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 … >
Happy Valley is one of the best television programmes ever made. We always knew that following up the first season of Sally Wainwright’s impeccable series was going to be a tall order, but over the last six weeks we have been pushed through a gamut of emotions that has equalled anything the first year could … >
Sarah Lancashire (Last Tango In Halifax) returns as police sergeant Catherine Cawood in the new season of BBC One’s Happy Valley. As Season 2 opens, we join Catherine, the altruistic and forthright police sergeant who is back heading up her team of dedicated police officers in The Calder Valley in West Yorkshire. Tommy Lee Royce … >
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 … >
Poor Darryl isn’t so poor after all! Yet again, Sally Wainwright’s immaculately written series has pulled out another stonker of an episode. When looking back over an episode to review it we realise just how much is crammed in, yet in such an effortless ‘nothing is really happening’ kind of way. So let’s start with … >
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 … >