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'Summer Wine' returns for new series

Published Friday, Jun 26 2009, 20:40 BST | By Dan French
'Summer Wine' returns for new series

BBC

The BBC has recommissioned Last Of The Summer Wine for a new series, it has announced.

Filming for the new season will take place this summer throughout the Yorkshire town of Holmfirth and is expected to air in 2010.

Head of BBC comedy Mark Freeland said: "I am pleased that Roy Clarke's much-loved and unique comedy is once more returning to BBC One."

The show, starring Peter Sallis and Russ Abbot, has clocked up more than 30 series, the first of which debuted in 1973.

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