BBC Confirm Axeing the show today

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BBC calls time on Last Of The Summer Wine

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Wednesday, 2 June 2010



Long-running TV series Last Of The Summer Wine is to be axed, the BBC announced today.

The series, which first launched in 1973 and has starred actors such as Bill Owen, Peter Sallis and Frank Thornton, will run for just one more series.

The BBC said it was "very tough to have to call time" on the show.

There had been speculation for many years that the show would be retired but it was continually recommissioned.
 
I have even heard it on the radio a few minutes ago in my car, I receive a British station or maybe it´s situated in Germany, but it´s British, and I couldn´t believe I was hearing this! It´s a shock to learn about it on your OWN radio or TV and not through this forum, it´s somehow more serious. That hit me hard! :'(
 
Well if the BBC do not want it how about another channel, it seems to me that Cheryl Taylor BBC Controller of comedy commissioning is not worthy of the post,as there is no decent comedy on the BBC any more,none that would appeal to many over the age of 25, that said I understand the BBC is run by teenagers these days,so what chance have we got and how bad will it get
 
utter madness pure and simple.

The BBC are a bunch of fools, so not even a special feature length farewell, just thrown away like an old tea bag, I can only say that I hope the stupid comedy controller loses her job, because surely there is no comedy on BBC, so it makes her redundant , No Extras, No Gavin and Stacey, Saxondale, Alan Partridge and now no Summer wine, seems like a boring job she has....
 
They just want change - i am told reality programmes are much cheaper. Summer Wine with all its outside shots was expensive, or so I am told.


We should press for a proper finale - one last episode of longer length that will enable the show to go out in a blaze of glory - not flutter out.

As said on another thread - it can not be a fitting end as the programmes have already been made and were made when the possibility of another series was still there.

Just do not believe the BBC suits words - sounds so hackneyed.

Come on Cleggy - give them a blast of homespun philosophy
 
Rob1969in said:
utter madness pure and simple.

The BBC are a bunch of fools, so not even a special feature length farewell, just thrown away like an old tea bag, I can only say that I hope the stupid comedy controller loses her job, because surely there is no comedy on BBC, so it makes her redundant , No Extras, No Gavin and Stacey, Saxondale, Alan Partridge and now no Summer wine, seems like a boring job she has....
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I think you misspelt 'Fools' ;).
But been serious for a moment I don't the BBC will even entertain the idea of a special.
They have had no decent comedy for a long time now, the station is now more like some cheap and tacky celebrity magazine you see on supermarket shelves, amybe the licence should be made from soft absorbent paper as that all it's about fit for.
I don't know what they class as comedy these days, but unless it's full of sexual inuendo or sick jokes they don't want to or cannot laugh at it.
I would like to see these so called 'comedians' make a show without any of these.
Don't get me wrong, I am very broad minded, but there are many that I don't find anywhere near amusing.
 
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