Still Open All Hours reminds me of something I learnt years ago: don't try to relive the past. It's inevitable that you remember the best bits and forget the bad bits, so you quickly end up with a memory that no reality can live up to. If you try to relive it, you inevitably end up disappointed, and that often spoils the memories too.
Everybody agrees that the telly is a load of rubbish, they just disagree about which bits are rubbish and which aren't. For my money most of ITV is over commercialised, and the BBC is dumbing down in order to compete for fear that the licence fee will get scrapped. It seems to me that the whole point of a licence fee is to subsidise programs that are not economical for the commercial sector to produce, not to just fund more of the same.