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British crime and mystery TV for U.S. viewers
British series usually reach the U.S. weeks or months after the U.K., often on PBS MASTERPIECE, BritBox or Acorn TV, and sometimes on several services with different schedules. Every show here has been checked against official announcements.
Upcoming U.S. premieres
| Date | Show | Where | Time |
|---|---|---|---|
 Signora Volpe Season 3 premiere | Acorn TV | — | |
 Ludwig Season 2 premiere | BritBox | — | |
 Maigret Season 2 premiere | PBS | 9 p.m. ET · 8 p.m. CT | |
 Professor T Season 5 premiere | PBS | See listings | |
 The Gold Season 2 premiere | PBS | 10 p.m. ET · 9 p.m. CT | |
 The Red King Series premiere | Acorn TV | — | |
 Time Season 3 premiere | BritBox | — | |
 Wolf Series premiere · full season | Acorn TV | All episodes | |
 Black Doves Season 2 premiere · full season | Netflix | All episodes |
Shows we cover
Agatha Christie's Tommy & Tuppence
Christie's sleuthing couple, moved to the present day.
Black Doves
A politician's wife who has been passing his secrets to a spy network for a decade.
Blue Lights
Rookie police officers in Belfast, where every call carries history.
Death in Paradise
Locked-room murders on the sunny Caribbean island of Saint Marie.
Grace
John Simm's Brighton detective, from Peter James's bestselling novels.
Grantchester
A vicar and a detective solving murders in 1950s Cambridgeshire.
Karen Pirie
A young Scottish detective reopening cold cases others would rather stay buried.
Ludwig
A reclusive puzzle-setter posing as his missing twin, a police detective.
Maigret
Georges Simenon's Paris detective, told in two-part cases.
Marble Hall Murders
Susan Ryeland and Atticus Pünd return in Anthony Horowitz's third book-within-a-book mystery.
Midsomer Murders
Sleepy English villages with a remarkably high murder rate.
Miss Scarlet
Victorian London's first female private detective.
Patience
An autistic archivist whose pattern-spotting cracks York's hardest cases.
Professor T
A Cambridge criminologist with obsessive habits, consulting for the police.
Shetland
Island murders and tight-knit secrets in Scotland's far north.
Signora Volpe
A retired British spy who can't stop investigating in the Umbrian hills.
Slow Horses
MI5's rejects, their foul-mouthed boss and the cases nobody wanted them on.
The Gold
The Brink's-Mat bullion robbery and the money trail that followed it.
The Marlow Murder Club
Three amateur sleuths solving murders in a Thames-side town.
The Red King
A missing-boy cold case on an island with its own strange faith.
Time
The BBC prison drama anthology about guilt, loyalty and what a sentence does to people.
Unforgotten
Cold-case detectives uncovering crimes buried for decades.
Vera
Brenda Blethyn's DCI Vera Stanhope, from first case to final farewell.
Wolf
DI Jack Caffery and a family held hostage in their own home.
Guides
- British mysteries you can stream in the U.S. right now, and where
- BritBox vs. Acorn TV vs. PBS Passport: which is best for British mysteries?
- Every British crime and mystery premiere coming to U.S. TV this fall
- How to watch PBS MASTERPIECE mysteries without cable
- Magpie Murders, Moonflower Murders, Marble Hall Murders: the watching order
- Maigret season 2: the three Simenon novels behind the new episodes
- Slow Horses in order: every season and the Mick Herron book it adapts
- The Gold: the true story of the Brink's-Mat robbery behind the series
Where British mysteries stream in the U.S.
Last rebuilt September 28, 2026.