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PBS to air new episodes of Foyle's War in 2013

You have to wait a year, but new episodes of Foyle's War will be returning to PBS in 2013.

You have to wait a year, but new episodes of Foyle's War will be returning to PBS in 2013.

Masterpiece Mystery, along with Acorn Media and Eleventh Hour Films, have come together to do a trio of episodes starring Michael Kitchen and Honeysuckle Weeks as Inspector Foyle and his assistant, Sam (short for Samantha).

Foyle's War was a series that was set during the Second World War and based in the English countryside.

Foyle dealt with local tensions caused by a number of challenges: American troops clashing with locals, German prisoners of war, threats to the American aid for Britain and art theft.

The new series is based in the hungry years after the war, 1946-1947, when England was still suffering from rationing and other problems.

According to PBS, Foyle has become a "senior intelligence officer" dealing with "Communist sympathizers and traitors."

He's involved in the world of espionage "in support of Britain's security, defence and the government."

The Foyle's series has been part of PBS's Masterpiece Mystery for eight years. For the new series, Acorn Media worked with the creator, Anthony Horowitz, and producer Jill Green, who also founded Eleventh Hour Films.

Foyle's War has been a hit in the United Kingdom since 2002.

In June, Acorn Media released The Best of Foyle's War, a collection chosen by Kitchen of six featurelength episodes.

Also included were interviews with Horowitz and Weeks.