New The Forsytes Adaptation Units PBS Masterpiece Launch Date

PBS Masterpiece has revealed the US launch date for its upcoming romantic Victorian-era interval drama, The Forsytes. Impressed by Nobel prize-winning writer John Galsworthy’s Forsyte novels, The Forsytes is a narrative of ambition, betrayal, rivalry, want, social hierarchy, romance, and wealth. It follows the titular stockbroking household as the following era prepares to take over the Forsyte enterprise and fortune.

This is not merely one other remake of Galsworthy’s traditional story, nevertheless. Whereas 2002’s The Forsyte Saga, starring Damien Lewis and Gina McKee, was a simple adaptation of Galsworthy’s household epic, Channel 5’s and PBS Masterpiece’s The Forsytes is about earlier than the occasions of the supply materials, offering audiences with a brand new perspective on this highly effective, advanced household.

The Forsytes‘ first two episodes have already premiered on Channel 5 within the UK, the place the sequence will proceed to air weekly till November 24. Whereas US audiences should wait slightly longer, PBS Masterpiece has confirmed that the lavish costume drama will debut on Sunday, March 22, 2026.

The Forsytes joins a rising checklist of British interval dramas premiering on PBS Masterpiece in early 2026, together with Miss Scarlet and All Creatures Nice & Small, each of which can return for his or her respective sixth seasons.

The Forsytes has already been renewed for a second season, and filming is at present underway on location in Bristol. These acquainted with fellow PBS Masterpiece interval drama Poldark might acknowledge the title of The Forsytes’ author, Debbie Horsfield, who has penned all six episodes of The Forsytes’ first season.

The Forsytes’ trailer, which you’ll watch beneath, debuted earlier this 12 months and guarantees loads of steamy romance, sibling rivalry, wealthy, lavish units, and juicy drama. Keen British TV viewers can even undoubtedly acknowledge some acquainted faces, together with Flesh and Blood‘s Francesca Annis as Forsyte matriarch Ann, Physician Who‘s Millie Gibson as Irene Heron, Poldark‘s Eleanor Tomlinson as Louisa Byrne, and Miss Scarlet‘s Tom Durant-Pritchard as Monty Dartie.

The remainder of the forged boasts much more recognizable expertise, together with Stephen Moyer (True Blood) as Jolyon Forsyte Senior, Danny Griffin (Destiny: The Winx Saga) as Jo Forsyte Junior, Tuppence Middleton (Downton Abbey: A New Period) as Frances Forsyte, Jack Davenport (The Morning Present) as James Forsyte, and Joshua Orpin (Titans) as Soames Forsyte.

For any followers of Bridgerton, Downton Abbey, The Gilded Age, and Poldark, The Forsytes is shaping as much as be must-watch TV.

The Forsytes will premiere on PBS Masterpiece on Sunday, March 22, 2026.