Trib Total Media TV writer Rob Owen offers a viewing tip for the coming week.
It’s difficult to imagine a better TV balm coming off the
annus horibilis that was 2020 than the latest production from “Masterpiece,” celebrating its 50th anniversary with the debut of a remake of an early PBS drama hit, “All Creatures Great and Small” (9 p.m. Sundays through Feb. 21, WQED-TV).
Like the original 1978-90 British import, this new series is also based on James Herriot’s books about his adventures as a new veterinarian in 1930s Yorkshire.
The first two (of seven) episodes offer a fair amount of set-up as James (Nicholas Ralph) moves from Glasgow to Darrowby for a job as an assistant to pompous veterinarian Siegfried Farnon (Samuel West).