10 Famous TV Characters Who Randomly Changed Personalities

4. Granville - Open All Hours/Still Open All Hours

David Jason had reportedly been angling for a Open All Hours return for years, despite star Ronnie Barker having died 2005. It would be interesting to see if Jason's Granville had inherited the shop, whether the spirit of Arkwright still lived on, and how the business was coping in the 21st Century. Bizarrely though, when that episode came this Christmas just gone, it totally ignored many of the character dynamics that had many the show so successful: the main one being the star of the rebooted show. In the olden days, Granville longed to leave the shop and experience romance; he didn't see the point in his uncle's stinginess, and he knew that there must be more life than selling ginger cake and toilet roll. Come 2013 though, Granville was stingy shop owner, apparently unmarried, and following in Arkwright's footsteps, proclaiming how much he'd taught him about running a business, and flogging anchovies just like his mentor. He resented everything that Arkwright stood for: why did he turn into him? There were hidden layers in the special that never got to be explored. Everything that had happened in the time between then and now was explained in shamelessly expositional dialogue, and there was no mention of who Granville's new apprentice was, why Granville carried on the business, and what made him change so much. If Jason's still hoping for more episodes, maybe the show can elaborate on the lead character's 180 degree personality change; it's one that's still confusing anyone who watched the special.