Just had to join this thread. I do the occasional shift for the BBC in Glasgow as an audience handler when they record shows like In It To Win etc. I was also unfortunate enough to have worked on several episodes on Life Of Riley. If you think it's bad when it's on telly, it's worse when it takes three hours to get through bit by bit with lots of scenes being repeated again and again.
I genuinely wondered if it was written by committee. It's banal at best and genuinely lazy at worst. I appreciate that prime time telly has to appeal to the broadest possible demographic but is this really what people want? I've not had a telly in the house for about three or four years now and LoR is just one of the reasons why.
I feel better now