BBC viewers furious as beloved drama axed despite huge ratings

BBC viewers fumed as a huge show has been axed after two seasons (Image: BBC) BBC viewers have fumed after learning a major TV show has been axed after two seasons - despite its impressive ratings. Max bosses recently announced that Tokyo Vice won't be returning for a third series. The crime drama show follows American investigative journalist, Jake Adelstein, who relocates to Tokyo and secures a job at a major Japanese newspaper, becoming their first foreign journalist.

Adelstein is taken under the wing of veteran detective Hiroto Katagiri and dives into the dark world of the yakuza - organised crime syndicates in Japan. function loadOvpScript(){let el=document.createElement('script');el.

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