'Professor T' Renewed for Season 4 Ahead of Season 3 Debut in the U.K.
PBS' original decision to start working with Walter Iuzzolino when launching PBS Passport and the PBS Masterpiece Channel towards the end of the 2010s by wholesaling his Walter Presents streaming service into their brand new public television streaming offerings may have seemed risky to some, but five years on, it seems to have worked out quite well. Walter Presents has a dedicated fanbase of foreign language TV fans who love series like Luna + Sophie, Badehotellet, and others; Iuzzolino has parlayed the success of his franchise into creating his own studio where he remakes the most popular of those series into English language dramas that PBS then also imports, creating double the content. While some of those remakes haven't been great (Before We Die), the most popular, Professor T, has been improving by leaps and bounds year to year, and has now scored a Season 4 renewal.
This renewal is great news for American fans, who only just watched Season 2 in September/October 2023, and most likely can look forward to the arrival of Season 3 sometime in the fall of 2024. (PBS has not announced an official release date; it only confirmed that the show is slated to arrive in the back half of the year, so that's an educated guess.) The Season 4 renewal, which was announced in London on Wednesday, February 28, 2024, included PBS signing on to air it, so fans don't have to worry that the new season won't somehow show up or anything; it's arrival as part of the 2025 lineup is assured.
Reaching Season 4 is a milestone for the English remake of Professor T, as with this season it will officially pass the Belgian original, which only ran three seasons. However, those three seasons were 13 episodes a piece, and the U.K. version runs six at a time, so there are still more Belgian episodes than U.K. ones and will be unless the U.K. version reaches Season 7. The German remake (also called Professor T) ran four seasons, but only at four episodes a pop, so though the English remake will technically tie it in number of seasons, it will pass it in number of episodes. (We don't count the Czech or French versions; they were never popular.)
