Last of the Summer Wine update

Apparently the BBC decided to proceed with just letting the program fade away with the 6 new episodes that will be shown starting Sunday July 25. All of them were shot before the program was cancelled. BBC's idea of a "proper goodbye" was hosting a dinner for the cast this week. See the photo below.

Tom Owen went public with his sentiments last week.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/article/ALeqM5jhmptoSR_1pSRRDz0ueXfXQPuuuw

So that...........is that, I'm sorry to say. August 29 will be the final episode.

Front row seated: Roy Clarke (who wrote the program), Peter Sallis (Norman Clegg) who appeared in every episode since the first one was filmed in June 1972, and Frank Thornton (Herbert Truelove).

Standing L-R: Jean Fergusson (Marina), Jospehine Tewson (Miss Davenport), Alan J.W. Bell (director/producer), Juliette Kaplan (Pearl Sibshaw), Robert Fyfe (Howard Sibshaw), Ken Kitson (PC Cooper), Burt Kwouk (Entwhistle), Trevor Bannister (The Captain), June Whitfield (Nelly), Mike Grady (Barry), Barbara Young (Stella), Christopher Beeny (Morton Beemish), and Tom Owen (Tom Simmonite).

Absent are Jane Freeman (Ivy) (like Peter Sallis, an original cast member), Sarah Thomas (Glenda), Jean Alexander (Auntie Wainwright), Brian Murphy (Alvin Smedley), Russ Abbot (Hobo), and Louis Emerick (PC Walsh).