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    ITV has commissioned a new six-part crime drama series.

    Grantchester is adapted from the novel Sidney Chambers and the Shadow of Death - the first of a projected six-book series titled The Grantchester Mysteries by author James Runcie.

    Set in 1953 in the real hamlet of Grantchester in Cambridgeshire, the series focuses on the life of vicar Sidney Chambers, who teams up with Police Inspector Geordie Keating to investigate the suspicious death of one of his parishioners.

    Sidney is described as "a tall and handsome man with a love of warm beer and hot jazz" who is "self-effacing, great company and a true romantic", while his cop partner is "a man two inches shorter than he'd like to be, with scuffed shoes and hair not as familiar with a comb as it should be".

    Viewers will see the pair's unlikely partnership develop into a friendship, as well as learning of Sidney's doomed relationship with beautiful heiress Amanda Kendall, whose father is pushing her to marry an aristocratic beau.

    Written by Daisy Coulam, the series will be produced by Lovely Day with the company's managing director and former EastEnders producer Diederick Santer executive producing.

    Santer said: "James Runcie has created this brilliant character [Sidney] and this glorious world, which Daisy Coulam is now bringing to the screen in her wonderful and lavish scripts, and I can't wait for ITV's audience to get to know him too."

    The cast is expected to be announced next year, with filming taking place between March and June around London, Cambridge and Grantchester.


    I have read James Runcie books and enjoyed them

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    Grantchester

    Robson Green will play a gruff, overworked policeman in ITV's new period crime drama Grantchester.

    The series, set in the titular Cambridgeshire village in 1953, centres on intuitive, jazz-loving young vicar Sidney Chambers, played by Death Comes to Pemberley's James Norton, who strikes up a strong bond with Robson's methodical Inspector Geordie Keating as he assists the police officer in uncovering the truth behind the suspicious death of one of his parishioners.

    The six-part series is adapted from a novel by Sidney Chambers and the Shadow of Death, by James Runcie, the son of ex-Archbishop of Canterbury Robert Runcie, and also stars former EastEnders actress Kacey Ainsworth as Geordie's wife Cathy, who is the mother of their three children and is expecting her fourth.

    Meanwhile, Morven Christie, who recently appeared in Death in Paradise, plays heiress Amanda Kendall who is in love with Sidney but whose father wants her to marry an aristocrat, while Only Fools and Horses' Tessa Peake-Jones co-stars as Sidney's doting housekeeper Mrs Maguire.

    “Sidney is a charming, but complex character, a man of faith burdened by his past despite a distinguished wartime record, he’s funny, dashing and inquisitive," says Grantchester's executive producer Diederick Santer. "He loves being a parish priest in the exquisite village of Grantchester, but somehow it’s not enough and he still finds time to fall in and out of love and solve crimes.

    "James Runcie has created this brilliant character and this glorious world, which Daisy Coulam is now bringing to the screen in her wonderful and lavish scripts, and I can’t wait for ITV’s audience to get to know him too.”

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    Series overview

    “As a priest, isn’t everything our business? There’s no part of the human heart which is not our responsibility” – Sidney Chambers

    James Norton (Happy Valley, Death Comes to Pemberley) plays the role of Sidney Chambers in new six- part drama Grantchester produced by Lovely Day in association with Masterpiece.
    Robson Green (Reckless, Wire In The Blood) joins him as plain speaking, over-worked Police Inspector, Geordie Keating.

    Set in 1953 in the beautiful county of Cambridgeshire, Sidney’s unlikely partnership with gruff, down to earth Geordie is central to Grantchester. Geordie’s methodical approach to policing complements Sidney’s more intuitive techniques of coaxing information from witnesses and suspects.

    They are partners in crime and forge a true friendship as each offers a different insight into the crimes they begin to unravel.

    Morven Christie (Hunted, Twenty Twelve) plays beautiful heiress Amanda Kendall, whose love for Sidney, although reciprocated, doesn’t have a future, as her father wants her to marry an aristocratic beau.

    Tessa Peake-Jones (Marchlands and of course Raquel in Only Fools and Horses) plays Sidney’s housekeeper, the indomitable Mrs Maguire who keeps him in check and does her best to keep his chaotic vicarage presentable and respectable. He also has gorgeous black Labrador puppy, Dickens, for company.

    Kacey Ainsworth (EastEnders, Holby Blue) plays Geordie’s loving wife Cathy. Cathy is a busy mother of three with a fourth child on the way.

    Sidney’s moustachioed curate, Leonard Finch, is played by Al Weaver (Southcliffe, Secret State), whilst pale, interesting and stunning widow, Hildegard Staunton, is played by German actress Pheline Roggan.

    Episode one

    It’s 1953, and just outside the Cambridgeshire village of Grantchester, local vicar Sidney Chambers (James Norton) has lost track of time, having spent a glorious morning with his fun loving friend, and the woman with whom he is secretly in love, Amanda Kendall (Morvern Christie). Racing to church, Sidney arrives just in time to minister at the funeral of a local solicitor - although his poor time-keeping earns the disapproval of his punctilious housekeeper Mrs Maguire (Tessa Peake-Jones).

    With the death a suicide, Sidney does his best to comfort young German widow Hildegard Staunton (Pheline Roggan), but is soon called away from his normal duties when the glamorous Pamela Morton (Rachel Shelley) asks to draw Sidney into her confidence. She reveals that she was having an affair with the late solicitor – and that far from being a suicide, she has reasons to believe that he was in fact murdered.

    With Pamela unable to go to the police, she asks Sidney if he would be able to look into the matter for her – after all, people confide in vicars, don’t they? However, Sidney’s investigation quickly draws him to the attention of grumpy local DI Geordie Keating (Robson Green), who doesn’t really appreciate the clergyman sticking his nose into things he doesn’t understand. But Sidney isn’t to be shaken off too easily – particularly when he begins to uncover evidence that the suicide was staged.

    However, whilst Sidney is focused on getting to the bottom of the alleged murder, his own world is shaken apart when he receives news that Amanda has got engaged – it seems that Sidney has missed his moment. With his heart breaking, and his theory about the murder seemingly coming up short, will Sidney be able to work out who killed the solicitor before the killer strikes again?

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    It looks quite good and I like Robson acting

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    when does it start?

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