'Patience' Sets Series Premiere for Summer 2025

Astrid fans who have persevered in quietly waiting for the English-language remake, Patience, to arrive on PBS will finally be rewarded for their fortitude. As expected, the series will be part of the PBS "Summer of Mysteries" lineup; however, those who thought the show might be a 10 p.m. ET show will be pleased to learn the show has been deemed family-friendly enough to debut at 8 p.m. ET instead. That's good news for Grantchester's tenth season, which will have the series as a lead-in, and for Patience, which deserves to get a broad audience.

Based on one of Walter Presents' biggest hits on PBS Passport, Patience is an "odd couple investigators solve crimes" series, where the twist is that one of the team has been diagnosed with autism. While most modernized Sherlock Holmes riffs tend to lean into "detective on the spectrum" style explanations, Astrid was unusual for both halves of the team being women, and being upfront about the diagnosis. However, the show was very typical in one respect: The actor playing the titular Astrid was neurotypical.

With the remake, Patience's producers have taken the opportunity to correct that decision, not only casting Ella Maisy Purvis, who is open about her spectrum diagnosis, as the titular Patience, but also assuring viewers and critics in the press releases that all characters who are neurodivergent are played by actors who are as well and that the writing team all have firsthand experience.