EXCLUSIVE: Grantchester actor Tom Brittney, who will next be seen alongside Tom Hanks in WWII war movie Greyhound, has partnered with actor and writer Oliver Powell (Devs) to form TV and film production company Wild Nest Pictures.
The London-based company has acquired the rights to The Mayfair 100 novels, penned by…
Dominic Treadwell-Collins, the executive producer of A Very English Scandal, is setting up a drama production label with ITV Studios.
Treadwell-Collins is starting up at ITV Studios after more than three years as the head of television at Blueprint Pictures. He started his new role this week and will aim to create…
Grantchester is coming back for a fifth season after British broadcaster ITV and PBS Masterpiece renewed the quaint drama. Stars Robson Green and Tom Brittney will return, although James Norton will not.
The fourth season of the Kudos-produced drama is set to air in the U.S. this weekend after airing in the UK at the…
Outlander star Tom Brittney is joining PBS and ITV's religious crime drama Grantchester – effectively replacing James Norton in the fourth season of the show.
Brittney, who recently starred in Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool, will join the show as Reverend Will Davenport, crime-solving partner to Robson Green's…
First the good news for Grantchester fans: The ITV & PBS series has been renewed for Season 4. Now the rotten news: They will be the final episodes with star James Norton as the jazz-loving, crime-solving vicar Sidney Chambers as the actor segues to the BBC-AMC drama McMafia.
Norton, whose name has been bandied about…
Popular crime-fighting clergyman drama, Grantchester, has been renewed for a third season by ITV. Season 2 is currently airing in the U.S. on PBS’ Masterpiece while the mystery series concluded its S2 run in the UK on Wednesday evening. James Norton will return as vicar/sleuth Sidney Chambers with Robson Green as…
The Stateside launch of Season 2 of period crime series Grantchester hits Masterpiece on PBS on March 27. In the meantime, here’s James Norton’s sleuthing vicar Sidney Chambers fresh from a swim to whet viewer appetites (see clip above). The drama returns to the UK’s ITV on Wednesday for a six episode run that picks…
Actor, comedian and writer Reece Shearsmith has been set as a guest star in a special episode of the upcoming season of Doctor Who. The League Of Gentlemen star previously played Patrick Troughton in the Doctor Who film An Adventure In Space And Time. He'll appear in what's deemed "a very scary episode" penned by Mark…
ITV is shortly to begin production on Season 2 of Grantchester, for air in 2016. The period drama about a sleuthing vicar is produced by Lovely Day. James Norton is returning as Sidney Chambers, the charismatic, charming, crime-fighting clergyman, and Robson Green will return as his partner in crime, Police Inspector…
ITV’s latest hit period drama, Grantchester, will be returning for a second season. The six-part mystery that stars James Norton as Sidney Chambers, a charismatic clergyman who turns investigative vicar, has been reupped by the network for a further season to shoot next year. Set in the 1950s and co-starring Robson…
In late October, PBS said it finished the 2013-14 TV season ranked No. 5 among all broadcast and cable networks in household ratings. The 5% growth from the comparable September 2012-September 2013 period was partly driven by the strong showing of Masterpiece’s Downton Abbey. Masterpiece and PBS now say they are…
James Norton, Robson Green Set To Star In ITV Drama ‘Grantchester’ITV has set the cast for its new six-part drama Grantchester. James Norton (Death Comes To Pemberley, Rush) will play the lead role of Sidney Chambers, a charismatic clergyman who turns investigative vicar when one of his parishioners dies under…
