Grantchester is ending with Season 11, which is currently airing on Sundays on PBS, with the full season already available on PBS Passport.House of the Dragon Season 3 star James Norton wasGrantchester‘s original vicar, Sidney Chambers, alongside Robson Green‘s Geordie Keating. Norton tells TV Insider that there was a brief moment when they considered bringing him back in one of the final episodes, but it didn’t come to pass. Norton did, however, end up at a Grantchester dinner before the series wrap party.
“There was a question at one point. I think Emma [Kingsman-Lloyd] did say, ‘Do you want to come back?’ But I think it was just too much unfortunately. But end of an era, a big era for all of us,” Norton says.
The actor was going out to the theater one night when he ran into theGrantchester crew by chance.
“I’ve stayed friends with the team, Daisy [Coulam], who writes the show, and Emma, who’s producing it, and obviously Robson is a dear friend, so I have stayed close to it. There was a really lovely moment when they were all in a restaurant for their final meal of their final wrap party of the final series, so it was a very moving moment for them,” Norton says. “Coincidentally, I just happened to be in the same restaurant. It was so weird.”
“I walked in, and I heard people going, ‘James! James!’ I thought, ‘God, who’s that?’ I turned around, it was Robson, it was [Tessa Peake-Jones], it was Al [Weaver], it was my people having a meal to say goodbye to the show,” Norton reveals. “It was one of those spooky moments where we were all a bit like, ‘This is f***ing weird.’”
He ended up having dinner with the group and went to the series wrap party, and Norton says, “it was lovely, we had all [thre] vicars.” Norton is referring to his Reverend Sidney Chambers, followed by Reverend Will Davenport (Tom Brittney), and Reverend Alphy Kottaram (Rishi Nair).
“It was spooky. Right place, right time,” Norton says. “I didn’t even know the wrap party was going on, and then I was going to the theater.”
Some luck!
Grantchester, Sundays, 9/8c, PBS
