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Ross Kemp has Channel 5 show visiting the world's most dangerous prisons axed amid row over costs
The star had been shooting his Ross Kemp: 72 Hours In... series which was set to see him go behind bars in some of South Americas most dangerous prisons.
However, despite already filming one episode in Colombia last year, the entire series has been scrapped amid a row over costs, with bosses at the channel reportedly unhappy at how expensive it was becoming to shoot. This was then compounded by a coup in Ecuador days before production was due to begin at a prison in the country, with an insider claiming the budget issues following this made it 'unrealistic to continue'. The series had been due to follow BAFTA award-winning documentary maker, actor and author behind bars in some of the world's most high-security, high-risk prisons housing gang leaders, serial killers, violent criminals, drug lords and mass murderers to discover first-hand what it's like to live life inside amongst society's most dangerous.
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