That show is BBC Three’s Being Human, which follows the trials and tribulations of a werewolf, ghost and vampire as they try to hold down normal lives, as you do.

Having watched every episode since its hour-long pilot show in 2008, I consider myself a huge fan of its dark, mysterious and often hilarious twists and turns, which makes it hard to understand how it isn’t worth at least another series.

Despite it receiving its death knell, station controller Zai Bennett says the channel remains committed to “breaking new shows and new talent”. Looking at some of its current offerings I dread to think what this could mean.

Can we expect them to flog more chav culture television, such as Sun, Sex and Suspicious Parents and its alcoholic teens and feckless elders or People Like Us and its wallto-wall simpletons?

I know the channel is aimed at a younger demographic, with a target audience of 16–34, but its current scheduling just seems to be targeting the mindless ‘yoof’.

I’m not an avid watcher of television but in my view it should provide some sort of creativity as a means of escape every now and again but the channel launched with the purpose of providing innovative content seems to be turning a blind eye to its own mission statement.

Even the news is delivered in a laughably dumbed down fashion, condensed into 60 seconds to allow just enough time to boil the kettle and ignore any mention of world affairs.

The channel has fed through the likes of Gavin and Stacey to its older and more respectable sibling BBC Two, while Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps proved popular and actually got better during its long run and the sadly axed fantasy horror The Fades hinted bright young things could deliver.

But going back to the supernatural Being Human, at least we have been promised an “apocalyptic end” as the central characters face a showdown with the Devil.

While saying his farewells, Rob Pursey, the show’s executive producer, spoke of creative freedom, which is probably something that will be missing from its successor.

Watch the video clip below for the trailer to the final series of Being Human.