'Grantchester' Sets June Premiere for Landmark 10th Season

ITV's Grantchester has been a fan favorite on PBS' Masterpiece since the series first debuted in the U.S. in the winter of 2015. However, the show has been a slow-burn hit, spending its first few seasons as "the other summer mystery series" that aired before or after the far more popular Endeavour, the third series in the Morse franchise. Then it became "that show that switched hot vicars" from James Norton to Tom Brittany. Most recently, with the end of Endeavour, and a third co-lead, Rishi Nair, replacing the outgoing Brittany, it became "The Little Show That Could," a PBS solid performer that maintained its popularity simply because it showed up without fail every summer.

But with 2025, Granchester enters a rarified group of mystery shows on Masterpiece (and Masterpiece's former spinoff, Mystery!) of shows that made it to double-digit seasons as the series gears up for its 10th anniversary. Now, ten years might not seem that long, considering there's Silent Witness (28 seasons and counting), Midsomer Murders (Season 25 in production), plus many more cozy crime series that are in the mid-teen season range like Father Brown (Season 13 greenlit), Death in Paradise (Season 15 filming), and Murdoch Mysteries (Season 18 currently streaming weekly). But for shows that air under the Masterpiece banner, double digits is a rare feat.

Most people don't think of Masterpiece as an anthology series, but that's technically what it started out as: An umbrella under which WGBH could import the best of British TV. Since peak streaming hit, executive producer Suzanne Simpson has taken things in new directions, and the series now produces its own shows. But for shows like Granchester, which was an ITV show that Masterpiece picked up after it became airing overseas, getting to double digits when you're one of a dozen shows that get aired in a single Masterpiece season is worth celebrating