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When the husband and sons of the British ambassador to Hungary go missing, Baptiste, seemingly running from some recent sadness, offers his aid to help find them. The case spawns even greater tragedy. 

Leonard's escalating tribulations place Will in a difficult moral position, while a council election precipitated by a sudden death turns nasty—and an investigation is opened into the death. 

Will ends up in the middle of a dispute over an adopted child that becomes more serious when someone turns up dead. Leonard finds himself in ever-worsening trouble after receiving some blackmail.

As Grantchester returns, Geordie's family and everyone from the vicarage seeks a break at a holiday resort, but an unexpected death draws Will and Geordie into an investigation, while Leonard stumbles into trouble via his kindness.

Emmy Award winner Hannah Waddingham of Ted Lasso has joined the cast of Masterpiece's upcoming adaptation of the classic novel Tom Jones, as has Doctor Who's Pearl Mackie and many more actors you might recognize.

Masterpiece has revealed photos from Magpie Murders, an adaptation of the popular Anthony Horowitz mystery novel of the same name coming to PBS next year and starring Lesley Manville, among others.

David Tennant, a former host of Masterpiece, is returning to star as the adventurer Phileas Fogg in a new version of Jules Verne's classic Around the World in Eighty Days.

Another season of Guilt has been filmed, and while we don't know when it's coming to WTTW and PBS viewers, we do know a few scant details about it. 

Max makes a desperate gamble as things begin to unravel and the walls close in, while Jake and Claire decide to make fresh starts and Angie starts to discover what all she has gotten wrapped up in, as Guilt comes to a close.

“Tom Jones is the mother of all rom-coms and isn’t that just what we all need after the last couple of years of misery?" says the writer of an upcoming adaptation of Henry Fielding's classic work, considered one of the first novels. 

Mismatched brothers Max and Jake find themselves getting pulled ever further into trouble after they hit a man while driving home from a wedding. Jake begins to fall for the niece of the victim, while Max's marriage begins to fall apart. 

Masterpiece is lauded for its literary adaptations. Some authors have proven to be so popular with audiences that several of their works (and sometimes their life stories as well) have been adapted for television, with some reimagined more than once.

As we enter the fall season, get updates on Miss Scarlet and the Duke and Unforgotten, while catching some sneak peeks at the upcoming Guilt and Grantchester.

As PBS's Masterpiece celebrates its 50 years of bringing exceptional drama and mystery to your homes, look back on some of its notable adaptations of classic books, many of which can still be streamed.