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Tom Brittney on how a holiday changes things for ever in hit crime drama Grantchester

- VICTORIA WILSON

GRANTCHESTER

NEW FRIDAY / ITV / 9PM / EP 1 of 8 / DRAMA

There’s no doubt Will Davenport is devoted to serving his parish – but even a crime-fighting clergyman needs a holiday!

So, as ITV’s popular period drama Grantchester returns for a sixth outing, the motorcycle-riding reverend (Tom Brittney), along with pals DI Geordie (Robson Green) and Cathy Keating (Kacey Ainsworth), curate Leonard Finch (Al Weaver) and housekeeper Mrs. Chapman (Tessa Peake-Jones), is checking in to a resort for some R&R. However, trouble is not far behind them.

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It’s 1958 and everything, as usual, seems OK in Grantchester village, but Will is overworking himself. Although he’s a bit more liberated, he still has his angst, and he’s putting all of it into his work – to the point where everyone agrees he needs a holiday. So they all gladly go along to a Grantchester version of a Butlin’s holiday camp, Merries.