Writer Janet Mullany is from England, drinks a lot of tea, and likes Jane Austen, reading, and gasping in shock at costumes in historical TV dramas. Her household near Washington DC includes a badly-behaved cat about whom she frequently boasts.
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As All Creatures Great & Small opens in Episode 5, Helen and James have only two days left together before he leaves for the RAF after months of waiting for his call-up papers. Helen turns off the radio when Churchill announces the Battle of Britain, happening now in the skies
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Episode 4, “By The Book” of All Creatures Great & Small Season 4, opens as James and Helen tease each other with unsuitable baby names before the start of another busy day. James wants Helen to slow down and officially announce her pregnancy, but she’s reluctant to do either.
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Episode 3 of All Creatures Great & Small opens with veterinarian James Herriot and his wife Helen napping on a grassy slope at her family farm, Heston Grange. It’s a warm, sunny spring day, but spring in the Yorkshire Dales means lambing season, which in turn means night calls
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Everybody loves a goat unless it’s on the kitchen table or in the pantry, and as All Creatures Great & Small opens this week, Skeldale House is undergoing a caprine invasion by sisters Betty (sore leg) and Hilda (along for the ride). The other guilty party is Siegfried Farnon,
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The fourth season of All Creatures Great & Small opens in the Spring of 1940, and James Herriott whistles as he drives through the gorgeous Yorkshire spring countryside, narrowly missing a boy and his dog standing at the side of the road, and slows down to apologize. The boy throws
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Tom Wilkinson, best known in America for the 1997 hit The Full Monty and the Oscarbait film, Michael Clayton, passed away just before the turn of 2024. The actor started out the son of a family from a relatively modest background in Leeds; the Wilkinson family moved to Canada (possibly
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Released by ITV in 2008 and originally aired on Ovation in the U.S., Lost in Austen has a terrific cast and is one of the most wacko and inventive Austen interpretations ever made. The four-part series was directed by Dan Zeff and adapted from Austen’s 1813 novel by
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Welcome back to Yorkshire! As we’re about to embark on a new season of All Creatures Great and Small, let’s catch up on what happened last season. There have been massive changes in Darrowby, and in all of Britain, as the country shifted closer to war: recruiting officers
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As Call The Midwife returns for its annual holiday tradition ahead of the Season 13 debut, it’s Christmas 1968, and Poplar is abuzz with holiday excitement. There are two new occupants at Nonnatus House, Nurse Nancy Corrigan and her daughter Colette. Nancy was almost lured away by a new
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The top-rated BBC series Being Human, originally aired from 2008 until 2013, has finally found its way to streaming, first on BritBox and now on AMC+. Created by Toby Whithouse, whose earlier work included 2001's Bridget Jones’ Diary, the creative team originally intended the series to be about
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Doc Martin is a tough act to follow. After eighteen years and ten seasons, the show has become a beloved fixture. Whether it’s Portwenn’s collection of idiosyncratic individuals, the gorgeous scenery, or the twists and turns of the relationship between the titular doctor (Martin Clunes) and Louisa (Caroline
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AMC/Sundance’s The Lovers is an odd beast. It’s a rom-com that is neither particularly funny nor particularly romantic. Instead, it employs a dry humor that doesn’t resolve in a good belly laugh so much as a nervous smile, as we get to know the two protagonists,