Welcome return for Nairn actor Nicholas Ralph’s popular show All Creatures Great and Small which is broadcast on Channel 5
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Fans of All Creatures Great and Small are in for a treat over the coming weeks as the show returned to our screens on Thursday.
Nairn actor Nicholas Ralph, who plays vet James Herriot, has spoken about what lies in store during the third series.
It is all change for his character as he is set to get married and become a business partner at the veterinary practice.
He says: “James is getting a little more responsibility, which is great. It’s great for him, especially if you’re going to be a newly married man.
“Helen will be joining him at Skeldale House, so obviously he wants to be provider as well as protector.
“[He’s] also trying to steer Siegfried, slowly but surely, trying to steer him down newer, more modern routes, keeping the practice up to speed with the modern day. And of course, that comes with challenges and challenges from Siegfried, and ends up at loggerheads with him over various things, as you can imagine.
“But ultimately, that’s what he wants to do: he wants to provide a little more than he currently can.”
He says that he can’t say too much about the wedding but adds: “However, what I can say is when I read the script, I was smiling like a Cheshire cat from start to finish. It’s absolutely brilliant.
“Not only is it everything that you would hope it would be – romantic and touching in points as well – but it’s also very funny. It’s a really funny script, as well.
“As I said, I was just smiling all through reading it, and we were straight on the phone to the rest of the cast, Callum, Rachel and saying: ‘Have you read it yet? Have you read it? Have you seen this bit, have you seen that bit?’”
• All Creatures Great and Small is on Channel 5 on Thursdays at 9pm.
