'All Creatures Great & Small' Renewed for Seasons 5 & 6

With the finale of Season 4, or rather the Christmas special, which acts as the finale for the American airing of All Creatures Great & Small, having aired on Sunday, February 18, 2024, fans were distressed they still haven’t heard if there would be a Season 5. (Reminder: Episode 6 was aired in the U.K. as the season finale, and Episode 7, the finale on this side of the pond, was the British Christmas special.) However, the wait for good news turned out not to be long, as Masterpiece and Channel 5 announced the series has been re-upped for not just Season 5 but Season 6, and Christmas specials to boot.

All Creatures has enchanted viewers on both sides of the Atlantic since its first season, becoming a Sunday night regular in the fall for U.K. viewers and the depths of winter for Americans. It’s also a streaming favorite everywhere, and many of us need that visit to the Yorkshire Dales and our extended fictional friends. (And animals! Don’t forget the lambs, the calves, the grumpy dogs and pigs, the cats, the dogs...)

Season 5 will see the return of the entire series ensemble, starting with Nicholas Ralph as vet James Herriot, Rachel Shenton as his wife Helen, Samuel West as mercurial mentor Siegfried Farnon, Anna Madeley as the matriarch of Skeldale House Mrs. Hall, and James Anthony-Rose as Richard Carmody. after sitting out Season 4, Callum Woodhouse reprises his role as Tristan Farnon, Siegfried’s mischievous brother who has been serving in the Royal Army Veterinary Corps when he makes an unexpected return later in the season. Patricia Hodge will return as the wonderfully sophisticated  Mrs Pumphrey and her adored, pampered Pekingese Tricki-Woo.