Patience TV show

Patience pays off; PBS adds to summer line-up

Summer Sundays will be a little fresher, after all.
PBS has announced that it’s putting the second season of “Patience” into the 8 p.m. slot, from June 14 to Aug. 2. That will lead into the 11th and final season of “Grantchester,” at 9.
Previously (see separate story), the network had announced a summer that will be fairly heavy on reruns — including “American Experience” ones on Fridays and the second “Downton Abbey” season at 10 p.m. Sundays. Its new shows included some scattered documentaries, plus the four-part “Once Upon a Time in Space,” which will range from Space Station Mir to commercial spaceflight. Read more…

Patience and Purvis: kindred spirits, and yet …

These two women seem to have everything in common. They’re young, autistic, heading into new worlds.
And yet, they’re also opposites.
Patience Evans (shown here) is fictional, the compelling central character in “Patience,” at 8 p.m. Sundays on PBS. Ella Maisy Purvis, 22, is the actress who plays her.
“I’m very different from her, but I’m also very similar,” she said, by Zoom. “There are no gray areas with us.”
They offer proof that autism really is a spectrum, and a huge one. Read more…