Loveable scruff Compo's death after a quarter of a century in Last Of The Summer Wine was the best television exit in the past decade, according to British viewers.
In the poll by What's On TV magazine, Compo's death beat the final moments of Inspector Morse following a heart attack and Victor Meldrew's demise under a car.
Summer Wine fans saw the moving moments of Compo's funeral as his lifelong friends gathered round to pay tribute, although his actual death was not handled on screen.
* Janet Jackson is putting her life back together, two years after splitting up with her husband.
She has a new album, All For You, due in stores in April. On March 13, MTV will honour her with mtvICON, the first in a series of annual tributes to musicians.
Destiny's Child, Macy Gray and Outkast will sing some of Jackson's songs, and Mya, Pink and Usher will be part of a dance performance.
Jackson and her co-writer, Rene Elizondo, divorced in February 1999. The singer says Elizondo was the one who told the media they had married secretly in 1991, and that they had broken up.
Jackson says she has no plans to remarry. "I have so much kid in me. I don't really think I act like a 34-year-old," she says. "I never did that dating thing that teenagers do. I'm starting to do that now."
* A judge has issued another restraining order against a New York City woman who believes Whitney Houston is her mother.
Superior Court Judge Kenneth MacKenzie issued the order against Desiree Weeks, whose most recent letters to Houston included a threat against the singer's 7-year-old daughter.
* A year after the ill-fated marriage of television bride Darva Conger, her three-carat diamond wedding ring was sold for $NZ42,000 at a charity auction.
"I'm glad it finally went for a good cause and to a couple truly in love," Conger said after the auction, benefiting the Make-A-Wish Foundation.
The winning bid came from a Los Angeles couple who bought the ring to celebrate their 19th wedding anniversary.
The ring was designed by a Las Vegas jeweller and bought by the producers of the show Who Wants To Marry A Multimillionaire? Rick Rockwell and Conger's marriage was annulled a short time later.
"It was a bad TV show. That's all it was," the 35-year-old Conger said.
- NZPA
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