I watched it all - mainly because I was doing the ironing at the time otherwise I may well have switched off after the first ten minutes or so! As regards the Red Deer rut, and much as I love seeing the beautiful island of Rum, it feels like a repeat of a soap opera. I appreciate new viewers may not have seen it before and will be fascinated but it does become somewhat tedious year after year...
At times to start with I felt I was being "talked down to" although a few comments about "the pub" reminded me that the programme was now being shown after 9:00pm and was aimed at a grown-up audience (at least, those who were not "down the pub" for a Friday evening!) How this will fit with the "family" repeat on a Saturday afternoon I'm not sure! I did appreciate, like others here, not being constantly told about what was "coming up" or recaps of what we had just seen.
I have to say I think I enjoyed the "Unsprung" half hour more having never been able to see its like before due to not having cable/satellite and my only "red button" being the "Off" switch! A tad chaotic but I found myself wishing for an hour "Unsprung" and a half hour main programme!
I do miss Bill Oddie though...