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'Bergerac' Reboot Finally Heads to PBS
PBS announces it will take the U.S. streaming rights to the new 'Bergerac' remake, bringing fans new mysteries from the Bailiwick of Jersey.
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A Low Key Wedding Brings 'Professor T's Season 4 Finale in for a Soft Landing
After the emotional gut punch of losing Lisa in Season 3’s finale, Professor T’s Season 4 conclusion, “The Warrior Gene,” does us all a solid in this turbulent year: it delivers a sweet, gentle story that feels like a hug from the show. Winters gets the emotional catharsis
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'Professor T' Achieves Personal Progress & Unravels “The Perfect Murder”
We've reached the penultimate episode of Professor T Season 4, and everyone's personal lives are in flux. Zelda’s story is taking prominence, and the Dean becomes a less shallow and more fully-fledged character. Though Peter Snares seems like a lovely man, the Dean’s heartache
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'Professor T's “You Can’t Kill Me” Is Tonally Inconsistent Fun
The title of this week’s Professor T episode, “You Can’t Kill Me,” along with Aunt Zelda opening things with a tarot card reading, suggests a more playful story. The unraveling of this week’s murder is far sadder than what the expectations set. Yet it also manages to
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'Professor T's Crime-Solving Tactics Turn Full Creep in “The Inspection”
This week on Professor T, Jasper lectures about crime statistics, informing his students 89% of killers use a single method, and most are men with histories of violence. Multiple methods of murder suggest premeditation. He warns his students that real-life crime will always have exceptions; of course, that will come
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Jasper Exhibits His Compassionate Side in 'Professor T's “September Gardens”
The second episode of Professor T’s fourth season, “September Gardens,” opens with Adelaide (Frances de la Tour), making the briefest of appearances as Jasper’s mother via FaceTime, to pressure him into complying with a request that will propel him into this week’s case. He is begrudgingly convinced
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'Professor T's Season 4 Premiere Jumps "Overboard" Into the Deep End
Sometimes, after a tragedy, people regress into old habits and comfortable personas. After years of a personality shaped by PTSD, Professor T’s Jasper Tempest (Ben Miller) reverts to the solace of his OCD routines in Season 4’s premiere, “Overboard,” following the death of the series' other main
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'Bergerac' Season 2 Begins Filming in Jersey, Still Has No U.S. Distributor
UKTV's decision to reboot the Jersey-set British detective series Bergerac turned out to be one of the smartest decisions it made in the 2020s so far, right alongside co-producing The Marlow Murder Club with PBS' Masterpiece. Marlow Murder wound up the most popular series debut in U&
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'Professor T' Season 4 Lands Early Release on PBS Passport
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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'Professor T' Heads Back to School for Season 4 When Summer Ends
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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U.K. Adaptation of 'Professor T' Breaks Record with Season 5
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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The 'Bergerac' Trailer Puts the Detective on the Case
The 2015 reboot of Poldark turned out to be the leading edge of a wave of British remakes of TV series from the 1970s and 80s, many of which were broadcast on local PBS stations during the era when the PBS mothership didn't try to control what aired