Updated: December 14, 2005 14:46   

(The Stage and Television Today)

Viewers demand return of Interceptor

INTERCEPTOR, Thames Television's adventure game show starring Annabel Croft, may win a last minute reprieve following demands from the public that there should be a second series.

The final programme had been postponed until Christmas but a recent Oracle telephone poll produced a flood of calls from nearly 13,000 viewers calling on Thames not to axe the show.

Chatsworth Television, the production company responsible for Interceptor, is now back in negotiations with Thames to decide the programme's fate.

A spokesman told The Stage and Television Today that "the writing was on the wall that the series would get the chop", but the situation now looks set to change following the Oracle survey and a reported one million rise in viewing figures to over 8 million for the last show to be televised.

Oracle's Neil Churchman said the survey was the first of its kind ever carried out by the company on a television programme and followed a host of letters from viewers asking about the programme's future.

"I am amazed as it was a fairly high figure for any poll. This shows that Thames would be ill-advised not to bring the Interceptor back", he told the The Stage

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