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Ozark (TV series)
Ozark is a Netflix crime drama (2017–2022, 4 seasons, 44 episodes) created by Bill Dubuque and Mark Williams, starring Jason Bateman and Laura Linney as the Byrdes, who launder $500 million for a cartel; filmed mostly in Georgia, 45 Emmy nominations, 4 wins.
Panhandle (TV series)
Panhandle is a 2022 American eight-episode comedy-drama, also known by the working title Florida Man, created by Nicholas Stoller and Carla Kettner for Spectrum Originals, starring Luke Kirby and Tiana Okoye, filmed in Savannah, canceled after one season, now on Tubi.
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.
Person of Interest (TV series)
Person of Interest is a CBS crime drama (2011–2016, five seasons, 103 episodes) created by Jonathan Nolan, starring Jim Caviezel and Michael Emerson, about an AI called the Machine that predicts violent crimes via mass surveillance.
Poker Face (TV series)
Poker Face is a Peacock mystery-of-the-week series created by Rian Johnson, starring Natasha Lyonne as lie-detecting drifter Charlie Cale, a Columbo-style howcatchem; two seasons 2023–2025, canceled November 2025, with a Peter Dinklage-led revival proposed.
Police Woman (TV series)
Police Woman is an American television crime drama that aired from 1974 to 1978, starring Angie Dickinson as Sgt. Suzanne "Pepper" Anderson, an undercover officer for the LAPD.
Power (TV series)
Power (2014–2020) is a Starz crime drama created by Courtney Kemp Agboh and executive produced by 50 Cent, starring Omari Hardwick as drug kingpin Ghost St. Patrick; six seasons, 63 episodes, and three spin-off series.
Power Book II: Ghost
Power Book II: Ghost is a Starz crime drama (2020-2024), the first spin-off of Power, following Tariq St. Patrick (Michael Rainey Jr.) at college and in the Tejada cartel; created by Courtney A. Kemp with 50 Cent and Mark Canton, ending with season 4 in October 2024.
Power Book III: Raising Kanan
Power Book III: Raising Kanan is a Starz crime drama prequel (2021-2026) created by Sascha Penn, following 15-year-old Kanan Stark (Mekai Curtis) in 1991 South Jamaica, Queens, entering the drug business of his mother Raquel 'Raq' Thomas (Patina Miller).
Power: Origins
Power: Origins is an upcoming Starz crime drama, the fourth Power spinoff, a prequel following young Ghost (Spence Moore II), Tommy (Charlie Mann), and Kanan (MeKai Curtis) in 1990s New York; 18-episode season, 2027 premiere expected.
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.
Prison Break
Prison Break is an American Fox drama series (2005-2017) created by Paul Scheuring about engineer Michael Scofield, who gets imprisoned to break out his wrongly convicted brother Lincoln Burrows using a tattooed prison blueprint; a Hulu reboot, Prison Break: Black Creek, is in production.
Private Eyes (TV series)
Private Eyes is a Canadian crime drama (2016–2021, Global) created by Tim Kilby and Shelley Eriksen, starring Jason Priestley and Cindy Sampson as PIs Matt Shade and Angie Everett; 60 episodes, five seasons, ION in the US, spin-off Private Eyes West Coast on The CW in 2026.
Prodigal Son (TV series)
Prodigal Son is an American Fox crime drama (2019-2021, two seasons) created by Chris Fedak and Sam Sklaver, starring Tom Payne as profiler Malcolm Bright, son of imprisoned serial killer the Surgeon (Michael Sheen); cancelled in May 2021 over low ratings, later streaming on Netflix.
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.
Profiler (TV series)
Profiler is an American NBC crime drama (1996–2000, four seasons) created by Cynthia Saunders, starring Ally Walker as FBI profiler Dr. Sam Waters hunting serial killer Jack of All Trades, later led by Jamie Luner as Rachel Burke.
Psych
Psych is a USA Network comedy-detective series (2006-2014) created by Steve Franks, starring James Roday Rodriguez as fake psychic Shawn Spencer and Dulé Hill as Gus, running 121 episodes over eight seasons plus three Peacock movies.
Quantico (TV series)
Quantico is an ABC drama (2015-2018) created by Joshua Safran, starring Priyanka Chopra Jonas as FBI recruit Alex Parrish, framed for a Grand Central bombing; three seasons, canceled at 2.3 million viewers per episode.
Quarry (TV series)
Quarry is a 2016 Cinemax crime drama, one season of 8 episodes, created by Michael D. Fuller and Graham Gordy from Max Allan Collins's hitman novels, starring Logan Marshall-Green as a Vietnam veteran drawn into Memphis crime; cancelled in 2017.
Queen of the South (TV series)
Queen of the South is a USA Network crime drama (2016–2021, 62 episodes, 5 seasons) adapted from Arturo Pérez-Reverte's novel La Reina del Sur, starring Alice Braga as Teresa Mendoza, distinct from the 2011 Telemundo telenovela.
Rabbit Hole (TV series)
Rabbit Hole (TV series): 2023 Paramount+ espionage thriller created by John Requa and Glenn Ficarra, starring Kiefer Sutherland as corporate-espionage fixer John Weir, framed for murder; 8 episodes, canceled October 2023. Distinct from the 2026 pocket.watch teen variety show of the same name on Disney+ and Hulu.
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.
Ransom (TV series)
Ransom (2017-2019) is a Canadian-French-American crime drama on Global and CBS, created by Frank Spotnitz and David Vainola, starring Luke Roberts as hostage negotiator Eric Beaumont, inspired by negotiators Laurent Combalbert and Marwan Mery; three seasons, 39 episodes, cancelled July 2019.
Ray Donovan
Ray Donovan: Showtime crime drama (2013–2019, 7 seasons, 82 episodes) created by Ann Biderman, starring Liev Schreiber as a Hollywood fixer from South Boston, with Jon Voight as his paroled father Mickey; one Emmy win from ten nominations, followed by a 2022 movie.
Red Queen (TV series)
Red Queen (Reina Roja) is a Spanish Prime Video thriller adapting Juan Gómez-Jurado's Antonia Scott trilogy, starring Vicky Luengo and Hovik Keuchkerian; season 1 premiered February 2024, season 2 (Loba Negra) October 2026, final season 2027.
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.
Remington Steele
Remington Steele: American NBC crime comedy-drama (1982-1987, MTM Productions, 72 episodes) starring Stephanie Zimbalist and Pierce Brosnan; a female PI invents a fictitious male boss, a thief assumes the identity, and the role nearly made Brosnan James Bond in 1986.