BBC Renews Father Brown for Two More Seasons

The BBC has renewed the long-running crime drama Father Brown for two additional seasons, with production on series 14 already underway in the Cotswolds. The series, starring Mark Williams as the titular Roman Catholic priest who solves mysteries in the fictional 1950s village of Kembleford, first premiered in 2013 and has produced 13 seasons and approximately 140 episodes to date.

Filming for the new season began in the first week of April, capturing the spring bloom of the countryside. Williams, known for roles in Harry Potter and The Fast Show, reprises his lead role and has received an executive producer credit for his creative contributions. He described the start of production in a statement: "We started filming series 14 of Father Brown in the first week of April and while it's always a wrench to leave my garden at home when it's just burgeoning, the Cotswold countryside makes up for it. The trees are wearing their swankcoats of blossom hawthorn, apple, pear and blackthorn and the splendid white and pink cherries. There are lots of magnolias too, looking like enormous wedding bouquets, and all the trees are coming into leaf. I love the horse chestnut leaves still...