ALL CREATURES GREAT & SMALL
RENEWED 4 3RD & 4TH SEASON
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Season two arrives to PBS this Sunday
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Before we return tomorrow with a massive spotlight on movie and television adaptations you can expect to arrive this year, I have great news for all of you fans of heart warming family shows (and we do not have a lot of those these days):
Channel 5 has renewed their hit series
ALL CREATURES GREAT AND SMALL not just for season three but also for season four! The series, which had great success with the second season that aired this Autumn in UK and has just aired the special holiday episode at Christmas, will
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Second season already aired in UK
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arrive with the second season to American audience this Sunday, January 9th on
PBS Masterpiece.
SEASON THREE OF THE SERIES
will see the Skeldale House family in the Spring of 1939 as the prospect of another World War looms large over the Dales. Change is afoot for the Darrowby residents, especially James and Helen, who got engaged in the Christmas episode and are embarking on the next chapter of their lives as the wider world around them heads toward a period of great uncertainty.
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WHO IS RETURNING?
As Daily Mail reports, season three, based on
James Herriot's novels, will see
Nicholas Ralph as young vet James Herriot, and
Samuel West as his mercurial mentor Siegfried Farnon, return to Yorkshire this spring for
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Nicholas Ralph will lead season three and four as well
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shooting of six new episodes plus again a Christmas special.
Anna Madeley will also return as the matriarch of Skeldale House, Mrs Hall, together with
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Samuel West will return as chief vet Siegfried
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Callum Woodhouse as Siegfried's slowly maturing brother Tristan and
Rachel Shenton as local farmer Helen Alderson. The show set in the
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Over four million viewers watched each season 2 episode in UK
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Yorkshire Dales in the 1930s will also see the return of
Patricia Hodge as the aristocratic Mrs Pumphrey, and her adored pampered Pekingese Tricki Woo.
