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East New York (TV series)
East New York is an American CBS police procedural (2022-2023) created by William Finkelstein and Mike Flynn, starring Amanda Warren as Deputy Inspector Regina Haywood of Brooklyn's 74th Precinct; 21 episodes, canceled after one season.
Einstein (American TV series)
Einstein is an upcoming CBS comedic crime procedural adapted from a German series, starring Matthew Gray Gubler as Lewis Einstein, Albert Einstein's directionless great-grandson turned police consultant.
Elementary (TV series)
Elementary (CBS, 2012-2019) is an American crime drama reimagining Sherlock Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller) as a recovering-addict NYPD consultant with Dr. Joan Watson (Lucy Liu); seven seasons, 154 episodes, finale "Their Last Bow."
Elsbeth (TV series)
Elsbeth is a CBS comedy-drama procedural (premiered February 29, 2024) starring Carrie Preston as attorney Elsbeth Tascioni, spun off from The Good Wife and The Good Fight; created by Robert and Michelle King, it uses a Columbo-style inverted detective format with the NYPD's 11th Precinct.
Fastlane (TV series)
Fastlane is an American Fox action crime drama (September 18, 2002 to April 25, 2003), one 22-episode season created by McG and John McNamara, starring Facinelli, Bellamy, and Thiessen, canceled after one season over high production costs.
FBI (TV series)
FBI is an American CBS police procedural premiering September 25, 2018, from Dick Wolf's Wolf Entertainment, following New York FBI agents Maggie Bell and OA Zidan; it spawned Most Wanted, International, and CIA spinoffs.
FBI: International
FBI: International, also FBI: International (CBS), an American police procedural (2021–2025) following the FBI's Budapest-based International Fly Team tracking threats to Americans abroad; co-created by Dick Wolf and Derek Haas, canceled in 2025 after four seasons.
FBI: Most Wanted
FBI: Most Wanted is a CBS crime drama, the first spin-off of Dick Wolf's FBI, following the Fugitive Task Force hunting the Bureau's Most Wanted list; created by René Balcer, it ran six seasons (2020–2025) before cancellation.
Florida Man (TV series)
Florida Man is a 2023 Netflix seven-episode limited crime drama created by Donald Todd, starring Edgar Ramírez as ex-cop Mike Valentine, sent to Florida to find a mobster's runaway girlfriend and drawn into a treasure hunt; critically panned (25% RT) but audience-approved (78%).
Found (TV series)
Found (2023–2025) is an NBC crime drama created by Nkechi Okoro Carroll, starring Shanola Hampton as crisis manager Gabi Mosely, who finds overlooked missing people while secretly imprisoning her kidnapper Sir (Mark-Paul Gosselaar). Canceled after 35 episodes; now on Netflix.
Frisco King
Frisco King (formerly NOLA King) is a 2026 Paramount+ crime drama-comedy, a Tulsa King spin-off starring Samuel L. Jackson as gangster Russell Lee Washington Jr. in Frisco, Texas; eight episodes written by Taylor Sheridan premiere December 18, 2026.
Godfather of Harlem
Godfather of Harlem is an American crime drama series starring Forest Whitaker as Harlem crime boss Bumpy Johnson, who battles the Genovese family in 1960s New York.
Good Girls (TV series)
Good Girls is an American NBC crime comedy-drama created by Jenna Bans (2018-2021), starring Christina Hendricks, Retta, and Mae Whitman as suburban Michigan mothers who rob a grocery store and enter money laundering for Rio's cartel; four seasons, 50 episodes, cancelled after a planned fifth season fell through.
Graceland (TV series)
Graceland is a USA Network crime drama (2013–2015, 3 seasons, 46 episodes) created by Jeff Eastin, about undercover FBI, DEA, and Customs agents living in an Elvis-themed seized California beach house; IMDb 7.6, Rotten Tomatoes 86%.
Gracepoint
Gracepoint: 2014 Fox crime drama, an American remake of ITV's Broadchurch, starring David Tennant and Anna Gunn; ten episodes, October–December 2014, a different ending, and no second season.
Hardcastle and McCormick
Hardcastle and McCormick, ABC crime drama 1983–1986 by Stephen J. Cannell and Patrick Hasburgh; Brian Keith's retired judge and ex-con Daniel Hugh Kelly reinvestigate cases dismissed on technicalities; 66 episodes, declining ratings, 19% Tomatometer.
Hart to Hart
Hart to Hart, American ABC mystery series (1979–1984) created by Sidney Sheldon, starring Robert Wagner and Stefanie Powers as millionaire amateur detectives Jonathan and Jennifer Hart; five seasons, 110 episodes, eight 1993–1996 reunion movies.
Hawaii Five-0 (2010 TV series)
Hawaii Five-0 (2010-2020) is the CBS reboot of the 1968-80 police drama, created by Peter Lenkov, Alex Kurtzman, and Roberto Orci, starring Alex O'Loughlin as Steve McGarrett; #1 new series of 2010-11, later marked by a 2017 equal-pay controversy.
Hawaii Five-O (1968 TV series)
Hawaii Five-O is an American police procedural set in Hawaii, starring Jack Lord as Detective Steve McGarrett, which ran on CBS for 12 seasons from 1968 to 1980.
High Potential
High Potential is an American crime drama on ABC starring Kaitlin Olson as a high-IQ single mother consulting for the Los Angeles police, adapted from the French series HPI.
Hightown (TV series)
Hightown is a Starz crime drama (2020–2024) created by Rebecca Perry Cutter, set in Provincetown, Cape Cod, starring Monica Raymund as fisheries agent Jackie Quiñones; three seasons, 25 episodes, later a Netflix Top 10 title.
Hill Street Blues
Hill Street Blues is an NBC ensemble police drama (1981–1987) created by Steven Bochco and Michael Kozoll for MTM Enterprises. Set in an unnamed city precinct, it pioneered handheld realism, overlapping dialogue, and serialized ensemble storytelling despite low ratings, winning consecutive Outstanding Drama Series Emmys.
Homicide: Life on the Street
Homicide: Life on the Street (NBC, 1993–1999) is an American police procedural adapted from David Simon's book Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets, created by Paul Attanasio with Barry Levinson and Tom Fontana; it won three Peabodys and four Emmys despite low ratings.
Hunter (1984 American TV series)
Hunter (1984-1991) is an NBC police drama created by Frank Lupo, produced by Stephen J. Cannell, starring ex-NFL lineman Fred Dryer as LAPD detective Rick Hunter with Stepfanie Kramer as Dee Dee McCall, 153 episodes in seven seasons.
In the Dark (American TV series)
In the Dark is an American CW comedy-drama (2019-2022) created by Corinne Kingsbury, starring Perry Mattfeld as blind Murphy Mason investigating her friend's death; four seasons, 52 episodes, cancelled.
In the Heat of the Night (TV series)
In the Heat of the Night (TV series): American police drama based on the 1967 film and novel, set in Sparta, Mississippi, with Carroll O'Connor as Chief Gillespie and Howard Rollins as Virgil Tibbs; NBC 1988-1992, CBS 1992-1995.
Instinct (ИCT) (American TV series)
Instinct (CBS, 2018-2019), also known as ИCT, an American police procedural adapted from James Patterson's Murder Games, starring Alan Cumming as ex-CIA professor Dylan Reinhart; first hour-long US broadcast drama with a gay lead, canceled after two seasons.
Ironside (1967 TV series)
Ironside (1967 TV series), also A Man Called Ironside: NBC crime drama 1967–1975, eight seasons, 193 episodes, starring Raymond Burr as a wheelchair-using San Francisco police consultant; created by Collier Young, Quincy Jones theme.
Jake and the Fatman
Jake and the Fatman is an American crime drama on CBS from 1987 to 1992, starring William Conrad as prosecutor J.L. "Fatman" McCabe and Joe Penny as investigator Jake Styles.
Jett (TV series)
Jett is an American crime drama series created by Sebastian Gutierrez, starring Carla Gugino as a thief pulled back into crime, which premiered on Cinemax in 2019.