‘Grantchester’ Season 7: Plot, Cast, and Everything Else We Know So Far
PBS has closed the books on Grantchester Season 6. The season-ending episode of the British mystery series aired Nov. 21, and while one mystery was solved, it’s not clear what the future holds for Reverent Will Davenport (Tom Brittney), Inspector Geordie Keating (Robson Green), and Leonard Finch (Al Weaver). Fortunately, fans should get some answers to their questions, because Grantchester has been renewed for a seventh season.
[Warning: Spoilers ahead for the Grantchester Season 6 finale.]
‘Grantchester’ Season 7 is definitely happening, will be set in 1959
Production started on Grantchester Season 7 back in July 2021 — before season 6 even began airing. The upcoming episode will be set in 1959, according to PBS.
Things kick off during the summer wedding season, with Will busy performing marriage ceremonies and Geordie investigating various murders. As everyone prepares to welcome a new decade, there are plenty of crimes to solve, as well as big decisions to be made that could permanently change life for those in Grantchester.
Which ‘Grantchester’ cast members will return?
All of Grantchester’s core cast members will return for season 7. That includes Brittney, Green, and Weaver, as well as Tessa Peake-Jones as the vicarage housekeeper Mrs. C, Kacey Ainsworth as Geordie’s wife Cathy, and Oliver Dimsdale as Leonard’s boyfriend Daniel Marlowe. Nick Brimble will also be back as Mrs. C’s husband Jack, as will Melissa Johns as police secretary Miss Scott and Bradley Halls as officer Larry Peters.
A number of guest stars will join Grantchester next season as well, including Call the Midwife’s Charlotte Ritchie, Michael D. Xavier from HBO’s Gentleman Jack, and Anna Wilson-Jones from Victoria.
Tom Brittney will direct an episode of ‘Grantchester’ Season 7
Brittney joined Grantchester in season 4 as a replacement for James Norton, who had decided to leave the show. Now, he is stepping behind the camera. The actor will direct the third episode of season 7.
“I’m thrilled to be back on set with my Grantchester family and back in our happy place,” he told PBS. “I’m also absolutely over the moon to be given the opportunity to direct an episode this series, it’s been a life ambition of mine and I can’t wait for the audience to see it (and also I can finally order Robson about!).”
What to expect from the next season of the PBS mystery series
When Grantchester Season 6 ended, Will, Geordie, and Leonard were all at a crossroads.
Will avoided a serious reprimand from the bishop in the season finale. But it seems clear that he is going to continue clashing with church leadership. Will Grantchester’s vicar eventually come to the same point that Sidney (Norton) reached a few seasons back and find he has to leave the church behind?
Meanwhile, Leonard has been released from prison early. But he’s lost his job and home due to his conviction on a gross indecency charge. The ex-curate and his boyfriend were reunited in the finale, but the reality of life as a gay couple in 1950s England means they’re not guaranteed a happily ever after.
Finally, there’s Geordie. He’s finally come to terms with his experiences as a POW in Burma. But while he was busy working all that out, his marriage to Cathy suffered. She’s forgiven him in the past, even taking him back after he cheated on her, but in the finale, she told him she wanted a separation.
For now, fans will have to wait to see how those dilemmas are resolved. But Grantchester writer Daisy Coulam has promised that season 7 won’t be quite as dark as season 6.
“[T]o tease season 7, we might go a bit kind of more into [Will’s] relationship, his love life,” Coulam told PBS’s Masterpiece Studio podcast. “Season 7 is like this bright, shiny, lovely thing. It’s really bizarre. I think it just has a lightness about it.”
Grantchester Season 6 is currently streaming on PBS Passport.
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