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Love & Death (miniseries)
Love & Death is a 2023 HBO Max true-crime limited series by David E. Kelley starring Elizabeth Olsen as Candy Montgomery, who killed Betty Gore with an axe in 1980 Texas and was acquitted; based on Evidence of Love and Texas Monthly reporting.
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.
Lucky (miniseries)
Lucky is a 2026 Apple TV seven-episode crime thriller limited series created by Jonathan Tropper and Cassie Pappas, adapted from Marissa Stapley's Reese's Book Club novel, starring Anya Taylor-Joy as con artist Luciana Armstrong on the run from the FBI and a crime boss.
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.
M.I.A. (TV series)
M.I.A. is a 2026 Peacock crime drama created by Ozark's Bill Dubuque, starring Shannon Gisela as Etta Tiger Jonze, who seeks revenge after a cartel murders her drug-running family; nine episodes, canceled after one season.
Magnum P.I. (2018 TV series)
Magnum P.I. (2018) is a CBS action crime drama reboot developed by Peter M. Lenkov and Eric Guggenheim, starring Jay Hernandez as Navy SEAL-turned-Hawaii PI Thomas Magnum with Perdita Weeks as Juliet Higgins; four CBS seasons, then a final NBC season.
Magnum, P.I.
Magnum, P.I.: American crime drama created by Donald P. Bellisario, starring Tom Selleck as private investigator Thomas Magnum on Oahu, CBS 1980–1988, 162 episodes; rebooted 2018 with Jay Hernandez on CBS, later NBC.
Major Crimes (TV series)
Major Crimes is a TNT police procedural (2012–2018), a spin-off of The Closer created by James Duff, starring Mary McDonnell as Captain Sharon Raydor leading the LAPD Major Crimes Division; six seasons, 105 episodes, plea-deal-driven cases.
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.
Mannix
Mannix, CBS detective series 1967–1975 starring Mike Connors as Armenian-American PI Joe Mannix; created by Levinson and Link, 8 seasons, 194 episodes, Intertect season 1 then solo with Peggy Fair (Gail Fisher).
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.
Mare of Easttown
Mare of Easttown is a 2021 HBO seven-episode limited crime drama created by Brad Ingelsby, directed by Craig Zobel, starring Kate Winslet as Delaware County detective Mare Sheehan investigating Erin McMenamin's murder; Emmy-winning, 95% on Rotten Tomatoes.
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.
Martial Law (TV series)
Martial Law is an American action-comedy police procedural starring Sammo Hung as a Shanghai detective in the LAPD, airing on CBS from 1998 to 2000.
Mayans M.C.
Mayans M.C. is an FX crime drama (2018–2023, five seasons, 50 episodes), a spinoff of Sons of Anarchy co-created by Kurt Sutter and Elgin James, following EZ Reyes (JD Pardo) of the Santo Padre charter on the California–Mexico border, distinct from the parent series through its Latino club perspective.
Mayor of Kingstown
Mayor of Kingstown is a Paramount+ crime drama co-created by Taylor Sheridan and Hugh Dillon, starring Jeremy Renner as power broker Mike McLusky in a Michigan prison town; it ran from November 14, 2021 and ends with an eight-episode fifth season premiering January 15, 2027.
McCloud (TV series)
McCloud is an American police drama television series broadcast on NBC from 1970 to 1977, starring Dennis Weaver as a New Mexico marshal in New York City.
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.
McMillan & Wife
McMillan & Wife is an NBC police procedural (1971–1977), also known as McMillan in its final season, starring Rock Hudson and Susan Saint James as a crime-solving San Francisco police commissioner and his wife on the NBC Mystery Movie wheel.
Memory of a Killer (TV series)
Memory of a Killer is a 2026 FOX crime thriller starring Patrick Dempsey as hitman Angelo with early-onset Alzheimer's, adapted from the Belgian film De Zaak Alzheimer; renewed for a second season.
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.
Millennium (TV series)
Millennium (Fox, 1996–1999) is Chris Carter's apocalyptic crime drama, three seasons and 67 episodes starring Lance Henriksen as profiler Frank Black of the Millennium Group, closed by an X-Files crossover and absent from streaming.
Mob City
Mob City (2013) is Frank Darabont's six-episode TNT neo-noir crime drama, formerly titled L.A. Noir and Lost Angels, based on John Buntin's book, dramatizing Bugsy Siegel, Mickey Cohen, and William Parker in 1947 Los Angeles; canceled after one season.
Monk (TV series)
Monk (2002–2009) is an American comedy-drama mystery series starring Tony Shalhoub as Adrian Monk, an OCD-afflicted former SFPD detective consulting for police. 125 episodes, eight Emmys, USA Network premiere, Peacock and Hallmark Mystery availability.
Moonlighting (TV series)
Moonlighting is an American comedy-drama detective series created by Glenn Gordon Caron, airing on ABC 1985–1989, starring Cybill Shepherd and Bruce Willis as Blue Moon Detective Agency partners, known for fourth-wall breaks and Emmy-winning dramedy.
Mosaic (murder mystery)
Mosaic is a 2017-2018 murder mystery by Ed Solomon and Steven Soderbergh, released as a 7.5-hour branching-narrative app and a six-part HBO limited series starring Sharon Stone as missing children's author Olivia Lake in a Utah resort town.
Motive (TV series)
Motive is a Canadian CTV police procedural (2013–2016, 4 seasons, 52 episodes) starring Kristin Lehman as Vancouver detective Angie Flynn; a whydunit revealing killer and victim at each episode's start.
Mouse (TV series)
Mouse (마우스) is a 2021 tvN Korean psychological thriller, 20 episodes, written by Choi Ran, starring Lee Seung-gi and Lee Hee-jun hunting a top-1% psychopath 'Predator' in a world with fetal psychopath-gene DNA testing; averaged 5.542% Nielsen ratings and was nominated at SERIES MANIA 2021.