Overview
- The UK premiere airs at 9 p.m. on Channel 5, launching a weekly Thursday slot for six episodes.
- Episode one, Gathering the Flock, is set in May 1945 and charts Skeldale’s post‑war adjustments with Tristan’s return, including location work at Beamish Museum.
- The principal cast returns with Nicholas Ralph, Samuel West, Anna Madeley, Rachel Shenton and Callum Woodhouse.
- New additions this season include Lucy-Jo Hudson, Gaia Wise, Jonathan Hyde, Philip Martin Brown and Chris Gascoyne.
- For North America, Season 6 debuts on PBS Masterpiece on January 11, 2026.