The scene was not unlike a typical graduation, with long embraces, group pictures and the signing of autographs on copies of the final script. There weren’t enough tissues in co-star Gary Valentine’s giant-sized Kleenex box to go around. Then there were the scores of executives, friends and family members crowding the wings. The end came three weeks ago in a gush of tears during nearly six hours of filming of the series’ finale before an audience on Sony Studios’ Stage 28 in Culver City. “All good things must end, and unfortunately, this is,” he would say. Despite Remini’s optimism, series star Kevin James – with a film career looming – had decreed he was abdicating as “King.” The cake was enormous and the steins of Heineken overflowed, yet the mood was bittersweet. The cast and crew of the stalwart CBS sitcom, along with network and studio executives and hundreds of others, had gathered earlier this year to celebrate the show’s 200th episode – only the seventh time a TV comedy has done that since 1990. ‘I’m not moving anything out of my dressing room just yet,” said Leah Remini, still holding out hope for a 10th season of “King of Queens.”

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