UK & Ireland Crime Shows
A comprehensive list of all UK & Irish crime shows I've seen, or will potentially see, typically shown on BBC, ITV and Sky.
Excluded: comedy, fantasy, spies, etc.
Also noted: Location & any actors I'm particularly interested in seeing.
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UK - Detective Knocking About
US - Detective Knocking About
Excluded: comedy, fantasy, spies, etc.
Also noted: Location & any actors I'm particularly interested in seeing.
See Also:
UK - Detective Knocking About
US - Detective Knocking About
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- CreatorHans RosenfeldtNicola LarderStarsAnna FrielRay PanthakiJack DoolanMarcella Backland left the Metropolitan Police for the sake of her family, only to have her husband leave her. She returns to her job on the murder squad, investigating a case that seems disturbingly familiar to her.Location: London, England & Lisburn, Northern Ireland
Featuring: Anna Friel - CreatorNeil CrossStarsIdris ElbaDermot CrowleyMichael SmileyJohn Luther is a brilliant homicide detective with a knack for getting inside the minds of murderers. Unfortunately, his unconventional methods and personal demons put him at odds with his team.Location: London, England
Featuring: Idris Elba - StarsStephen DillaneClémence PoésyCédric VieiraA prominent French politician is found dead on the border between the U.K. and France, and two agents must work together on behalf of their respective countries to find the murderer.
- CreatorChris LangStarsSanjeev BhaskarJordan LongCarolina MainLondon detectives investigate crimes from the past, unravelling secrets left buried for years.Location: London, England
Featuring: Nicola Walker - CreatorPeter McKennaStarsSimone KirbyWouter HendrickxCathy BeltonA year on there is a new boss and old enemies. Criminal Asset Bureau's Claire Wallace finds herself at odds with CTU's Christian De Jong when CAB is drawn back to the Antwerp investigation. A familiar face returns but can she be trusted?Location: Limerick, Ireland
- CreatorSimon DonaldStarsRichard DormerBjörn Hlynur HaraldssonSienna GuilloryPerched on the edge of the Arctic Circle, Fortitude is one of the safest towns on earth. There has never been a violent crime here. Until now.Location: Svalbard, Norway
Featuring: Sofie Gråbøl - StarsNiamh AlgarEddie MarsanHarry TreadawayFollows the true story of a controversial honeytrap at the heart of the 1992 police investigation into the murder of a young mother in London.Location: London, England
Featuring: Niamh Algar, Eddie Marsan - StarsTim RothNico MirallegroSamantha MortonA three-part drama about serial killer John Christie and the murders at 10 Rillington Place in the 1940s and early 1950s.Location: London, England
Featuring: Tim Roth, Samantha Morton, Jodie Comer - StarsTom BurkeHolliday GraingerKerr LoganWar veteran turned private detective Cormoran Strike solves brutal murders with the help of his trusted partner Robin Ellacott.Location: London, England
Featuring: Holliday Grainger - CreatorBen ChananStarsHolliday GraingerBen MilesLia WilliamsWhen a British soldier is charged with a crime, the tenacious young detective handling his case begins to uncover a conspiracy.Location: London, England
Featuring: Holliday Grainger - StarsLaura FraserMichael NardoneJennifer SpenceWhile attending an online forensic course, young lab assistant discovers that the fictitious case study has a link to her past. With the help of two female professors she works on bringing a killer to justice.Location: Dundee, Scotland
Featuring: Laura Fraser - CreatorTom EdgeStarsSuranne JonesRose LeslieGary LewisThe mysterious disappearance of a Scottish fishing trawler and a death onboard a Trident nuclear submarine bring the police into conflict with the Navy and British security services.Location: Submarine & Naval Base, Scotland
Featuring: Anjli Mohindra - CreatorBen CourtCaroline IpStarsRupert Penry-JonesPhil DavisSteve PembertonA fast-tracked inspector, a hardened detective sergeant, and an expert in historical homicides investigate modern crimes with connections to the past in the Whitechapel district of London.Location: London, England
- CreatorRichard WarlowStarsMatthew MacfadyenAdam RothenbergMyAnna BuringThe streets of Whitechapel are the haunt of Detective Inspector Edmund Reid and his team of officers, who aim to maintain law and order in a place once terrorized by Jack the Ripper.Location: London, England
- CreatorNick WalkerStarsNicola WalkerJamie SivesKatie LeungWitty, enigmatic DI Annika Strandhed heads up the Marine Homicide Unit, tasked with solving murders in and around the Scottish waters.Location: Glasgow, Scotland
Featuring: Nicola Walker - StarsCarey MulliganNathaniel Martello-WhiteHayley SquiresInvestigating the murder of a pizza delivery man, a London detective uncovers a tangled conspiracy involving drug dealers, smugglers and spies.Location: London, England
Featuring: Nicola Walker, Carey Mulligan - StarsLauren LyleBarrie HunterAriyon BakareAfter the promotion to Police Scotland's Historic Cases Unit, Karen Pirie reopens the cold case of a murdered barmaid. Her investigation unearths flaws in the original 1995 inquiry.Location: St. Andrews, Scotland
- CreatorAbi MorganStarsStellan SkarsgårdNicola WalkerAdeel AkhtarJohn River is a brilliant police inspector whose genius lies side-by-side with the fragility of his mind. He is a man haunted by the murder victims whose cases he must lay to rest.Featuring: Nicola Walker
- CreatorJed MercurioStarsRichard MaddenSophie RundleVincent FranklinTroubled war veteran turned Police Officer David Budd is assigned to the Metropolitan Police's Specialist Protection Branch.Location: London, England
Featuring: Sophie Rundle, Anjli Mohindra - CreatorAllan CubittStarsGillian AndersonJamie DornanJohn LynchA seemingly cold but very passionate policewoman goes head to head with a seemingly passionate father who is in fact a cold serial killer in this procedural out of Belfast. The only thing they share is their common complexity.Featuring: Gillian Anderson
- CreatorSally WainwrightStarsSarah LancashireSiobhan FinneranJames NortonYorkshire-based crime drama centering on the personal and professional life of Police Sergeant Catherine Cawood.Location: Calder Valley, England
- StarsJim McMeekinLaura FraserSiobhan FinneranThe search for a serial killer becomes a matter of life and death for detective Annie Redford, who is trying to cope with her first murder case.Location: Loch Ness, Scotland
Featuring: Laura Fraser - CreatorDaragh CarvilleRichard ClarkStarsDaniel RyanErin ShanagherAndrew DowbigginPolice in the Morecambe Bay area in Lancashire investigate missing persons and suspicious deaths.Location: Morecambe bay, England
- StarsAlison O'DonnellSteven RobertsonLewis HowdenA local police team investigate crimes within the close knit island community of Shetland.Location: Shetland Isles, Scotland
- CreatorChris ChibnallStarsDavid TennantOlivia ColmanJodie WhittakerThe murder of a young boy in a small coastal town brings a media frenzy, which threatens to tear the community apart.Featuring: Olivia Colman, Jodie Whittaker
- CreatorJonathan BrackleySam VincentStarsLeila FarzadAndrew BuchanSamuel Edward-CookA corrupt police detective has a painful moral awakening and decides to put right 20 years of wrongdoing.
- CreatorBill GallagherStarsIndira VarmaRobert GlenisterDino FetscherThe murder of a female GP in a rural playground in front of numerous witnesses draws a group of detectives into an ever-darkening mystery that takes them across Europe, aided by mysterious notes sent by the "Ghost Detective".
- StarsFreddie FoxAlexa DaviesMark AddyRevolves around the true story of a fateful night in August 1985 when five members of the same family are murdered at an Essex farmhouse, and the ensuing police investigation and court case that follows.
- StarsSinéad KeenanBrían F. O'ByrneMatthew DevlinThe true story of the 2007 murder of Rhys Jones in Liverpool. The story of the aftermath and police investigation.Featuring: Stephen Graham
- StarsTom RileyJoseph TeagueAnjli MohindraDI Will Wagstaffe and his team investigate horrifying and brutal attacks.Featuring: Anjli Mohindra
- CreatorSally WainwrightDiane TaylorStarsSuranne JonesLesley SharpTony MooneyDetectives Janet Scott & Rachel Bailey investigate murders with Manchester Police's Major Incident Team.
- StarsGemma WhelanEmmett J ScanlanTahirah SharifAfter a long-serving cop and a teenage girl fall to their deaths from a London tower block, Detective Sarah Collins investigates the dark heart of policing.
- StarsMorven ChristiePeter MullanPrasanna PuwanarajahWhen her husband is attacked, a woman becomes entangled in a police operation to topple a notorious crime lord.
- StarsAmaka OkaforKyle SollerShira HaasFour detectives, living in different eras -1890, 1941, 2023 and 2053 - find the body of the same murder victim in Whitechapel. They soon come to realize their investigations have them central to a conspiracy spanning over 150 years.
- CreatorLynda La PlanteStarsKelly ReillyCiarán HindsShaun DingwallA team of dedicated detectives investigate gruesome murders across London.Location: London, England
Featuring: Kelly Reilly - CreatorToby WhithouseStarsAnjli MohindraJames BamfordLu CorfieldCharacter-driven mystery-thriller, combining a powerful story of a knotty police investigation with chilling, atmospheric folk-horror through the island's eerie past devotion to a pagan God called the Red King and the cult of the True Way.Location: ?
Featuring: Anjli Mohindra - StarsJack DeamKris HitchenLee InglebyA desperate cat and mouse hunt ensues when Yorkshire is being haunted by a serial killer.Location: Leeds, England
Featuring: Toby Jones - TV SeriesStarsLaura FraserTom LewisElla Maisy PurvisPatience catalogs evidence in the Yorkshire Police records department. A brilliant self-taught criminologist with keen crime scene instincts, her talent is spotted by Metcalf, opening new worlds for the archivist.
- CreatorJimmy McGovernStarsRobbie ColtraneGeraldine SomervilleKieran O'BrienDr Edward "Fitz" Fitzgerald is a criminal psychologist. He is rather anti-social and obnoxious but he has a gift for solving crimes. Thus he is employed as a consultant by the Manchester Police.Location: Manchester, England
Featuring: Robbie Coltrane - StarsRichard HarringtonMali HarriesAlex HarriesA noir crime drama set in Aberystwyth, Wales, where troubled DCI Tom Mathias solves murders while searching for redemption.
- StarsNathaniel ParkerSharon SmallLesley VickerageBritish crime investigation series based around aristocratic, Oxford-educated Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley and his working-class assistant Sergeant Barbara Havers.
- StarsBrenda BlethynJon MorrisonRiley JonesWith her caustic wit and singular charm, DCI Vera Stanhope leads her team as they face a series of captivating murder mysteries set against the breathtaking Northumberland landscape.
- CreatorRobert MurphyStarsJason WatkinsTala GouveiaLily SacofskyA shy and enigmatic Detective Sergeant is partnered with a wildly ambitious Detective Chief Inspector to solve crimes in the historic city of Bath.
- StarsJason IsaacsAmanda AbbingtonZawe AshtonFormer soldier and policeman Jackson Brodie becomes a private investigator.Location: Edinburgh, Scotland
Featuring: Jason Isaacs - CreatorPaul MarquessSusanne FarrellStarsKerri QuinnDes McAleerCiarán McMenaminThe arrival of DC Leila Hussain sets tongues wagging - what brings this big city girl to a sleepy Northern Irish seaside town?Location: Port Devine, Northern Ireland
- StarsRomario SimpsonHannah DonaldsonBhav JoshiLance Corporal arriving in Aberdeen as a new recruit with Police Scotland. After completing his last assignment with the Royal Military Police, Lindo dreams of becoming a detective at New Scotland Yard.Location: Aberdeen, Scotland