Everything British for PBS Viewers to Stream in November 2024

The final two months of the year are upon us, and with them, the conclusion of PBS' Fall lineup of Sunday shows. While both Moonflower Murders and Van der Valk Season 4 ended in October, Ridley Season 2 still had another episode to go, taking it into the top of November. Masterpiece has debuted its last new title for the year, the long-delayed debut of The Marlow Murder Club, a series that was supposed to air and stream back in the spring, and then got bumped due to the late addition of Mr. Bates. With Season 2 already basically finished filming, it's not going anywhere, so viewers might as well tune in.

Also debuting at the end of October and running through November: Wolf Hall, the original 2015 edition. (The second season, Wolf Hall The Mirror & The Light, debuts in March 2025.) This is the first time Masterpiece has aired the series weekly since it was initially rerun in 2017, and viewers really should check it out if they missed it the first time or just to watch it again ahead of the show's return. Please note that members can stream it on PBS Passport in full.

But just because Masterpiece is wrapping up until the January 2025 debuts doesn't mean that PBS lacks British shows. Between Walter Presents and the coming return of Call The Midwife Christmas specials, there's plenty to stream in November.

Hope Street Season 4 is heading to BritBox in November (more on that in our other streaming list out at the top of the month. However, PBS is only just getting around to streaming Season 3 after it first scooped up Seasons 1 and 2 in 2022 and 2023, respectively. The soap opera continues flipping its cast every season; the ostensible lead character from Season 1, DC Leila Hussain (Amara Karan), is long gone, and while DC Al Quinn (Stephen Hagan) didn't leave after Season 2, he's not the same man viewers met last year. Instead, DI Finn O'Hare (Ciarán McMenamin) finally takes the show's full focus in Season 3 after playing co-lead in Seasons 1 and 2 to Karan and Hagan.

Though the series arrives in batches on BritBox, all 15 episodes of Hope Street Season 3 will be available at once on select PBS local stations and PBS Passports beginning Friday, November 1, 2024. Check your local listings and streaming services.

Channel 4's 2022 special, Highclere: Behind the Scenes, was initially timed to the debut of Downton Abbey: A New Era. However, the series only played in the U.K., leaving PBS viewers, who are a sizable chunk of the Downton Abbey fandom, out in the cold. But with a third film on the way next year, PBS is finally rectifying that, bringing over the series, which follows the highs and lows of the colorful modern-day Lord and Lady Carnarvon and their loyal staff who live in Highclere and make ends meet by letting people use it as a set piece in movies. Sounds kinda familiar actually....

All five episodes of Highclere: Behind the Scenes will be available at once on select PBS local stations and PBS Passports beginning Friday, November 1, 2024. Check your local listings and streaming services.

Acorn TV initially brought over the documentary Osborne House: A Royal Retreat when it originally debuted in 2023; now, it comes out from behind the paywall and onto PBS. The film boasts an unprecedented look inside Osborne House, the royal retreat of Queen Victoria and her husband, Prince Albert, as they presided over the most extensive empire in human history. This fascinating history documentary provides an up-close and personal glimpse into the secret world of one of Britain's greatest and most private monarchs.

Osborne House: A Royal Retreat will be available at once on select PBS local stations and PBS Passports beginning Friday, November 1, 2024. Check your local listings and streaming services.

An oldie but goody from a decade ago in 2013, Up The Women was created, written by, and starring Jessica Hynes. Set in 1910, this is a sitcom about the women of the Banbury Intricate Craft Circle who start up a suffrage league called Banbury Intricate Craft Circle Politely Requests Women's Suffrage (BICCPRWS). (Hynes originally planned to write a comedy film about a suffragette plot to assassinate H. H. Asquith, but it wound up too dark.) The first season was three installments, and the second ran six, after which it was canceled.

All nine episodes of Up The Women will be available at once on select PBS local stations and PBS Passports beginning Friday, November 1, 2024. Check your local listings and streaming services.

The top of the month rounds out with Walter Presents' newest series, The Hostage (Kapningen), whose title technically translates to "The Hijacking." The 2023 miniseries consists of six feature-length episodes and focuses on a Nordic Airlines flight from Stockholm to San Francisco that is hijacked by remote control. Liv Mjönes stars as Fredrika Bergman, who must identify the hijackers before the plane is downed. As a conspiracy unfolds, Fredrika begins to suspect the truth is closer than it appears in this tense study of people imprisoned by their pasts.

All six episodes on The Hostage will stream starting Friday, November 1, 2024, on PBS Passport and the PBS Masterpiece Prime Video Channel. 

All Heart (Cuori) is an Italian 1960s medical drama that premiered in 2021. Set in Le Molinette Hospital in Turin, the series follows the love triangle between the team of Cesare Corvara, who created the first artificial heart. Season 2 arrived in February 2024 after airing on Rai in 2023; Season 3 was greenlit two months later, the arrival of which is now directly following the show's run on Rai, giving fans a double dose for the year.

All six episodes of All Heart will stream starting on Friday, November 8, 2024, on PBS Passport and the PBS Masterpiece Prime Video Channel. There is no word on Season 4 yet, but the show's popularity makes it look like a pretty good bet for further commissions.

Syndrome E is one of the few miniseries from France with an English title; most of the time, if a series has an English title with no foreign language equivalent, it's a Nordic Noir deliberately made for the English-speaking world. However, this is due to the 2022 series being based on French author Franck Thilliez's novel of the same name, the first adaptation of his work. Made on spec and sold to French Television at MipTV, the series features Vincent Elbaz as Thilliez's hero, Detective Franck Sharko, called in to investigate why police officer Lucie Henebelle shot her partner during a skewed homicide investigation.

All six episodes of Syndrome E will stream starting on Friday, November 15, 2024, on PBS Passport and the PBS Masterpiece Prime Video Channel.

Every year around this time, Nature returns to PBS, and the long-running program always features acclaimed naturalist Sir David Attenborough in at least one episode a season. Perhaps befitting him being only 18 months shy of a century on this planet, this year's entry is titled "Attenborough's Life Journey" and turns the camera around to follow the David Attenborough in his natural habitat. From his younger days of fossil hunting and his original BBC series, Zoo Quest, to the Planet Earth series, Nature promises an intimate portrait of Sir David's migrations from the Galapagos to Borneo, capturing an Attenborough on film in ways you have never seen before. 

Nature: Attenborough's Life Journey debuts on Wednesday, November 20, 2024, at 9 p.m. ET, on most local PBS stations and the PBS app. Nature runs on a 30-day delay before moving to PBS Passport, which will debut the episode on December 19, 2024.

The newest hit Finnish detective series, Helsinki Crimes (Harjunpää), is another series pulled from best-selling books, this one adapting the novels by the late Matti-Yrjana Joensuu. Season 1 debuted on Finnish television in 2022 as a mystery-of-the-week series starring Olli Rahkonen as the novel's detective, Timo Harjunpaa. During a summer of violent crime in Helsinki, Harjunpaa finds himself under pressure at home and work as the cases pile up. Season 2 was greenlit in 2023 and released in Finland in May 2024, so there's more where that came from.

All eight Helsinki Crimes Season 1 episodes arrive on Friday, November 22, 2024, on PBS Passport and the PBS Masterpiece Prime Video Channel. Season 3 has not yet been commissioned.

Most of the time, Walter Presents doesn't change the series' names as much as it translates them into the best English version it can. However, in the case of Family Justice (Kanzlei Berger), the series already had a perfectly good English name, Family Berger Law Practice, given to it by Germany's ZDF, a production house that sometimes feels like it deliberately engineers its shows to fit Walter Presents' brand. Why exactly Walter Presents took away the series very Googleable name and gave it something that gives you pages of Justice Department results is beyond me. The show, about two sisters in Bavaria vying to lead the family law offices when their father dies, deserves better.

All 12 episodes of Family Justice arrive on Friday, November 22, 2024, on PBS Passport and the PBS Masterpiece Prime Video Channel. 

They're baaaaaaack! The Call the Midwife Holiday Specials are a staple of PBS Passport during the holidays, disappearing off the service around the time the new season starts in the U.S., only to triumphantly return in time for American Thanksgiving. As has been the case for the last couple of years, PBS picks up all the specials since the turn of the decade, starting with the first pandemic-filmed episode from Christmas 2020 that kicked off Season 10, making this a four-episode binge.

Call the Midwife Holiday Specials Seasons 10 through 13 arrive on Monday, November 25, 2024, on PBS Passport and the PBS Masterpiece Prime Video Channel.

Last but not least, Walter Presents closes out November with the 2019 Dutch miniseries Morten, also known as Morten Mathijsen, named for the titular lead character. Peter Paul Muller stars as Morten, the not-quite-above-board politician who has his sights set on becoming Prime Minister. But when a secret from his past threatens to damage his reputation, he must go to great lengths to avert disaster.

All eight episodes of Morten arrive on Friday, November 29, 2024, on PBS Passport and the PBS Masterpiece Prime Video Channel.