BBC One has confirmed that The Crimson Field will not be returning for a second series.

Creator and writer Sarah Phelps revealed on Twitter: “Found out today that #TheCrimsonField won’t be recommissioned by @BBCOne Gutted doesn’t even touch the sides of how I feel.”

Starring Oona Chaplin, Hermione Norris and Suranne Jones, the World War I drama launched on BBC One in April and followed the lives of a team of doctors, nurses and women volunteers who work together in a tented field hospital healing the bodies and souls of men wounded in the trenches.

A BBC statement reads: “The Crimson Field was our landmark drama series that launched the start of the BBC’s World War One coverage. We are very proud of The Crimson Field and are hugely grateful to all those who worked so hard on it.”

They explained: “However in order to create space for new shows and to keep increasing the variety of BBC1 drama it will not be returning for a second series. Coming up this Autumn on BBC1 further WW1 drama content includes The Passing Bells and War Poems.”

Actress Oona Chaplin commented in April: “I am sorry, but seven million viewers for The Crimson Field and the BBC still cannot tell us if we are recommissioned or not. The way these things are financed are so bloody complicated and ridiculous if you ask me. I am sure it must make sense for someone.”

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