Airs: Sundays, 9pm (PBS times may vary in your area)
Network: PBS
Who Is In It? Kenneth Branagh, Benedict Cumberbatch, Martin Freeman, Rupert Graves
Hosted By Alan Cumming
What To Expect: Masterpiece Mystery continues through November 7 Series III of Inspector Lewis continuing through September 26.
Starting October 3, Series II of Wallander begins, with Kenneth Branagh reprising his role as soul-searching Swedish cop Kurt Wallander in three new cases based on the books that launched the recent craze for Nordic thrillers. The first episode is “Faceless Killers,” in which Wallander investigates the brutal murder of an elderly farm couple, which leads to a vigilante campaign against migrant workers — and to Wallander facing his own conflicting attitude toward foreigners.
On October 10, “The Man Who Smiled” finds Wallander scarred by the experience of shooting a man, and on the verge of resigning from the force. But the suspicious deaths of a friend and the friend’s father points to a heinous conspiracy that Wallander must investigate.
The last new episode, “The Fifth Woman,” airing October 17, finds Wallander on the trail of an “avenging angel” who is dispensing murderous justice for past wrongs.
Starting October 24, Masterpiece: Mystery! brings back one of the most famous fictional detectives of all time — Sherlock Holmes. But this version blows away the fog of the Victorian era and brings Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s hero into the 21st century in a thrilling contemporary way. Benedict Cumberbatch stars in the title role, and Martin Freeman as Dr. Watson, in Sherlock, airing three Sundays. The series comes from Steven Moffat (Doctor Who, Coupling) and Mark Gatiss (Doctor Who, The League of Gentlemen).
Sherlock kicks off with “A Study in Pink” on October 24. A wave of suicides grips London, but Sherlock suspects the victims are not, as police believe, voluntarily swallowing poison capsules. Holmes is soon on the trail of a murderous mastermind with the perfect cover, but can he escape becoming the next “suicide”?
In “The Blind Banker,” airing October 31, Holmes and Watson follow the trail of a killer who can seemingly walk through walls to London’s Chinatown, where an ancient Chinese puzzle, an antiquities curator on the run and a mysterious book that everyone in the city seems to own hold the solution to the murders.
Sherlock ends with “The Great Game,” airing November 7. Holmes pits wits against a devilishly clever bomber, who straps explosives to innocent people and then has them call the detective with a series of baffling mysteries to solve.
Official Masterpiece: Mystery! Site
What To Expect: Masterpiece Mystery continues through November 7 Series III of Inspector Lewis continuing through September 26.
Starting October 3, Series II of Wallander begins, with Kenneth Branagh reprising his role as soul-searching Swedish cop Kurt Wallander in three new cases based on the books that launched the recent craze for Nordic thrillers. The first episode is "Faceless Killers," in which Wallander investigates the brutal murder of an elderly farm couple, which leads to a vigilante campaign against migrant workers — and to Wallander facing his own conflicting attitude toward foreigners.
On October 10, "The Man Who Smiled" finds Wallander scarred by the experience of shooting a man, and on the verge of resigning from the force. But the suspicious deaths of a friend and the friend's father points to a heinous conspiracy that Wallander must investigate.
The last new episode, "The Fifth Woman," airing October 17, finds Wallander on the trail of an "avenging angel" who is dispensing murderous justice for past wrongs.
Starting October 24, Masterpiece: Mystery! brings back one of the most famous fictional detectives of all time -- Sherlock Holmes. But this version blows away the fog of the Victorian era and brings Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's hero into the 21st century in a thrilling contemporary way. Benedict Cumberbatch stars in the title role, and Martin Freeman as Dr. Watson, in Sherlock, airing three Sundays. The series comes from Steven Moffat (Doctor Who, Coupling) and Mark Gatiss (Doctor Who, The League of Gentlemen).
Sherlock kicks off with "A Study in Pink" on October 24. A wave of suicides grips London, but Sherlock suspects the victims are not, as police believe, voluntarily swallowing poison capsules. Holmes is soon on the trail of a murderous mastermind with the perfect cover, but can he escape becoming the next "suicide"?
In "The Blind Banker," airing October 31, Holmes and Watson follow the trail of a killer who can seemingly walk through walls to London's Chinatown, where an ancient Chinese puzzle, an antiquities curator on the run and a mysterious book that everyone in the city seems to own hold the solution to the murders.
Sherlock ends with "The Great Game," airing November 7. Holmes pits wits against a devilishly clever bomber, who straps explosives to innocent people and then has them call the detective with a series of baffling mysteries to solve.
