UNFORGOTTEN: Season 6 News!

Unforgotten, Season 6

Unforgotten returns to PBS Masterpiece Mystery! on August 24, 10/9c. There will be 6 episodes. DCI Jess James, DI Sunny Khan, and their team examine the lives of a disparate group of people linked to a cold case.They uncover the truth behind a dismembered body found in Whitney Marsh.

Sinéad Keenan and Sanjeev Bhaskar reprise their roles as DCI Jess James and DI Sunil 'Sunny'

Khan partnership returns.

Commented Sinéad Keenan: “I am absolutely delighted to be stepping into the world of

Unforgotten once more. To be involved with the incredible team at Mainstreet on yet another

set of stellar scripts from Chris Lang, with the brilliant Andy Wilson at the helm is a real treat.

And to get to work again with Sanjeev, Carolina, Jordan, Pippa, and Georgia is an absolute joy.

To call it *work* is a total misnomer. I can’t wait to get started!”

Commented Sanjeev Bhaskar: “I’m humbled and excited to be back as Sunny Khan, bearing

the backpack for series 6 of Unforgotten. Chris’s scripts, as ever, are intriguing, detailed and

empathetic. Andy’s direction and the skill of Sinéad and the cast make this a warm and

creative experience that so much more than a job. Once again I feel lucky to be a part of it.”

Looking forward to this! 

And good news: Season 7 has been given the green light.

Here's the Trailer for Season 6.

 

The Marlow Murder Club TV Series: PBS

8/20/24: You're going to love The Marlow Murder Club on PBS Masterpiece Mystery! It's fabulous! Great acting, wonderful tight plot line, stunning setting. It has it all. Just what I love in a British mystery! Thank you, Masterpiece Mystery! I just binged all 4 episodes! Lucky Me! What terrific viewing! The Marlow Murder Club is adapted by Robert Thorogood from his novel The Marlow Murder Club. Watch on Masterpiece on PBS broadcast, streaming at PBS.org, the PBS app, and the PBS Masterpiece Prime Video Channel, premiering October 27, 2024 at 9/8c

Robert Thorogood is also the creator of Death in Paradise, another great British mystery hit! The Marlow Murder Club series stars Samantha Bond who is joined by Jo Martin, Cara Horgan, and Natalie Dew. Samantha Bond (Downton Abbey, Home Fires) takes the lead as Judith Potts, alongside Jo Martin (Doctor Who, Back to Life) as Suzie Harris, Cara Horgan (The Sandman, Traitors) as Becks Starling, and Natalie Dew (Sandylands, The Capture) as DS Tanika Malik. Steve Barron (The Durrells in Corfu, Mrs Sidhu Investigates) directs. Airing in four parts on MASTERPIECE in the US, the series is a UKTV co-production with MASTERPIECE on PBS, produced by Monumental Television in association with ITV Studios.

Robert Thorogood said: “After over a decade of working on Death in Paradise, I’m thrilled to be creating a brand-new murder mystery series for TV. I can’t wait for audiences to join Judith, Becks, and Suzie on their adventures as they solve a series of fiendishly puzzling murders.”

Susanne Simpson, MASTERPIECE executive producer, added: “The Marlow Murder Club is exactly the kind of show that our MASTERPIECE Mystery! viewers will love. We’re thrilled to be working with Samantha Bond again and to partner with Monumental Television on this exciting new series.”

The Plot:

Retired archaeologist Judith Potts (Bond) lives alone in a faded mansion in the peaceful town of Marlow, filling her time by setting crosswords for the local paper. During one of her regular nude swims in the Thames, Judith hears a gunshot coming from a neighbor’s garden and believes a brutal murder has taken place. When the police are reluctant to believe her story, Judith finds herself forming an unlikely friendship with local dog-walker and empty-nester Suzie (Martin) and unfulfilled vicar’s wife Becks (Horgan) as they start an investigation of their own. Eventually asked to assist with the official police investigation, headed by newly promoted Tanika (Dew), the women must piece together clues, grill suspect witnesses, and face down real danger as they work against the clock to stop the killer in their tracks.

Here's the Trailer. 

Mark your Calendar for The Marlow Murder Club premiering October 27 on Masterpiece Mystery! In the meantime, read the Marlow Murder Club mystery series by Robert Thorogood: The Marlow Murder Club (2021); Death Comes to Marlow (2023), The Queen of Poisons (2024); Murder on the Marlow Belle (2025)

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Artwork by Edward Gorey!

GRANTCHESTER, Season 8, premieres July 9

GRANTCHESTER, Season 8, premieres on Sunday, July 9 at 9/8C on PBS Masterpiece

Grantchester returns with Will (Tom Brittney) happily married to Bonnie (Charlotte Ritchie), and Geordie (Robson Green) and Cathy (Kacey Ainsworth) content in their rebuilt relationship. But an accident and shocking announcements threaten the stability and happiness found by Grantchester’s vicar and police detective duo. Exploring faith, forgiveness, and redemption, this explosive season of Grantchester tests Will and Geordie to the limit.

The new season of Grantchester premieres Sunday, July 9, 9/8c on MASTERPIECE on PBS, and continues Sundays through August 6, 2023. On Sunday, August 6, fans will get a double dose of Grantchester, with the final two episodes of Season 8 airing in one night. Episode 5 begins at at 9/8c, and Episode 6, the season finale, premieres at 10/9c.

Also available on PBS Passport and Masterpiece Prime Video.

Have a bit more time? Stay tuned for D.I. Ray at 10 p.m.

MASTERPIECE MYSTERY! FALL LINE-UP & Masterpiece Mystery! Insider

Premiere dates for 3 returning series coming this Fall on PBS

September 3 at 9/8c: Unforgotten, Season 5 

September 3 at 10/9c: Van der Valk, Season 3

October 15 at 10/9c: Annika, Season 2

 

These join the previously announced fall premiere for World on Fire, Season 2 which begins on October 15 at 9/8c.

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ANNIKA: PBS MASTERPIECE

PBS MASTERPIECE announced that it will present Annika starring Nicola Walker (Unforgotten, Last Tango in Halifax). Walker plays DI Annika Strandhed, the dry-witted, speedboat-driving head of Glasgow’s newly-formed Marine Homicide Unit, who juggles baffling cases and a rebellious teenage daughter.

Annika’s six episodes will have a special premiere on PBS Passport, an added member benefit which provides extended access to a digital, on-demand library of PBS programs, and on the PBS MASTERPIECE Prime Video Channel on April 17, 2022. The series will have a television broadcast on MASTERPIECE in Fall 2022.

 

While other TV detectives discuss the case exclusively with their team, Annika addresses viewers directly, “breaking the fourth wall” that separates the action from the audience. “With most characters there is so much subtext,” notes Walker. “But there is no subtext with Annika because the subtext is her talking directly to you and telling you what she feels. By the end, we are going to know her as well as she knows herself.”

 

Annika draws on the popular radio drama Annika Stranded, which aired on BBC Radio 4 between 2013 and 2020. Walker was the one-woman star of that series, with scripts by Nick Walker (no relation). The two Walkers have now teamed up again to bring Annika to television in all her complexity, vulnerability, and eccentric affability.

The Men of Mystery: Endeavor & Grantchester Coming soon to Masterpiece!

Coming soon to Masterpiece! on PBS: New seasons of Endeavor and Grantchester!

Endeavour, Season 6, premieres Sunday, June 16, 2019, 9/8c on MASTERPIECE on PBS. 
Shaun Evans charms audiences with his portrayal of the cerebral and solitary Detective Constable Morse in Endeavour, written by Inspector Lewis creator and Inspector Morse writer Russell Lewis.

In Endeavour, Season 6, Shaun Evans has a new look as DS Endeavour Morse. The latest installment of Endeavour is set in 1969. Evans will also be putting his directorial mark on the show, heading behind the camera for the second 90-minute episode of the season. Endeavour will also be facing new challenges, with Morse having started a new role as a uniformed officer at the Woodstock police department and embracing the fashion of the period by growing a mustache. Alongside Evans, the new series will see celebrated stage and screen actor Roger Allam return as DI Fred Thursday, alongside Anton Lesser as CS Reginald Bright, Sean Rigby as DS Jim Strange, James Bradshaw as Dr Max DeBryn, Sara Vickers as Joan Thursday, Abigail Thaw as Dorothea Frazil and Caroline O’Neill as Win Thursday. Following the dissolution of the Oxford City Police and the merging with Thames Valley Constabulary at the end of the last season, the new season picks up with the team dispersed as they find their feet in their various new roles.

Grantchester Season 4 premieres Sunday, July 14, 2019, 9/8c on MASTERPIECE on PBS.

Grantchester returns to MASTERPIECE with a new vicar: Tom Brittney (Outlander, Call the Midwife) who joins the cast of Season 4 as Reverend Will Davenport — man of the people and crime-solving partner to Robson Green’s Geordie Keating in 1950s Grantchester. James Norton, who plays the charismatic, jazz-loving clergyman Sidney Chambers, makes his final appearance during the series. Confident, caring and self-assured, Grantchester’s new young parish priest channels his boundless energy into a quest for social justice. He is a man of God, but with the devil inside of him. As Geordie draws him into righting the wrongs of criminal Cambridge, Will’s own troubled past is unearthed. About his character, Brittney says, “Will has a very strong moral compass with a thirst to change things, but underneath, there is a dark and troubled past that drives him in what he does.”

Watch a Preview Here

ENDEAVOR SEASON 5: PBS Masterpiece starts June 24

Endeavour returns to PBS Masterpiece Mystery! for Season 5 on June 24! For the first time in the history of the series, there will be six full-length episodes.

The new season begins with Morse having finally passed his Sergeant’s exams just as Oxford City Police merges into Thames Valley Constabulary creating uncertainty for everyone at Cowley CID.

“Many of the global tensions of that most turbulent year, 1968, have found their way into our six new Endeavour mysteries,” said series creator and writer Russell Lewis. “1967’s Summer of Love seems already a distant memory. Dark clouds are gathering at home and abroad as, after almost 100 years, the long history of Oxford City Police comes to an end. A terrible storm is set to blow through the professional and personal lives of newly promoted Detective Sergeant Endeavour Morse and Oxford’s finest, leaving devastation in its wake.”

I've seen the first two episodes and really enjoyed them. They're definitely full of puzzles that the mystery viewer will appreciate. Great period sets, costumes, and themes.