Everything British for PBS Viewers to Stream in February 2025

February is the shortest and cruelest month. Just when you think the horrors of winter are over, February manages to strike with one last snowstorm, deep freeze, or wildfire. For PBS viewers, February rarely brings major debuts. It is treated as a January appendage, with all the major British debuts continuing until the third weekend of the month before tipping into pledge time. However, 2025 will be a little kinder than usual, with a topline British series starting the first weekend of the month.

Some shows will treat February as they always do, with Miss Scarlet and All Creatures Great & Small's respective fifth seasons continuing to air and stream weekly on PBS stations and the PBS app. All Creatures also streams weekly on the PBS Masterpiece Channel. (All six episodes of Miss Scarlet are already available on the Amazon platform from the show's early December 2024 release; all episodes of both shows are streaming on PBS Passport for members as well.) Lucy Worsley Investigates Season 2 also continues, though it will skip February completely and air/stream the series' fourth and final installment in March.

However, the conclusion of Vienna Blood's fourth (and probably final) season airing the final weekend of January leaves the 10 p.m. Sunday slot wide open for a new series, giving us an extra Winter series for 2025. Add in a few early pledge debuts and the steady influx of Walter Presents programming, and February might be better than average for once.

Before we get to new dramas, the first day of February brings a better-late-than-never special, Discovering Maggie Smith. The special is taken from the Sky Arts Discovering Film series, which has been airing since 2014 in the U.K. (Episodes stream in the U.S. on Kanopy.) The Maggie Smith episode was from the show's second season, aired in 2015; PBS is picking it up as a tribute series to the late actor, whose anchoring of Downton Abbey was a primary reason for the series' success.

Discovering Maggie Smith will arrive on select PBS stations and PBS Passports on Saturday, February 1, 2025.

The Beatles' renaissance, which started with 2021's Get Back, hit the mainstream with the 2024 release of the new track "Now & Then." That led to the announcement that Sam Mendes would make four interconnected feature-length biopics, each featuring one of the Fab Four in a different era. Thus, the quadrilogy would cover the band's whole career. 

Now, PBS is getting in on the act, bringing Deconstructing the Beatles, a special featuring musicologist Scott Freiman. Freiman's "deconstruction" series of films and lectures, each featuring a different album, offers a unique view of the band.

Deconstructing the Beatles debuts on select PBS stations and PBS Passports on Saturday, February 1, 2025. Check your local listings and streamers.

It's nearly time for Call The Midwife to return, so Season 13 will shift from Netflix to PBS Passport ahead of Season 14's debut. As fans know, the BBC's longstanding contract with Netflix means the series exits the PBS streaming world only two weeks after the current season's finale. PBS Passport has been working to change that, bringing back Seasons 10-13 in August 2024, but that was a short-lived arrival, exiting again by Christmas. For now, Season 13 is back and will be available until March 31, when Season 14 officially starts airing.

All episodes of Call The Midwife Season 13 arrive as a binge on Saturday, February 1, 2025, on PBS Passport and the PBS Masterpiece Prime Video Channel.

PBS introduced Funny Woman to the American public a year ago, in January 2024. The somewhat awkwardly titled series (based on the Nick Hornby book Funny Girl, necessitating alterations) stars Gemma Arterton (The Critic) as Barabra Parker and covers her transformation into "Sophie Straw," BBC star. Season 2 opens with Sophie Straw, now the toast of Aunty Beeb's lineup, with a show taped live before a studio audience. However, the law of show business is that you're only as good as your last gig, and when that dries up, it's time to find new frontiers. Where else would a star with a fantastic wardrobe go but France?

Funny Woman Season 2 will arrive on most PBS stations, the PBS app, and the PBS Masterpiece Prime Video Channel at 10 p.m. on Sunday, February 2, 2025, taking over from Vienna Blood Season 4. All four episodes will be available as a binge on premiere day for PBS Passport members.

It's a new year, and Walter Presents is bringing several brand-new-to-us series to this side of the pond for viewers to try. First up from the foreign language anthology is the Danish show The Legacy (Arvingerne), which ran on Denmark's DR1 for three seasons from 2014 through 2017. The series begins with the death of artist Veronika Gronnegaard, whose family rips themselves apart in the wake of her passing, as they are forced to confront their mother was someone they barely understood. 

Walter Presents is bringing over all ten episodes of the series' first season. Seasons 2 and 3 are shorter (seven and nine installments, respectively) and are expected to follow later in 2025.

All episodes of The Legacy Season 1 arrive on PBS Passport and the PBS Masterpiece Prime Video Channel on Friday, February 7, 2025.

Walter Presents first debuted the Italian series All Heart (Cuori) in March 2023; at the time, it was one of the more recent offerings, having debuted on RAI in 2021. However, Walter Presents only brought over eight installments, despite Season 1 running 16 episodes. Season 2 followed in Italy in the fall of 2023, with Walter Presents bringing over the second half of Season 1 as "Season 2" in February 2024.

So when "Season 3" arrived with six episodes, it was actually the first half of Season 2, which ran 12 installments. Now, the love triangle-plagued medical drama returns in time for Valentine's Day, and it won't surprise anyone that "Season 4" also has six episodes, which are the back half of Season 2.

All episodes of All Heart "Season 4" arrive on PBS Passport and the PBS Masterpiece Prime Video Channel on Friday, February 14, 2025.

Most Walter Presents series on PBS come from Western European countries with large entertainment budgets: France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Sweden, the Netherlands, Norway, and Denmark. However, sometimes the best shows they get come from the smaller Eastern European nations, like Estonia’s Madame K (Listid) or Bulgaria’s The Devil’s Throat (Djavolskoto Garlo). February will see the arrival of Walter Presents first Czech series to cross the pond, The Golden Swan (Zlatá labu’), which debuted on the country’s streaming service Voyo in 2023. 

A period drama set during World War II, the series revolves around the glamorous new department store The Golden Swan, which opened in 1939, just as Germany took over the area and renamed it the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. The series ran three seasons (17-21 episodes a pop) in about 18 months, as Czech TV airs new seasons of popular shows as soon as possible. Walter Presents’ “Season 1” is only the first 11 episodes, so there’s much more where that came from.

The first half of The Golden Swan Season 1 arrives on PBS Passport and the PBS Masterpiece Prime Video Channel on Friday, February 21, 2025.

While Call The Midwife Season 14 won't debut on linear, the PBS App (or on the PBS Masterpiece Channel) until Sunday, March 30, those PBS members who have contributed to their local stations and have access to PBS Passport as a member benefit will get to watch the new season a month ahead of everyone else. This is a special early access drop, which means it won't be a binge. Instead, each episode arrives on PBS Passport a month before its linear airing, making this a weekly rollout release so that when the series starts in March, members can stay a month ahead, watching new episodes before everyone else. 

Call The Midwife Season 14's early access streaming on PBS Passport starts on Friday, February 28, 2025, with one episode a week through April.

For the early pledge special in February 2024, PBS Passport debuted Marry Berry Makes It Easy, the cookery series where the former The Great British Baking Show host brought along her former co-star Mel Giedroyc for an episode, giving fans a mini-GBBO reunion. For February 2025, public broadcasting to trading Mary Berry for her Baking Show replacement. Prue Leith's Cotswold Kitchen, like Mary Berry Makes It Easy, is the Baking Show judge's latest series; all episodes aired in the U.K. in 2024. Leith also brought a friend from the tent, with current host Alison Hammond as a special guest.

All episodes of Prue Leith's Cotswold Kitchen will debut exclusively on PBS Passport for members on Friday, February 28, 2025.

What hath Luna & Sophie wrought? The German series' actual name in its home country is SOKO Potsdam and is the tenth of nearly a dozen spinoffs of the original police procedural hit SOKO München. (Think of SOKO as the German TV equivalent of CSI or NCIS.) The name got awkward as the show's popularity kept bringing over new seasons until they ran out of ones that starred either Luna or Sophie, forcing Walter Presents to continue the show under a new name: Partners in Crime: Potsdam Homicide.

SOKO Potsdam became so popular that it shed both titular lead characters and the series' Americanized name and still brings in eyeballs. Unsurprisingly, Walter Presents picked up another SOKO series, SOKO Kitzbühel, renamed Murder in the Mountains. The series was the third spinoff of SOKO München when it premiered in 2001, the first to be set in Austria instead of Germany. It ran 20 seasons, ending in 2021, whereupon the series' newest spinoff, SOKO Linz, took over. Season 1 was six episodes. However, Walter Presents' "Season 1" is 13 installments, so it looks like the series will only run ten seasons here.

All 13 episodes of Murder in the Mountains Season 1 (which is actually SOKO Kitzbühel Seasons 1+2) debut on PBS Passport and the PBS Masterpiece Prime Video Channel on Friday, February 28, 2025.