Relationship Drama 'Marriage' to Air on PBS Stations This Fall

Though it appears that while Sean Bean (Time) won't be part of World on Fire when the period drama returns for its second season later this year, fans of the BAFTA winner will still be able to catch him on PBS this Fall. He's starring opposite perennial public television favorite Nicola Walker (Annika) in the relationship drama Marriage, which some of you may have seen when it premiered on PBS Passport earlier this year, but which will finally arrive on PBS in October.

Set over a two-week timeframe, the four-part series explores an intimate portrait of a 30-year relationship --- sometimes funny, sometimes moving, and always revealing. It stars Sean Bean (Time) and Nicola Walker (Annika) as the central couple, Ian and Emma, and follows the pair as they negotiate the insecurities, ambiguities, hopes, and fears that are all part of being intimately connected to the same person for so many years.

Marriage is one of several new programs that made available to local station members as early streaming opportunities in recent months. (See also Our House, DI Ray, and Before We Die Season 2, which all also had exclusive streaming windows prior to their broadcast premieres, ranging from anywhere from weeks to months of lead time depending on the property. Marriage will arrive on-air roughly six months after it became available to stream. (Which, all things considered, isn't bad at all.)