Grantchester season 7: ITV confirms transmission date

The venerable cosy crime drama Granchester – based on the novels by James Runcy – is back for a seventh run.

Starring Robson Green and Tom Brittney, this series is set in the long hot summer of 1959 with wedding season is in full swing in the Cambridgeshire village of Grantchester.

As the Reverend Will Davenport unites happy couples in holy matrimony, Detective Inspective Geordie Keating is busy as ever investigating a range of local murder cases. With a new decade just around the corner, the question of what the future holds is on everyone’s minds, not least Will’s, but before the 50s roll over into the swinging sixties there are some crimes to solve and some life-changing decisions to be made that might change life in Grantchester forever.  

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Grantchester (series 7): From Friday 11th March, 9pm, ITV

ITV confirms Grantchester transmission date

ITV’s cosy-crime drama, Grantchester, is heading back to our screens and its looming large on the horizon.

Furthermore, it’s going to be an eight-part series.

Confirmed: Grantchester returns for a new eight-part series on Friday 3 September at 9pm on @ITV. @KudosTV @GrantchesterUK @tombrittney @kaceyainsworth #Grantchester pic.twitter.com/Bh6CkKFMQC

— ITV Press Centre (@itvpresscentre) August 18, 2021

With Robson Green returning as DI Geordie Keating and Tom Brittney as Grantchester’s Reverend Will Davenport, the series resumes in 1958 with the crime fighting duo renewing their partnership to solve new cases.

In the first episode of the new series, Geordie, Cathy and their family, Will, Leonard and Mrs C take a much needed holiday together. However, what sets out to be a  fun-filled break for everyone at a holiday camp, is interrupted by a tragic death at the resort. Geordie and Will are left with no choice but to help out, as an investigation into the death begins. As events unfold on the trip, there will be serious repercussions for the rest of the series.

Tessa Peake-Jones returns as Mrs C, Al Weaver as Leonard Finch, Kacey Ainsworth as Cathy Keating, Oliver Dimsdale as Daniel Marlowe and Nick Brimble as Jack Chapman.

Special guest actors for this series include Jemma Redgrave, Gary Beadle, Dominic Mafham, Rachael Stirling, Miles Jupp and Rebecca Front.

Filming begins on series seven of Grantchester

Filming has begun on the seventh season Grantchester, with Robson Green returning as DI Geordie Keating and Tom Brittney as Reverend Will Davenport.

This series is set in the long hot summer of 1959 and wedding season is in full swing in the Cambridgeshire village of Grantchester.

As the Reverend Will Davenport unites happy couples in holy matrimony, Detective Inspective Geordie Keating is busy as ever investigating a range of local murder cases. With a new decade just around the corner, the question of what the future holds is on everyone’s minds, not least Will’s, but before the 50s roll over into the swinging sixties there are some crimes to solve and some life-changing decisions to be made that might change life in Grantchester forever.  

Tessa Peake-Jones returns as Mrs. Chapman, Al Weaver as Leonard Finch, Kacey Ainsworth as Cathy Keating, Oliver Dimsdale as Daniel Marlowe, Nick Brimble as Jack Chapman, Melissa Johns as Miss Scott and Bradley Hall as Larry Peters.

This series will feature a number of special guest appearances, including Charlotte Ritchie, Ellora Torchia, Emma Cunniffe, Janie Dee, Philip Whitchurch, Rowena King, Anna Wilson-Jones, Michael D. Xavier and many others.

Series six of Grantchester begins filming

Filming for the sixth series drama Grantchester has commenced in Cambridgeshire, Hampshire and Hertfordshire.

With Robson Green returning as DI Geordie Keating and Tom Brittney as Grantchester’s Reverend Will Davenport, the series resumes in 1958 with the crime fighting duo renewing their partnership to solve new cases.

In the first episode of the new series, Geordie, Cathy and their family, Will, Leonard and Mrs C take a much needed holiday together. However, what sets out to be a  fun-filled break for everyone at a holiday camp, is interrupted by a tragic death at the resort. Geordie and Will are left with no choice but to help out, as an investigation into the death begins. As events unfold on the trip, there will be serious repercussions for the rest of the series.

Tessa Peake-Jones returns as Mrs C, Al Weaver as Leonard Finch, Kacey Ainsworth as Cathy Keating, Oliver Dimsdale as Daniel Marlowe and Nick Brimble as Jack Chapman.

Special guest actors for this series include Jemma Redgrave, Gary Beadle, Dominic Mafham, Rachael Stirling, Miles Jupp and Rebecca Front.

ITV renews Grantchester for a fifth series

Grantchester, ITV’s cosy-crime period hit, is coming back for a fifth run.

Based on the novels by James Runcie, it’s set in the 1950s and follows an unlikely crime-fighting duo – Reverend Will Davenport and gruff, down-to-earth Police Inspector Geordie Keating.

Original series star James Norton exited the series as Sidney Chamber last series and was replaced by Tom Brittney as Reverend Will Davenport.

The show’s fifth season is set in 1957, the year Prime Minister Harold Macmillan told the British people that they had ‘never had it so good’. For many of the residents of Grantchester, it really will feel like they’re in a delightful new Eden, but for all the talk of paradise on earth and faith-in-action, Geordie Keating (Robson Green) knows that trouble is never far away.

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ITV confirms series four of Grantchester

Grantchester, starring Robson Green and James Norton, and new cast member Tom Brittney, returns to ITV for a fourth series in the first week of January, in a month full of crime drama premieres.

The cosy-crime series, set in the titular, bucolic Cambridgeshire village, centres around a crime-solving vicar and his relationship with local copper, DI Geordie Keating.

James Norton, who plays the charismatic, jazz-loving clergyman, Sidney Chambers, will make his final appearance during the series. Clergyman Will Davenport, played by Tom Brittney, becomes Geordie’s new crime-solving partner in 1950s Grantchester.

Grantchester (Series 4): Friday 11th January, 9pm, ITV

 

ITV announces James Norton replacement in Grantchester

King of Cosey Crime, Grantchester, will be back soon for a new, fourth series, this time without James Norton’s Sidney Chambers.

Ever since Norton announced that he was leaving the show the search for another crime-solving reverend was on. Now ITV has announced his replacement.

Tom Brittney will join the cast as Reverend Will Davenport, crime-solving partner to Robson Green’s Geordie Keating.

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A man of the people, confident, caring and self-assured, Grantchester’s young, new parish priest Will Davenport channels his boundless energy into a quest for social justice. He is a man of God, but with the devil inside of him. As Geordie draws him into righting the wrongs of criminal Cambridge, Will’s own troubled past is unearthed

James Norton, who plays the charismatic, jazz-loving clergyman, Sidney Chambers, will make his final appearance during this fourth series on ITV – a co-production from Kudos and MASTERPIECE on PBS.

On joining Grantchester, Tom Brittney said: “I am beyond excited. From the moment I heard about the role of Will Davenport, it was something I wanted more than anything. It’s a real honour to be joining such a wonderful series, with such a loyal fan base.”

James Norton said: “As excited as I am to be filming a new series of Grantchester, it’s also heartbreaking to be saying goodbye to Sidney Chambers. I’ve loved this experience, and particularly working with such an extraordinary cast and crew. All the best to the fantastic Tom Brittney in his role as the new vicar. He is a wonderful addition to the Grantchester family.”

More news on the transmission date for series four as we get it.

ITV recommissions fourth series of Grantchester; confirms James Norton’s exit

 

Grantchester – based on the novels by James Runcie and starring James Norton and Robson Green – will return to ITV for a fourth series, it has been confirmed. The series will feature James Norton’s final episodes as character Sidney Chambers, the charismatic, jazz-loving clergyman, and one half of the unlikely crime-fighting duo based in 1950s Grantchester. Casting of the new vicar arriving in the hamlet of Grantchester will be announced shortly, ITV has said.

ITV confirms transmission date for series three of Grantchester

Over three series, James Runcie’s Grantchester has become a bit of hole-filler – in recent years the cosy crime sub-genre has somewhat disappeared (although you could argue that Midsomer Murders and Death In Paradise are updated versions, and then there’s Endeavour… actually, scrap what I said about cosy crime) and Grantchester has filled things in nicely. It helps having some good acting talent to bring the seemingly innocuous tale of a vicar (James Norton) and a blunt copper (robson Green) doing the rounds in 1950s bucolic Cambridgeshire to life. Anyway, it’s back and series three is just around the corner.