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British television period mystery series

This article is about the 2013 TV series. For other TV series adaptations, see Father Brown (disambiguation).

Father Brown is a British perioddetective television series loosely based on the Father Brown short stories by G. K. Chesterton, starring Mark Williams as the crime-solving Roman Catholicpriest. Broadcast began on BBC One on 14 January 2013. In April 2023 the BBC confirmed that filming had begun on an 11th series, for broadcast in January 2024, and also confirmed the return of Lorna Watson as Sister Boniface.^[1] The commissioning of series 12 and 13 was confirmed in April 2024.^[2]

Synopsis

The series is set in England during the early 1950s. Father Brown is the priest at St Mary's Catholic Church in the fictional village of Kembleford, located in the Cotswolds. (Kembleford seems unique in not being part of a Church of England parish). Britain is struggling with the a