'Our House' To Air On PBS In August

The title Our House for a certain generation will conjure up either 1960s sitcoms or old MTV videos and new wave Madness, but here in 2023, it's not in the middle of our street, but on PBS. The ITV  "real estate thriller" series, based on Louise Candlish's best-selling novel of the same name, debuted across the pond in 2022 and arrived on PBS Passport in May 2023. Now, the series will air on most PBS stations starting in early August, helping cover the space between the end of Grantchester/Ridley/DI Ray and the debut of Professor T/Unforgotten/Van der Valk.

Like the current run of Walter Presents series coming from PBS Passport to broadcast, Our House will be offered to local PBS stations as part of their Thursday night lineups. Unlike the Sunday night schedule, which most PBS stations opt into, Thursday is far more of a catch as catch can. PBS left it as an open schedule for over a decade after Mystery! moved to Sundays with Masterpiece in 2007, and many stations already have local programming lineups that draw dedicated audiences that night. In other words, though Our House technically debuts Thursday, August 3, viewers should check their local listings carefully, as it could debut Friday, Saturday, or even the week after.

Louise Candlish's Our House comes via Red Planet Pictures (Death In Paradise), who have already picked up further Candlish novels for adaptation due to the series' success in the U.K. Candlish's 2016’s The Swimming Pool is already in pre-production, with plans to adapt the upcoming release The Only Suspect in the next year or two. Screenwriter Simon Ashdown (EastEnders), who adapted Our House, is already on board for the latter, while The Swimming Pool will be produced by Elizabeth Kesses- Delport. Hopefully, both will also come to PBS after their U.K. debuts.