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PBS has released its Summer 2023 schedule, including the new season premiere date for fan-favorite mystery series Grantchester. The series ended on a shocking finale that raced Will Davenport (Tom Brittany) and his newest love interest Bonnie Evans (Charlotte Richie), to the altar without passing go or collecting any dramatic
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The Grantchester finale does not open with a 1950s-era hit; instead, Will talks Baker through the stained glass images in the church. For once, I feel bad for Baker, despite his inherent creepiness, as Will's just narcissistically reflecting on what a screw-up he is. He heads off to
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As Grantchester Season 7 wraps up, fans have wondered if Season 8 is in the cards. When the show concluded Season 7 in the U.K. in April, there was no confirmation whether a new season was coming or not. However, actor Robson Green (who plays DI Geordie Keating) told
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Grantchester's penultimate episode for the season opens with Will playing backgammon at St. Cedd's Care Center, the old folks' home, with Ida Merryman (Anna Calder-Marshall). As befitting someone who used to be on Harlots, she's trying to make it strip backgammon. Matron Fletcher
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The latest episode of Grantchester opens to a scene of Will being flirted with by female parishioners set to Frankie Avalon's "Venus." It's been far too long since we had a church-set episode and Will dealing with the snark and gossip of the community.
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I appreciate what Grantchester is trying to do with opening Episode 3 to "Lonesome Town" as Will and Geordie strugglebus through their breakups. Still, since Pulp Fiction, I haven't been able to take that song seriously. It's hard to take Will's mope
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Despite having had sex with her exactly once, Grantchester begins with Will lying on the floor of the church, declaring his undying love for Maya and begging God to tell him what to do. It's very Will, as is meeting her in secret to tell her it will
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It's been over a season since Will gave up his celibacy. However, the sight of Will getting rather Sidneyish with jazz and cute girls who don't give him their number as Grantchester Season 7 opens is still a surprise, as he abandons the now single Geordie.
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Grantchester is one of the most successful mysteries in the PBS Masterpiece brand. Since the series started airing over here in 2015, it's become a summer staple, undergone principal cast and focus changes, and still came out stronger. However, despite Season 6 airing in the fall of 2021
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The summer TV season is here, and with it, the usual "Summer of Mysteries" that PBS has been reliably airing for the better part of a decade, save last year when pandemic delays upended the schedule. But 2021 wasn't short on mystery series; instead of the
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Technically, the summer solstice isn't for a few weeks yet. However, the unofficial start of Summer 2022 is the Memorial Day holiday in the U.S. (or one weekend later with the Platinum Jubilee Extended Bank Holiday if you're in the U.K.) To that end,
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Grantchester Season 6 may have arrived late in the fall of 2021, but Season 7 isn't going to make us wait that long. Though there is no release date yet for the U.S., the series is gearing up for its return to British television later this month,