It’s been nearly a year since one of America’s favorite British detective series last aired, yet anticipation for its return remains as strong as ever. The previous season’s eight episodes aired on PBS Masterpiece in the U.S. from June 15 to August 3, 2025, while the season was broadcast on ITV in the UK from January 7 to February 19, 2026. Fortunately for American viewers, the new season arrives in just a few days and will feature several new faces, including a fan favorite from another beloved British drama, All Creatures Great and Small.
According to new reports, Grantchester returns on June 14, 2026, for its 11th and final season, with Nicholas Ralph set to make a memorable appearance. Ralph is best known for playing veterinary surgeon James Herriot in All Creatures Great and Small, which was renewed for seventh and eighth seasons last November. In Grantchester, the Scottish actor will appear in the July 12 episode as John Planer, a clergyman who has recently returned to England after serving on a mission in Africa. Showrunner Daisy Coulam revealed that the Grantchester episode was inspired by the award-winning film Conclave, with the idea of “getting loads of religious men together and seeing what happens.” However, she noted that the episode is considerably funnier than the acclaimed film.
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Collider Exclusive · Action Hero Quiz Which Action Hero Would Be Your Perfect Partner? Rambo · James Bond · Indiana Jones · John McClane · Ethan Hunt
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Five legends. Five completely different ways of getting out alive — with style, with muscle, with charm, with luck, or with a plan so intricate it probably shouldn’t work. Ten questions will reveal which action hero was built to have your back.
🎖️Rambo
🍸James Bond
🏺Indiana Jones
🔧John McClane
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🎭Ethan Hunt
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You’re dropped into a dangerous situation with no warning. What do you need most from a partner? The first few seconds tell you everything about who belongs beside you.
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You have to get somewhere dangerous, fast. How do you travel? How you get there is half the mission.
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You’re pinned down and outnumbered. What does your ideal partner do? This is when you find out what someone is really made of.
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The mission is paused. You have one evening to decompress. What does your partner suggest? Who someone is when the pressure drops is who they actually are.
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How do you prefer your partner to communicate mid-mission? Good communication is the difference between partners and a liability.
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Your enemy is powerful, well-resourced, and has the upper hand. How should your partner approach them? The approach to the enemy defines the partnership.
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Things go badly wrong and you’re captured. What do you trust your partner to do? Who someone is when you need them most is the only thing that matters.
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What does your ideal partner bring to the table that you couldn’t replace? A great partner fills the gap you didn’t know you had.
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Every partnership has a cost. Which of these can you live with? No one comes without baggage. The question is whether you can carry it together.
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It’s the final moment. Everything is on the line. What do you need from your partner right now? The last question is the most honest one.
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Your Partner Has Been Assigned Your Perfect Partner Is…
Your answers have pointed to one action hero above all others. This is the person built to have your back — for better or considerably, spectacularly worse.
Rambo
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Your partner doesn’t talk much, doesn’t need to, and will have assessed every threat in your immediate environment before you’ve finished your first sentence. John Rambo is not a man of plans or politics — he is a force of nature shaped by survival, loyalty, and a capacity for endurance that goes beyond anything training can produce. He will not leave you behind. He has never left anyone behind who deserved to come home. What you get with Rambo is the most capable, most quietly ferocious partner imaginable — one who has been through things that would have broken anyone else, and who chose to keep going anyway. You’ll never need to ask if he has your back. You’ll just know.
James Bond
Your partner will arrive perfectly dressed, perfectly briefed, and with a cover story so convincing it’ll take you a moment to remember what’s actually true. James Bond is the most professionally dangerous person in any room he enters — and the most disarmingly charming, which is the point. He operates in a world of layers, where nothing is what it appears and every advantage is used without apology. You’ll never be bored. You’ll occasionally be furious. But when it matters — when the mission is genuinely on the line and the margin for error has collapsed to nothing — Bond is exactly the partner you want. He has survived things that have no business being survivable. He does it with style. That is not nothing.
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Indiana Jones
Your partner will know the history, the language, the cultural context, and exactly why the thing everyone else is ignoring is actually the most important thing in the room. Indiana Jones is brilliant, reckless, and occasionally impossible — but he is also one of the most resourceful, most genuinely knowledgeable partners you could find yourself beside. He approaches every situation with a scholar’s eye and a brawler’s instinct, which is an unusual combination and a remarkably effective one. He hates snakes and gets personally attached to objects of historical significance, both of which will slow you down at least once. It doesn’t matter. What Indy brings is irreplaceable — and the adventures you’ll have together will be the kind people write books about. Assuming you survive them.
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John McClane
Your partner was not supposed to be here. He does not have the right equipment, the right information, or anything approaching the right odds. He has a sarcastic remark and an absolute refusal to accept that the situation is as bad as it looks. John McClane is the greatest accidental hero in the history of action cinema — a man whose superpower is stubbornness, whose contingency plan is improvisation, and whose capacity to absorb punishment and keep moving would be alarming if it weren’t so useful. He will complain the entire time. He will make it significantly more chaotic than it needed to be. And he will absolutely, unconditionally, without question come through when it counts. Yippee-ki-yay.
Ethan Hunt
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Your partner has already run seventeen scenarios by the time you’ve finished reading the briefing, and the plan he’s settled on involves at least two things that should be physically impossible. Ethan Hunt operates at the absolute edge of human capability — technically, physically, and intellectually — and he brings the same relentless precision to protecting his partners that he brings to dismantling organisations that shouldn’t exist. He is not easy to know and he will never fully tell you everything. But he will carry the weight of the mission so completely, so absolutely, that your job is simply to trust him — and the remarkable thing is that trusting him always turns out to be the right call. The mission will be impossible. He will complete it anyway.
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What Happens When ‘Grantchester’ Returns?
In Ralph’s episode, Alphy (Rishi Nair) encounters John during a visit to Bishop Grey’s (Stuart Bowman) palatial home, where a group of vicars has gathered for a weekend retreat. Nair, who made his Grantchester debut in Season 9, had nothing but praise for his new co-star, describing Ralph as “a great actor to work with” and someone he got along with very well.
As for what unfolds in the episode, the gathering takes a dark turn when the vicars, all eager to curry favor with the bishop, become suspects in the death of a man whose body is discovered nearby. With the victim found clutching a Bible, detectives Geordie Keating (Robson Green) and Larry Peters (Bradley Hall) enlist their resident crime-solving clergyman to help with the investigation. Matters become even more complicated for Alphy when he realizes that some of his fellow men of the cloth are not being truthful, further fueling his ongoing struggle with his faith. Also returning for Grantchester Season 11 is Alphy’s love interest, Meg (Christie Russell-Brown), whose father, as viewers may recall, is Bishop Grey.
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Grantchester Season 11 premieres this month on PBS.
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Release Date
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2014 – 2024
Network
ITV1
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Directors
Harry Bradbeer
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Writers
Daisy Coulam, Richard Cookson, Tolula Dada, Tumi Belo
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