James Bond Icon’s 10/10 Murder Mystery Series Sets Official Return

Who doesn’t love a cozy British mystery? Whether it’s The Thursday Murder Club proving age is just a number or the countless seasons of arguably British TV’s best-loved crime procedural, Midsomer Murders, audiences across the world can’t get enough of the solving of criminal puzzles against the backdrop of the gorgeous British countryside. Among the many fan-favorite examples regularly proving popular on the streaming charts, one of the best is The Marlow Murder Club.

For three seasons and 16 episodes, loyal fans have been glued to their screens as the pieces of intelligent puzzles are put together by the titular trio of Judith Potts (James Bond icon Samantha Bond), Suzie Harris (Doctor Who‘s Jo Martin), and Becks Starling (Cara Horgan). On Sunday, September 6, 2026, the series will return for its third season on PBS Masterpiece in the U.S., following its run across the pond earlier this year. Following a positive response to Season 3 in the UK, the fate of The Marlow Murder Club has been decided, and the titular trio is going nowhere.

“We’re delighted to be back in Marlow for a fourth time, bringing three more murder mysteries to one of the most picturesque towns in England,” wrote executive producers for Monumental Television, Alison Owen and Debra Hayward, in a statement about the show’s renewal. “Robert and Amy have expertly crafted yet another deliciously twisty set of crimes to be solved. Packed with intrigue, wit and heart, we can’t wait to bring these new adventures to the screen,” the pair continued, with it confirmed that Season 4 will consist of three mysteries, spread across six episodes.



















































Collider Exclusive · TV Medicine Quiz
Which Fictional Hospital Would You Work Best In?
The Pitt · ER · Grey’s Anatomy · House · Scrubs

Five hospitals. Five completely different ways medicine goes sideways on television — brutal, chaotic, romantic, brilliant, and ridiculous. Only one of them is the ward your instincts were built for. Eight questions will figure out exactly where you belong.

🚨The Pitt

🏥ER

💉Grey’s

🔬House

🩺Scrubs

01

A critical patient comes through the door. What’s your first instinct?
Medicine under pressure reveals who you actually are.





02

Why did you go into medicine in the first place?
The honest answer says more about you than the one you’d give in an interview.





03

What do you actually want from the people you work with?
Who you want beside you under pressure is who you are.





04

You lose a patient you fought hard to save. How do you carry it?
Every doctor who’s worked a long shift has had to answer this question.





05

How would your colleagues describe the way you work?
Your reputation on the floor is usually more accurate than your self-image.





06

How do you feel about hospital protocol and procedure?
Every institution has rules. What you do with them is a choice.





07

What does this job cost you personally?
Nobody works in medicine without paying a price. What’s yours?





08

At the end of a long shift, what keeps you coming back?
The answer to this question is the most honest thing about you.





Your Assignment Has Been Made
You Belong In…

Your answers have pointed to one fictional hospital above all others. This is the ward your instincts, your temperament, and your particular brand of dysfunction were built for.


Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center

The Pitt

You are built for the most unsparing version of emergency medicine television has ever shown — one that puts you inside a single fifteen-hour shift and doesn’t let you look away.

  • You need your work to be real, not romanticised — meaning over drama, honesty over aesthetics.
  • You find purpose inside the work itself, not in the chaos surrounding it.
  • You’ve made peace with the fact that this job takes from you constantly, and gives back in ways that are harder to name.
  • Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center demands exactly that kind of person — and you would not want to be anywhere else.


County General Hospital, Chicago

ER

You are the person who keeps the whole floor running — not the most brilliant in the room, but possibly the most essential.

  • You show up, do the work, absorb the losses, and come back the next day without needing the job to be anything other than what it is.
  • You care about patients as individual human beings, not as cases to solve or dramas to live through.
  • You believe in the system even when it fails you — and you understand that emergency medicine is about holding the line just long enough.
  • ER is television about endurance. You have it.


Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital, Seattle

Grey’s Anatomy

You came to medicine with your whole self — your ambition, your emotions, your relationships, your history — and you have never quite managed to leave any of it at the door.

  • You feel things fully and form deep attachments to the people you work with.
  • Your personal and professional lives are permanently, chaotically entangled — and that entanglement drives both your greatest disasters and your most remarkable saves.
  • You understand that extraordinary medicine often happens at the intersection of clinical skill and profound human connection.
  • It’s messy at Grey Sloan. You would not have it any other way.


Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital, NJ

House

You are drawn to the problem above everything else — the symptom that doesn’t fit, the diagnosis hiding underneath the obvious one.

  • You’re not primarily motivated by the patient as a person — though you are capable of caring, even if you’d deny it.
  • You work best when the stakes are highest and the standard answer is wrong.
  • Princeton-Plainsboro exists to house one extraordinary, impossible mind — and everyone around that mind is there because they’re smart enough to keep up.
  • The only way forward here is to think harder than everyone else in the room. That is exactly what you do.


Sacred Heart Hospital, California

Scrubs

You understand that medicine is tragic and absurd in almost equal measure — and that the only sane response is to hold both of those things at the same time.

  • You are warm, self-aware, and funnier than most people in your field.
  • You use humour to get through terrible moments — and at Sacred Heart, that’s not a flaw, it’s a survival strategy.
  • You lean on the people around you and let them lean back. The laughter and the grief are genuinely inseparable here.
  • Scrubs is a show about learning to become someone worthy of the job. You are still very much in the middle of that process — which is exactly right.

What Is ‘The Marlow Murder Club’ Season 4 About?

Following a similar trend to previous seasons, Season 4 of The Marlow Murder Club will initially adapt one of Robert Thorogood‘s books, namely Murder on the Marlow Belle, before moving to original mysteries for episodes 3–6, written by Amy Reith and Thorogood. Bond, Martin, and Horgan will all return alongside The Capture‘s Natalie Dew’s DI Tanika Malik, with Holli Dempsey, Phill Langhorne, and Tijan Sarr also rejoining the cast for production, which is about to begin in and around Marlow. A synopsis for Season 4 reads:

“The series begins with the discovery of a body in the river that is soon linked to the Marlow Amateur Dramatics Society and a homegrown Hollywood star. The team must also unravel the truth behind a man’s sudden death at his mother’s wake. He appears to have died from an allergic reaction, but is there more to it than that? And when the co-owner of a vineyard is found dead, drowned in his own wine, the women work to make sense of this seemingly unmotivated murder. Can our amateur sleuths navigate the family scandals and personal betrayals to unmask the killers in their close-knit community. “

Stay tuned to Collider for more updates on the best of British television.


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Release Date

October 27, 2024

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    Samantha Bond

    Judith Potts

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    Becks Starling

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    DS Tanika Malik


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