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In an era where legacy media is struggling in the face of changing technology, Channel 5 stands out as one of the few success stories among the networks that existed before streaming upended the landscape. Once a third-tier also-ran network on the U.K. dial that mostly aired older American
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If anything's a sure thing in the world of entertainment nowadays, it's murder. With procedurals of every stripe popping up everywhere, there's something for every kind of viewer, whether your taste runs to grisly true crime or more cozy series in idyllic locations where
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ITV's Grantchester has been a fan favorite on PBS' Masterpiece since the series first debuted in the U.S. in the winter of 2015. However, the show has been a slow-burn hit, spending its first few seasons as "the other summer mystery series" that aired
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Much like most Americans were unaware until recently that Disney owned Hulu, most U.K. (and U.S.) viewers have no idea Channel 5, the network behind All Creatures Great & Small, is owned by Paramount. As we have mentioned, Paramount is in the middle of being sold to Skydance
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Grantchester's ninth season ends much as it lived, with an hour that is...fine, if generally unremarkable. There is nothing shocking about this final hour, which makes a vague attempt at raising the stakes for several characters only to essentially reset things to the series' baseline status
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Much like most of the episodes that preceded it, the penultimate installment of Grantchester Season 9 is a mixed bag. An hour that finally sees several of the season's seemingly disparate story threads come together in a way that indicates its most annoying subplots were meant to be
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If the latest episode of Grantchester is anything to go by, that recent internet trend about men being obsessed with the Roman Empire has been true for much longer than TikTok has been around. The discovery of some Roman-era remains in local farmers Marcus and Della Blakely's (Cavan
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Grantchester may be a series that has evolved into an ensemble piece, but it's always been a show predominantly about men. It has its share of entertaining female characters: vicarage caretaker Mrs. C, Geordie's wife Cathy, and police secretary Miss Scott; however, the show's
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Change is always hard. That's more than evident as Grantchester settles into the third vicar of its run, proving that while the show is more than capable of surviving a significant character change, like anything else, there's an adjustment period involved. Admittedly, things are slightly less
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Grantchester has a thing about vicars and their vehicles. Sidney had the bicycle, Will had the motorbike, and now here comes our newest Rev Alphy Kotteram (Rishi Nair) rolling up to the front door in a little red roadster. It doesn't make any of what transpires next any
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In the least surprising announcement this month, Grantchester has been renewed for Season 10. The Odd Couple Solving Crimes in a Small U.K. Town series has been a fan-favorite ever since it launched in 2014, with fans first falling in love with original odd couple Rev. Sidney Chambers (James
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The moment many of us have been dreading has finally arrived: Will Davenport has officially left Grantchester. Technically, this isn't a surprise, given that we've known Tom Brittney would be departing the show for the past year or so. However, Grantchester still manages to wring maximum