Midsomer Murders is John Nettles. Or at least 50 % of it. Replacing Nettles is like replacing Bergerac with...some other guy. It makes no sense. This changing is obviously just to milk the cow dry. "There still is some more milk and we need to get it out". Well. Don't. Put Midsomer to sleep! It's been around for 15 years. I can see why Nettles give it up. I just can't see why the producers don't see it. I hope we will see Nettles again, after a long and deserved vacation. He's been an attraction on TV all the way back from "A family at war". Now, that said, I still vote a "4". Almost all the things that we know from the "old" series is still there. but I cannot put the finger on exact what is missing, except from Nettles. It's more boring. Maybe it have been boring all the way back, that Nettles have been carrying the show on his own shoulders?