Comments on: Summer Wine still flowing

By: Peter Jones

Peter Jones — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 23:49:37 +0000

This is comedy at its best, not like this rubbish today with young boring actors and writers who have the sense of humor of a tic turd

By: Glenn Aylett

Glenn Aylett — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 15:11:06 +0000

With ITV now abandoning the grey market( Heartbeat and The Royal being cancelled), maybe the BBC now sees itself as championing the cause. However, a large part of Last of the Summer Wine’s audience has died out and is not being replaced, most people see it as embarassing and it should have been laid to rest years ago. However, someone in the BBC must like it as it keeps going.

By: Chris Jones

Chris Jones — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 01:01:21 +0000

Is Peter Sallis not in it? I would have loved to have seen the ep where he was written out / killed off.

I bet it involved him being in a runaway bath somewhere on the Yorkshire Moors…

By: MartS

MartS — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:49:30 +0000

Hey, Roy Clarke may even be persuaded by the BBC to write a new joke for this series…

By: Nick H

Nick H — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 21:36:44 +0000

It’s had its day.

Not that there’s no fun to be had with old people in comedy – Still Game for instance. But crucially, that is performed by younger actors..

By: Ian Jones

Ian Jones — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 21:19:15 +0000

Hmm, “unique” feels like a loaded word, a bit like whenever Sir Humphrey called one of Jim Hacker’s ideas “courageous”. There’s no longer any amusement to be derived from the fact Beeb keep on recommissioning this show. The format is completely shot to pieces by virtue of Bell’s fondness for signing up every TV comedy performer over 60. There are no plots any more, just mutually exclusive exchanges of dialogue. The oldest cast members can’t even get insurance to be on location. The fact it’s coming back smacks of the Beeb running scared – yet again – of a tiny minority of columnists in the press. Anyway, I thought the last series, the one that introduced Abbot and co as the new trio, was a ratings flop.