Where to watch
PBS (broadcast): Fall 2026 schedule and British mystery premieres
Free over-the-air broadcasts on local PBS member stations. MASTERPIECE mysteries air on Sunday nights; national slots are published as Eastern/Central times, but individual stations can schedule differently.
What's on PBS tonight
How to watch
Free with an antenna or a cable/satellite package that carries your local PBS station. New MASTERPIECE episodes also stream on PBS.org and the PBS app after broadcast.
PBS Fall 2026 lineup, night by night
| Night | Time (ET) | Show | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monday | 10 p.m. ET | Independent LensSeason 28 | New episodes |
| 10 p.m. ET | POVSeason 39 | New episodes | |
| Tuesday | 8 p.m. ET | Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates Jr.Season 13 | Premieres soon |
| 10 p.m. ET | FrontlineSeason 2026 | New episodes | |
| Wednesday | 8 p.m. ET | NatureSeason 45 | New episodes |
| 9 p.m. ET | NOVASeason 53 | New episodes | |
| 10 p.m. ET | Secrets of the DeadSeason 24 | New episodes | |
| Wednesdays | Sara's Weeknight MealsSeason 15 | New episodes | |
| Thursday | 8 p.m. ET | This Old HouseSeason 48 | New episodes |
| Thursdays 8:30/7:30c | Ask This Old HouseSeason 25 | New episodes | |
| Friday | 9 p.m. ET | American MastersSeason 40 | New episodes |
| 9 p.m. ET | Craft in AmericaSeason 17 | New episodes | |
| Saturday | Saturdays 2:30/1:30c | America's Test KitchenSeason 27 | New episodes |
| Sunday | 8 p.m. ET | Miss ScarletSeason 7 | Premieres soon |
| 9 p.m. ET | MaigretSeason 2 | New episodes | |
| 10 p.m. ET | The GoldSeason 2 | New episodes | |
| Sundays (time varies by station) | Professor TSeason 5 | New episodes |
National slots in Eastern Time (Pacific is usually the same; Central is an hour earlier). Sports and specials can shift start times.
Upcoming on PBS
Current and upcoming seasons
NOVA
PBS nature and history series, now in its 53rd season.
Frontline
PBS drama and documentary series, now in its 2026th season.
Ask This Old House
PBS diy and reality series, now in its 25th season.
Nature
PBS nature and documentary series, now in its 45th season.
Secrets of the Dead
PBS drama and mystery series, now in its 24th season.
This Old House
PBS diy and reality series, now in its 48th season.
America's Test Kitchen
PBS food and reality series, now in its 27th season.
Cook's Country from America's Test Kitchen
PBS food and reality series, now in its 19th season.
American Masters
PBS music and documentary series, now in its 40th season.
Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates Jr.
PBS history and documentary series, now in its 13th season.
Independent Lens
PBS documentary series, now in its 28th season.
Maigret
Georges Simenon's Paris detective, told in two-part cases.
Miss Scarlet
Victorian London's first female private detective.
Professor T
A Cambridge criminologist with obsessive habits, consulting for the police.
The Gold
The Brink's-Mat bullion robbery and the money trail that followed it.
POV
PBS documentary series, now in its 39th season.
Milk Street Television
PBS food and documentary series, now in its 10th season.
Maryland Farm & Harvest
PBS food and nature series, now in its 14th season.
Sara's Weeknight Meals
PBS food and reality series, now in its 15th season.
Craft in America
PBS documentary series, now in its 17th season.
Also on PBS
Grantchester
A vicar and a detective solving murders in 1950s Cambridgeshire.
Marble Hall Murders
Susan Ryeland and Atticus Pünd return in Anthony Horowitz's third book-within-a-book mystery.
Patience
An autistic archivist whose pattern-spotting cracks York's hardest cases.
The Marlow Murder Club
Three amateur sleuths solving murders in a Thames-side town.
Trespasses
A forbidden love affair in 1975 Belfast, at the height of the Troubles.
Unforgotten
Cold-case detectives uncovering crimes buried for decades.
Antiques Roadshow
PBS reality series, now in its 30th season.