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PBS’ new series, D.I. Ray, took its sweet time setting up the characters in last week’s premiere, introducing Rachita Ray (Parminder Nagra) as a tenacious officer promoted to Homicides investigating the murder of Imran Aziz, who was feuding with his girlfriend Anjuli’s family and caught up in
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The second episode of Grantchester Season 8 doesn't waste any time on set-up, immediately jumping back into events of last week's dramatic cliffhanger, namely, whether Will Davenport killed a man. And, despite the suspicions of some of us (read: me) that this twist might be some
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While PBS is rightly known for the high-caliber British mysteries and sprawling period dramas that can be found under the Masterpiece banner, it's also quietly building a name for itself as a digital and broadcast home for international offerings. Thanks to its embrace of the anthology franchise Walter
Grantchester
Perhaps the smartest thing series creator Daisy Coulam did in adapting James Runchie's The Sidney Chambers Mysteries was rename it Grantchester. By naming the series after the village instead of the character, she took a series about a James Bond wannabe jazz-loving priest, and made it an ensemble
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It's been over a year since Luna + Sophie, renamed from its original German title SOKO Potsdam, arrived as a binge-watch on PBS Passport in April 2022. The German language series debuted simultaneously with Annika's first season on PBS Passport, and both women-fronted police procedural series have
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The newest member of Jed Mercutio’s Line of Duty police procedural dynasty has arrived. D.I. Ray, created and written by former Line of Duty star Maya Sondhi, is the summer’s latest mystery, though it’s been streaming on PBS Passport since February. The series is a by-the-books
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Grantchester is something of an oddity in the British mystery world — a character-focused drama in which the crime is often the least important thing happening in any given episode. Rather than set up elaborate red herrings to surprise viewers with the identity of who committed any given crime, the series
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Ridley continues to go hard on the jazzy aspect of the show, with an opening murder set to the background music playing at my local Starbucks this morning. That melds so gently into the opening credits I forgot to hit the "Skip Intro" button. Not to worry, there&
Vienna Blood
After a six-month delay, Vienna Blood has finally been commissioned for Season 4 by Austria and German public TV stations ORF and ZRF. The series has struggled to establish itself as a hit with American viewers on PBS. It initially debuted in the 10 p.m. ET slot in January
PBS Passport
Walter Presents, the Channel 4 anthology series from the U.K. that debuted on PBS Passport just months before the pandemic, isn’t marketed that heavily to Americans as part of their membership. However, there have been a few breakout hits, including the French police procedural Astrid (originally Astrid et
Call the Midwife
These days there are few things more certain in British television than new seasons of Call the Midwife. The megapopular period drama about the nuns and midwives serving the poor of London's East End first premiered in 2012, and is still going strong over a decade later, breezing
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Almost a decade ago, the good Reverend Sidney Chambers (James Norton) was assigned to the vicarage of Grantchester, where he became BFFs with the local detective inspector Geordie Keating (Robson Green) and had three seasons of a will-they-or-wont-they romance with the posh Amanda Kendall (Morven Christie). However, in Season 3,