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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Frauds (TV series)
Frauds is a 2025 six-part ITV heist drama created by Suranne Jones and Anne-Marie O'Connor, starring Jones and Jodie Whittaker as conwomen Bert and Sam planning an art heist in Spain; distinct from a 2014 Fox comedy project of the same name.
Gangs of London (TV series)
Gangs of London is a British crime action-drama created by Gareth Evans and Matt Flannery for Sky Atlantic (2020), also on AMC. It follows London gangs after crime boss Finn Wallace's assassination; three seasons, 25 episodes, a fourth confirmed.
Giri/Haji (義理/恥)
Giri/Haji (義理/恥, Duty/Shame) is a 2019 BBC Two and Netflix eight-episode British-Japanese crime drama by Joe Barton, following Tokyo detective Kenzo Mori searching London for his yakuza-linked brother; cancelled after one season despite acclaim.
Guilt (British TV series)
Guilt is a BBC Scotland/BBC Two black comedy-drama thriller (2019-2023) written by Neil Forsyth, starring Mark Bonnar and Jamie Sives as Edinburgh brothers covering up an accidental hit-and-run across three four-part series.
Hidden Assets
Hidden Assets is an Irish-Belgian crime drama (RTÉ One, 2021–) following the Criminal Assets Bureau; created by Peter McKenna and Morna Regan, starring Angeline Ball and Wouter Hendrickx, three seasons, Acorn TV co-production.
Hit Point (TV series)
Hit Point is a 2026 British six-part crime drama, U&Dave's first original scripted series, written by Howard Overman, directed by David Caffrey, starring Nick Blood and Saffron Hocking as detectives in London's underworld.
Hustle (TV series)
Hustle is a BBC One crime drama created by Tony Jordan about London con artists running long cons on greedy marks, airing 2004–2012 in eight series of six episodes, spun off into The Real Hustle.
I Fought the Law (TV series)
I Fought the Law is a 2025 four-part ITV true crime drama starring Sheridan Smith as Ann Ming, whose campaign overturned the UK double jeopardy law after her daughter Julie Hogg's 1989 murder and her killer's retrial.
In Flight (TV series)
In Flight is a 2025 six-part Channel 4 crime thriller starring Katherine Kelly as flight attendant Jo Conran, blackmailed into smuggling heroin after her son is jailed for murder in Bulgaria; created by Mike Walden and Adam Randall, produced by Buccaneer Media.
Inside Man (2022 TV series)
Inside Man (2022) is a four-part BBC One psychological thriller written by Steven Moffat, directed by Paul McGuigan, starring David Tennant, Stanley Tucci, Dolly Wells, and Lydia West, streaming on Netflix from October 31, 2022.
Insomnia (TV series)
Insomnia (2024) is a six-part Paramount+ UK psychological thriller adapted by Sarah Pinborough from her 2022 novel, starring Vicky McClure as lawyer Emma Averill, who stops sleeping before her 40th birthday fearing her mother's psychotic breakdown; Left Bank Pictures, directed by Börkur Sigthorsson, premiered 23 May 2024.
Kin (Irish TV series)
Kin (Irish TV series): RTÉ gangland drama by Peter McKenna and Ciaran Donnelly about the Kinsella crime family versus the Cunningham cartel; two eight-part series 2021–2023, 687,000 RTÉ viewers, third series confirmed for 2027.
Liar (TV series)
Liar is a 2017-2020 British psychological thriller by Harry and Jack Williams (Two Brothers Pictures) for ITV and SundanceTV, starring Joanne Froggatt and Ioan Gruffudd in a he-said, she-said rape allegation drama over two series.
Little Boy Blue (TV series)
Little Boy Blue is a 2017 four-part ITV factual drama by Jeff Pope about the 2007 murder of 11-year-old Rhys Jones in Croxteth, Liverpool, starring Stephen Graham as DS Dave Kelly, made with the Jones family's support.
London Spy
London Spy is a 2015 five-part BBC Two miniseries written by Tom Rob Smith, directed by Jakob Verbruggen, starring Ben Whishaw, Edward Holcroft, Jim Broadbent and Charlotte Rampling; a gay love story and espionage mystery inspired by the Gareth Williams case.
Love/Hate (TV series)
Love/Hate: Irish crime drama created by Stuart Carolan, aired on RTÉ One 2010-2014 in five seasons and 28 episodes, set in Dublin's gangland, starring Aidan Gillen, Robert Sheehan, and Tom Vaughan-Lawlor, winner of 19 IFTAs.
Luther (TV series)
Luther is a BBC One British psychological crime drama created by Neil Cross, starring Idris Elba as DCI John Luther. Five seasons, 20 episodes (2010-2019), continued in the 2023 Netflix film Luther: The Fallen Sun and a 2026 sequel.
Manhunt (2019 TV series)
Manhunt (2019 TV series) is an ITV true-crime drama starring Martin Clunes as DCI Colin Sutton, dramatizing his memoirs of catching Levi Bellfield (Delagrange, McDonnell, Dowler murders); sequel The Night Stalker (2021) covers Delroy Grant. Distinct from Discovery's Unabomber and Apple TV+'s Lincoln series.
Marlow (TV series)
Marlow is a British thriller series commissioned by BritBox UK in May 2021, starring Claire Foy as Evie Wyatt, created by Tony Grisoni and Simon Maxwell for Motive Pictures and Endeavor Content; distinct from The Marlow Murder Club, it remains listed as in development.
McMafia
McMafia: Misha Glenny's 2008 nonfiction study of post-Cold War global organized crime, and the 2018 BBC One/AMC eight-part drama starring James Norton as Alex Godman, which won the 2019 International Emmy for Best Drama.
Prime Target (TV series)
Prime Target is an eight-episode Apple TV+ conspiracy thriller created by Steve Thompson, premiering January 22, 2025, starring Leo Woodall as Cambridge mathematician Edward Brooks and Quintessa Swindell as NSA agent Taylah Sanders; it ended March 5, 2025 with no second season confirmed.
Safe (TV series)
Safe (2018) is an eight-episode British thriller limited series created by Harlan Coben and written by Danny Brocklehurst, starring Michael C. Hall, Amanda Abbington, Audrey Fleurot, and Marc Warren. A widowed pediatric surgeon searches a gated community for his missing daughter Jenny. Premiered May 10, 2018 on Netflix, also on C8 in France.
Save Me (British TV series)
Save Me is a 2018 British Sky Atlantic crime drama created, written by, and starring Lennie James as Nelly Rowe, searching for his missing daughter; its 2020 sequel Save Me Too won the 2021 BAFTA for Best Series.