How many episodes are in Professor T?

Professor T has 6 episodes in this listed season.

When does Professor T premiere?

Professor T premieres on 2025-08-24.

Is Professor T a new series?

Professor T is a returning series (Season 4).

Professor T(2021)

Also known as Professor T (2021) • Professeur T

Archived · ITV1

7.36 eps

S04

CrimeMysteryDrama

ON AIR: AUG 24Season 4Archived listing

What to Expect

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Professor T runs on intellectual puzzle-solving rather than action, with Cambridge criminologist Jasper Tempest picking apart cases through deduction and psychological insight. The pacing is deliberate, giving each mystery room to breathe, and the British academic setting lends the whole thing a dry, contained atmosphere that suits the material well.

Tempest's OCD is not background texture; it shapes how he moves through every scene, from the cases he takes to the way he manages the people around him. His relationship with his mother carries its own friction, and the show draws its comedy and its unease from the same source: a man of exceptional ability who is genuinely difficult to be around. Those two registers, dry humor and real psychological pressure, sit close enough together that the show can shift between them without warning.

Best for

cerebral crime puzzles, british academic drama and Crime

Story lane

Crime and Mystery

Commitment

Season 4 · 6 episodes

Where

ITV1

Official Premise

Professor Jasper Tempest, a genius Cambridge University criminologist with OCD and an overbearing mother, assists the police in solving crime.

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