Morven Christie (Grantchester) plays mum Alison in The A Word, BBC One’s new drama about a family whose youngest son is diagnosed with autism. Adapted by Occupation writer Peter Bowker from the Israeli series by Prisoners of War creator Keren Margalit, the new six-part series is a funny and thought-provoking series about parenthood and childhood … >
James Norton (Happy Valley, War and Peace) reprises his role as Sidney Chambers, the charismatic, charming, crime-fighting clergyman in the second season of Grantchester. Robson Green (Wire In The Blood) returns as his partner in crime, Detective Inspector Geordie Keating. > Buy Season 1 on DVD on Amazon. Set in the Cambridgeshire hamlet of Grantchester … >
BBC One’s new Tuesday night drama focuses on communication, as it tells the tale of a family who learn their youngest member, five year old Joe, is on the autistic spectrum. Through this first episode, we meet the combined Scott and Hughes clan. Its patriarch Maurice (Christopher Eccleston) is a sprightly, newly retired widower. As … >
If we think of the second season of Grantchester as a book rather than a series, it starts to make more sense – and as we reach Chapter 4 we can see what it may actually all be about. It’s the story of Sidney; conflicted, flawed human Sidney (“I’m no saint” as he’s remarked more … >
In her introduction to Busman’s Honeymoon, Dorothy L Sayers makes the point that although for the reader it may seem like a detective novel interrupted by a love story, to the characters involved it is the other way around. Something of the same could be said for Grantchester, which continues to juggle Sidney’s detective adventures … >
In the twelve months or so since the first season I had forgotten that Grantchester is a curious mixture of series and serial, so although there is a brand new case this week there is also the fallout from last week’s tale. Early in the episode Sidney visits killer Gary in prison; and later on … >
ITV’s Grantchester returns with Geordie and Sidney enjoying a swim in the river, a picnic with family and friends, and a stroll home cheerfully singing ‘Onward Christian Soldiers’ – but it quickly takes a sharp turn as Sidney is arrested for sexual assault on a minor, leading us into a bleak tale that encompasses teenage … >
ITV has released a teasing new one-minute trailer for the second season of Grantchester. Six new episodes began filming last July in London, Cambridge, and Grantchester. Set in the Cambridgeshire hamlet of Grantchester in the early 1950s, the drama launched in October 2014 on ITV, averaging a consolidated audience of 6.6 million viewers. > Buy … >
Filming has commenced on The A Word, BBC One’s new drama about a family whose youngest son is diagnosed with autism. Adapted by Occupation writer Peter Bowker from the Israeli series by Prisoners of War creator Keren Margalit, the six-part drama was commissioned last year and is described as “a funny and thought-provoking series about … >
Men Behaving Badly star Neil Morrissey has joined the cast of ITV drama Grantchester. James Norton and Robson Green began filming six new episodes last month in London, Cambridge, and Grantchester. Set in the Cambridgeshire hamlet of Grantchester in the early 1950s, Grantchester launched last October on ITV, averaging a consolidated audience of 6.6 million … >