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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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 Black Doves Season 2 premiere · full season | Netflix | All episodes | |
 Return to Paradise Season 3 premiere · full season | BBC (U.K.) | All episodes | |
 Blue Lights Season 4 premiere | BritBox | — | |
 Honey Series premiere | BBC (U.K.) | — | |
 Death Valley Season 2 premiere | BritBox | — | |
 Miss Scarlet Season 7 premiere | PBS | 8 p.m. ET · 7 p.m. CT |
Shows we cover
10 Steps to Murder
Discovery crime and documentary series (2019–2020), 1 season.
A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
BBC (U.K.) crime and thriller series (2024–present), 2 seasons.
Accused
BBC (U.K.) drama and crime series (2010–2012), 2 seasons.
Agatha Christie's Marple
Geraldine McEwan, then Julia McKenzie, as the village sleuth who misses nothing.
Agatha Christie's Poirot
David Suchet is Hercule Poirot in every Christie novel and story, filmed over 24 years.
Agatha Christie's Tommy & Tuppence
Christie's sleuthing couple, moved to the present day.
Am I Being Unreasonable?
BBC (U.K.) drama and comedy series (2022–present), 2 seasons.
Annika
Nicola Walker leads Glasgow's marine homicide unit, and talks straight to the camera.
Apparitions
BBC (U.K.) drama and mystery series (2008–2008), 1 season.
Apple Tree Yard
BBC (U.K.) drama and thriller series (2017–2017), 1 season.
Ashes to Ashes
BBC (U.K.) drama and crime series (2008–2010), 3 seasons.
Banged Up Abroad
National Geographic crime and documentary series (2007–present), 14 seasons.
Banished
BBC (U.K.) drama and crime series (2015–2015), 1 season.
Baptiste
BBC (U.K.) drama and crime series (2019–2021), 2 seasons.
Better
BBC (U.K.) drama and crime series (2023–2023), 1 season.
Beyond Paradise
BBC (U.K.) drama and crime series (2023–present), 4 seasons.
Black Doves
A politician's wife who has been passing his secrets to a spy network for a decade.
Black Earth Rising
BBC (U.K.) drama and thriller series (2018–2018), 1 season.
Black Ops
BBC (U.K.) comedy and thriller series (2023–present), 2 seasons.
Bleak House
BBC (U.K.) drama and mystery series (2005–2005), 1 season.
Bloodlands
BBC (U.K.) drama and crime series (2021–2022), 2 seasons.
Blowing Up History
Discovery adventure and mystery series (2016–present), 7 seasons.
Blue Lights
Rookie police officers in Belfast, where every call carries history.
Boat Story
BBC (U.K.) action and crime series (2023–2023), 1 season.
Bodyguard
BBC (U.K.) drama and crime series (2018–2018), 1 season.
Broadchurch
David Tennant and Olivia Colman investigate a child's death in a small Dorset town.
By Any Means
BBC (U.K.) drama and crime series (2013–2013), 1 season.
Campion
BBC (U.K.) drama and crime series (1989–1990), 2 seasons.
Case Histories
BBC (U.K.) drama and crime series (2011–2013), 2 seasons.
Chloe
BBC (U.K.) thriller series (2022–2022), 1 season.
Collateral
BBC (U.K.) drama and crime series (2018–2018), 1 season.
Cooper & Fry
Two mismatched detectives policing the beautiful, secretive Peak District.
Crimewatch Live
BBC (U.K.) crime and documentary series (2009–present), 21 seasons.
Criminal Justice
BBC (U.K.) drama and crime series (2008–2009), 2 seasons.
Cuffs
BBC (U.K.) drama and crime series (2015–2015), 1 season.
Dalgliesh
Bertie Carvel is P.D. James's poet-detective Adam Dalgliesh, solving murders in 1970s and '80s England.
Dalziel and Pascoe
BBC (U.K.) drama and crime series (1996–2007), 12 seasons.
Dead and Buried
BBC (U.K.) thriller series (2024–2024), 1 season.
Death in Paradise
Locked-room murders on the sunny Caribbean island of Saint Marie.
Death Valley
A retired TV detective and a real one solve murders in mid Wales.
Domino Day
BBC (U.K.) thriller and supernatural series (2024–present), 1 season.
Dope Girls
BBC (U.K.) drama and crime series (2025–2025), 1 season.
Dublin Murders
BBC (U.K.) drama and crime series (2019–2019), 1 season.
Ed Stafford: Into the Unknown
Discovery adventure and mystery series (2015–2015), 1 season.
Edge of Darkness
BBC (U.K.) drama and crime series (1985–1985), 1 season.
Endeavour
The young Endeavour Morse learns the job in 1960s and 1970s Oxford.
Father Brown
Mark Williams's crime-solving Catholic priest in 1950s Cotswolds.
Five Days
BBC (U.K.) crime and thriller series (2007–2010), 2 seasons.
Forensics: The Real CSI
BBC (U.K.) crime and documentary series (2019–present), 6 seasons.
Foyle's War
Michael Kitchen solves murders on the home front in wartime Hastings.
From Darkness
BBC (U.K.) drama and crime series (2015–2015), 1 season.
Get Even
BBC (U.K.) drama and crime series (2020–2020), 1 season.
Giri/Haji
BBC (U.K.) drama and crime series (2019–2019), 1 season.
Gold Digger
BBC (U.K.) drama and thriller series (2019–2019), 1 season.
Good Cop
BBC (U.K.) drama and crime series (2012–2012), 1 season.
Grace
John Simm's Brighton detective, from Peter James's bestselling novels.
Granite Harbour
BBC (U.K.) drama and crime series (2022–present), 3 seasons.
Grantchester
A vicar and a detective solving murders in 1950s Cambridgeshire.
Hamish Macbeth
BBC (U.K.) drama and comedy series (1995–1997), 3 seasons.
Happy Valley
Sarah Lancashire's Sergeant Catherine Cawood against the man who wrecked her family.
Hard Sun
BBC (U.K.) drama and crime series (2018–2018), 1 season.
Hidden
BBC (U.K.) drama and crime series (2011–2011), 1 season.
Hinterland
A haunted detective works murders in the hills and coastline around Aberystwyth.
Honey
BBC (U.K.) romance and thriller series (2026–present), 1 season.
Hope Street
BBC (U.K.) drama and crime series (2021–present), 5 seasons.
Hunted
BBC (U.K.) drama and action series (2012–2012), 1 season.
Hustle
BBC (U.K.) drama and crime series (2004–2012), 8 seasons.
I, Jack Wright
BBC (U.K.) drama and crime series (2025–present), 1 season.
In the Dark
BBC (U.K.) drama and crime series (2017–2017), 1 season.
Informer
BBC (U.K.) drama and thriller series (2018–2018), 1 season.
Inside Man
BBC (U.K.) drama and crime series (2022–2022), 1 season.
Inside Men
BBC (U.K.) drama and action series (2012–2012), 1 season.
Inside No. 9
BBC (U.K.) comedy and thriller series (2014–2024), 9 seasons.
Inspector George Gently
Martin Shaw polices a changing 1960s north-east England.
Inspector Morse
John Thaw's opera-loving, crossword-solving Oxford detective.
Jonathan Creek
BBC (U.K.) drama and crime series (1997–2014), 5 seasons.
Karen Pirie
A young Scottish detective reopening cold cases others would rather stay buried.
Keeping Faith
BBC (U.K.) drama and thriller series (2018–2021), 3 seasons.
Kidnapped: The Chloe Ayling Story
BBC (U.K.) drama and crime series (2024–2024), 1 season.
Kill Jackie
Seven assassins are hired to kill her. She goes after them first.
Lewis
Robbie Lewis steps out of Morse's shadow to solve Oxford's murders.
Life on Mars
BBC (U.K.) drama and crime series (2006–2007), 2 seasons.
Line of Duty
BBC (U.K.) drama and crime series (2012–present), 6 seasons.
London Spy
BBC (U.K.) drama and crime series (2015–2015), 1 season.
Lovejoy
BBC (U.K.) drama and comedy series (1986–1994), 6 seasons.
Ludwig
A reclusive puzzle-setter posing as his missing twin, a police detective.
Luther
Idris Elba as a brilliant, volatile London detective who bends every rule.
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.
Mayday
BBC (U.K.) drama and thriller series (2013–2013), 1 season.
McMafia
BBC (U.K.) drama and crime series (2018–2018), 1 season.
Messiah
BBC (U.K.) drama and crime series (2001–2008), 5 seasons.
Midsomer Murders
Sleepy English villages with a remarkably high murder rate.
Mint
BBC (U.K.) drama and comedy series (2026–2026), 1 season.
Miss Scarlet
Victorian London's first female private detective.
Missing
BBC (U.K.) drama and crime series (2009–2010), 2 seasons.
MotherFatherSon
BBC (U.K.) drama and thriller series (2019–2019), 1 season.
Motorway Cops
BBC (U.K.) crime and reality series (2008–2015), 7 seasons.
Murder 24/7
BBC (U.K.) crime and documentary series (2020–present), 3 seasons.
Murder in Mind
BBC (U.K.) drama and crime series (2001–2003), 3 seasons.
Murder Trial
BBC (U.K.) crime and legal series (2020–present), 5 seasons.
Murder, Mystery and My Family
BBC (U.K.) crime and mystery series (2018–present), 5 seasons.
Murphy's Law
BBC (U.K.) drama and crime series (2001–2007), 5 seasons.
Mysteries of the Deep
Discovery mystery and nature series (2020–present), 2 seasons.
New Blood
BBC (U.K.) drama and crime series (2016–2016), 1 season.
New Tricks
BBC (U.K.) drama and comedy series (2004–2015), 12 seasons.
Nightsleeper
BBC (U.K.) thriller series (2024–present), 1 season.
One of Us
BBC (U.K.) drama and crime series (2016–2016), 1 season.
Our Zoo
BBC (U.K.) drama and thriller series (2014–2014), 1 season.
Partners in Crime
BBC (U.K.) drama and crime series (2015–2015), 1 season.
Patience
An autistic archivist whose pattern-spotting cracks York's hardest cases.
Peaky Blinders
BBC (U.K.) drama and crime series (2013–present), 6 seasons.
Pie in the Sky
BBC (U.K.) drama and crime series (1994–1997), 5 seasons.
Porridge
BBC (U.K.) comedy and crime series (2017–2017), 1 season.
Prisoners' Wives
BBC (U.K.) drama and crime series (2012–2013), 2 seasons.
Professor T
A Cambridge criminologist with obsessive habits, consulting for the police.
Psychoville
BBC (U.K.) comedy and thriller series (2009–2011), 2 seasons.
Rebel Cheer Squad - A Get Even Series
BBC (U.K.) drama and thriller series (2022–2022), 1 season.
Rebus
BBC (U.K.) drama and crime series (2024–present), 1 season.
Rellik
BBC (U.K.) drama and crime series (2017–2017), 1 season.
Requiem
BBC (U.K.) drama and thriller series (2018–2018), 1 season.
Return to Paradise
BBC (U.K.) drama and crime series (2024–present), 3 seasons.
Reunion
BBC (U.K.) thriller series (2025–present), 1 season.
Ridley
Adrian Dunbar's retired detective returns to solve murders in the northern hills.
Ridley Road
BBC (U.K.) drama and thriller series (2021–2021), 1 season.
Ripper Street
BBC (U.K.) drama and crime series (2012–2016), 5 seasons.
River
BBC (U.K.) drama and crime series (2015–2015), 1 season.
Roadkill
BBC (U.K.) drama and thriller series (2020–2020), 1 season.
Rules of the Game
BBC (U.K.) thriller series (2022–2022), 1 season.
Second Sight
BBC (U.K.) drama and crime series (2000–2001), 1 season.
Sherlock
Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman bring Holmes and Watson into modern London.
Sherwood
BBC (U.K.) drama and crime series (2022–present), 2 seasons.
Shetland
Island murders and tight-knit secrets in Scotland's far north.
Showtrial
High-profile cases, trial by media, and the question of who's really guilty.
Signora Volpe
A retired British spy who can't stop investigating in the Umbrian hills.
Silent Witness
Forensic pathologists follow the evidence through the hardest cases, on the BBC since 1996.
Silk
BBC (U.K.) drama and crime series (2011–2014), 3 seasons.
Slow Horses
MI5's rejects, their foul-mouthed boss and the cases nobody wanted them on.
Spooks
BBC (U.K.) drama and thriller series (2002–2011), 10 seasons.
Steeltown Murders
BBC (U.K.) drama and crime series (2023–2023), 1 season.
Strike
BBC (U.K.) drama and crime series (2017–present), 6 seasons.
Summer of Rockets
BBC (U.K.) drama and thriller series (2019–2019), 1 season.
Taboo
BBC (U.K.) drama and thriller series (2017–present), 1 season.
The Bay
Family liaison detectives work the hardest cases on Morecambe Bay.
The Body Farm
BBC (U.K.) drama and crime series (2011–2011), 1 season.
The Cage
BBC (U.K.) drama and crime series (2026–2026), 1 season.
The Capture
BBC (U.K.) drama and thriller series (2019–present), 3 seasons.
The City and the City
BBC (U.K.) drama and science-fiction series (2018–2018), 1 season.
The Cleaner
BBC (U.K.) drama and comedy series (2021–present), 3 seasons.
The Coroner
BBC (U.K.) drama and crime series (2015–2016), 2 seasons.
The Crime I Can't Forget
BBC (U.K.) crime and documentary series (2023–present), 2 seasons.
The Crimson Petal and the White
BBC (U.K.) drama and thriller series (2011–2011), 1 season.
The Cry
BBC (U.K.) drama and thriller series (2018–2018), 1 season.
The Detectives: Murder on the Streets
BBC (U.K.) crime and documentary series (2017–2017), 1 season.
The Fall
BBC (U.K.) drama and crime series (2013–2016), 3 seasons.
The Feed
Prime Video drama and science-fiction series (2019–2019), 1 season.
The Field of Blood
BBC (U.K.) drama and crime series (2011–2013), 2 seasons.
The Following Events Are Based on a Pack of Lies
BBC (U.K.) thriller series (2023–present), 1 season.
The Girl Before
BBC (U.K.) drama and thriller series (2021–2021), 1 season.
The Gold
The Brink's-Mat bullion robbery and the money trail that followed it.
The Guest
BBC (U.K.) thriller series (2025–2025), 1 season.
The Hairdresser Mysteries
BBC (U.K.) drama and crime series (2026–present), 1 season.
The Honourable Woman
BBC (U.K.) drama and thriller series (2014–2014), 1 season.
The Inspector Alleyn Mysteries
BBC (U.K.) drama and crime series (1993–1994), 2 seasons.
The Inspector Lynley Mysteries
BBC (U.K.) drama and crime series (2002–2007), 6 seasons.
The Interceptor
BBC (U.K.) drama and crime series (2015–2015), 1 season.
The Jetty
BBC (U.K.) drama and crime series (2024–2024), 1 season.
The Last Enemy
BBC (U.K.) drama and romance series (2008–2008), 1 season.
The Little Drummer Girl
BBC (U.K.) drama and thriller series (2018–2018), 1 season.
The Marlow Murder Club
Three amateur sleuths solving murders in a Thames-side town.
The Missing
BBC (U.K.) drama and crime series (2014–2016), 2 seasons.
The Moment of Proof
BBC (U.K.) crime and documentary series (2021–present), 4 seasons.
The Moonstone
BBC (U.K.) drama and romance series (2016–2016), 1 season.
The Mrs Bradley Mysteries
BBC (U.K.) drama and crime series (2000–2000), 1 season.
The Night Manager
BBC (U.K.) drama and thriller series (2016–present), 2 seasons.
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
BBC (U.K.) drama and comedy series (2009–2009), 1 season.
The North Water
BBC (U.K.) drama and mystery series (2021–2021), 1 season.
The Northumbria Mysteries
BBC (U.K.) drama and crime series (2026–present), 1 season.
The Outlaws
BBC (U.K.) drama and comedy series (2021–2024), 3 seasons.
The Rapture
BBC (U.K.) thriller series (2026–2026), 1 season.
The Reckoning
BBC (U.K.) drama and crime series (2023–2023), 1 season.
The Red King
A missing-boy cold case on an island with its own strange faith.
The Responder
BBC (U.K.) drama and crime series (2022–2024), 2 seasons.
The Ridge
BBC (U.K.) thriller series (2025–2025), 1 season.
The Serpent
BBC (U.K.) drama and crime series (2021–2021), 1 season.
The Shadow Line
BBC (U.K.) drama and crime series (2011–2011), 1 season.
The Silence
BBC (U.K.) drama and crime series (2010–2010), 1 season.
The Singing Detective
BBC (U.K.) drama and crime series (1986–1986), 1 season.
The Sixth Commandment
BBC (U.K.) drama and crime series (2023–2023), 1 season.
The Tourist
BBC (U.K.) drama and thriller series (2022–2024), 2 seasons.
The Victim
BBC (U.K.) drama and thriller series (2019–2019), 1 season.
The Woman in the Wall
BBC (U.K.) drama and thriller series (2023–2023), 1 season.
The Woman in White
BBC (U.K.) drama and thriller series (2018–2018), 1 season.
The Wrong Mans
BBC (U.K.) comedy and crime series (2013–2014), 2 seasons.
This City Is Ours
BBC (U.K.) drama and crime series (2025–present), 2 seasons.
This Is Not a Murder Mystery
Surrealist artists, a country mansion and a killer in 1930s England.
Time
The BBC prison drama anthology about guilt, loyalty and what a sentence does to people.
Top of the Lake
BBC (U.K.) drama and crime series (2013–2017), 2 seasons.
Trespasses
A forbidden love affair in 1975 Belfast, at the height of the Troubles.
Trust Me
BBC (U.K.) drama and thriller series (2017–2019), 2 seasons.
Undercover
BBC (U.K.) drama and thriller series (2016–2016), 1 season.
Unforgotten
Cold-case detectives uncovering crimes buried for decades.
Vera
Brenda Blethyn's DCI Vera Stanhope, from first case to final farewell.
Vienna Blood
BBC (U.K.) drama and crime series (2019–present), 4 seasons.
Vigil
BBC (U.K.) drama and thriller series (2021–present), 3 seasons.
Virdee
BBC (U.K.) drama and crime series (2025–present), 1 season.
Waking the Dead
BBC (U.K.) drama and crime series (2000–2011), 9 seasons.
Wallander
BBC (U.K.) drama and crime series (2008–2016), 4 seasons.
What Remains
BBC (U.K.) drama and crime series (2013–2013), 1 season.
Wolf
DI Jack Caffery and a family held hostage in their own home.
WPC 56
BBC (U.K.) drama and crime series (2013–2015), 3 seasons.
Wreck
BBC (U.K.) comedy and thriller series (2022–2024), 2 seasons.
You Don't Know Me
BBC (U.K.) drama and crime series (2021–2021), 1 season.
Guides
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- Shetland books in order: Ann Cleeves's novels and the TV series they became
- Black Doves season 2: release date, cast and how to watch in the U.S.
- Is Time based on a true story? Jimmy McGovern's prison drama explained
- Tommy & Tuppence on BritBox: the Agatha Christie stories behind each episode
- Every British crime and mystery premiere coming to U.S. TV this fall
- Is This Is Not a Murder Mystery based on a true story?
- Ludwig Christmas special 2026: cast, story and when it could reach the U.S.
- Wolf on Acorn TV: the Jack Caffery books in order, and where the show fits
- Magpie Murders, Moonflower Murders, Marble Hall Murders: the watching order
- BritBox vs. Acorn TV vs. PBS MASTERPIECE (PBS Passport): which is best for British mysteries?
- Is BritBox worth it this fall? What's new on BritBox in fall 2026
- Miss Scarlet season 7: U.S. release date and how to watch the final season
- British mysteries you can stream in the U.S. right now, and where
- How to watch PBS MASTERPIECE mysteries without cable
- 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 November 11, 2026.