As someone already said, the characters have become caricatures by now. It's twee. The scripts have diverged so far from the original by now, they're almost in a foreign language. The script writers keep presenting us with ever more unlikely plots and should be tarred and feathered.

And yet, come Sunday I will be there watching it, grumbling and muttering, much to Nessie's annoyance ("watch something else then!").

Don't ask me why. I guess it's "comfort TV" as long as you don't make too many demands of it.

By the way, hasn't Alfie's voice improved? I really liked his singing at the last episode.