America's Public Television Stations
PBS Passport
PBS Passport is once again bringing members shows before they stream on linear. Season 1 of the British remake of Walter's Choice fan-favorite Before We Die (Innan vi Dör) debuted on most linear PBS stations in March 2022 alongside Call The Midwife and Sanditon Season 2. For 2023,
Sanditon
Sanditon's first season was a hit for PBS when it debuted in early 2020, but it came with a pair of disappointments baked in. The first was that the series, based on the unfinished Jane Austen novel, and written by Austen auteur Andrew Davies, had been canceled by
PBS
Season 11 of Call The Midwife packed a lot into its eight episodes. Set in 1967, the year Nonnatus House celebrated its centenary, profound cultural changes took place in the neighborhood of Poplar and all over the world. Nonnatus House’s world is close to ours, despite advances in medicine
Tom Jones
Henry Fielding's classic eighteenth-century novel Tom Jones: A Foundling is one of the first works of literature that can rightly be called a novel as modern readers understand it, yet its story is much less frequently adapted than stories by several of the later authors his work influenced,
All Creatures Great and Small
Since the debut of the second season of All Creatures Great & Small, viewers have known the series would be back for two more seasons. The two-season renewal announcement came on January 10, 2022, less than 24 hours after the Season 2 premiere on PBS. Moreover, the when of filming
PBS
Spring arrives on March 20, but PBS will have it beat this year, with its yearly trio of Spring 2023 premieres debuting the night before on Sunday, March 19. However, linear debuts are merely the tip of the iceberg nowadays when it comes to programming, and shows are busting out
Call the Midwife
As springtime approaches, some things feel inevitable. The cherry blossoms are gearing up to bloom here in the D.C. area, your allergies are most likely gearing up to ruin your life wherever you happen to be living, and it's almost time for another season of the heartwarming
Marie Antoinette
Marie Antoinette is one of the most famous women in history, a queen who is most often remembered more for the idea of who she was and what she represented rather than for anything to do with the actual historical fact of her life. Our modern-day pop culture most often
Call the Midwife
Call The Midwife's twelve seasons (and counting) is barely a drop in the bucket compared to most British soap operas and hospital dramas. Coronation Street has been going 63 years, Emmerdale for just over 50. It's not even close to the longest-running primetime medical drama either;
Mystery
As is true of nearly all successful murder mysteries based on books (unless you're adapting Agatha Christie), eventually, the source material runs out. It's a mark of the popularity of Vienna Blood that it hit this point and the production's dedication to the Frank
All Creatures Great and Small
This week’s All Creatures Great & Small carries the punch and emotional weight of the season finale it was in the U.K. (Here in the U.S.A., the season finale is the Christmas Special, airing next week). It’s a moving and brilliant episode as our beloved
Miss Scarlet (and the Duke)
After a third season that was fairly uneven over the course of its run, Miss Scarlet & the Duke sticks the landing in its Season 3 finale, offering up an episode that's fun to watch, genuinely suspenseful, and full of the sort of great character moments that have