I'll give them about 90 days tops before announcing Alfie is back for more as well.
I don't care either way tbh, the show seems like such a miserable grind. The Britsoaps have it all over us on production value and often day to day writing, but they get stuck in similar but different, higher-grade ruts just as easily as our lazier bargain bin soaps (and much like long-running cable shows like Entourage, Rescue Me, Homeland, etc). When was the last time EE wasn't largely about repetitious misery? How many times can I watch a new family swoop in and another gay kid get marginalized despite often having more exposure than American characters? It just fulfills old cycles. They can do so much more but I think they think some of this stuff is their 'brand.'
And yeah, she looked much better on what I saw of Redwater. But I suppose, as Wallace says, that is not Kat.