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‘Professor T’ Season 5 Polishes Up a PBS Release Date
'Professor T' returns to PBS for Season 5, as Season 4 finally premieres in the U.K.
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Ben Miller stars as Professor Jasper Tempest, a criminologist with OCD, who happens to be Cambridge's best crime solver.
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A Low Key Wedding Brings 'Professor T's Season 4 Finale in for a Soft Landing
After the emotional gut punch of losing Lisa in Season 3’s finale, Professor T’s Season 4 conclusion, “The Warrior Gene,” does us all a solid in this turbulent year: it delivers a sweet, gentle story that feels like a hug from the show. Winters gets the emotional catharsis
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'Professor T' Achieves Personal Progress & Unravels “The Perfect Murder”
We've reached the penultimate episode of Professor T Season 4, and everyone's personal lives are in flux. Zelda’s story is taking prominence, and the Dean becomes a less shallow and more fully-fledged character. Though Peter Snares seems like a lovely man, the Dean’s
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'Professor T's “You Can’t Kill Me” Is Tonally Inconsistent Fun
The title of this week’s Professor T episode, “You Can’t Kill Me,” along with Aunt Zelda opening things with a tarot card reading, suggests a more playful story. The unraveling of this week’s murder is far sadder than what the expectations set. Yet it also manages to
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'Professor T's Crime-Solving Tactics Turn Full Creep in “The Inspection”
This week on Professor T, Jasper lectures about crime statistics, informing his students 89% of killers use a single method, and most are men with histories of violence. Multiple methods of murder suggest premeditation. He warns his students that real-life crime will always have exceptions; of course, that will
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Jasper Exhibits His Compassionate Side in 'Professor T's “September Gardens”
The second episode of Professor T’s fourth season, “September Gardens,” opens with Adelaide (Frances de la Tour), making the briefest of appearances as Jasper’s mother via FaceTime, to pressure him into complying with a request that will propel him into this week’s case. He is begrudgingly convinced
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'Professor T's Season 4 Premiere Jumps "Overboard" Into the Deep End
Sometimes, after a tragedy, people regress into old habits and comfortable personas. After years of a personality shaped by PTSD, Professor T’s Jasper Tempest (Ben Miller) reverts to the solace of his OCD routines in Season 4’s premiere, “Overboard,” following the death of the series' other main
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Everything to Remember Ahead of 'Professor T' Season 4
The original Flemish language Professor T starred Koen De Bouw as Jasper Teerlinck, the titular Professor T, a criminology lecturer at the University of Antwerp. A Sherlock Holmes-type figure, Professor T suffers from obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and is neuroatypical. However, former student Annelies Donckers, now an inspector of
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Everything British for PBS Viewers to Stream in August 2025
Streaming has significantly altered the TV season, but PBS remains a linear network at heart, and most of its shows follow the traditional September-May TV schedule. Usually, that means the dog days of August arrive with little in the way of new shows for public television stations; however, with
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'Professor T' Season 4 Lands Early Release on PBS Passport
Watching a sleeper hit become one of the most popular British shows that airs on PBS always feels a bit miraculous, like seeing a full double rainbow or a meteor shooting across the sky. That goes double if the first season of the show wasn't all that great,
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'Professor T' Heads Back to School for Season 4 When Summer Ends
Ever since it debuted in July 2021, the U.K. adaptation of Professor T has bounced around the PBS schedule like a rubber ball. Season 2 of the series arrived in September 2023, and Season 3 in June 2024. Obviously, that could only mean that Season 4 would debut sometime
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U.K. Adaptation of 'Professor T' Breaks Record with Season 5
When the executives behind Walter Presents, Jo McGrath and Walter Iuzzolino, decided to start a production company to remake their most popular foreign language hits in English, choosing Professor T was a no-brainer. The original three-season Belgian version was a hit in the U.S. and the U.