Lark Rise to Candleford is a British television

British television

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 costume drama

Costume drama

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 series, adapted by the BBC from Flora Thompson

Flora Thompson

Flora Jane Thompson was an English novelist and poet famous for her semi-autobiographical trilogy about the English countryside, Lark Rise to Candleford.-Early life and family:...

's trilogy of semi-autobiographical novels

Lark Rise to Candleford

Lark Rise to Candleford is a trilogy of semi-autobiographical novels about the countryside of north-east Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire, England, at the end of the 19th century. They were written by Flora Thompson and first published together in 1945...

 about the English countryside, published between 1939 and 1943. The first episode aired on 13 January 2008 on BBC One

BBC One

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 and BBC HD

BBC HD

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 in the UK. In the US, the series began airing on select PBS stations in the spring of 2009. A third series began airing in the UK on 10 January 2010. The fourth and final series began on 9 January 2011 on BBC One

BBC One

BBC One is the flagship television channel of the British Broadcasting Corporation in the United Kingdom. It was launched on 2 November 1936 as the BBC Television Service, and was the world's first regular television service with a high level of image resolution...

 and BBC One HD

BBC HD

BBC HD is a high-definition television network provided by the BBC. The service was initially run as a trial from 15 May 2006 until becoming a full service on 1 December 2007...

, and was filmed during August 2010.

It was announced on 22 January 2011 that the show will not be returning for a fifth series, despite impressive ratings.