Grantchester Series Overview

### Starring

James NortonRobson GreenTom BrittneyTessa Peake-JonesAl WeaverKacey AinsworthMorven Christie

## Production

### Producers

Emma Kingsman-Lloyd (1 - 4)Richard Cookson (5 - )

## Release

### Original Release

6 October 2014 - present

***Grantchester*** is a British ITV detective drama, set in the 1950s Cambridgeshire village of the same name. The show first featured Anglican vicar Sidney Chambers (James Norton), and subsequently vicar William Davenport (Tom Brittney), both of whom develop a sideline in sleuthing with the help of Detective Inspector Geordie Keating (Robson Green). The series is based on *The Grantchester Mysteries*, collections of short stories written by James Runcie. The first series was based on the six stories from the first book, *Sidney Chambers and the Shadow of Death*, and was broadcast in 2014. A second series aired in March and April 2016, and a third series began its run on 23 April 2017. A fourth series was announced on 12 April 2018, and it was confirmed that this would be the last to feature James Norton in the lead.

Tom Brittney as the Reverend Will Davenport took over the lead from Norton in series 4. The fifth series commenced in January 2020. A sixth series was commissioned on 17 July 2020, and begun transmission on 3 September 2021. A seventh series was commissioned on 28 July 2021, which started production in summer 2021 with Brittney also directing for the first time. It premiered on 11 March 2022.

## Plot

In the Cambridgeshire village of Grantchester during the 1950s, Anglican vicar and former Scots Guards officer Sidney Chambers (James Norton), and subsequently his successor Will Davenport (Tom Brittney), work with the overworked Detective Inspector Geordie Keating (Robson Green) to forge an unlikely partnership in solving crimes. Keating's gruff, methodical approach to policing complements Chambers' more intuitive techniques of coaxing information from witnesses and suspects. Some sub-plots deal with Leonard Finch's homosexuality before decriminalisation of male homosexual behaviour in England and Wales (1967).

## Cast

### Current

* Robson Green as DI Geordie Keating (Series 1–), a WWII veteran and detective in the Cambridgeshire constabulary,
* Tom Brittney as the Reverend William Davenport (Series 4–), Anglican vicar and former Cambridge College Chaplin
* Tessa Peake-Jones as Mrs. Sylvia Maguire, later Chapman (Series 1–), the vicarage's devoutly religious housekeeper
* Al Weaver as Leonard Ernest Finch (Series 1–), the gay Anglican curate
* Kacey Ainsworth as Cathy Keating (Series 1–), Geordie's wife
* Oliver Dimsdale as Daniel Marlowe (Series 2–), a photographer who embarks on a secret relationship with Leonard
* Nick Brimble as Jack Chapman (Series 1–), a retired businessman who later marries Mrs. Maguire
* Gary Beadle as Archdeacon Gabriel Atubo (Series 3–4, & 6), the church's first Archdeacon of colour. In reality, the Church of England didn't appoint its first black Archdeacon until 1982 when Bishop Wilfred Wood became Archdeacon of Southwark.
* Bradley Hall as DC Larry Peters (Series 4–), Geordie's constable on the force
* Felix Scott as DI Sean Donovan (Series 4–), a fellow DI assigned to work alongside Geordie
* Skye Lucia Degruttola as Esme Keating (Series 1–), Geordie's daughter
* Jemma Redgrave as Amelia Davenport (Series 4–), Will's mother
* Melissa Johns as Miss Scott (Series 6-), Police secretary
* Emily Patrick as Tamara Gurney-Clifford, Will's flirtatious socialite step-sister (Series 6-)

### Former

* James Norton as the Reverend Sidney Chambers, MC (Series 1–4), Anglican vicar and former Scots Guards officer during World War II.
* Morven Christie as Amanda Kendall/Hopkins (Series 1–3), heiress and art restorer at London's Dulwich Picture Gallery with whom Sidney has a relationship.
* Tom Austen as Guy Hopkins (Series 1–3), Amanda's husband, whom she later leaves and then divorces.
* Pip Torrens as Sir Edward Kendall (Series 1–2), Amanda's father.
* Fiona Button as Jennifer Chambers (Series 1–2), Sidney's younger sister who is Amanda's former classmate.
* Pheline Roggan (in German) as Hildegard Staunton (Series 1), a young German widow with whom Sidney has a brief romance.
* David Troughton as DCI Benson (Series 1–2), Geordie's immediate superior.
* Joe Claflin as DC Atkins (Series 1), Geordie's colleague on the force.
* Lorne MacFadyen as DS Phil Wilkinson (Series 2–3), Geordie's colleague on the force.
* Seline Hizli as Margaret Ward (Series 2–3), a junior office clerk at police headquarters who has a relationship with Sidney and later an affair with Geordie.
* Simona Brown as Violet Todd (Series 4), daughter of a civil rights preacher, whom Sidney falls for and emigrates to the United States with.
* Paula Wilcox as Diana (Series 5), Cathy's mother and Geordie's mother-in-law, who suffers from bipolar disorder.
* Lauren Carse as Ellie Harding (Series 5), an ambitious journalist who develops a friendship with Will.
* Michael Abubakar as Bryan Stanford (Series 6), a photographer working at a holiday camp who tries to seduce and later blackmails Leonard.