Grantchester: Watch Trailer, Get Premiere Date for Tom Brittney’s Final Season as Will

Matt Webb Mitovich
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The good news for fans of Masterpiece on PBS’ Grantchester? We now have a premiere date and a trailer for Season 9.

The sad news? As you might recall, Season 9 will mark leading man Tom Brittney‘s swan song as vicar Will Davenport.

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Last July, it was announced that Season 9 of Grantchester would be the last for Brittney, who joined the cast in Season 4. In turn, the Masterpiece mystery added English actor Rishi Nair (Hollyoaks) as Will’s successor, Alphy Kotteram.

“I’ve had the most incredible time playing Will Davenport for the last five years,” Brittney said in a statement when his exit was first announced. “I got to solve crimes with my best friend, and work with the best cast and crew I could ever ask for. I’ll miss it more than anything. But it’s time for the baton to be passed, as it once was to me, and I’m so excited for Rishi to join the Grantchester family.”

In Season 9 of Grantchester, which now has a Sunday, June 16 PBS premiere date, “The world is changing,” says the synopsis.

“It’s 1961 and life is good for Will and Geordie (played by Robson Green),” the overview continues. “The families are always together, from Sunday lunches to planning summer holidays and with honorary grandparents Mrs. C and Jack, and adopted uncles Daniel and Leonard, it’s one big happy family! But when Will is approached with a life-changing offer, can he leave Grantchester, and Geordie behind?”

“As Geordie struggles with personal loss and ever-growing family conflict between Cathy and teenage daughter Esme, he has no one to turn to. But when he arrests an intruder breaking into the Vicarage, he may find his days of working with a vicar are not over.”

Enter Nair as Reverend Alphy Kottaram, a character with an instinctive distrust for authority and absolutely no desire to get involved in murder investigations. Alphy and Geordie, however, will discover they have a lot more in common than they first think, and Alphy will find that in Grantchester, murder is never far away.

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