Outnumbered viewers are expressing disappointment over the show’s Christmas special , calling it “awful” and “too sad” for the festive period. The hit sitcom originally ran for six series from 2007 until 2014, but a new BBC episode caught up with the hectic Brockman family, led by Hugh Dennis and Claire Skinner’s parents eight years since the last special . Fans were particularly excited to see Tyger Drew-Honey, Daniel Roche and Ramona Marquez , who plays the three troublesome siblings Jake, Ben and Karen; they were 11, seven and six years old when the show began and now are now all in their twenties.
However, while fellow sitcom Gavin & Stacey received a rapturous response from the public , the overall feeling for Outnumbered ’s return was not met with a positive one after the episode aired on Boxing Day (26 December). This was in large part due to the fact that the kids were deemed simply too old for the original conceit to work. One viewer wrote: “It’s a shame Outnumbered didn’t really work.
.. I really wanted to enjoy it but what made it so brilliant back in the day was all the chaos.
” Another agreed: “This only worked when the children were younger unlike Gavin & Stacey where it doesn’t matter how old the characters are. What made it funny was the natural outspoken nature of children. “Will love and cherish anything in the Outnumbered cinematic universe but I think the reason the show was so good was that there was no official script and the ki.
