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ALL CREATURES GREAT AND SMALL: BETWEEN THE PAGESPremieres Sunday, August 15 on PBS– Go Behind-the-Scenes of the Hit MASTERPIECE Series About the World’s Favorite Veterinarian and His Menagerie
Tuesday, 23rd February 2021 at 4:39 pm Based on the novels by James Herriot (real name Alf Wight), which were previously adapted as a movie and as a much-loved BBC television series, this new version of All Creatures Great and Small stars Nicholas Ralph, Samuel West, Anna Madeley, Rachel Shenton, and Callum Woodhouse. Advertisement The drama, which launched in the UK on Channel 5 in September 2020, follows newly trained Glaswegian veterinary assistant and “fish out of water” James Herriot (Ralph), who has landed a job at a rural Yorkshire veterinary practice with eccentric boss Siegfried...
spoilers from the first season of "All Creatures Great and Small" including the finale. PBS' reboot of "All Creatures Great and Small" premiered just days after the Jan. 6 Capitol riots that shocked the nation and those watching news reports overseas. In the wake of that crisis, it was difficult to predict what appetite Americans would have for a series set in the 1930s Yorkshire Dales about a veterinary surgeon. Nevertheless, the update was an instant hit and – paired with fellow "Masterpiece" Victorian detective series"Miss Scarlet & The Duke" – eventually brought PBS to second place ...
Matt Squire / Courtesy of Masterpiece PBS Nicholas Ralph has "big Welly boots to fill." At least, that's how he describes playing James Herriot in the reboot of "There was a little bit of nerves," says Ralph, who is making his television debut in the series airing now on Masterpiece PBS. After all, he's stepping into the shoes of Christopher Timothy, who portrayed the much-beloved character in the 1978 version of the television series, and Alf Wight, the real-life Herriot, who used his adventures as a veterinarian as fodder for a best-selling book series. But despite the pressures of recre...
Masterpiece PBS If there’s a silver lining to be found during lockdown, Rachel Shenton is seeking it out. Speaking with me by phone on New Year’s Eve—naturally, she “didn’t have plans”—the All Creatures Great and Small actress says that despite the dire circumstances of an ongoing pandemic, she has found “moments of joy” in “jumping off the hamster wheel.” “There's been peaks and troughs,” she says, “I think when we first locked down back in March, it really felt like the holiday I didn't know I needed. I got back into cooking and reading; I really like the peace...