New All Creatures Great and Small Channel 5

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Anyone else looking forward to this? Starts tonight at 9pm.

I wonder if Mrs Hall worked there when Siegfried's wife was alive? She said at one point to him in episode 1, 'you weren't always on your own.'

It's a shame the BBC turned it down. I'm glad channel 5 took it, though.

Did the BBC turn it down? Hadn't seen that.

Yes, they thought it wouldn't appeal to young people, plus it's not very diverse.

BBC offered a pilot only. Have to say don't understand the "diverse" argument - it is a series set in rural 1930s Yorkshire!

If they were offered the pilot, surely there was an option for the series? Agree about diversity.

The production company would always take a guaranteed six episodes vs one pilot and the potential for more depending on reception.

It's a pity there's only 6 episodes. I hope if it comes back they do a longer run.

Think there is definitely a seventh episode - a Christmas special?

@Rosehip10

Think there is definitely a seventh episode - a Christmas special?

Still too short lol!

In pub. "You're starting early".
"My good friend here needs fortification for the day ahead. "

And I think c5 have commissioned a second series too. Filming next year.

We just drove through Grassington on way home from holiday. Spot the dodgy car doing 2mph looking for landmarks! 🙄😆

I hope there is a Christmas episode to look forward to. I really miss Downton at Christmas.

Me too, Jane! That was such a highlight for me. I do hope there's a Christmas special, I've really been enjoying it. I'm sick of all these programmes about serial killers etc.

Channel 5 will prob order 12 episodes for the next series.
And until it falls in ratings. So probably around 10 series.

@unique1986

Channel 5 will prob order 12 episodes for the next series. And until it falls in ratings. So probably around 10 series.

I hope so!

Maireas, so true .

I thought the serial killer programmes would have finally fallen out of fashion.

I have pretty much stopped watching TV.

The series on Donald Neilson was on at the same time as the programme about Rose West and Myra Hindley. Now one about Harold Shipman. Honest to god.

A lot of posters seem to be taking it very personally and being very picky.
Jim Wight loves it and says Alf would have approved.

I live in Thirsk and I could moan and complain that it's all wrong but it's a TV drama based on the books not a documentary series.

It's the first TV programme my dd has sat and watched with me for ages. It's so nice that she's enjoying something that's not a shouty YouTuber for a change. Just a cosy, gentle programme we can cuddle up and enjoy.
It's also nice to be able to say to my dc that this all happened here and its what Thirsk is famous for.

The one thing that is making me laugh is that they've got Mrs Pomphrey living in that big Downton Abby type house!
Holy Rood House is large but absolutely nothing like that!

Sorry! Thorp House not Holy Rood, that's next door.

I agree! I think it's a lovely adaptation. The family are pleased with it. I did laugh at Mrs Pomphrey's house!

Just reading the DM article about Rosie & Jim Wight & noticed this bit.

They've added the Thirsk number to the Darrowby exchange

The scriptwriters have stuck so closely to detail that they have even used the surgery’s post-war phone number, Thirsk 2297

I'm old enough to have read all the books when they first came out, & watched & enjoyed the first TV series, but in many ways I'm enjoying this one more (although it niggles that most of the cows featured are Jerseys, not the then ubiquitous Friesians)

I too feel sad that there are only 6 episodes - loving it!

Also from the DM piece.

Donald really was very eccentric, wasn't he (though not wrong about the sardine oil!)

Sinclair also had a penchant for tinned sardines, believing their oil was enormously beneficial to one’s health.
‘He would buy 20 or 30 tins all at once and keep them in his cupboard. He took me aside one day and said, very seriously: “Jim, don’t forget — you must turn the tins regularly to distribute the oil evenly over the fish.”
‘I would sometimes phone his house, and Auntie Audrey would say: “Sorry, Donald can’t speak to you now. He’s turning his sardines.” That was the sort of man you were dealing with.’