Dunja Dopsaj/MASTERPIECE Miss Scarlet and The Duke is dropping “The Duke” literally as actor Stuart Martin exits the hit series ahead of season 5. PBS Masterpiece announced on Thursday, February 29, that private detective Miss Eliza Scarlet (Kate Phillips) will be back for a new season but her favorite Scotland Yard detective William “The Duke” Wellington (Martin) won’t be by her side. Instead, the show is being renamed Miss Scarlet for season 5. “It has been such an incredible joy to brin
Big change on Masterpiece’s popular drama Miss Scarlet and the Duke. Stuart Martin, who played William “The Duke” Wellington in the previous four seasons, will not return for season 5. Kate Phillips (Wolf Hall, The Crown) will return as Miss Eliza Scarlet for a fifth season of investigations, and the series will be retitled Miss Scarlet. …
Premieres Sunday, Nov. 27, 2022 at 8 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS Video App. Go behind-the-scenes of this thrilling MASTERPIECE mystery series with cast and crew. Featuring Kate Phillips (Wolf Hall) as Victorian London’s brilliant, beautiful and first-ever female sleuth, and Stuart Martin (Medici) as her friend and associate.
Kate Phillips (PEAKY BLINDERS) stars in a six-part mystery as the headstrong, first-ever female detective in Victorian London. Stuart Martin (JAMESTOWN) plays her childhood friend, professional colleague, and potential love interest, Scotland Yard Detective Inspector William Wellington, a.k.a., The Duke.
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Sundays, Jan. 17–Feb. 14 & Feb. 28, at 8 p.m. on WKAR-HD 23.1 & STREAMING | Before Marple and Tennison, there was Scarlet: Miss Eliza Scarlet, private detective.
Miss Scarlet and the Duke is set in London at the start of the
Sherlock Holmes era, circa 1880. Eliza’s father, Henry, is a widowed retired police officer, currently a private detective running up bills and drinking through his occasional earnings. Nonetheless, he is a talented investigator, and he has taught his only child, Eliza, the trade since she was a girl. She is now determined to break into this male-only profession.
Fortunately, Eliza’s childhood friend happens to be a detective inspector at Scotland Yard: William, “The Duke,” Wellington. He gets his nickname from the most famous Englishman of the 19th century: the Duke of Wellington, victor over Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo. Like that other Wellington, the Duke is cool and decisive in a scrape. He is also a