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“I had to have a word with myself, when I knew I could no longer have it with my mother.”All Creatures Great and Small returns tonight with the final episode of this series.The show follows vets in the late 1930s working in the Yorkshire Dales.Samuel plays Siegfried Farnon in the beloved show alongside stars like Nicholas Ralph and Rachel Shenton.The actor recently shared hopes the series will return again in a chat with Alan Titchmarsh.When asked if it was ending, he said: “No, having too much fun.“We’re going a third certainly, and I wouldn’t mind if we did a fourth or a fifth as well.”A Christmas special of the show has also already been confirmed.

Samuel West, who stars in All Creatures Great and Small, has opened up about a tearful moment on the show, which saw his on-screen brother leave. During the 2022 Christmas special, Siegfried Farnon found out his brother Tristan, played by Callum Woodhouse, was leaving to join the war effort.

All Creatures Great and Small has confirmed its return and shared an exciting update with fans about the upcoming future series, the 2024 Christmas special and which cast members are set to return. The cast and crew of the popular period drama will soon be heading back to the Yorkshire Dales to shoot the hit adaptation by BAFTA award-winning production company Playground, based on the best-selling novels of real-life Thirsk vet Alf Wight, who wrote under the pen-name James Herriot. On Friday, Channel 5 confirmed the double commission of series 5 and 6 - as well as a beloved Christmas special.

The tinsel is up at Skeldale House, for another episode of All Creatures Great and Small, and after three Christmas specials, the show has fast become a festive staple. Samuel West, who plays vet Siegfried Farnon, admits he saves the December episode for when he goes home to see his parents, actors Timothy West and Prunella Scales. “I don't get as many notes from them as I used to,” jokes Samuel.

EXCLUSIVE: Masterpiece has dropped the trailer for season 4 of All Creatures Great and Small, returning Jan. 7 to PBS.

After six nail biting weeks on our screens, the final episode of All Creatures Great and Small concluded on Thursday night - but not without packing a serious emotional punch first.The much-loved drama series, which charts the life of fictional Yorkshire vet James Herriot, got off to a tense start, as housekeeper Mrs Hall wrestled with a tough decision about whether to stay at Skeldale veterinary practice or head off to pastures new.Throughout the course of the episode, Mrs. Hall could be seen seriously weighing up her decision, before crunch time finally came and she opted to stay - but not without sacrificing her relationship with Gerald Hammond in the process.

All Creatures Great and Small sees vets Siegfried Farnon and James Herriot deal with several difficult animals. But in the new series, Helen will also have to get to grips with some new animal additions at Skeldale House. Speaking ahead of the series, actress Rachel Shenton revealed there's one addition who she has "tricky" scenes with.

Samuel West has been incredibly successful in the acting and entertainment business over the years. From starring in the long running series Midsomer Murders, Waking the Dead and Poirot, to his stint in Netflix's The Crown, he now spends his time playing the role of eccentric veterinary surgeon Siegfried Farnon in Channel 5's popular period drama, All Creatures Great and Small.The 57 year old has been a staple part of the cast since the show premiered in 2020, with filming taking place in the quaint and quiet Yorkshire Dales.

All Creatures Great and Small series four airs on Channel 5 tonight as James Herriot and Helen Alderson return to Skeldale House.The couple are settling into life as a newly wed couple while waiting to hear if James will be called up to serve in the RAF. Meanwhile, Siegfried Farnon is getting to grips with his brother Tristan fighting in the war and trying to run the vet surgery without him. Elsewhere a new trainee veterinary student Richard Carmody arrives, causing complications in the house.

Masterpiece is offering a sneak peek of All Creatures Great and Small, which returns January 7, 2024.

Masterpiece on PBS will launch seven new episodes of All Creatures Great and Small in early 2024.

All Creatures Great and Small star Nicholas Ralph addressed his future on the Channel 5 show and teased fans with a new addition to the show. When asked what his wish was for James and Helen in series four, Nicholas shared: "More of the same. "I mean they have now come together, they live together, and they're very much a team.

BBC series return to the show, as filming for series three gets underway.The critically acclaimed show, based on the popular series of books by James Alfred Wight, was rebooted in 2020 for Channel 5, and stars Callum Woodhouse as Tristan Farnon and Nicholas Ralph as James Herriot, who work as vets in the Yorkshire Dales.The roles of Tristan and James were originally played in the BBC adaptation, which ran from 1978 to 1990, by Doctor Who star Peter Davison and Christopher Timothy respectively - and the cast of the Channel 5 series have now revealed that they would love to see the two actors return to the reboot in the future.Speaking at the BFI and Radio Times TV Festival, Callum Woodhouse said that the cast had previously received a sweet message from original James Herriot actor Christopher Timothy, praising the rebooted series.He said: "I think Christopher Timothy sent an email, I think, after the first Christmas special saying how much he loved it, which was really lovely."When asked if we could see Christopher and fellow co-star Peter Davison return to the series for a cameo however, the cast said they did not know, but it would be something they would like to see happen.“We don’t know any of that. It’s a question for production really, but we’d love it.

West, who stars as Siegfried Farnon in Channel 5's reboot of All Creatures Great and Small, told the publication that despite her diagnosis: "My mother is all right, actually."Her Alzheimer's is a form that leaves her quite cheery which is entirely down to chance and I count us as being very lucky.”Scales is said to be going “increasingly deaf”, but stunned her son when she recited 19th century English poet Robert Browning's dramatic monologue A Toccata Of Galuppi's entirely from memory.The TV actor said: "To my incredible surprise I discovered she knows it all off by heart."I find it extraordinarily difficult to mourn the loss of someone who is still with us but not really there anymore.The mourning never stops."We are blessed that she is

James Alfred Wight’s books (under the pen name Herriot) about his adventures as a veterinary surgeon in Yorkshire — the series, airing on PBS (Sundays at 9 p.m.) is set in the 1930s. It follows the young Herriot (Ralph) on his first job assisting Siegfried Farnon (Samuel West), a vet with a practice in the Yorkshire Dales. Ralph, 31, was no stranger to being around animals even before filming “Creatures,” he tells The Post. “I did grow up in a small town [in Scotland] called Mairn right next to Loch Ness and Nessie up there,” he says.