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Detective TV shows: new seasons and premiere dates
16 detective series we track, with 1 premieres coming up. Open any show for its full episode schedule and where to watch.
Upcoming detective premieres
| Date | Show | Where | Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miss Scarlet Season 7 premiere | PBS | 8 p.m. ET · 7 p.m. CT |
All detective shows
Cooper & Fry
Two mismatched detectives policing the beautiful, secretive Peak District.
Dalgliesh
Bertie Carvel is P.D. James's poet-detective Adam Dalgliesh, solving murders in 1970s and '80s England.
Grace
John Simm's Brighton detective, from Peter James's bestselling novels.
Grantchester
A vicar and a detective solving murders in 1950s Cambridgeshire.
Inspector George Gently
Martin Shaw polices a changing 1960s north-east England.
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.
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.
Ridley
Adrian Dunbar's retired detective returns to solve murders in the northern hills.
Shetland
Island murders and tight-knit secrets in Scotland's far north.
Unforgotten
Cold-case detectives uncovering crimes buried for decades.
Vera
Brenda Blethyn's DCI Vera Stanhope, from first case to final farewell.