Professor T: Season 1

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PBS | Season Premiere Date: July 11, 2021

Summary: Jasper Tempest (Ben Miller), a Cambridge University professor with OCD helps his former student, Detective Sergeant Lisa Donckers (Emma Naomi) with some of her cases in this British series based on the Belgian series of the same name.

[Premiered originally in the UK on BritBox on 3 Jun 2021 and in the US on PBS on 11 Jul 2021]

Genre(s): Drama, Suspense

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Joel Keller

Jul 19, 2021

Professor T doesn’t tread new ground. But the writing is solid and Miller and the rest of the cast do a good job of making the obsessive detective trope entertaining to watch. Read full review

The Independent Ed Cumming

Jul 20, 2021

The premise is promising, and the cast – Miller, Naomi and de La Tour especially – give it a good shot. But there’s something disjointed about the way it all hangs together. To emphasise the sense of loneliness, the direction often frames speakers in conversation one at a time. It comes at the expense of camaraderie. Read full review

Radio Times Brian McIver

Dec 2, 2021

Sometimes the conclusions to the crimes can feel secondary to the driving personal stories. But when the balance works, such as with the siege story from the third episode, it’s a really strong combination – and makes for a fine addition to the detective genre. Read full review

i Ed Power

Dec 3, 2021

Unfortunately, it felt as if something had been lost in translation. That was despite a deliciously quirky performance by Ben Miller as cranky Cambridge criminologist Jasper Tempest. Read full review

The Times Carol Midgley

Jul 19, 2021

It is as if two different dramas have been melded accidentally. Or if Death in Paradise (which Miller used to star in) had decided to show a full-on chainsaw massacre. Miller's acting skills save it, assisted by Emma Naomi (Bridgerton) as his detective sidekick, Lisa Donckers. Read full review

The Telegraph Anita Singh

Jul 19, 2021

If only the writers had embraced the quirkiness and made this a gentler affair it would have been fine. There is promise in Tempest’s story, but, please, can this be the last time that rape is used as cheap entertainment? Read full review

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