Rachel Shenton ‘s Helen Alderson will be settling into family life on the farm in the highly anticipated sixth season of All Creatures Great and Small , which is set to premiere on PBS on Sunday, January 11, 2026.

Speaking to Hello! and other press ahead of the sixth season’s U.K. premiere, Shenton confirmed the popular period drama will be skipping ahead a few years , to May 1945, after the Second World War comes to an end; Season 5 was set during spring 1941.

“We’ve jumped forward in time, and when we pick up this year, Helen and the children are at Heston Grange, helping out [her father] Richard Alderson ( Tony Pitts ) and [her sister] Jenny ( Imogen Clawson ),” Shenton said.

“They’ve got a bit more space, rather than being cramped in a bedsit,” she added. “She’s happy,

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