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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.
Ms Fisher's Modern Murder Mysteries
Ms Fisher's Modern Murder Mysteries is an Australian television crime drama set in 1964 Melbourne, a spin-off of Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries starring Geraldine Hakewill as detective Peregrine Fisher.
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 a Small Town (TV series)
Murder in a Small Town is a Canadian crime drama (2024–) on Fox and Global, based on L.R. Wright's Edgar-winning Karl Alberg novels, starring Rossif Sutherland and Kristin Kreuk, set and filmed in Gibsons, British Columbia.
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 in the First (TV series)
Murder in the First (TNT, 2014-2016) is an American police procedural created by Steven Bochco and Eric Lodal. Unlike case-of-the-week crime shows, each of its three seasons follows San Francisco homicide detectives Terry English and Hildy Mulligan through a single murder case.
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.
Murder, She Wrote
Murder, She Wrote, CBS mystery series (1984–1996, 12 seasons) starring Angela Lansbury as novelist-sleuth Jessica Fletcher of Cabot Cove, Maine; created by Fischer, Levinson, and Link; highest-rated drama for nine seasons; Jamie Lee Curtis reboot in development.
Murdoch Mysteries
Murdoch Mysteries, also known as The Artful Detective, is a Canadian period detective drama set in Toronto beginning in 1895, adapted from Maureen Jennings's novels and premiering in 2008.
My Life Is Murder
My Life Is Murder is an Australian-New Zealand crime comedy-drama series (2019– ) created by Claire Tonkin and Rick Maier, starring Lucy Lawless as ex-detective Alexa Crowe; it began on Network 10 and TVNZ 1, moved from Melbourne to Auckland, and streams on Acorn TV.
Mystery Road (TV series)
Mystery Road is an Australian ABC crime drama (2018) spun off from Ivan Sen's films, starring Aaron Pedersen as Aboriginal detective Jay Swan; two seasons plus the prequel Mystery Road: Origin (2022, Mark Coles Smith), labeled outback noir.
Mystery Road: Origin
Mystery Road: Origin is an Australian prequel crime drama to the Mystery Road franchise, set in 1999, with Mark Coles Smith as young detective Jay Swan; two ABC seasons, seven 2022 AACTA awards.
Narco-Saints
Narco-Saints (수리남, Suriname) is a 2022 six-episode Netflix Korean crime thriller by Yoon Jong-bin starring Ha Jung-woo and Hwang Jung-min, loosely based on drug lord Cho Bong-haeng's Suriname trafficking ring and the NIS operation that caught him.
Narcos
Narcos is a Netflix crime drama (2015–2017, 3 seasons, 30 episodes) created by Chris Brancato, Carlo Bernard, and Doug Miro, dramatizing Pablo Escobar, the Medellín Cartel, and DEA agents Steve Murphy and Javier Peña, followed by Narcos: Mexico.
Nash Bridges
Nash Bridges: CBS police comedy-drama (1996–2001), six seasons, 122 episodes, created by Carlton Cuse, starring Don Johnson and Cheech Marin as San Francisco Special Investigations Unit inspectors; revived in a 2021 USA Network TV movie.
NCIS (franchise)
NCIS franchise: American crime-procedural TV universe spun off from JAG (1995-2005); flagship NCIS premiered on CBS September 23, 2003, created by Donald P. Bellisario, spawning Los Angeles, New Orleans, Hawai'i, Sydney, Origins, Tony & Ziva, and New York.
NCIS (TV series)
NCIS (also Navy CIS, Navy NCIS) is an American CBS crime drama premiering September 23, 2003, created by Donald P. Bellisario from a JAG backdoor pilot, following Naval Criminal Investigative Service agents; 24 seasons, four spin-offs, long CBS's No. 1 drama.
NCIS: Hawaiʻi
NCIS: Hawaiʻi is an American police procedural series and NCIS spin-off that aired on CBS from 2021 to 2024, starring Vanessa Lachey as Jane Tennant.
NCIS: Los Angeles
NCIS: Los Angeles (2009–2023) is the first spin-off of NCIS (itself spun from JAG), created by Shane Brennan for CBS. It follows undercover agents G. Callen (Chris O'Donnell) and Sam Hanna (LL Cool J) of the Los Angeles Office of Special Projects, ran 14 seasons, and is more action- and espionage-oriented than the parent procedural.
NCIS: New Orleans
NCIS: New Orleans is a CBS police procedural (2014-2021), the second NCIS spin-off, created by Gary Glasberg, starring Scott Bakula as Dwayne Pride; 7 seasons, 155 episodes, first franchise series to end.
NCIS: New York
NCIS: New York is a CBS crime procedural, the eighth NCIS franchise series, premiering October 6, 2026. It stars LL COOL J as Sam Hanna and Scott Caan as Nick Schaeffer, created by Byron Balasco and R. Scott Gemmill, set at the New York NCIS field office.
NCIS: Sydney
NCIS: Sydney is an Australian-American television crime drama, the first international NCIS franchise edition, following a joint NCIS and Australian Federal Police taskforce investigating naval crimes in the Indo-Pacific from a base in Sydney since 2023.
NCIS: Tony & Ziva
NCIS: Tony & Ziva is a 2025 Paramount+ espionage drama, the seventh NCIS spinoff, reuniting Michael Weatherly and Cote de Pablo as Tony DiNozzo and Ziva David, on the run in Europe with daughter Tali; canceled after one ten-episode season in December 2025.
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.
New York Undercover
New York Undercover, also known as N.Y. Undercover, is an American police procedural series about NYPD undercover detectives that aired on Fox from 1994 to 1999.
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.
Numbers (TV series)
NUMB3RS (Numbers) is an American CBS crime drama (2005-2010, 6 seasons, 118 episodes) created by Nicolas Falacci and Cheryl Heuton, in which FBI agent Don Eppes and mathematician brother Charlie solve crimes with math.
NYPD Blue
NYPD Blue: American ABC police procedural created by Steven Bochco and David Milch, airing 1993-2005, 261 episodes about Manhattan's fictional 15th precinct; won 20 Emmys and a 1996 Peabody despite a debut boycott.
On Call (TV series)
On Call is a 2025 Prime Video half-hour police procedural from Wolf Entertainment, created by Tim Walsh and Elliot Wolf, starring Troian Bellisario and Brandon Larracuente as Long Beach patrol officers; cancelled after one eight-episode season in May 2025.
Oz (TV series)
Oz (1997–2003) is Tom Fontana's HBO prison drama, the network's first one-hour series, set in Oswald State Correctional Facility's experimental Emerald City unit, six seasons, 56 episodes, starring Ernie Hudson, Terry Kinney, Harold Perrineau, and J.K. Simmons.