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So all this love and devotion aimed at this show by the ±«Óãtv and yet the ±«Óãtv decide to axe it,yes that really makes sense, to me it all sounds like lip service,you know the sort of thing,you have all done very well,but your fired
The ±«Óãtv did not even do the decent think and send the show off into the sunset with a special to end it all,what a great picture,take a good look as you will not find all this talent is one place ever again, the ±«Óãtv don't deserve them,God Bless you all,Terry

I have to agree. The ±«Óãtv talks about how the show is so beloved, and how the head of comedy is talking about how it was sad and all of that. If that is the case, why was there so much flip-flopping about how the show would end? How come the secrecy of the show being ended and letting the public know at the final episode. If Last of the Summer Wine is as beloved by the people at the ±«Óãtv as much as it is with the fans of the show as well as the cast and crew, please send off this monumental show with one or two special episodes that wrap up the show. It deserves that. This is just my opinion as a 36 year old from the US that loves this fine show.

Yes, is it not all sheer cant and humbug by these high heid yins from the ±«Óãtv, the Broken Broadcasting Company.

Sadly the genius of Roy Clarke might not be with us for much longer. He is eighty, after all. An enlightened organisation would have utilised that genius for as long as it is available. But the once great ±«Óãtv gave up on enlightenment years ago. It now peddles in bad language, slime and innuendo, blue tastelessness, cynicism and calls it humour.

The way the ±«Óãtv have treated this show is shocking.
Not enough smut in it or anyway of making money via telephone votes.
The end of an era and 6 episode finish? You must be joking.

Shame on Jay Hunt and the ±«Óãtv

Nice to see the cast together again. Most of them are there, anyway.

A shame there won't be a one-off final episode.

Mark F - buttoned flies are the way forward.

Sounds very sad that did not quite make it to a round 300 episodes.

A grand finale - in the style of some of the older longer Christmas episodes of the late 1980s - would have been a welcome touch and would have been a really tremendous send off for what is a dearly loved institution.

However the blog entry does seem at variance to attitude expressed generally by ±«Óãtv to the show. With less than half the episodes out on DVD many are going to be deprived of a fine cadre of comedy.

RT

I am most certainly not in the stereotypical audience of this show, I am a fifteen year old lad who cherishes this show. I have been privileged enough to be given the opportunity to visit the set of 'Summer Wine' for the past five years. The humour, laughter and scenery gathered on these experiences will stay with me forever. For this opportunity I am to thank the shows fantastic Director Alan J.W. Bell. Yet really, it is everyone whom made this special from Toby to Simone they were always accommodating (even if we sometimes were in the way ;D) So, to view these photos does bring a lump to my throat - just think those fantastic actors will probably never be in the same place again :(. It is rather ironic that in these blogs, ±«Óãtv bosses talk of how great the show is, and how they are indebted to it, well why axe it you...silly people :).
Anyhow, Thank you Roy, Alan, Peter, Bill, Jane, Frank, Robert, Brian, Michael, Jean, Burt.. The list is endless, but this daft little show is so special and we should enjoy what we have. So I ask you, please raise a glass to 'Last of the Summer Wine'!

Best Wishes,
Rhys Thompson.

DEAR MR. MARK FREELAND;
TELL ROY CLARKE IN SO SORRY TO HEAR OF THIS. LOTSW SAVED MY LIFE(IM NOT KIDDING SIR).ASK ROY IF HE GOT THE BOOK I SENT HIM (EXPRESSION DONE BY OLYMPIA PUBLISHERS)TEN YEARS AGO I WAS LAYING IN MY DEATH BED JUST WAITING TO DIE WHEN MY PRETTY WIFE PUT ON THE SHOW (LOTSW). EVENTHOU I STILL HAVE TWO DEADLY FORMS OF CANCER AND HAVE ALREADY DIED TWICE(FOR MORE THEN 8 MIN.
EACH)I HAVE SURPRISED ALL THE DOCTORS TO THE POINT THAT THEY CANT BELIEVE IM STILL ALIVE.THEY HAVE PUT ME IN SOME KIND OF MEDICAL BOOK ,I WAS JUST TOLD.I TELL THEM I HAVE LAUGHED MYSELF TO A BETTER HEALTH FROM WATCHING THE GREATEST COMEDY EVER ON TV.THEY ASK WHICH ONE ,AND I TELL THEM (MY BUDDYS SHOW LAST OF THE SUMMER WINE) (((NOW))) LOTSW IS ONE OF THE PRESCRIPTIONS MADE OUT BY DOCTORS,FOR CANCER PATENTS TO WATCH HERE.
ALSO PLEASE ASK ROY TO CONTACT ME WHEN HE GETS CHANCE. IM BACK TO WRITING ,BUT I STILL NEED A AGENT.FOX STUDIOS WONT EXCEPT THE STORYS NOW UNLESS A AGENT HANDS THEM IN. MILLIONS LOVE ROY ,THE CAST ,THE CREW ,AND EVRYONE THAT HAS TO DO WITH THE SHOW. LUCY IS MISSED,OPEN ALL HOURS IS CLOSED,BUT LAST OF THE SUMMER WINE WILL NEVER GET SOUR. TO ALL OF SUMMER WINE FAME WE LOVE YOU ALWAYS,AND YES IM STILL BUYING EVERY DVD OF YOUR SHOWS ROY.PLUS IM ON MY 35TH NOVEL AND 269TH POEM.
HG. MARKS
PS. ANYONE CAN CONTACT ME IF THEY WISH.

I became a fan of LOTSW while I was in hospital in 2002 (but it was 1980's for the episode). I saw these three characters on MPT in Maryland (USA)and fell in love with their antics. I became hooked. I told my friends and coworkers about them and other "britwit shows" and pleasently surprised that some of them had already been watching. I set my lunch hour around the show (1:00 then) and watched in our school library in the backroom. When Bill Owen/Compo died in 1999, I dressed in my very best British attire (scarf, purse, and an umbrella from the UK). My coworkers looked at me as I went to the "funeral" and they just shook their heads and laughed.

I still have a lot of watching to do even though this is the last year. Compo, Clegg and the third person, Nora and her wrinkled legs, Wally, Howard, Pearl and Marina, Eli, Ivy, Sid, and so on have kept me laughing for eight years. Thank you for it all.

Thank you for a singularly iconic and heart warming show over the years. I think it is wonderful that a major contemporary television series survived into the 21st century where all the characters still wore hats. That said, I am glad you have taken the decision to close the series before it ran out of steam and wit. Too often, programmes are dragged out long after the expiry of their sell-by date; however, I do hope that the ±«Óãtv will be re-running the series from the beginning on ±«Óãtv4 or similar. There must be a huge audience, which never saw the earlier episodes, and I am sure I cannot be alone in thinking how delightful it would be to begin all over again..!

Yet again the ±«Óãtv charges astranomical fees for a TV License and little shows for it. I loved this show and as a 32 year old I have been watching this show since I was a kid. The final episode did no justice for such a fine show. Its a shame to end it this way. I feel the ending could be a lot better considering it has been on TV for so long. Never mind its the only thing I ever watched on the ±«Óãtv and now its back to SKY tv.

A final ending to a wonderful series!! An ending not worthy of LOTSW with a contrive story line to bring the cast together? Cast, where was Jane Freeman who has been in the programme almost from the start? The programme will be sadly missed by many even though the cast(or past cast I should say) is so different to the original series it had not lost its flavour for me. What next to feel the ±«Óãtv axe - The Archers?
Alorsia

shame on the ±«Óãtv, after 37 years of great ratings to just abandon this program mid series without a special episode to end things.
Another stab in the back for the licence fee payer, no wonder satellite TV is taking over.

bring back last of the summer wine,the people who run the comedy department should reconize that the viewer should rule and not some novice who likes toilet humour.sunday night on the bbc is dire but at least i can watch losw on sky instead of boring bbc.give viewers what they want or let us opt out of paying the bbc money for not giving us what we want.the bbc is playing into the hand of their enemies by acting against the viewing publics choice of good programmes.