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The original Flemish language Professor T starred Koen De Bouw as Jasper Teerlinck, the titular Professor T, a criminology lecturer at the University of Antwerp. A Sherlock Holmes-type figure, Professor T suffers from obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and is neuroatypical. However, former student Annelies Donckers, now an inspector of the Federal
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Watching a sleeper hit become one of the most popular British shows that airs on PBS always feels a bit miraculous, like seeing a full double rainbow or a meteor shooting across the sky. That goes double if the first season of the show wasn't all that great,
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Ever since it debuted in July 2021, the U.K. adaptation of Professor T has bounced around the PBS schedule like a rubber ball. Season 2 of the series arrived in September 2023, and Season 3 in June 2024. Obviously, that could only mean that Season 4 would debut sometime
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When the executives behind Walter Presents, Jo McGrath and Walter Iuzzolino, decided to start a production company to remake their most popular foreign language hits in English, choosing Professor T was a no-brainer. The original three-season Belgian version was a hit in the U.S. and the U.K., plus
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It’s the end of Professor T’s lively third season, and we finally get our payoff: the truth about Jasper’s father’s death. Throw in a murder mystery where the victim of a car crash died of suffocation, add the surprising death of a main character, and it’
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The fifth episode of Professor T starts out wanting you to believe Jasper is once again accused of murder, but that’s false. He just won his freedom and cleared his name – legally, if not professionally – and is attempting to reclaim his place at Cambridge. Luckily, that is not what
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We teach best what we most need to learn; this week, Jasper is the perfect example of this idiom, gaining wisdom and (eventually) embracing humility in Professor T's fourth episode. He haunts his old lecture hall – both when empty and when occupied by his replacement, Erik Haiden (Cornelius
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It is unclear how much time has passed since the second episode, but this week finds the Professor at his trial for the attempted murder of Simon Lanesborough. Simon’s crookedness is not questioned, but what happened to him is not mentioned. Was he jailed? We don’t see him
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The second episode of Professor T’s third season features a clever opener that intercuts between Jasper approaching the therapy room, where he finds his mother Adelaide waiting instead of Dr. Goldberg, and the murder of the week, with an employee seeing a young bride floating dead in a hotel
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After a season spent watching his love interest date someone else, our titular Professor T, Jasper (Ben Miller), was vindicated when Christina’s (Juliet Aubrey) boyfriend, Simon (Alastair Mackenzie), turned out to be a crooked cop. This led to the season finale confrontation where the Prof discharged an unlicensed rifle
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Fans of Professor T have a splendid surprise awaiting them for the start of the summer, as PBS revealed that the popular Ben Miller-starring English language remake will return much earlier than initially anticipated. Instead of having to wait until late summer, or worse, the fall mystery season, PBS will
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Though it followed the same contours as the Belgian series, Professor T Season 2's cliffhanger was one of the show's best decisions of the sophomore outing. Fans of the original series who knew that Professor Jasper Teerlinck (Koen De Bouw) ended the second set of 13