All TV old and new
Nov 08, 2020
2 minutes
by JANE CLIFTON
It’s 50 years since James Herriot wrote the memoir that inspired hit 70s TV series All Creatures Great and Small – but when it was re-offered to the BBC for an anniversary remake, the Beeb got the collywobbles.
Animals rate, but this old fashioned sort of biodiversity didn’t cut it with today’s public programme-commissioners, who shied away from a project
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