MASTERPIECE Studio

Hi MASTERPIECE Studio fans. Jace Lacob here. Today I’m excited to share a special preview episode of a new podcast from our friends at the PBS Science series, NOVA.

NOVA Now is a new bi-weekly podcast diving into the …

Warning: This episode contains spoilers for Episode Six of the Fifth Season of Grantchester.

The brilliant team who help create the world of Grantchester reunite in a special bonus podcast episode to explore the themes …

Warning: This episode contains spoilers for Episode Six of the Fifth Season of Grantchester.

With a toast, a birthday and gentle ribbing, we come to a close on Grantchester's fifth season. But that's not all for series …

Warning: This episode contains spoilers for Episode 5 of the Fifth Season of Grantchester.

A stunning revelation in the village of Grantchester leaves everybody at a loss for words — but Grantchester series creator …

Warning: This episode contains spoilers for Episode Four of the Fifth Season of Grantchester.

Ellie Harding is a bold newcomer on the Grantchester …

Warning: This episode contains spoilers for Episode Three of the Fifth Season of Grantchester.

After a particularly cinematic episode of …

Warning: This episode contains spoilers for Episode 2 of the Fifth Season of Grantchester.

The quiet charm of Leonard Finch and Daniel Marlowe's blossoming romance has been an unexpected highlight of the last few …

Warning: This episode contains spoilers for Episode 1 of the Fifth Season of Grantchester.

It's the fifth season of Grantchester, and series lead …

Warning: This episode contains spoilers for Episode Seven of the First Season of World On Fire.

After a stunning season one finale, World On Fire lead Zofia Wichłacz and series creator Peter Bowker return for another …

Warning: This episode contains spoilers for Episode Six of the First Season of World on Fire.

In the international cast of World On Fire, Nancy Campbell and her nephew, Webster O’Connor, are two Americans facing the …

Warning: This episode contains spoilers for Episode Five of the First Season of World On Fire*.*

During World War II, Julia Brown's grandmother was …

Warning: This episode contains spoilers for Episode Three of the First Season of World On Fire.

A World War II documentary helped spur Peter Bowker …

Warning: This episode contains spoilers for Episode Two of the First Season of World On Fire.

From a summer romance in beautiful prewar Warsaw to a …

Warning: This episode contains spoilers for Episode One of the First Season of World On Fire.

If World On Fire's Nancy Campbell seems familiar, it's more than just the fact that she is played by Academy Award-winning …

*Warning: This episode contains spoilers for Episode One of *Beecham House.

Fillmmaker Gurinder Chadha brings a keen eye to her multigenerational …

Warning: This episode contains spoilers for Episode Eight of the First Season of *Sanditon *

Actor Anne Reid is quick to remind anyone listening that her Sanditon character, Lady Denham, is a terrible, grouchy miser. …

Warning: This episode contains spoilers for Episode Seven of the First Season of Sanditon.

Screenwriter Andrew Davies has already adapted Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Northanger Abbey, and …

Warning: This episode contains spoilers for Episode Six of the First Season of Sanditon.

For the first time since her journey from Willingden, Charlotte Haywood leaves the town of Sanditon, heading to London in pursuit …

Warning: This episode contains spoilers for Episode Five of the First Season of Sanditon.

Esther Denham has few friends in Sanditon, and even her …

Warning: This episode contains spoilers for Episode Four of the First Season of Sanditon.

In a special bonus episode of MASTERPIECE Studio, Sanditon stars Rose Williams and Crystal Clarke reunite in the studio to …

Warning: This episode contains spoilers for Episode Four of the First Season of Sanditon.

Crystal Clarke is not the first major character of color …

Warning: This episode contains spoilers for Episode Three of the First Season of Sanditon.

The dashing Sidney Parker floats in and out of his brother Tom's seaside enterprise of Sanditon with barely a word besides. But …

Warning: This episode contains spoilers for Episodes One and Two of the First Season of Sanditon.

As she prepared for her role as the ambitious …

Warning: This episode contains spoilers for Episode Eight of the Fifth Season of Poldark.

For Poldark creator, writer and executive producer Debbie …

*Warning: This episode contains spoilers for Episode Seven of Season Five of *Poldark.

Catherine Despard was a real-life abolitionist and activist …

*Warning: This episode contains spoilers for Episode Six of Season Four of *The Durrells in Corfu.

After four years and four seasons of television, Louisa, Larry, Leslie, Margo and Gerry Durrell are leaving Corfu. It's …

*Warning: This episode contains spoilers for Episode Five of Season Five of *Poldark.

During his time living with his sister, Demelza and his …

*Warning: This episode contains spoilers for Episode Four of Season Five of *Poldark.

Prudie Paynter might be the world's most ineffective …

*Warning: This episode contains spoilers for Episode Three of Season Five of *Poldark.

Jack Farthing's Sir George Warleggan is the obvious villain …

*Warning: This episode contains spoilers for Episode Two of Season Five of *Poldark.

Actor Heida Reed played Elizabeth in the first four seasons of …

*Warning: This episode contains spoilers for Episode One of Season Four of *The Durrells In Corfu.

Simon Nye, the creator and head writer of The Durrells In Corfu, doesn’t see Gerald Durrell’s books as necessarily …

*Warning: This episode contains spoilers for Episode One of Season Five of *Poldark.

For the last five years, every season of Poldark has adapted at …

On this very first episode of Poldark, we meet all the key characters who will come to shape the series — Ross, Demelza, Elizabeth, Francis, Verity, …

*Warning: This episode contains spoilers for Episode Six of Season Four of *Grantchester.

When Grantchester star Al Weaver was in drama school, his …

*Warning: This episode contains spoilers for Episode Five of Season Four of *Grantchester.

Detective Geordie Keating’s put-upon wife, Cathy, has faced marital betrayal, a growing family and a murder-obsessed husband …

*Warning: This episode contains spoilers for Episode Four of Season Four of *Grantchester.

The heavy burden of replacing Grantchester lead James …

*Warning: This episode contains spoilers for Episode Three of Season Four of *Grantchester.

With the recent departure of his friend and castmate, James Norton, from the fields and dells of Grantchester, Robson Green is …

*Warning: This episode contains spoilers for Episodes One and Two of Season Four of *Grantchester.

After a two-year gap, the crime-solving Rev. …

*Warning: This episode contains spoilers for Episode Two of Season Six of *Endeavour.

In this sixth season of Endeavour, series lead Shaun Evans slips behind the camera for a change in a dramatic second episode. It’s a …

You already know the story…boy meets girl, pride meets prejudice, all in a beautiful wrapper: the dramatic Cornish cliffs and dazzling sea. And as we …

*Warning: This episode contains spoilers for Episode Six of *Les Miserables.

After six dramatic episodes and several decades of on-screen struggle, …

*Warning: This episode contains spoilers for Episode Six of Season Three of *Unforgotten.

Alex Jennings is already a MASTERPIECE regular, with his …

*Warning: This episode contains spoilers for Episode Four of *Les Miserables.

Screenwriter Andrew Davies has been a true master of modern television adaptations, bringing such iconic works as Middlemarch and *Little …

*Warning: This episode contains spoilers for Episode Three of *Les Miserables.

Actor Lily Collins tried her best to not lose herself in the …

*Warning: This episode contains spoilers for Episode Two of *Les Miserables.

In Victor Hugo's landmark epic, Les Miserables, the Inspector Javert is …

Warning: This episode contains spoilers for Episode One of Les Miserables.

After a career of playing notable villains,  actor Dominic West says he’s …

*Warning: This episode contains spoilers for Episode Three of *Mrs. Wilson.

The story of Alison Wilson’s relationship with British spy novelist and actual spy, Alexander Wilson, almost seems too wild for reality and …

*Warning: This episode contains spoilers for Episode One of Season Three of *Unforgotten.

When writer Chris Lang created the MASTERPIECE Mystery! series *Unforgotten, *he looked to capture the very ordinary …

*Warning: This episode contains spoilers for Episodes One and Two of *Mrs. Wilson.

When actor Ruth Wilson's grandmother, Alison, died, she left her family a surprisingly candid memoir about her relationship with her …

*Warning: This episode contains spoilers for Episode Eight of Season Three of *Victoria.

Victoria star Jenna Coleman lead a smashing third season of …

*Warning: This episode contains spoilers for Episode Seven of Season Three of *Victoria.

The scheming Princess Feodora snuck into Buckingham Palace early in the third season of Victoria, surprising her half-sister, the …

*Warning: This episode contains spoilers for Episode Six of Season Three of *Victoria.

Actor Alex Jennings calls himself “a common boy from Essex,” but his career on stage and screen has included at least four …

*Warning: This episode contains spoilers for Episode Five of Season Three of *Victoria.

Laurence Fox is well known to MASTERPIECE viewers after his eight seasons on the beloved series *Inspector Lewis*, so his …

*Warning: This episode contains spoilers for Episode Four of Season Three of *Victoria.

The irascible Nancy Skerrett snuck into her job as a dresser at Buckingham Palace under an assumed name, and came to win Queen …

*Warning: This episode contains spoilers for Episode Three of Season Three of *Victoria.

From the very first episode of MASTERPIECE’s *Victoria, *Lady Emma Portman has been the center of royal intrigue, even if very …

*Warning: This episode contains spoilers for Episode Two of Season Three of *Victoria.

Among the many fictional Buckingham Palace servants and staffers on MASTERPIECE's Victoria, Ferdinand Kingsley's Charles Elmé …

*Warning: This episode contains spoilers for Episode One of Season Three of *Victoria.

Victoria creator, head writer and executive producer Daisy Goodwin already knows the real history of Her Majesty Queen Victoria’s …

*Warning: This episode contains spoilers for Season Four of *Poldark.

Debbie Horsfield, the executive producer and sole writer of MASTERPIECE’s …

*Warning: This episode contains spoilers for Episode Eight of Season Four of *Poldark.

Elizabeth Warleggan, formerly Poldark and née Chynoweth, is …

*Warning: This episode contains spoilers for Episode Seven of Season Three of *The Durrells in Corfu.

The dashingly charming Spiros Halikiopoulos is …

For almost 40 years, the MASTERPIECE Mystery! title sequence has offered viewers an ominous glimpse into the dark unknown. It's a vision made real by …

*Warning: This episode contains spoilers for Episode Five of Season Four of *Poldark.

In lemon silks and too-tight breeches, the Reverend Osborne …

*Warning: This episode contains spoilers for Episode Four of Season Four of *Poldark.

While nobody in Cornwall seems to necessarily enjoy the …

*Warning: This episode contains spoilers for Episode Two of Season Four of *Poldark.

Josh Whitehouse plays the dashing Lt. Hugh Armitage with an eye …

*Warning: This episode contains spoilers for Episode One of Season Four of *Poldark.

Debbie Horsfield is the only writer of every episode of …

In celebration of the 100th episode of MASTERPIECE Studio, we bring some of our favorite moments from our conversations with MASTERPIECE’s actors and creative talents. From Downton Abbey to Unforgotten and everything in …

*Warning: This episode contains spoilers for Season Four of *Grantchester.

The beloved MASTERPIECE Mystery! series, Grantchester, is set to return to your screens in summer 2019. In the upcoming fourth season of the …

*Warning: This episode contains spoilers for *Man In An Orange Shirt.

Actor Julian Morris is known for his darker characters — psychopaths, social …

*Warning: This episode contains spoilers for *Little Women.

After her role as Marmee in the MASTERPIECE adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's Little …

*Warning: This episode contains spoilers for Episodes Two and Three of *Little Women.

Annes Elwy and Willa Fitzgerald play two of the four beloved March sisters at the heart of the latest MASTERPIECE adaptation of …

*Warning: This episode contains spoilers for Season Two of *Unforgotten.

The Unforgotten detectives solved another cold-case murder. But the …

*Warning: This episode contains spoilers for Episode One of *Little Women.

For actors Maya Hawke and Jonah Hauer-King — *Little Women’*s Jo March and Laurie Lawrence, respectively — watching a reel of outtakes from …

*Warning: This episode contains spoilers for Episode One of *Little Women.

Dame Angela Lansbury has been an acting icon for more than 70 years, bringing character and charm to stage and screen alike. The brand new …

*Warning: This episode contains spoilers for Episode One of *Little Women.

Writer Heidi Thomas is already plenty busy with the upcoming eighth and ninth seasons of her smash-hit series, Call the Midwife — but she knew …

*Warning: This episode contains spoilers for Season Two of *Unforgotten

By his own estimation, Sanjeev Bhaskar started acting relatively late in life.  He gives a telling preview of the stunning second season of …

*Warning: This episode contains spoilers for *The Child in Time.

Benedict Cumberbatch heads the cast of The Child in Time — and his new production company took the lead behind the scenes, as well. It's not …

*Warning: This episode contains spoilers for Season One of *Unforgotten.

Nicola Walker leads the crime-fighting duo on the new MASTERPIECE Mystery! …

*Warning: This episode contains spoilers for *The Child In Time

In her role as the bereaved mother Julie in the new MASTERPIECE drama, The Child In …

For six years and six seasons of television, screenwriter Heidi Thomas has explored the challenges of 1950s-era British midwifery. Now, as the seventh season of her PBS drama Call the Midwife heads to air just ahead of …

*Warning: This episode contains spoilers for Episode Nine of Season Two of *Victoria.

At the end of another season of Victoria, we couldn't help but …

*Warning: This episode contains spoilers for Episode Seven of Season Two of *Victoria.

The Christmas finale of Victoria's second season is as joyful …

*Warning: This episode contains spoilers for Episode Six of Season Two of *Victoria.

Homosexual romances no doubt existed in Queen Victoria’s court — but perhaps not in the way as depicted in this season’s dramatic …

*Warning: This episode contains spoilers for Episode Five of Season Two of *Victoria.

Series creator Daisy Goodwin moves between historical fact and dramatic fiction when she and her team write each episode of Victoria…

*Warning: This episode contains spoilers for Episode Four of Season Two of *Victoria.

Ernest, the charming royal German rogue of Victoria, has a reputation for being a kind of happy-go-lucky courtier. But his personal …

*Warning: This episode contains spoilers for Episode Three of Season Two of *Victoria.

Prince Albert is purely logical — which makes Tom Hughes’ search for emotional depths all the more challenging in this second …

*Warning: This episode contains spoilers for Episode Two of Season Two of *Victoria.

Rufus Sewell has relished the opportunity to play Lord Melbourne in the last two seasons of Victoria. As he bids farewell to the …

*Warning: This episode contains spoilers for Episode Two of Season Two of *Victoria.

Daisy Goodwin may be the creator and head writer of Victoria, but she can’t help but sound like an ardent fan when she talks about …

*Warning: This episode contains spoilers for Episode One of Season Two of *Victoria.

Queen Victoria is a proud new mother — but so far, she’s anything but pleased. As Prince Albert manages the daily stresses of the …

*Warning: This episode contains spoilers for Episode Six of Season Two of *The Durrells in Corfu.

Louisa Durrell let another love interest pass her by at the end of The Durrells In Corfu’s season two. Along the way, …

*Warning: This episode contains spoilers for Episode Nine of Season Three of *Poldark

Demelza Poldark ended her third season of Poldark with a …

*Warning: This episode contains spoilers for Episode Five of Season Two of *The Durrells in Corfu.

Actor Daniel Lapaine has made a career playing rakishly charming characters — He’s ‘a Smiling Devil,’ as one
director …

*Warning: This episode contains spoilers for Episode Six of Season Three of *Poldark

Caroline Blakiston’s Aunt Agatha Poldark has been a secret …

*Warning: This episode contains spoilers for Episode Five of Season Three of *Poldark

After just missing her chance at true romantic happiness this …

*Warning: This episode contains spoilers for Episode One of Season Two of *The Durrells in Corfu.

As a child, Keeley Hawes adored reading about the Durrell family’s fantastic Greek adventures on the island of Corfu. …

*Warning: This episode contains spoilers for Episodes One and Two of Season Three of *Poldark.

Poldark’s Caroline Penvenen, the beautiful heiress …

With the upcoming 2018 adaptation of Little Women on MASTERPIECE rapidly approaching, we wanted to look back 149 years to the original 1868 publication of Louisa May Alcott’s classic novel of the same name. More …

*Warning: This episode contains spoilers for Episode One of Season Four of *Endeavour.

A string of mysterious and seemingly unconnected Oxford murders greets Detective Constable Endeavour Morse in a brand new season of

*Warning: This episode contains spoilers for Episode Seven of Season Three of *Grantchester.

Another season of Grantchester is done and dusted, and …

*Warning: This episode contains spoilers for Episode Six of Season Three of *Grantchester.

Iconic British actor Tessa Peake-Jones describes herself as a rather happy woman, but her Mrs. Maguire on Grantchester is …

*Warning: This episode contains spoilers for Episode Five of Season Three of *Grantchester.

Actor Al Weaver, who plays church curate Leonard Finch in Grantchester, began his time on the series with a rather unfortunate …

*Warning: This episode contains spoilers for Episode Six of *Prime Suspect: Tennison.

The Prime Suspect: Tennison season is over, but Jane Tennison’s journey to Detective Chief Inspector is just beginning. Actor …

*Warning: This episode contains spoilers for Episode Three of *Prime Suspect: Tennison.

Actor Sam Reid plays the grizzled Detective Inspector Len Bradfield, an early mentor for a young Jane Tennison in the new prequel …

*Warning: This episode contains spoilers for Episode One of *Prime Suspect: Tennison.

The original Prime Suspect brought powerhouse Detective Chief Inspector Jane Tennison to our screens for seven seasons. But Tennison …

Warning: This episode contains spoilers for Episode One of the Third Season of Grantchester.

The comic and dramatic collide in full force in the …

*Warning: This episode contains spoilers for *Dark Angel.

Fans of “Downton Abbey’s” Anna Bates were likely spooked by Joanne Froggatt’s character in …

*Warning: This episode contains spoilers for *King Charles III.

In 2012, playwright Mike Bartlett had a revolutionary idea: a Shakespearean drama …

*Warning: This episode contains spoilers for *King Charles III.

Mike Bartlett’s Tony-nominated play “King Charles III” imagines the contentious ascension of Prince Charles to the throne. The new monarch’s refusal to …

Warning: This show contains "To Walk Invisible: The Brontë Sisters" spoilers.

Emily Brontë—of “Wuthering Heights” and Brontë family fame—looms large …

Warning: This episode contains spoilers for Episode Eight of the First Season of Victoria.

In the aftermath of a season finale that tested the relationship between Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, we’re talking to …

Warning: This episode contains spoilers for Episode Six of the First Season of Victoria.

What does it take to write a television series? In Daisy Goodwin’s case, it took a fight, 30 years of research experience, and a …

Warning: This episode contains spoilers for Episode Four of the First Season of Victoria.

Although many people have been rooting for Lord Melbourne and Victoria to end up together, history decided a different fate for …

Warning: This episode contains spoilers for Episodes One and Two of the First Season of Victoria.

Though MASTERPIECE's new period drama, "Victoria," is based on actual, 19th century history, it can be hard to …

Warning: This episode contains spoilers for Episode Two of the Fourth Season of Sherlock.

John Watson and Sherlock Holmes have been through some …

Warning: This episode contains spoilers for Episode One of the Fourth Season of Sherlock.

“Sherlock’s” Amanda Abbington weighs in on the premiere, and on playing the divisive Mary Watson.

Warning: This episode contains spoilers for Episode One of the Fourth Season of Sherlock.

"Sherlock’s" Molly Hooper has gone from being somewhat of …

Warning: This episode contains spoilers for Episode Ten of the Second Season of Poldark.

Even though actor Aidan Turner understands Ross Poldark's …

Warning: This episode contains spoilers for Episode Nine of the Second Season of Poldark.

Actor Heida Reed is nothing like the character she plays …

Warning: This episode contains spoilers for Episode Eight of the Second Season of Poldark.

Eleanor Tomlinson -- who plays Demelza Poldark -- …

Warning: This episode contains spoilers for Episode Seven of the Second Season of Poldark.

Dr. Dwight Enys knows how to extract fish bones from …

Warning: This episode contains spoilers for Episode Five of the Second Season of Poldark.

Francis Poldark might be the unluckiest character to …

Warning: This episode contains spoilers for Episode Three of the Second Season of Poldark.

With all of George Warleggan's antics this season and …

Warning: This episode contains spoilers for Episode One and Two of the Second Season of Poldark.

In the wake of "Poldark's" tense, Season 2 …

Warning: This episode contains spoilers for Episode One of the Second Season of Poldark.

Season 2 of "Poldark" is just around the corner! So what's …

*Warning: This episode contains spoilers for *Churchill’s Secret.

Actors Sir Michael Gambon and Romola Garai -- who play Winston Churchill and …

Warning: This episode contains spoilers for Episode Three of the Ninth Season of Inspector Lewis.

Though this is not the first time that we've said "goodbye" to Inspector Lewis, actor Kevin Whately insists that, this …

Warning: This episode contains spoilers for Episode One of the Ninth Season of Inspector Lewis.

Clare Holman's 20-year run as pathologist Dr. Laura …

Warning: This episode contains spoilers for Episode Four of the Third Season of Endeavour.

Roger Allam returns to the podcast to take us behind the scenes of the wild "Endeavour" season finale -- from the …

Warning: This episode contains spoilers for Episode Four of the Third Season of Endeavour.

Although young D.C. Morse is not the first version of the iconic detective to grace the screen, in the aftermath of one of the …

Warning: This episode contains spoilers for Episode Three of the Third Season of Endeavour.

These days, Anton Lesser is most recognized for playing two very different characters: "Endeavour's" Chief Superintendent …

Warning: This episode contains spoilers for Episode Two of the Third Season of Endeavour.

DC Morse and the Oxford City Police are back to business …

Warning: This episode contains spoilers for Episode One of the Third Season of Endeavour.

After being shot at the end of "Endeavour," Season 2, …

Warning: This episode contains spoilers for Episode One of the Third Season of Endeavour.

Back in 1987, actor John Thaw brought the endearingly cantankerous Inspector Morse to life on screen for the first time. Now, …

Warning: This episode contains spoilers for Episode Three of the Fourth Season of Wallander.

From dealing with big cats and non-stop rain to guiding Kenneth Branagh's last performance as Kurt Wallander, Benjamin Caron …

Warning: This episode contains spoilers for Episode Three of the Fourth Season of Wallander.

The series finale of "Wallander" had a lot of heart; it gave us a heartbreaking diagnosis, a heart-pounding case, and to top …

Warning: This episode contains spoilers for Episode Ten of the Fourth Season of Mr. Selfridge.

"Mr. Selfridge" is going out in style. From spectacle to stunts, this season has it all. But how will the party end for the …

Warning: This episode contains spoilers for Episode Two of the Fourth Season of Wallander.

In the second episode of the final season, we get to see …

Despite originating from what is widely considered to be the happiest -- and most beautiful -- region in the world, Nordic Noir has come to be known …

Warning: This episode contains spoilers for Episode One of the Fourth Season of Wallander.

MASTERPIECE Studio will follow the final season of …

Back in 2008, Australian native Emily Barker and her band the Red Clay Halo recorded their song, "Nostalgia," in relative anonymity. But when the crime drama Wallander premiered, accompanied by the song, "Nostalgia" …

Warning: This episode contains spoilers for Episode Six of the Second Season of Grantchester.

From punches to pranks, "Grantchester's" James Norton (Sidney) and Robson Green (Geordie) had a wild time together filming …

Warning: This episode contains spoilers for Episode Five of the Second Season of Grantchester.

In the aftermath of Gary's hanging and Sidney and …

Warning: This episode contains spoilers for Episode Four of the Second Season of Grantchester.

Amanda -- a wealthy debutante -- and Sidney -- an Anglican vicar -- have managed to keep their relationship alive despite …

Warning: This episode contains spoilers for Episode Two of the Second Season of Grantchester.

Grantchester is a real town in the English …

Warning: This episode contains spoilers for Episode One of the Second Season of Grantchester.

Handsome vicar Sidney Chambers and gruff detective …

Have you ever been haunted? Sherlock's Mark Gatiss has—and he shares a story in the supernatural vein of the upcoming Sherlock special, "The Abominable Bride," coming to Masterpiece on PBS New Year's Day, 2016.

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Sherlock co-creator, writer and actor Mark Gatiss—who plays the conniving Mycroft Holmes—previews the upcoming special, “The Abominable Bride,” …