The same issue is happening on a show like Everybody Loves Raymond now, which is in its eighth year and struggling to come up with good stories. It'll be interesting to see how they do. The bottom line is, it starts with the writers and ends with the writers.
“He is ready, if the occasion presents itself, to throw the whole English population in the St. Lawrence.”
“I like the fact that I have good old-fashioned British teeth with a big gap.”