The four British series with which TV3 will spend the summer

BarcelonaFor a couple of years now, TV3 has found the key to surviving summers: British series. When the holidays arrive and Com si fos ahir bids farewell until the new term – this year the final episode will be broadcast this Monday in prime time – the public television's schedule fills up with English fictions. They are not strictly new, as most of them premiered years ago in their country of origin, but they usually yield good audience results, as demonstrated at the time by The Doctor Martin or The Durrells. This summer TV3 repeats the strategy with the following series:

The earliest risers can start enjoying the English offering from this Monday at noon, which is when All Creatures Great and Small will kick off, a series that is still ongoing. TV3 is starting from the first season – so far, six have been made and the seventh will premiere this year – and they will broadcast two episodes each day. Celebrated as a kind and comforting proposal, it is an adaptation of the books by James Herriot, the pen name of veterinarian James Alfred Wight. Both the series and the books tell the adventures of three veterinarians in the rural area of Yorkshire.

The one in charge of filling the gap of Com si fos ahir is Last Tango in Halifax, a love story in old age that, like All Creatures Great and Small, is set in the Yorkshire area. The series, which originally aired between 2012 and 2020, was created by Sally Wainwright, a highly recognized television screenwriter thanks to the drama Happy Valley. The protagonists of the story are Celia and Alan, both in their seventies and widowed. They both met and fell in love when they were young, but life separated them. Now older, they meet again after creating a Facebook profile and restart their love story, a circumstance that will change the lives of their respective daughters. The main couple is played by Anne Reid, a veteran of English television, and Derek Jacobi, well known for I, Claudius.

Just after Last Tango in Halifax it will be the turn of the period series Call the Midwife, which will take the place of The Paradise of the Ladies and of which two episodes will be broadcast every day. This medical drama has been broadcast in England since 2012 and will soon reach its sixteenth season. The protagonists are a group of nurse midwives who begin working in the late 1950s in a hospital in London's East End. The series' longevity has meant that the plots of the latest seasons are already set in the 1970s and have been able to address issues such as the women's liberation movement. The cast of the series includes Emerald Fennell, now better known for her work as a director thanks to films like Saltburn or the recent adaptation of Wuthering Heights.

This summer, one of the most famous and beloved British series of the last two decades also returns to TV3's programming, Downton Abbey, the story of the wealthy Crawley family from 1912 to the interwar period. Starting July 26, the public television will air one episode every Sunday of the sixth and final season of the period drama (the series has continued with three subsequent films). Set in 1925, the latest episodes show, among other things, how Lady Mary (Michelle Dockery) rebuilds her life after the death of her husband and how Lady Edith (Laura Carmichael) leaves behind a secret that has marked her life for years.