Period Mystery 'Miss Scarlet and the Duke' Has an Official U.S. Premiere Date
It's official: Buzzy period mystery series Miss Scarlet and the Duke is coming to Masterpiece early next year.
The series, which mixes feminism, crime-solving, and the sort of will they/won't they chemistry-filled central relationship that has helped make Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries so popular together and then drops it all in nineteenth-century London, arrives on PBS stations beginning January 17, 2021.
Kate Phillips is probably best known among Americans for her role as Linda Shelby on Peaky Blinders but she has has also appeared in such familiar production as The Crown, Wolf Hall, and the Downton Abbey movie. Here, she stars as Miss Eliza Scarlet, the first-ever female detective in Victorian London. Stuart Martin - familiar to PBS fans as Silas Sharrow on Jamestown - plays her childhood friend, professional colleague, and potential love interest, Scotland Yard Detective Inspector William Wellington, a.k.a., The Duke.
