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Jett (TV series)
Jett is an American crime drama series created by Sebastian Gutierrez, starring Carla Gugino as a thief pulled back into crime, which premiered on Cinemax in 2019.
Jo Nesbø's Detective Hole
Jo Nesbø's Detective Hole (Jo Nesbøs Harry Hole) is a 2026 Norwegian Netflix crime series adapting The Devil's Star; nine episodes starring Tobias Santelmann as Harry Hole and Joel Kinnaman as Tom Waaler.
Jonathan Creek
Jonathan Creek: BBC One comedy-drama (1997–2016) created by David Renwick, starring Alan Davies as a magician's trick designer who solves impossible crimes from his windmill home, with Caroline Quentin and later companions; BAFTA-winning howdunnit.
Kaleidoscope (American TV series)
Kaleidoscope, formerly titled Jigsaw, is a 2023 Netflix crime anthology series created by Eric Garcia, starring Giancarlo Esposito as thief Leo Pap; its eight color-named episodes stream in randomized order, ending with the White heist finale.
Khakee: The Bengal Chapter
Khakee: The Bengal Chapter (खाकी: द बंगाल चैप्टर) is a 2025 Netflix Hindi crime series by Neeraj Pandey, a standalone sequel to The Bihar Chapter, set in early-2000s Kolkata with Jeet as IPS officer Arjun Maitra.
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.
Knight Rider (1982 TV series)
Knight Rider (1982–1986) is a Glen A. Larson NBC action series starring David Hasselhoff as Michael Knight and William Daniels as the voice of KITT, an AI black Pontiac Trans Am; four seasons, 90 episodes, multiple spin-offs.
Kojak
Kojak: CBS police drama (1973–1978) starring Telly Savalas as lollipop-sucking NYPD Lt. Theo Kojak, created by Abby Mann from the pilot movie The Marcus-Nelson Murders; Emmy and Golden Globe winner.
Kung Fu: The Legend Continues
Kung Fu: The Legend Continues (KFTLC), 1993–1997 syndicated Canadian-American action-crime drama, sequel to Kung Fu, starring David Carradine as Kwai Chang Caine and Chris Potter as son Peter; 88 episodes, filmed in Toronto, cancelled with PTEN, rerun on TNT.
Law & Order
Law & Order is Dick Wolf's American crime-drama franchise, premiering on NBC September 13, 1990: bifurcated NYPD-investigation and Manhattan-prosecution episodes, spin-offs including SVU (1999), Criminal Intent, and Trial by Jury, a 2010 cancellation, and a 2022 revival.
Law & Order (franchise)
Law & Order is Dick Wolf's American TV crime-legal drama franchise, premiered 1990 on NBC, split-format police/prosecution episodes, spin-offs SVU, Criminal Intent, Organized Crime, and international adaptations in the UK, France, Russia, and Canada.
Law & Order True Crime
Law & Order True Crime is an NBC true-crime anthology series; its only season, The Menendez Murders (2017, 8 episodes, created by Rene Balcer, starring Edie Falco as Leslie Abramson), dramatized the 1989 Menendez killings and trials.
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Law & Order: Criminal Intent is an American police procedural, the second Law & Order spin-off, following NYPD Major Case Squad detectives Robert Goren and Alexandra Eames; it ran ten seasons from 2001 to 2011 on NBC then USA Network, and spawned French, Russian, and Canadian adaptations.
Law & Order: LA
Law & Order: LA (LOLA) was a one-season NBC police procedural and legal drama spin-off of Law & Order created by Dick Wolf, set in Los Angeles; premiered September 29, 2010, creatively overhauled mid-season, and canceled May 13, 2011.
Law & Order: Organized Crime
Law & Order: Organized Crime is a serialized NBC/Peacock crime drama spin-off (2021–2025, five seasons) starring Christopher Meloni as Elliot Stabler of the NYPD Organized Crime Control Bureau, canceled in April 2026.
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (SVU) is Dick Wolf's NBC police procedural, premiered September 1999, following NYPD detectives investigating sexual assault, child abuse, and domestic violence; the longest-running primetime live-action series, led by Mariska Hargitay's Olivia Benson, now in season 28.
Law & Order: UK
Law & Order: UK is a British ITV1 crime drama (2009-2014), produced by Kudos, Wolf Films, and NBC Universal, adapting every episode from a US Law & Order teleplay for English courts, running 53 episodes across 8 series.
Legends (TV series)
Legends (TV series) covers two unrelated crime dramas: Neil Forsyth's 2026 Netflix British series about 1990s undercover customs officers fighting heroin gangs, starring Steve Coogan and Tom Burke, and the 2014–2015 TNT spy thriller starring Sean Bean as FBI agent Martin Odum, based on Robert Littell's novel.
Leverage (American TV series)
Leverage is an American TNT crime drama (2008–2012, five seasons, 77 episodes) created by John Rogers and Chris Downey with Dean Devlin, starring Timothy Hutton as Nathan Ford leading a Robin Hood team of thieves, later revived as Leverage: Redemption (2021–2025).
Lewis (TV series)
Lewis (Inspector Lewis) is an ITV British crime drama, 2006–2015, a spin-off sequel to Inspector Morse: DI Robert Lewis (Kevin Whately) and DS James Hathaway (Laurence Fox) solve Oxford murders across 9 seasons and 33 episodes.
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.
Lie to Me
Lie to Me is a Fox crime drama (2009-2011, 48 episodes, 3 seasons) starring Tim Roth as deception expert Cal Lightman, loosely based on psychologist Paul Ekman, who served as scientific advisor; its microexpression-based lie-detection premise drew later empirical criticism.
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.
Lilyhammer
Lilyhammer (2012–2014) is a Norwegian-American crime comedy-drama, Netflix's first original series, starring Steven Van Zandt as mobster Frank Tagliano in witness protection in Lillehammer, created by Anne Bjørnstad and Eilif Skodvin for NRK and Rubicon TV.
Lincoln Rhyme: Hunt for the Bone Collector
Lincoln Rhyme: Hunt for the Bone Collector is a 2020 NBC crime drama based on Jeffery Deaver's novel The Bone Collector, starring Russell Hornsby and Arielle Kebbel.
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.
Line of Fire (2026 TV series)
Line of Fire (formerly Protection) is a 2026 NBC crime drama created by Joshua Safran, starring Peter Krause and Hope Davis as parents in a family of federal agents across the FBI, Marshals, Secret Service, and DOJ, airing Mondays and streaming on Peacock.
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.