<Li> Jump up ^ The episode's world premiere date was at the BFI and Radio Times Television Festival on 8 April 2017 . </Li> <P> (1937) </P> <P> A third series was confirmed to be in production by writer Simon Nye at the BFI and Radio Times Television Festival on 8 April 2017 . He described the third series as having "some exotic new animals", and that production would begin in three weeks' time, upon Keeley Hawes's arrival in Corfu for filming . It will be set in 1937 . </P> <P> Reception to the first episode was positive, with Gerard O'Donovan (The Telegraph) calling it "a series that's not only sun - drenched and liberating, but also catches its source material's high good humour without labouring it and weaves an authentic sense of the innocent exoticism of the original," before awarding it four stars . The Daily Mail's Christoper Stevens bestowed even more praise, giving it five stars and focusing on the cast's performance, primarily Keeley Hawes as widowed mother Louisa Durrell and Milo Parker as young Gerry . </P>

Will there be a new series of the durrells