The Completely Made-Up Adventures Of Dick Turpin was Apple TV+’s high jinks vehicle for the very best of British comedy talent, but there’s nothing whimsical about the series coming to a clattering halt this week.

The news follows a report by British tabloid The Sun that titular star Noel Fielding pulled out three-quarters of the way through the shoot.

The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin is not Apple TV+’s first cancellation, but news of the streamer’s cancelled shows doesn’t come with anything like the regularity of Netflix’s culling sprees. That’s in part because Apple TV+ commissions far fewer shows in the first place.

The Completely Made-Up Adventures Of Dick Turpin's Season 2 shoot has been shut down after Noel Fielding pulled out of the Apple TV+ comedy.

Apple TV+ series "The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin," which stars Noel Fielding as the infamous highway bandit, has shut down in the middle of shooting Season 2, Variety has confirmed.

Such is the case with The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin. This was a whimsical and off-beat comedy series that debuted on Apple TV+ early last year, based on the overblown stories of an 18th-century highwayman who may not have existed (hence the title of the series).

Season 2 of Noel Fielding‘s Apple TV+ comedy The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin reportedly won’t ever see the light of day — because they won’t actually be finishing it. The Sun was first to report that Fielding “failed to come to work” after production was paused over Christmas,