The Musketeers is a BBC television historical action drama that is based on the characters of Alexandre Dumas's novel The Three Musketeers. The series stars Tom Burke as Athos, Santiago Cabrera as Aramis, Howard Charles as Porthos and Luke Pasqualino as D'Artagnan. The Musketeers was commissioned on 3 May 2012,[1] premiered on 19 January 2014 and concluded on 1 August 2016. During the course of the programme, 30 episodes of The Musketeers aired over three series.