https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_7lX-v1CRA Stars Rishi Nair and Robson Green say goodbye to Grantchester with the 11th and final season Ever since first making its PBS debut back in 2015, Grantchester has proven to be a shining beacon within the “cozy murder” genre, presenting viewers with an endless stream of puzzling mysteries solved by a police detective and…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lruEtNTN9oY Documentarian Ken Burns latest takes an in-depth look at the uprising that changed the world in The American Revolution Ken Burns has been producing blue-chip documentaries for PBS for decades, all boasting a distinctly American perspective. While past topics have ranged from jazz music to baseball to prohibition to the Civil War, his latest…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Er8BNR7x9yM PBS delivers a new and modern take on an iconic detective in Maigret There is nothing meagre about Maigret. First introduced to the public by author Georges Simenon in his 1931 novel Pietr the Latvian, French police detective Jules Maigret — thanks to his Belgian creator — paved the way for a new literary…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iM0KU-2oslM Season four saw Sunny lose his partner, Cassie (Nicola Walker), who meant so much to him. Season five was about him grieving and also adjusting to a new partner, Jess (Sinéad Keenan). Are Sunny and Jess any closer in season six to becoming what Sunny and Cassie were? He certainly recognizes that she…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDHnw675Mcw The Marlow Murder Club star Samantha Bond lifts the curtain on a second season of sleuthing When retired archaeologist Judith Potts (Samantha Bond) witnessed her neighbour’s murder, and the local constabulary in her quaint English village wrote her off as a crackpot, she enlisted two other locals — dog-walker Suzie Harris (Jo Martin) and Vicar’s…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7JDZmFNONg Grantchester star Rishi Nair tells TV Week what’s in store for crime-solving vicar Alphy Kottaram in the 10th season of Grantchester As the most recent actor to don the liturgical garments in the small English town of Grantchester, actor Rishi Nair recognizes that a murder a week feels like a high concentration of death…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmN8OkWQ-TA An autistic woman uses her uncanny ability to connect dots others miss to help a police detective solve tough cases in Patience Investigators solve crimes by putting together the jigsaw puzzle of a case one piece at a time. A fresh perspective can put new pieces in the pile that make the outcome appear…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-05wBhN6Vg The sister of literary giant Jane Austen is the focus of this new Masterpiece series In the literary world, the name Austen typically invokes images of women in billowing attire atop a breezy English cliff or traversing a John Constable-worthy pastoral landscape with book in hand, perhaps unwilling to — but about to —…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMQ4uFydah8 The PBS costume drama deepens the story of Marie Antoinette in Season 2 When we rejoin Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette at the court of Versailles in season two of Marie Antoinette, the general atmosphere is one of impending doom. Ten years from this moment, the two will meet a violent end, as will…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAIRaxdg9Z8 The 1970s beckon as venerable British drama Call the Midwife heads into its 14th season When it comes to long-running scripted British television series, several titles rush to mind. From popular sci-fi/fantasy series Doctor Who, which boasts 40 complete seasons and several specials since its premiere in November 1963, to ongoing ensemble cast series…