Regular viewers of Drama Sundays on PBS have seen first hand just how much COVID has created havoc this year on a number of major UK productions around the world. Fortunately, things returned to something resembling normalcy earlier this year, for a while anyway, allowing many of our collective favorites such as Call the Midwife, Grantchester, Endeavour, […]
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It just keeps getting better from a drama standpoint on PBS as Masterpiece recently announced that the Amsterdam-based series, Van der Valk, has begun filming their second season. Marc Warren (Hustle, Mad Dogs, Beecham House, The Good Wife) reprises his role as Commissaris Piet Van der Valk, and Maimie McCoy (All Creatures Great and Small, Grantchester), Luke Allen-Gale (The Borgias), Elliot Barnes-Worrell […]
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Unforgotten, starring the always brilliant Nicola Walker (MI5, Last Tango in Halifax, Scott & Bailey) and the equally as brilliant Sanjeev Bhaskar (Goodness Gracious Me, Kumars at No. 42, Yesterday) in the lead roles as DCI Cassie Stuart and DS Sunil ‘Sunny’ Khan, has become one of the mainstays of the PBS Masterpiece series line-up since its premiere in […]
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As we collectively close the book on the 5th series of Grantchester, of which the finale aired this past Sunday as part of PBS’ Masterpiece series, word out of the UK is that the 1950s drama has been commissioned for a 6th series. When told the show was returning, Robson Green, who plays Detective Inspector Geordie Keating, […]
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Line of Duty‘s Vicky McClure confirmed recently on BBC Breakfast that series 6 fell victim to COVID-19 because of the government mandated lockdown as filming was shut down six weeks into a 16-week production schedule. That said, she had time to get together with series co-star Martin Compston for a brilliant #StayAtHome message of support […]
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Posted February 10, 2020 -
As we settle in and ready ourselves to begin our week-long, 10 hour a day, television binge-watch at the 2020 BBC Showcase in Liverpool, you may be wondering what is already on tap for PBS in the drama category. While we are looking at programming from drama to comedy to factual to natural history to […]
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With the new series of Grantchester (S4) all cued up and ready to go this Sunday as part of PBS’ Masterpiece series, ITV has announced that there will be a 5th series in 2020. Admittedly, this is the much preferred answer to the much larger question that was looming when the current series aired in the UK back […]
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Series 4 is about to change life for the town’s charismatic, jazz-loving clergyman, Sidney.
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Posted December 16, 2018 -
Clergyman Will Davenport, played by Tom Brittney of ‘Outlander’ fame, becomes DI Geordie Keating’s new crime-solving partner in 1950s Grantchester.
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Our shared recognition that British comedy and drama are the best telly on telly has made it easy to look forward to year 10 and beyond.
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