Everything British for PBS Viewers to Stream in October 2024
Autumn has officially arrived, and the decorative gourds are starting to sprout on people's doorsteps. The year's final months are a high-key time for most PBS stations; this is the point in the year when Ken Burns documentaries arrive, Masterpiece debuts fall favorites, and the period dramas for next year start getting announced.
October was once when the PBS seasons used to start in earnest; Poldark debuted in October for years in the mid-aughts; heck, back in the 1970s, Masterpiece's very first mystery series, the Ian Charmichael starring Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries, debuted in October. However, the expanding calendar has pushed PBS and Masterpiece back a few weeks, with the first trio of shows now regularly arriving in September. For 2024, that trio is Ridley Season 2, Moonflower Murders (aka Magpie Murders Season 2), and Van der Valk Season 4.
All three of these September debuts will continue into October (and, in the case of Ridley, through October into November), with new episodes streaming on Sundays via the PBS app and the PBS Masterpiece Prime Video Channel. Once Moonflower runs out of episodes, it will be replaced by Masterpiece's delayed-from-spring The Marlow Murder Club. Let's run down everything coming along with it to PBS in October 2024.
