This is it, then. After decades of waiting, three series and several specials, it looks like Gavin and Stacey has really ended, with one final hurrah on Christmas day.
It was as close to perfect as possible. We had returning favourites, messy relationships and some zinging one-liners. That doesn’t mean we don’t want more. Or that we couldn’t happily watch four hours of Bryn pottering around a house, or Nessa conducting minor scams with Neil the baby. On a recent trip to Cardiff, I went to the sitting room in my lounge – only to overhear the cleaners cheerfully discussing the finale. “What do you think’s going to happen, then?” one called as I stood by the coffee machine, ears twitching.
