5's beloved period drama All Creatures Great and Small is back for another season of rescuing animals in the Yorkshire Dales, and you don't have to wait long at all, as it's on TV tonight!
Season 6 will be dropping new episodes every Thursday at 9pm for the next six weeks (plus a Christmas special in December), with Nicholas Ralph, Samuel West, Anna Madeley, Rachel Shenton, and Callum Woodhouse all returning.
There's a load of new cast members too, including Coronation Street's Chris Gascoyne, Hollyoaks' Lucy-Jo Hudson, Waterloo Road's Philip Martin Brown, The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim's Gaia Wise, and The Brutalist's Jonathan Hyde.
The new season jumps ahead a few years, setting the action in 1945 with the cloud of World War II finally starting to dissipate.
With peace on the horizon, everyone is looking forward to a brighter future, with changes in society and advancements in technology.
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But there's, of course, plenty of animals that need helping out, and not to mention all the personal dramas going on too.
One of those dramas is that Tristan has returned from the frontlines, and has a lot of repressed trauma that he's not willing to deal with.
"There was a whole episode between Tristan and Siegfried last series where Siegfried was almost annoyed at Tristan for not experiencing the sort of war that he thought he was going to... because he'd been out drinking too much and maybe hadn't experienced or seen some of the very harrowing and horrendous things that one can see in the war," Woodhouse told Radio Times.
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"And that has definitely been rectified this time around... He's certainly seen more than his fair share of tragedy and atrocities.
"He spends the series trying to push a lot of things down and try and make everyone think that he's absolutely fine. He's the usual Tristan that we all know and expect, but we’re sort of drip fed... that things aren't all OK."
Seasons 2, 3, and 4 all received a 100% positive score on Rotten Tomatoes from critics. Can season 6 repeat that success?
All Creatures Great and Small season 6 is airing Thursdays at 9pm on 5.
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