Overview
- ITV confirmed the series will not be recommissioned and thanked the cast and crew for their work while making the full box set available on its streaming service ITVX.
- The show launched in April with heavy promotion but saw viewers fall from about 1.2 million at the premiere to roughly 500,000 by the third episode, prompting ITV to move later episodes to a late ITV1 slot and to ITVX.
- Executives, including Entertainment Commissioning Editor Joe Mace at the Edinburgh TV Festival, said the format 'didn't work' as planned and that the network has learned lessons from the failure.
- The Neighbourhood was a costly, post‑produced experiment produced by Lifted Entertainment that pitched six real households living at Darwin Lake in the Peak District to compete for a £250,000 prize.
- Insiders and spokespeople reported the series performed better on ITVX than on linear TV, but that streaming gains were insufficient to save the show and have led ITV to prioritise live formats such as Love Island and Big Brother.