The Larkins new Sunday nights.

I recorded it so yet to watch. I never saw the original so will approach this with an open mind and judge it for what it is.

Bazza

Am I the only one that noticed the lack of extras at the village fete? There were only about four people there apart from the cast. I come from a small village where a fete in the fifties was a massive event. Apart from that, it was only ok. Part of me thought it was just nice to watch something than contained no violence or horror. Like often written on my school report, could have done better.

Yes, I commented on it. A very quiet village fête!
Perhaps people were at home ill with Asian flu in 1958. (I had it, I remember.)

I enjoyed the new All Creatures and also Poldark. But so far this is not really working for me, I keep comparing it to the Darling Buds, unfavourably. I may give it another week.

Are there no good YOUNG lady actors out there, ready for her big break, as Catherine Zeta Jones was in the original?

There must be, nannan2.
Catherine Zeta Jones as Mariette would be a hard act to follow as she was just right although she was also older than Mariette supposedly was.
Perfick!

I watched "The Larkins",
Tanith, I missed seeing Barney Walsh as the policeman, so went back for another look.
I think he is about 23y old, but doesn't he look so young? (almost as if he's nipped out of 6th form college..!!)
I like him, he's got such a sweet little face!!

I know what it says about my own age, when policemen look
young..!!

Hated the original and won’t be watching this version.

Probably heresy I know, but I actually prefer the new All Creatures Great and Small to the original. I always thought Christopher Timothy was miscast and much prefer the latest incarnation with James actually being a Scot. Didn't like The Larkins at all. I grew up in Kent in the 50's, and it was a great deal less diverse than this woke version would have us believe. Bradley Walsh is no match for David Jason, and does it have to be written into all his contracts that his son has to be given a job as well? There were a lot of anachronisms too.

Oh yes these days every politically correct box must be ticked regardless of the reality of the era in which it was set.

I think that if programme is set in a certain time then how can you update it ? It definitely was far too diverse for the time.

I know it is about escapism, but the amount of food that was piled on the table was gross it looked like an Iceland advertisement for Christmas. I thought the acting was over the top but so was the first series. I have less patience these days? . I don't remember watching every week back in 80s and probably won't watch it again.

I loved the Vicar but it was all a bit idealistic for me. No one with that many kids would be so cheerful ?

Callistemon
He must have said potato at some time especially with so much food around. Was it a chicken in the oven and a goose out of the oven. Plastic flowers. Hardly anybody at a fete in the 50's .......

I don't think it's Bradley who says 'potato' at the end of the Chase. It could just be the name of the production company but! I might be wrong.

Absolute rubbish, and so over-acted. Loved the original series. I will not waste my time watching this re-make. Why do they have to do re-makes. You cannot improve the originals

Millie22

Callistemon
He must have said potato at some time especially with so much food around. Was it a chicken in the oven and a goose out of the oven. Plastic flowers. Hardly anybody at a fete in the 50's .......

I don't think it's Bradley who says 'potato' at the end of the Chase. It could just be the name of the production company but! I might be wrong.

Ah! I wonder.
I thought it was Bradley.

f77ms

I loved the Vicar but it was all a bit idealistic for me. No one with that many kids would be so cheerful ?

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I hated the first series so there’s no way I’d watch this one . Never mind , there’s lots to watch on all the other channels .

Why bother to spend a lot of our licence money on a remake, when there is a perfectly good and enjoyable original series.
I usually find that remakes are not as good as the originals anyway. Now I am having a whinge, am I not?

Haven’t watched it yet, there was a more compelling drama on the other side. Not sure if I will bother watching, I didn’t watch the first series.

Our licence money goes to the BBC lightallen. This programme was ITV. Idk why producers have to deviate from the original story so much. I suppose they are trying to appeal to a different audience. It didn’t work for me. Just as I was disappointed with the Agatha Raisin series having read all the books - Agatha had brown hair not blonde, the vicar was black not the fuddy duddy white guy, and so on.

Watched about ten minutes , is this the Walsh family show?! BW and his talentless son ? Too much. Wooden characters, poor acting I'm afariad it a thumbs down.didnt mind first series but never understood what it was all about? Not being from dahn saarf it was meaningless and odd?!

It takes place in Kent on the East coast, nowhere near 'down south' .

ehh? t was in Kent throughout wasn't it? I thought the first series was set by Tenterden?

Jabberwok

It takes place in Kent on the East coast, nowhere near 'down south' .

It’s south of London. Therefore it’s ‘down south’.

Isn't Kent down south?
Has it moved north and no-one noticed?

Depends where you live I suppose. Down South for me is south of Oxford, East Anglia is not in the South.