I hear there's a new season of Vera coming. Yea!
Also new episodes of Murdoch Mysteries in February. And, according to the Graham Norton show, James Norton is returning in Happy Valley.
2. Murdoch has gotten to be so stupid that it's practically unwatchable.
Mrs. Aristus and I used to be avid fans, and devoured the first seven or eight seasons. But they seem to have run out of ideas. There are no more Victorian/Edwardian Era versions of modern technologies, the writing is mediocre at best, and the appearances of that era's celebrities have become gratuitous.