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Grantchester on Masterpiece on PBS. Pictured: Rishi Nair as Alphy Kottaram and Robson Green as DI Geordie Keating

Grantchester on Masterpiece

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…

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The American Revolution on PBS. Pictured: Minute Men leaving the home of Captain Isaac Davis as they begin their march toward Concord, painted by Arthur Fuller Davis.

The American Revolution

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…

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Maigret on Masterpiece on PBS. Pictured: Inspector Maigret’s trusty Les Maigrets (left to right): Andrea Lucas (Kerrie Hayes), Karim Lapointe (Reda Elazouar), Jules Maigret (Benjamin Wainwright), Joseph Torrence (Blake Harrison and Berthe Janvier (Shaniqua Okwok).

Maigret on Masterpiece

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…

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The Marlow Murder Club on Masterpiece on PBS. Pictured: Samanatha Bond is back as retired archaeologist and amateur sleuth Judith Potts.

The Marlow Murder Club on Masterpiece

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…

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Grantchester on Masterpiece on PBS. Pictured: New vicar Alphy Kottaram (Rishi Nair) has been settling into Grantchester.

Grantchester on Masterpiece

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…

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Patience on PBS. Pictured: Ella Maisy Purvis as Patience Evans.

Patience

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…

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Miss Austen on Masterpiece on PBS. Pictured: Keeley Hawes as Cassandra Austen.

Miss Austen on Masterpiece

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 —…

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Marie Antoinette on PBS. Pictured (left to right): Louis Philippe II, a.k.a. Chartres (Oscar Lesage), Jeanne de la Motte (Freya Mavor), Queen Marie Antoinette (Emilia Schüle) and King Louis XVI (Louis Cunninghan).

Marie Antoinette

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…

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Call the Midwife on PBS. Pictured: The nurses of Nonnatus House (left to right): Rosalind Clifford (Natalie Quarry), Joyce Highland (Renee Bailey), Shelagh Turner (Laura Main) and Trixie Aylward (Helen George).

Call the Midwife

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…

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