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Baywatch Nights
Baywatch Nights: 1995-1997 syndicated spin-off of Baywatch starring David Hasselhoff as lifeguard-turned-private-investigator Mitch Buchannon; 44 episodes over two seasons, pivoting from detective stories to X-Files-style supernatural cases in season 2.
Beauty & the Beast (2012 TV series)
Beauty & the Beast (2012 TV series) is a CW science fiction police procedural remake of the 1987 CBS show, created by Sherri Cooper-Landsman and Jennifer Levin, starring Kristin Kreuk and Jay Ryan, filmed in Toronto, running four seasons from October 11, 2012 to September 15, 2016.
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.
Berlin Station (TV series)
Berlin Station is an American EPIX espionage drama (2016-2019) created by Olen Steinhauer, starring Richard Armitage, Rhys Ifans, and Richard Jenkins as CIA officers in Berlin hunting a whistleblower, Thomas Shaw, across three seasons and 29 episodes.
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.
Big Sky (American TV series)
Big Sky, ABC crime drama (2020–2023) created by David E. Kelley from C.J. Box's The Highway and The Bitterroots; 47 episodes, three seasons, starring Kylie Bunbury and Katheryn Winnick, canceled after season 3, streaming on Hulu and Disney+.
Black Bird (miniseries)
Black Bird is a 2022 six-episode Apple TV+ true-crime limited series created by Dennis Lehane from James Keene's memoir In With the Devil, starring Taron Egerton, Paul Walter Hauser, and Ray Liotta; Hauser won a Golden Globe and an Emmy.
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.
Blindspot (TV series)
Blindspot is an American crime drama created by Martin Gero that aired on NBC from 2015 to 2020, following an amnesiac, tattooed woman known as Jane Doe.
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 Heelers
Blue Heelers is an Australian police drama series that ran on the Seven Network from 1994 to 2006, following officers at the Mount Thomas police station.
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.
Blue Murder Motel
Blue Murder Motel is a 2026 New Zealand cozy crime series (TVNZ 1, premiered January 18, 2026) created by Kate McDermott and Steven Zanoski, starring Michala Banas and Brett Tucker as retired Sydney detectives Vinny and Cole Coleman, 8 episodes, NZ On Air funded.
BMF (TV series)
BMF (Black Mafia Family) is a Starz crime drama created by Randy Huggins and executive produced by 50 Cent, airing 2021–2025 over four seasons and 38 episodes about Detroit's Flenory brothers; cancelled October 2025.
Boardwalk Empire
Boardwalk Empire: HBO crime drama (2010–2014, five seasons, 56 episodes) created by Terence Winter, starring Steve Buscemi as Nucky Thompson, based on Nelson Johnson's Atlantic City book, with a Martin Scorsese-directed pilot and 20 Emmys.
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.
Bones (TV series)
Bones, Fox crime drama created by Hart Hanson (2005–2017, 12 seasons, 246 episodes), stars Emily Deschanel as forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan and David Boreanaz as FBI agent Seeley Booth; inspired by Kathy Reichs, originally titled Brennan.
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.
Bordertown (Finnish TV series)
Bordertown (Sorjonen) is a Finnish Nordic noir crime drama created by Miikko Oikkonen, aired on Yle TV1 2016–2020 in three seasons, 31 episodes, set in Lappeenranta near the Russian border, starring Ville Virtanen as detective Kari Sorjonen, sold to 180 countries.
Bosch (TV series)
Bosch is an Amazon Prime Video police procedural (2014-2021, seven seasons) adapted from Michael Connelly's Harry Bosch novels, starring Titus Welliver, developed by Eric Overmyer, continued in Bosch: Legacy and Ballard.
Bosch: Legacy
Bosch: Legacy is the American crime drama sequel to Bosch, starring Titus Welliver as retired detective Harry Bosch turned PI alongside Mimi Rogers and Madison Lintz; three seasons, 30 episodes, streamed on IMDb TV, Freevee, and Prime Video from May 2022 to April 2025.
Boston Blue
Boston Blue is a CBS police procedural spinoff of Blue Bloods (2025–), starring Donnie Wahlberg as Danny Reagan, now a Boston PD detective partnered with Sonequa Martin-Green's Detective Lena Silver of the law-enforcement Silver family; created by the Brandons, renewed for a second season premiering October 9, 2026.
Breaking Bad
Breaking Bad, AMC crime drama created by Vince Gilligan (2008–2013, 5 seasons, 62 episodes), follows chemistry teacher Walter White (Bryan Cranston) turned meth kingpin; 16 Emmys, two Peabody Awards, prequel Better Call Saul and film El Camino.
Breakout Kings
Breakout Kings is an American crime drama series in which U.S. Marshals and convicts recapture prison escapees, airing on A&E for two seasons from 2011.
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.
Burn Notice
Burn Notice is a Matt Nix-created American spy dramedy (2007-2013, USA Network, 7 seasons) starring Jeffrey Donovan as Michael Westen, a burned spy working as a Miami private investigator; 89% Tomatometer, four Emmy nominations.