Endeavour Will Return for Season 6, But When Is Season 5 Airing?

It's official: ITV announced that Endeavour Season 6 is greenlit for 2019. So how much longer will we have to wait for Season 5 to air in the U.S.?

Endeavour Morse: The year’s turned. Pretty soon it’ll be bonfires and hoarfrost. Winter’s on its way.

Endeavour Season 5 is perhaps the most anticipated of the seasons since the Inspector Morse reboot successfully kicked off in 2012. The first four seasons that followed that TV movie have each been four feature-length episodes apiece. But Season 5 promises not only a bumper crop of a season with six full-length feature adventures but ones set during one of the crucial turning points in the Oxford Police station where Morse works: when the Police Act of 1964 went into effect, merging it with the surrounding region forces to create the Thames Valley Constabulary. This, set against a background of Morse and Joan's not-quite relationship and Morse's promotion to Sargent, promises a very interesting 1968 indeed.

Over in the UK, all six episodes have finished airing on ITV. So how much longer must we on this side of the Atlantic wait to watch ourselves? If the schedule follows the same pattern as last season, we actually won't have a Season 5 premiere confirmed for some time yet. Masterpiece didn't announce Endeavour's mid-summer premiere for Season 4 until nearly the end of the Spring TV season, at the very end of April. ITV aired Season 4 in January of 2017, which meant there was a full three-month gap between the finale airdate on ITV and PBS' announcement of its American premiere.