Everything British for PBS Viewers to Stream in October 2025

It's a dark time for your local PBS stations, as the full force of the Federal Government's defunding of public broadcasting, referred to as "rescission," will hit starting October 1, 2025. Already, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting has announced it will shutter its operations, the main PBS headquarters has been forced into drastic layoffs, and the first PBS and NPR station shutdowns have already been confirmed.

They're not the only ones affected, either. Regular readers have probably noticed the erratic posting recently; that's because we here at Telly Visions are also being cut loose. We're luckier than most; our overlords have been surprisingly gracious, allowing the site to continue up to Thanksgiving 2025 before it is temporarily mothballed, and allowing us to take the Telly Visions brand (and 15 years of writing) with us, hoping that we can somehow make a success of it elsewhere.

But as we exit our current situation and figure out what Telly Visions will look like in 2026, there's still a fall TV season to cover, including multiple new Masterpiece series and a lengthy list of Walter Presents arrivals, with both new seasons of old favorites and new titles for fans of foreign language shows from Europe to check out. So let's run down everything arriving on PBS streaming in October 2025.