One of the things that makes mystery and crime TV series so popular is the way the viewer usually solves the same mysteries that the main character does. Those who have watched through all the possible shows within this realm set in the modern day may want to take on yet another challenge and try to solve the crimes without having access to all the technology.
With no databases of DNA samples, no cell phone tracking and no Internet available for quick research, the detectives of the past centuries had to rely only on their deductive and interrogation skills to catch the criminals. Here are 8 shows with the best depictions of such work.
Miss Scarlet and the Duke (2020-...)
After the death of her father, Miss Scarlet finds herself in a bad financial situation. However, driven by the idea of helping others through her father's detective agency, she steps into...
With no databases of DNA samples, no cell phone tracking and no Internet available for quick research, the detectives of the past centuries had to rely only on their deductive and interrogation skills to catch the criminals. Here are 8 shows with the best depictions of such work.
Miss Scarlet and the Duke (2020-...)
After the death of her father, Miss Scarlet finds herself in a bad financial situation. However, driven by the idea of helping others through her father's detective agency, she steps into...
- 5/6/2024
- by virginia-singh@startefacts.com (Virginia Singh)
- STartefacts.com
PBS has released the first look at Grantchester Season 9, which will be Tom Brittney‘s last stand as Vicar Will Davenport. The trailer for Season 9 quickly sets the stage for his departure and introduces Alphy Kotteram, Brittney’s successor played by Rishi Nair. With big changes afoot, here’s everything there is to know about Grantchester Season 9. Grantchester Season 9 Trailer There’s a new Vicar coming to town to help police detective Geordie Keating (Robson Green) solve cases in Season 9, and there’s no shortage of murder, mystery, and mayhem in this seemingly quiet 1950s Cambridgeshire village that gives the show its name. James Norton played Grantchester’s Vicar before Brittney, and now Nair takes on the mantle in the new episodes (more details on when they’ll debut below). In the trailer above, Brittney’s Will is hesitant to leave Grantchester, but his wife, Bonnie (You‘s Charlotte Ritchie...
- 4/16/2024
- TV Insider
The good news for fans of Masterpiece on PBS’ Grantchester? We now have a premiere date and a trailer for Season 9.
The sad news? As you might recall, Season 9 will mark leading man Tom Brittney‘s swan song as vicar Will Davenport.
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Last July, it was announced that Season 9 of Grantchester would be the last for Brittney, who joined the cast in Season 4. In turn, the Masterpiece mystery added English actor Rishi Nair...
The sad news? As you might recall, Season 9 will mark leading man Tom Brittney‘s swan song as vicar Will Davenport.
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Last July, it was announced that Season 9 of Grantchester would be the last for Brittney, who joined the cast in Season 4. In turn, the Masterpiece mystery added English actor Rishi Nair...
- 4/16/2024
- by Matt Webb Mitovich
- TVLine.com
PBS’s summer schedule is shaping up, and it’s looking very mysterious. In addition to the final season of Endeavour (which premieres June 18), viewers can also look forward to the season 8 premiere of Grantchester in July 2023.
‘Grantchester’ Season premieres July 9
We’re pleased to announce that Will and Geordie will be back on your screens this summer! Return to #GrantchesterPBS on July 9th with Masterpiece Mystery! on @PBS. pic.twitter.com/mF7cStcJkr
— Masterpiece | PBS (@masterpiecepbs) April 13, 2023
Grantchester Season 8 premieres Sunday, July 9 at 9 p.m. Et on PBS. The new season will have six episodes, with the final two installments airing back-to-back on Sunday, August 6.
Each new episode of Grantchester will also be available to stream online at PBS.org for 14 days, beginning the night it airs. PBS Passport members will be able to binge the entire season starting July 9.
Tom Brittney, Robson Green return for the new episodes...
‘Grantchester’ Season premieres July 9
We’re pleased to announce that Will and Geordie will be back on your screens this summer! Return to #GrantchesterPBS on July 9th with Masterpiece Mystery! on @PBS. pic.twitter.com/mF7cStcJkr
— Masterpiece | PBS (@masterpiecepbs) April 13, 2023
Grantchester Season 8 premieres Sunday, July 9 at 9 p.m. Et on PBS. The new season will have six episodes, with the final two installments airing back-to-back on Sunday, August 6.
Each new episode of Grantchester will also be available to stream online at PBS.org for 14 days, beginning the night it airs. PBS Passport members will be able to binge the entire season starting July 9.
Tom Brittney, Robson Green return for the new episodes...
- 4/15/2023
- by Megan Elliott
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
[Warning: The following contains Major spoilers for the Grantchester Season 7 finale.] The vicar of Grantchester is a bachelor no more. In a whirlwind season finale of the Masterpiece Mystery! series on PBS, Tom Brittney’s young and restless reverend, Will Davenport, married Charlotte Ritchie’s spirited widow, Bonnie Evans. The wedding was filmed on location in the English village where the show is set, and Brittney tells TV Insider that it took some subterfuge to keep the surprise ending under wraps. “We had a fake bride, and between scenes, I would put on my cassock, so it looked like I was just officiating another person’s wedding,” he says. “Then we would sneak Charlotte into the church, away from the photographers who come to take photos of us while we shoot. We had as much secrecy as Marvel.” Not to mention desserts that looked delicious even if the cast couldn’t eat them. “And I still hold on...
- 8/15/2022
- TV Insider
PBS on Thursday announced that British crime drama Grantchester has been renewed for Season 8. The pickup comes just days ahead of Season 7’s Stateside finale, which is set to air Sunday, Aug. 14 at 9/8c.
Production on Season 8 is already underway in the UK, and Masterpiece PBS has provided the following teaser:
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Production on Season 8 is already underway in the UK, and Masterpiece PBS has provided the following teaser:
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“Will is the happiest he’s ever been but his world will be rocked by a terrible accident. He’s always preached the word of a...
- 8/11/2022
- by Ryan Schwartz
- TVLine.com
PBS Masterpiece and ITV drama Grantchester has been recommissioned for an eighth season.
Set in a small English village, the show from Broadchurch producer Kudos stars Robson Green as Di Geordie Keating and Tom Brittney as Reverend Will Davenport.
In season eight of the popular long-running series, Will starts off the happiest he’s ever been but his world is rocked by a terrible accident while Geordie’s happiness will be threatened by shocking accidents at work.
Lead actor Green said: “A series that just gets better with age. Everyone involved is at the top of their game and this incredibly charming, likeable, dark and edgy show is an absolute privilege to be part of.”
Charlotte Ritchie (Ghosts) returns as Bonnie for season eight, alongside Tessa Peake-Jones as Mrs C, Al Weaver as Leonard Finch, Kacey Ainsworth as Cathy Keating, Oliver Dimsdale as Daniel Marlowe and Nick Brimble as Jack Chapman.
Set in a small English village, the show from Broadchurch producer Kudos stars Robson Green as Di Geordie Keating and Tom Brittney as Reverend Will Davenport.
In season eight of the popular long-running series, Will starts off the happiest he’s ever been but his world is rocked by a terrible accident while Geordie’s happiness will be threatened by shocking accidents at work.
Lead actor Green said: “A series that just gets better with age. Everyone involved is at the top of their game and this incredibly charming, likeable, dark and edgy show is an absolute privilege to be part of.”
Charlotte Ritchie (Ghosts) returns as Bonnie for season eight, alongside Tessa Peake-Jones as Mrs C, Al Weaver as Leonard Finch, Kacey Ainsworth as Cathy Keating, Oliver Dimsdale as Daniel Marlowe and Nick Brimble as Jack Chapman.
- 8/11/2022
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
Warning: contains plot details for Grantchester seasons 1-6 and the first two episodes of season 7.
Grantchester is commonly described by critics and viewers as a “cozy mystery”. This label, especially in regards to its seventh season currently airing in the US on PBS, is misleading. Although so far the season’s emphasis on found family is heart-warming, there are also a number of serious social and political issues underneath the unraveling of its various mysteries.
The crime-solving vicar/priest/nun is a common cozy mystery archetype. In 1950s-set Grantchester, originally based on a series of books by James Runcie, that character started out as Sidney Chambers (James Norton), a vicar with an unusual side hobby and a good friend in police inspector Geordie Keating (Robson Green). Sidney served in WWII but many of his younger parishioners did not, which shaped his interactions. The series veered in a different direction from the books,...
Grantchester is commonly described by critics and viewers as a “cozy mystery”. This label, especially in regards to its seventh season currently airing in the US on PBS, is misleading. Although so far the season’s emphasis on found family is heart-warming, there are also a number of serious social and political issues underneath the unraveling of its various mysteries.
The crime-solving vicar/priest/nun is a common cozy mystery archetype. In 1950s-set Grantchester, originally based on a series of books by James Runcie, that character started out as Sidney Chambers (James Norton), a vicar with an unusual side hobby and a good friend in police inspector Geordie Keating (Robson Green). Sidney served in WWII but many of his younger parishioners did not, which shaped his interactions. The series veered in a different direction from the books,...
- 7/24/2022
- by Louisa Mellor
- Den of Geek
The vicarage has a new occupant as Season 7 of the Masterpiece Mystery! series Grantchester opens in summer 1959. Police inspector Geordie Keating (Robson Green) is cohabiting with his crime-solving best friend, Will Davenport (Tom Brittney), while trying to win back estranged wife Cathy (Kacey Ainsworth). “He thinks she’s just going to come back,” Green says, “but the more time he spends away from her, the more detached they become.” (Credit: Courtesy of (C) Kudos Film and TV Ltd) In between cases, Reverend Will’s love life gets steamy, and complicated. He falls for Maya (Ellora Torchia), a gal he encounters at a jazz club, but there’s another contender in town: Cathy’s spirited niece Bonnie (Call the Midwife’s Charlotte Ritchie), a young widow with an adorable son (Isaac Highams). One of the ladies calls Will an “incredibly entitled ass.” “Will is a little bit restless and is kind...
- 7/8/2022
- TV Insider
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