Overview

• Channel 5 launches the six‑episode run at 9 p.m. tonight, with weekly Thursday installments and a Christmas special to follow.
• Set in 1945 as World War II draws to a close, the story explores change in Darrowby and the personal toll of the conflict.
• Callum Woodhouse says Tristan comes back from Royal Army Veterinary Corps duty trying to mask trauma, signaling a tougher arc beneath the show’s warmth.
• Returning cast members include Nicholas Ralph, Samuel West, Anna Madeley, Rachel Shenton, Callum Woodhouse, Patricia Hodge, Tony Pitts and Imogen Clawson.
• New guest stars include Lucy‑Jo Hudson, Gaia Wise, Jonathan Hyde, Philip Martin Brown and Chris Gascoyne, with U.S. and Canadian premieres slated for Sunday, January 11 at 9 p.m. ET/PT on Masterpiece on PBS.