They also generated two movies and a hit television series that ran from 1978-80, and returned for another four seasons between 19. But James Herriot’s first book, “All Creatures Great and Small” (first published in Britain in 1970 under the title “If Only They Could Talk”), and the seven books that followed became enormous hits worldwide, selling over 60 million copies by the time the author - whose real name was James Alfred Wight - died in 1995. It hardly sounds like the stuff of bestsellerdom. And my feeling was that audiences want that.A young veterinary surgeon begins to practice in the remote Yorkshire Dales in 1937, treating abscesses in horses’ hooves and milk fever in cows and prescribing diets for overfed lap dogs. “I remember with great affection the day when, as a family, we would sit down and watch television together when we were growing up.
“The whole point of revisiting the series,” Callender said, is “that there is an appetite for harking back to days gone by - a time when family and community were the sort of core values at the heart of British life. What hasn’t changed is the overall feel of “All Creatures Great and Small.” It’s heartfelt and even heartbreaking at times. “We clearly had the opportunity to shoot on sort of glorious high-definition technology,” Callender said.
They both include no small amount of gorgeous Yorkshire landscapes, but technology is better than it was three or four decades ago. What’s inarguable is that the new series looks better than the original. and I think that comes through in the series.” “In the books, there’s enormous humor,” Callender said “I had forgotten that until I reread the books. The reboot is also arguably funnier than the original. “We spent a lot of time making sure that those characters were really fully dimensional and not just placeholders,” said executive producer Colin Callender. Because, fortunately, the world and television have made at least some progress in that area in the past 30 to 40 years. Hall (Anna Madley) - are considerably more developed this time around. The female characters - including Helen Alderson (Rachel Shenton), James’ love interest, and housekeeper Mrs. “We felt that the role of women in this society could be dramatized more fully and center stage.” “We felt that the psychological underpinning of the characters could be explored more fully,” Callender said. (Photo courtesy of Matt Squire/Playground Television (UK) Ltd.) Nicholas Ralph stars as James Herriot in “All Creatures Great and Small.”
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