Encore Tuesdays, April 18 - May 16, 2023 at 9 p.m. on KPBS 2 / Stream Seasons 1 - 7 now with KPBS Passport! Season 8 will premiere Sunday, July 9, 2023!
GRANTCHESTER returns to MASTERPIECE with a new vicar: Tom Brittney. It’s 1956 in Grantchester, and the post-war rulebook is being torn up – it’s the birth of the teenager, the era of Elvis. There’s change at the vicarage, too. Reverend Sidney Chambers is feeling adrift. He needs a little danger in his life, which is exactly what he gets when American civil rights activist Violet Todd arrives in the city and fires up his need for social justice.
And soon enough, there’s a new Vicar of Grantchester: firebrand Will Davenport (Tom Brittney/ OUTLANDER, CALL THE MIDWIFE ). Idealistic and energetic, Will is a man of the people. He rides into the village on a motorbike, listens to rock ‘n roll and encourages the congregation to call him by his first name – all of which leaves Mrs. C. appalled.
And while Will embraces the future, Inspector Geordie Keating is left entirely baffled by it: Cathy is suddenly cold and distant, he can’t find anything in the new police station where he has to share an office with a new DI, and there’s the feeling that the other officers are starting to think he’s a bit of a throwback.
Throughout all of this upheaval, one constant remains: there is injustice in this world, and whether it’s Sidney, Will, or even Leonard, Geordie knows that sometimes a vicar can be a detective’s best friend.
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EPISODE GUIDE:
Episode 1: Encore Tuesday, April 18 at 9 p.m. on KPBS 2 - Sidney is swept up in the civil rights movement when Reverend Todd and his daughter arrive — and a murder sees racial tensions spike. Sidney struggles to remember a victim's final words. Geordie investigates a slum connected to a deadly web of vice.
Episode 2: Encore Tuesday, April 25 at 9 p.m. on KPBS 2 - When a professor dies at a cutting-edge computer laboratory, Geordie turns to Leonard for assistance. As they discover the messy love lives of the computer laboratory team, Cathy is tricked, Will returns and Mrs. C makes a shocking discovery.
Episode 3: Encore Tuesday, May 2 at 9 p.m. on KPBS 2 - When a child from an isolated farming family is accused of murder, Will is the only one able to reach him, and it brings out unexpected sides of the young vicar, shocking Geordie.
Episode 4: Encore Tuesday, May 9 at 9 p.m. on KPBS 2 - When Will asks for Geordie's help with a family matter, Geordie is surprised to discover where Will really grew up: a house filled with secrets and lies.
Episode 5: Encore Tuesday, May 16 at 9 p.m. on KPBS 2 - While Will struggles with a decision that will determine his future, the violent death of a young man becomes conclusive proof to Geordie that the country's gone to the dogs.
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Credits:
A co-production of Kudos, an Endemol Shine Company and MASTERPIECE for ITV and is distributed internationally by Endemol Shine International, which have sold the show across 162 countries. The executive producers for Kudos are Diederick Santer, Emma Kingsman-Lloyd, and Daisy Coulam. The executive producer for MASTERPIECE is Rebecca Eaton for MASTERPIECE at WGBH Boston. The series is produced by Richard Cookson. The directors are Tim Fywell, Stewart Svaasand, and Rob Evans. Adapted from the Grantchester Mysteries novels by James Runcie, the series was developed for television by Daisy Coulam and written by Daisy Coulam.
