Day: April 24, 2026

PBS summer: “Grantchester” plus lots of documentaries, old and new

PBS will spend chunks of this summer the way other networks do –with reruns.
They’ll be good reruns, at least. “Downton Abbey” will be there; so will a best-of “American Experience,” ranging from Woodstock to the moon, from John Kennedy to George H.W. Bush.
And there will be some new shows mixed in. They include the final season of “Grantchester” mysteries (shown here), plus documentaries about a poet, a publisher, a Holocaust hero, outer space and the American Southwest. Read more…