SUNDAY NOVEMBER 6
THE LARKINS
Never a dull moment on the farm
Screening: TVNZ 1, 8.30pm
Streaming: TVNZ+
The first season of the remake suffered some withering reviews (“Jaded, hackneyed, lazy programming”, reckoned the ), but viewers liked it enough for a second to be commissioned. The story alights on the summer of 1959, where Pop (Bradley Walsh) and Ma Larkin (Jo Scanlan) and their large brood are preparing for the school holidays. Various kinds of chaos ensue over six episodes, with a dreadful new family, the Jerebohms, going to war on Pop, Primrose (Lydia Page) entering journalism and falling for the new vicar, and a series of village events converging on the farm. Everything will