Grantchester tasks itself with fitting a lot into each episode – mixing personal trauma, familial relationships and a little bit of social commentary in with the homicide and intrigue, it’s no wonder that its murder mysteries are rarely the most devilish or convoluted. That’s not a criticism by the way, just an observation – and … >
ITV has released a trailer for next week’s festive Grantchester special. James Norton and Robson Green are back as crime-fighting clergyman Sidney Chambers and Detective Inspector Geordie Keating in the 90-minute Christmas episode. The special airs at 9pm on Saturday 24 December on ITV. Watch the trailer… The official synopsis for the episode reads: “It’s the week … >
The first promotional pics and storyline details for next month’s festive Grantchester special have been released. James Norton and Robson Green will return as crime-fighting clergyman Sidney Chambers and Detective Inspector Geordie Keating in the 90-minute Christmas episode. The special will air at 9pm on Saturday 24 December on ITV. Norton teased that viewers should expect “snow, … >
The third season of Grantchester will begin filming shortly in Grantchester, Cambridge and London. James Norton and Robson Green will return as crime-fighting clergyman Sidney Chambers and Detective Inspector Geordie Keating in six new episodes and a Christmas special of the 1950s-set drama. The show’s first ever festive episode will see pregnant Amanda adjusting to life having left … >
Following last week’s ugly confrontation between Geordie and Sidney, this week’s final episode of Grantchester begins with Sidney working his way through, if not exactly the ten commandments, certainly a series of vices. He’s smoking too much, he’s drinking too much, and he’s even trying to stick his hand up the skirt of the local … >
ITV has recommissioned Grantchester for another season. James Norton and Robson Green will return for Season 3 of the 1950s-set drama as crime-fighting clergyman Sidney Chambers and Detective Inspector Geordie Keating. Based on The Grantchester Mysteries by James Runcie and adapted by writer Daisy Coulam, Grantchester launched in October 2014. > Buy Season 1 on … >
Although the two lead characters have the moral absolutes of the Bible and the certainties of the law to rely on, the real drama in ITV’s Grantchester comes from the ambiguities inbetween. It’s one such grey area that is the cause of the ongoing coolness between our two leads, namely the death penalty looming over … >
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 … >
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 … >