[Neil Jones]

Was Strike It Rich axed in the end? MB had other newer shows going (My Kind Of Music, Funniest Things etc, Bob Martin) which bound to have taken up a lot of time but Barrymore came back in 2000 for one final series.

The final series of Strike It Rich aired in 1999, but there was no indication it was the end (unlike what happened in 1992 when Thames lost their licence, though we know now it carried on).

I always presumed ITV decided they'd had enough of it (or it had dropped in the ratings), after all by that point it had been on the air for 13 series worth, and nothing lasts forever.

Though of course Barrymore had other work, and as things panned out if SiR/SiL had still been on the air two years later, it wouldn't have survived (not with him as host anyway)...