Everything British for PBS Viewers to Stream in August 2025

Streaming has significantly altered the TV season, but PBS remains a linear network at heart, and most of its shows follow the traditional September-May TV schedule. Usually, that means the dog days of August arrive with little in the way of new shows for public television stations; however, with 2025 doing thee most and being utterly extra, your local stations are keeping pace. The Sunday autumn lineup of mysteries, which usually debuts in the first week of September (or the very last days of August), kicks in weeks early due to the vagaries of the Gregorian calendar and an overstuffed Masterpiece 2025-2026 lineup.

Make no mistake, Masterpiece dictates the Sunday schedule for most local PBS stations, as one of the longest-running and popular series offered on public broadcasting. Although the ongoing funding crisis will likely be a significant factor for 2026, WGBH has already secured an A-Plus lineup for the 2025-2026 TV season, with so many titles that the only way to accommodate them all was to start the season before summer vacations were over.

Though the new shows are the headline, don't forget Grantchester still has one more episode, and Atlantic Crossing's finale will follow it, both airing on the first Sunday of the month. As for everything else coming, let's run down a genuinely stacked schedule of everything British streaming and airing on local PBS stations for August 2025.