Long-running TV series Last of the Summer Wine to end
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Last of The Summer wine is Axed
I'm not the biggest fan of the show but I accept it has an audience. My concern is it will be replaced with "Strictly Come Nose Picking" or some other low budget garbage.
I'm not the biggest fan of the show but I accept it has an audience. My concern is it will be replaced with "Strictly Come Nose Picking" or some other low budget garbage.
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If you watch early episodes from the 70's/80's the series wasnt full of farce like it is today, it had some really funny stories, and the 1984 Christmas special (although a bit farcical) is funny and warm at the same time.
It's best days are over, and I think it is fitting to end the series now while Peter Sallis and Jane Freeman (the only 2 original cast members left) are still here to give it a fond farewell.
It is about time that some "old timers" were brought back in BBC TV production to return the BBC to its glory days of comedy and drama.
Does anyone know how old Jane Freeman is? Apparantly she is also now confined to indoor scenes only due to this issue of actors over 80 being costly to insure for outdoor scenes.
I only though she was in her late 30's/early 40's when she started in LOSW.
Once he passes, I'm pretty sure LOSW would be cancelled anyway, and I don't think anybody wants it to end on that kind of 'downer' so they're getting out beforehand.
go to 6.25
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXoDj6y4X7o
I've not properly watched it for some time, but it's not what it was. Kathy Staff, Bill Owen and Thora Hird were irreplaceable.
It's a sad indictment of today's telly that the countryside is only ever seen on TV on a Sunday evening. The end of Summer Wine will be very noticeable for cutting back on the rural input to the BBC's schedule. Also worth noting is that there are hardly any programmes with an older cast.
It had long run its course, but its ending is quite epochal.
I agree with all this - When Bill Owen died I think they should have ended and if not then after both Thora Hird and Kathy Staff.
With Peter Sallis not being well - unable to see fully now as well I truly think this is the best time to end it
They should have stopped when 80% of the cast had snuffed it.
I have Watched it since I was a kid and even though I love the programme, it really ended when Compo died in 2000.
With Thora Hird and Gordon Wharmby dieing in 2003 and 2002, they should have ended the show in the last series with Bill Owen in it.
I have a couple of the DVD boxsets and I definitely intend to get the rest.
Early eighties to about 94 was the golden era. Sadly the ones since the millennium have been enjoyable, but a bit weak.
It was always built around the three main characters and just having lots of non connected scenes with different support characters, has never really worked.
Why Barry and Thelma seem to have a series of their own within the main one, I just don't know.
Unless they do Last of the Summer Wine the next generation, I guess they would have had to wrap it up sometime.
To all those smug gits gloating, prepare for utter garbage to replace it.
Actually at the time I thought that. Looking back though the Seymour era is the golden era, within the golden era for me.
I extend it a bit before because it included Wally. To go on after Nora Batty died , I agree was ridiculous.
I didn't like Auntie Wainwright initially, but she turned out to be a fantastic character.
Russ Abbot was really doing a rip off of Foggy, to be honest. Just ex spy, instead of ex army. I can see that the script writer realised, without the main three, it wasn't working and tried to recreate the three, but it wasn't the same.
Don't remember Billy, I stopped watching in the second half of the nineties and early 2000's.
Don't worry the BBC are planning to replace it with, "Chav's got talent init".
There are plenty of shows that are aimed at a wide range of ages, but so few aimed soley at the 'older generation' - it just seems sad that they are not catered for, when they form an increasing larger percent of the population.
Although I think it is right that Last of the Summer Wine is put to bed, I do hope that focus is given to the 'oldies' and that this isn't axed just to make way for more inanity aimed at younger viewers.
( as someone approaching 40, I wouldn't actually class myself as an oldie, but I know my mum & her friends want something more than they are currently getting)