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A Touch of Frost
A Touch of Frost is a British detective drama on ITV from 1992 to 2010, starring David Jason as the unorthodox Detective Inspector Jack Frost in the fictional town of Denton.
Above Suspicion (TV series)
Above Suspicion is a British ITV1 crime drama (2009–2012) adapted from Lynda La Plante's Anna Travis novels, starring Kelly Reilly and Ciarán Hinds, four series, 11 episodes, cancelled 28 May 2012.
Art Detectives (TV series)
Art Detectives is a 2025 Acorn TV British crime drama starring Stephen Moyer as DI Mick Palmer and Nina Singh as DC Shazia Malik of the Metropolitan Police's fictional Heritage Crime Unit, investigating art-world murders; six episodes, renewed for a 2027 season.
Bad Girls (TV series)
Bad Girls is a British television drama series about the staff and inmates of a women's prison, the fictional HM Prison Larkhall, broadcast on ITV from 1999 to 2006.
Bancroft (TV series)
Bancroft is an ITV British crime thriller (2017–2020) created by Kate Brooke, starring Sarah Parish as DCI Elizabeth Bancroft, a ruthless detective hiding her role in a 27-year-old murder; two four-part series filmed around Bolton and Manchester.
Baptiste (TV series)
Baptiste is a BBC One British crime drama (2019-2021), a spin-off of The Missing starring Tcheky Karyo as retired French detective Julien Baptiste, two six-part series set in Amsterdam and Budapest, made by Two Brothers Pictures.
Bergerac (2025 TV series)
Bergerac (2025 TV series), the Bergerac reboot, is a six-part UKTV crime drama on U and U&DRAMA starring Damien Molony as Jim Bergerac, reimagining the 1981-91 John Nettles BBC series set in Jersey with one case per series and £1.2m of Jersey government funding.
Bergerac (TV series)
Bergerac is a British crime drama set on Jersey: the original BBC One series (1981–1991) starred John Nettles as DS Jim Bergerac, and a UKTV reboot with Damien Molony launched in 2025.
Betrayal (British TV series)
Betrayal is a 2026 four-part ITV espionage thriller starring Shaun Evans as MI5 officer John Hughes, written by David Eldridge, produced by Mammoth Screen, distinct from the 2023 Hulu documentary of the same name.
Beyond Paradise (TV series)
Beyond Paradise is a BBC One comedy crime drama, a Death in Paradise spin-off starring Kris Marshall as DI Humphrey Goodman and Sally Bretton as Martha Lloyd, set in fictional Shipton Abbott, Devon, and filmed mainly in Looe, Cornwall, since February 2023.
Blackshore
Blackshore is a six-part Irish crime drama (RTÉ One, 2024) created by Kate O'Riordan, starring Lisa Dwan as DI Fia Lucey, a Dublin detective sent to fictional Blackwater to investigate a murder linked to her family's past.
Bloodlands (TV series)
Bloodlands is a BBC One Northern Ireland crime drama created by Chris Brandon, starring James Nesbitt as PSNI detective Tom Brannick hunting the assassin Goliath; two seasons, 2021 and 2022, produced by Hat Trick Mercurio Television.
Blue Lights (2023 TV series)
Blue Lights is a BBC One police drama created by Declan Lawn and Adam Patterson, following three PSNI probationers in Belfast from 27 March 2023. Produced by Two Cities Television and Gallagher Films, it won the 2025 BAFTA for Best Drama Series and ran four series.
Bodies (2023 TV series)
Bodies (2023) is a British Netflix eight-episode limited series created by Paul Tomalin from Si Spencer's graphic novel, in which four London detectives in 1890, 1941, 2023, and 2053 investigate the same body found on Longharvest Lane, Whitechapel.
Bodyguard (British TV series)
Bodyguard is a six-episode British political thriller broadcast on BBC One in 2018, written by Jed Mercurio, starring Richard Madden as a war veteran assigned to guard the Home Secretary.
Borderline (2024 TV series)
Borderline (2024) is an Irish-German crime drama, also titled Borderline – Grenzenlose Verbrechen, in which PSNI DCI Philip Boyd (Eoin Macken) and Garda DI Aoife Regan (Amy De Bhrún) solve cross-border murders in three two-part cases on the Irish border.
Broadchurch
Broadchurch is a British ITV crime drama (2013-2017) created by Chris Chibnall, starring David Tennant and Olivia Colman as detectives investigating the murder of 11-year-old Danny Latimer in a Dorset seaside town; three eight-episode series, BAFTA-winning, remade as Gracepoint.
Bulletproof (TV series)
Bulletproof is a British action crime drama on Sky One (2018-2021) created by Noel Clarke, Nick Love, and Ashley Walters, starring Clarke and Walters as undercover NCA partners Bishop and Pike in London; three seasons, including the three-part South Africa-set finale.
Case Histories (TV series)
Case Histories: BBC One crime drama (2011-2013), also Jackson Brodie series, adapted from Kate Atkinson's Edinburgh-set novels, starring Jason Isaacs as the private investigator.
Code of a Killer
Code of a Killer is a two-part ITV drama from 2015, starring John Simm as DNA fingerprinting pioneer Alec Jeffreys and David Threlfall as DCS David Baker.
Code of Silence (TV series)
Code of Silence is a 2025 British six-part ITVX crime drama created by Catherine Moulton, starring deaf actor Rose Ayling-Ellis as lip-reader Alison Brooks; BAFTA-winning, renewed for a second series.
Collateral (TV series)
Collateral (2018) is a four-part BBC Two and Netflix British crime thriller, David Hare's first television series, starring Carey Mulligan as DI Kip Glaspie investigating the murder of a Syrian refugee pizza delivery driver in south London over four days.
Cracker (British TV series)
Cracker (British TV series), Granada/ITV crime drama 1993-1995 plus specials, created by Jimmy McGovern; Robbie Coltrane as Fitz, a maverick forensic psychologist in Manchester; three consecutive Baftas, Hillsborough storyline 'To Be a Somebody'.
Criminal: UK
Criminal: UK is the British branch of Netflix's 2019 Criminal interrogation anthology: three-plus-four episodes set entirely in a police interview suite, created by George Kay and Jim Field Smith, starring Katherine Kelly, Lee Ingleby, and guest suspects like David Tennant, canceled after two seasons.
Dalziel and Pascoe (TV series)
Dalziel and Pascoe is a British crime drama series adapted from Reginald Hill's novels, set in fictional Wetherton, Yorkshire. The BBC version ran 1996-2007 with Warren Clarke and Colin Buchanan; BritBox and ITV commissioned a female-led six-part reimagining with Kerry Godliman and Nina Singh in 2026.
DCI Banks
DCI Banks: British ITV crime drama (2010–2016, 32 episodes, five series) adapted from Peter Robinson's Inspector Banks novels, starring Stephen Tompkinson, Andrea Lowe, and Caroline Catz; cancelled by ITV in November 2016.
Deadwater Fell
Deadwater Fell is a 2020 Channel 4 four-part crime drama by Daisy Coulam, starring David Tennant, Anna Madeley, Cush Jumbo, and Matthew McNulty, about a fatal house fire in the fictional Scottish village of Kirkdarroch.
Death in Paradise (TV series)
Death in Paradise is a BBC One crime comedy-drama created by Robert Thorogood, airing since 2011, set on fictional Caribbean island Saint Marie and filmed in Guadeloupe, with five lead detectives and spin-offs Beyond Paradise and Return to Paradise.
Death Valley (British TV series)
Death Valley is a BBC One comedy crime drama created by Paul Doolan, starring Timothy Spall as retired TV-detective actor John Chapel and Gwyneth Keyworth as DS Janie Mallowan, solving murders in Wales; series 1 premiered 25 May 2025 to 2.9 million viewers.
Deep State (TV series)
Deep State is a 2018–2019 British Fox/EPIX espionage thriller by Matthew Parkhill and Simon Maxwell, starring Mark Strong then Walton Goggins; distinct from the unrelated 2023 Kuwaiti Netflix series The Deep State.