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Heat up your summer with returning dramas PROFESSOR T, “Grantchester” on MASTERPIECE, and D.I. Ray – starting Sunday, June 16
< < Back to heat-up-your-summer-with-returning-dramas-professor-t-grantchester-on-masterpiece-and-d-i-ray-starting-sunday-june-16Crime Solving, Forbidden Love, Rebellion and Revenge are in Store this Summer on PBS, PBS.org and the PBS app
Starting Sunday, June 16
This summer, PBS will have audiences dusting off their detective hats and trying on their “roaring 20s’” attire, as familiar faces return and new characters emerge in mysteries with shocking revelations and unexpected twists.
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An evening of crime-solving begins on June 16th with the return of PROFESSOR T. In the season opener, the Professor finds himself in jail, yearning to return to his old life, but still using his incredible mind to help the police crack mystifying crimes. Then, travel to 1961 for a new season of GRANTCHESTER ON MASTERPIECE, where a new vicar, the Reverend Alphy Kottaram, is learning that in Grantchester, murder is never far away. Finally, in D.I. RAY, audiences are reunited with Detective Inspector Rachita Ray, as she returns to investigate another layered and insidious mystery, bringing new excitement and twists to the classic whodunit.
“This summer brings extraordinary new seasons of our favorite dramas,” says Maria Bruno Ruiz, Vice President, Program Content Strategy and Scheduling at PBS. “A charming new Vicar is welcomed on GRANTCHESTER, and the Professor finds himself in prison with his career on the line in PROFESSOR T.
Season Premiere: June 16, 2024, 8 p.m. ET
The multi award-winning much-loved crime drama starring Ben Miller, Frances de la Tour and Juliet Stevenson is back for a third season. Season 3 starts with Professor T in jail awaiting trial. As the Professor struggles to get his old life and job back, he is helped by Dan and Lisa who again rely on his brilliant criminal insight and analysis to solve some tricky and intriguing crimes. This season the Professor also finds out what really happened the night his father died.
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GRANTCHESTER ON MASTERPIECE, Season 9
Season Premiere: June 16, 2024, 9 p.m. ET
It’s 1961 and times are changing in Grantchester. Will has begun to seek new challenges elsewhere, while Geordie and Cathy deal with an independent Esme being free in a dangerous world. It’s not long before Reverend Alphy Kottaram arrives as the new vicar, immediately enchanted by the glorious village. But will the locals ever be able to accept him as one of their own?
Season Premiere: June 16, 2024, 10 p.m. ET
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After being suspended from the force when her fiancé was found to have links to organized crime, DI Rachita Ray returns to homicide to investigate another sensitive and high-profile case centering on the murder of Frank Chapman, the head of a notorious crime family, and a local nurse caught in the crossfire. Their deaths ignite tensions across the city, putting DI Ray in a race against time to uncover the truth before the Chapman family act out their revenge and an all-out gang war erupts onto the streets. All evidence points towards a rival crime family, the Mochanis, being responsible for the murders, but as DI Ray starts pulling at the threads of the case, a much more insidious mystery begins to unravel. Once again, the series will explore deep personal conflicts for Rachita as both a British Asian woman and as a police officer.