Everything British for PBS Viewers to Stream in May 2025

The end of the spring is just around the corner, and the  PBS Sunday series lineup, which premiered in early spring, is starting to wrap up. The Wolf Hall sequel, Wolf Hall: The Mirror & the Light, concludes in the final week of April, though viewers should expect local stations to be heavy on the reruns over the next few weeks as public broadcasting pushes for Emmy nominations. Meanwhile, Marie Antoinette's second season, which started the same week as Wolf Hall, still has two more episodes to go in May, and Call the Midwife has only just passed the halfway point.

The timing of these series is deliberate, as there is still one more spring debut slated for 2025. This year marks the 250th birthday of the late author Jane Austen. While the actual celebration isn't until much later in 2025 (Austen's birthday is December 16, 1775), Masterpiece is getting a jump on it, releasing the first ever TV adaptation of Miss Austen, the 2020 Gill Hornby best seller that fictionalizes the real-life mystery of why her sister, Cassandra Austen, burned a massive trove of Jane's personal letters.

May is, in general, a smorgasbord of British shows, as Great Performances tends to schedule its yearly Shakespeare broadcast for this part of the calendar. This year also features an extra episode, starring David Attenborough, as part of Nature's current season, marking the naturalist's 99th birthday on May 8, 2025. All this, plus more Walter Presents titles are on the way.