Yes, All Creatures Great and Small Season 7 is officially confirmed. PBS Masterpiece and Channel 5 announced a rare double commission for both Seasons 7 and 8 on November 20, 2025. Each season will follow the show’s established format of six episodes plus a Christmas special. Filming in the Yorkshire Dales began on February 23, 2026, just one day after the Season 6 finale aired on PBS Masterpiece.
This piece pulls together everything confirmed so far, including production details, filming timelines, unresolved storylines from Season 6, and what the cast has said publicly. If you watched the “Comfort and Joy” Christmas special and immediately started hunting for Season 7 news, you’re in the right place.
When Does All Creatures Great and Small Season 7 Come Out?
No official premiere date has been announced yet, but the show’s track record makes the window clear. Every season since the 2020 debut has premiered in the UK in September or October on Channel 5, followed a few months later on PBS Masterpiece in the US. Following that pattern, Season 7 is expected in the UK around September or October 2026, with the US premiere likely landing in January or early February 2027 on Masterpiece PBS.
Has Season 7 Started Filming?
Yes, production is actively underway. The All Creatures Great and Small official social accounts confirmed that filming began on February 23, 2026, in Yorkshire. The announcement came just one day after the Season 6 finale aired on PBS Masterpiece on February 22. The cast and crew shared the news online with a message noting that everyone was “back in Darrowby,” making it one of the fastest turnarounds from season finale to production start the show has seen.
Who Is Returning for Season 7?
The full core Skeldale House ensemble is expected back. That includes Nicholas Ralph as James Herriot, Samuel West as Siegfried Farnon, Rachel Shenton as Helen, Anna Madeley as Mrs. Hall, Callum Woodhouse as Tristan, and Patricia Hodge as the beloved Mrs. Pumphrey with Tricki Woo. No official cast announcement has been made yet, but no departures have been reported either. The show typically layers in new guest characters from the Yorkshire farming community each season.
What Happened at the End of Season 6 That Sets Up Season 7?
Season 6’s Christmas special, “Comfort and Joy,” aired February 22, 2026 on PBS and left several threads open. Siegfried reconciled with old flame Dorothy (Maimie McCoy) and kissed her under the mistletoe at the Drovers, while Mrs. Hall watched with visible discomfort. Tristan and Charlotte finally confessed their love for each other. Meanwhile, Hilda the goat died after eating Christmas wreath laurel, a loss that prompted Siegfried to stop hesitating with Dorothy.
Will Siegfried and Mrs. Hall Get Together in Season 7?
This is the question fans won’t stop asking, and Season 6 deliberately kept it unresolved. Siegfried told Mrs. Hall he would “always need her”, and she encouraged him to reunite with Dorothy while quietly masking her own feelings. With Dorothy now back in the picture and Mrs. Hall planning a trip to Sunderland to visit her son, Season 7 has clear dramatic runway to push this tension further, whether that means Siegfried finally recognizing what’s in front of him or the gap between them widening.
What Will Happen With Tristan’s PTSD in Season 7?
Tristan’s war trauma became the emotional core of Season 6. He revealed to Siegfried in a church breakdown that his Military Cross was earned under horrific circumstances, watching his close friend Billy die in a minefield. Callum Woodhouse has described his character as someone where “the cloud descends over his brain again” when left to his own thoughts. Season 7 is expected to continue exploring his recovery, his relationship with Charlotte, and what post-war life actually looks like for a man carrying that weight.
Is Season 8 Also Confirmed?
Yes, both Season 7 and Season 8 were greenlit at the same time in the November 20, 2025 double commission. Callum Woodhouse has said he believes the show will conclude after Season 8, calling Tristan a character he’s grown very fond of but signaling the upcoming two seasons feel like the planned endgame. Each of the confirmed seasons will include six episodes plus a Christmas special, staying consistent with the structure fans have come to expect since Season 2.
Where Is Season 7 Filmed?
All Creatures Great and Small films primarily in the Yorkshire Dales, the same landscape that has defined the show’s visual identity since 2020. The production base is in North Yorkshire, with the village of Grassington doubling as the fictional Darrowby. The region’s dry stone walls, rolling fields, and stone-built farmhouses are not a set dressing afterthought but a genuine character in the story. The show won the TV Choice Award for Best Drama Series in 2025, partly on the strength of that atmosphere.
What Time Period Will Season 7 Cover?
Season 6 jumped forward to 1945, ending at the first peacetime Christmas since 1938. Season 7 will almost certainly move into the late 1940s, exploring post-war Yorkshire as the farming community readjusts. Rachel Shenton said in a December 2025 MASTERPIECE interview that she hopes James and Helen “get to have fun again” after so many serious wartime years. Based on James Herriot’s source books, the later stories involve a more settled practice life, James’s growing reputation, and the gradual modernization of rural veterinary work.
Where Can You Watch All Creatures Great and Small?
In the US, the show airs on PBS Masterpiece on Sunday nights and streams through the PBS app with a PBS Passport membership, and via the PBS Masterpiece channel on Prime Video. In the UK, it airs on Channel 5 with episodes available on My5. Seasons 1 through 6 are currently available to stream for US viewers with PBS Passport access, making it easy to catch up before Season 7 arrives in early 2027.
The Bigger Picture on All Creatures Great and Small Season 7
Few shows manage to stay this emotionally consistent across six seasons. What makes All Creatures durable isn’t nostalgia alone but the writers’ discipline in trusting slow-burn character development over manufactured drama. The Siegfried and Mrs. Hall dynamic has been building since Season 1, and the Tristan PTSD arc in Season 6 showed the show isn’t afraid of genuine weight. With filming now underway and a double renewal locked in, Season 7 arrives with more story still to tell and a production team that clearly knows how to tell it.
