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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.
Life on Mars (British TV series)
Life on Mars: British BBC One police drama (2006–2007, 16 episodes) by Graham, Jordan, and Pharoah; John Simm's DI Sam Tyler wakes in 1973 after a car accident, under Philip Glenister's DCI Gene Hunt, with a coma-fantasy resolution, Emmy win, sequel Ashes to Ashes, and five remakes.
Line of Duty
Line of Duty: BBC police procedural created by Jed Mercurio, first aired 2012, 36 episodes over six series, following fictional anti-corruption unit AC-12; a seventh series is in post-production.
List of New Tricks episodes
The list of New Tricks episodes covers the BBC One crime comedy-drama about a squad of retired officers solving cold cases, which ran 106 episodes from 2004 to 2015.
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.
Marcella (TV series)
Marcella is a British noir crime drama created by Hans Rosenfeldt and Nicola Larder, starring Anna Friel as London detective Marcella Backland. It premiered on ITV in April 2016, streams on Netflix, and ran three series, moving to an undercover Belfast plot.
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.
McDonald & Dodds
McDonald & Dodds is an ITV Bath-set detective drama (2020–2024) created by Robert Murphy, starring Tala Gouveia as DCI McDonald and Jason Watkins as DS Dodds, produced by Mammoth Screen in four series.
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.
Messiah (British TV series)
Messiah is a British BBC One crime drama (2001 to 2008) of five serials following detectives investigating staged serial murders, starring Ken Stott and Marc Warren.
Midsomer Murders
Midsomer Murders, also known as Inspector Barnaby in several markets, is ITV's long-running detective drama based on Caroline Graham's Chief Inspector Barnaby novels, airing since 1997, set in a murder-prone fictional English county, and exported to over 200 territories.
Mrs Sidhu Investigates
Mrs Sidhu Investigates: British crime comedy drama (Acorn TV, 2023), 4 episodes, created by Suk Pannu, starring Meera Syal as a Slough caterer-sleuth with DCI Burton; adapted from the BBC Radio 4 series; 92% Tomatometer; ended after one season.
Murder Before Evensong
Murder Before Evensong is a 2025 six-part British cozy crime drama from Richard Coles's Canon Clement novel, starring Matthew Lewis as Canon Daniel Clement, premiered on Acorn TV and Channel 5, also staged at the Watermill Theatre.
Murder in Provence
Murder in Provence is a 2022 BritBox crime drama, its first pan-territory original, adapted from M.L. Longworth's Verlaque & Bonnet novels; three 88-minute episodes starring Roger Allam and Nancy Carroll, set in Aix-en-Provence, ended after one season.
Murder Most Puzzling
Murder Most Puzzling, aka The Puzzle Lady, is a 2025 three-part Channel 5 cosy crime series adapted from Parnell Hall's Puzzle Lady Mysteries, starring Phyllis Logan as crossword sleuth Cora Felton in fictional Bakerbury.
New Tricks
New Tricks is a British BBC crime comedy-drama running from 2004 to 2015, following the Metropolitan Police's UCOS, a cold-case unit of retired detectives led by Sandra Pullman.
No Offence
No Offence is a British Channel 4 police comedy-drama created by Paul Abbott, set at a Manchester station led by DI Vivienne Deering (Joanna Scanlan). Three series, 2015–2018; RTS Best Drama Series winner, BAFTA-nominated.
Paranoid (TV series)
Paranoid is a 2016 British eight-part ITV/Netflix crime drama and conspiracy thriller written by Bill Gallagher, starring Indira Varma, Robert Glenister, and Lesley Sharp as detectives investigating a playground murder in fictional Marshwell, Cheshire.
Partners in Crime (British TV series)
Partners in Crime is a 2015 six-part BBC One drama adapting Agatha Christie's The Secret Adversary and N or M?, starring David Walliams and Jessica Raine as Tommy and Tuppence Beresford in 1950s Cold War Britain.
Patience (TV series)
Patience is a British Channel 4 crime drama (2025), adapted by Matt Baker from Astrid et Raphaëlle, starring autistic actress Ella Maisy Purvis as York police archivist Patience Evans opposite Laura Fraser's DI Bea Metcalf; renewed for an eight-episode second series with Jessica Hynes.
Prime Suspect
Prime Suspect is a British ITV police procedural (1991-2006, seven series) created by Lynda La Plante, starring Helen Mirren as DCI Jane Tennison, modeled on real detective Jackie Malton, and a BAFTA- and Emmy-winning landmark in female-led crime 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.
Professor T. (British TV series)
Professor T. is a British crime drama starring Ben Miller as Cambridge criminologist Jasper Tempest, an eccentric professor with OCD who advises police, premiering in 2021.
Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)
Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased), aka My Partner the Ghost, is a 1969-70 ITC British detective series in which murdered private eye Marty Hopkirk returns as a ghost visible only to partner Jeff Randall; 26 episodes, remade by the BBC in 2000 with Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer.
Red Rock (TV series)
Red Rock: Irish crime drama soap (2015–2020) on TV3/Virgin Media One, created by Peter McKenna, set around a fictional Dublin Garda station and feuding Hennessy and Kiely families; €7m-a-year Element Pictures/Company Pictures production sold to BBC and Amazon Prime.
Ridley (TV series)
Ridley is a British ITV crime drama (2022–2024) starring Adrian Dunbar as retired DI Alex Ridley, brought back as a consultant by former protégée DI Carol Farman (Bronagh Waugh). Created by Vera writer Paul Matthew Thompson; two series, 12 episodes, set in Pennine Lancashire.