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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

Upcoming detective premieres
DateShowWhereTime
Miss Scarlet Season 7 premiere
PBS 8 p.m. ET · 7 p.m. CT

All detective shows

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Cooper & Fry

StreamingBritBox

Season 1

Two mismatched detectives policing the beautiful, secretive Peak District.

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Dalgliesh

StreamingAcorn TV

Season 3

Bertie Carvel is P.D. James's poet-detective Adam Dalgliesh, solving murders in 1970s and '80s England.

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Grace

U.S. date TBABritBox

Season 6 · U.S. date not yet announced

John Simm's Brighton detective, from Peter James's bestselling novels.

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Grantchester

StreamingPBS

Season 11

A vicar and a detective solving murders in 1950s Cambridgeshire.

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Inspector George Gently

StreamingAcorn TV

Season 8

Martin Shaw polices a changing 1960s north-east England.

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Karen Pirie

StreamingBritBox

Season 2

A young Scottish detective reopening cold cases others would rather stay buried.

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Ludwig

Airing nowBritBox

Season 2 · New episodes now

A reclusive puzzle-setter posing as his missing twin, a police detective.

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Maigret

Airing nowPBS

Season 2 · New episodes now

Georges Simenon's Paris detective, told in two-part cases.

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Midsomer Murders

StreamingAcorn TV

Season 25

Sleepy English villages with a remarkably high murder rate.

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Miss Scarlet

Premieres soonPBS

Season 7 · Starts Jan 17

Victorian London's first female private detective.

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Patience

StreamingPBS

Season 2

An autistic archivist whose pattern-spotting cracks York's hardest cases.

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Professor T

Airing nowPBS

Season 5 · New episodes now

A Cambridge criminologist with obsessive habits, consulting for the police.

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Ridley

StreamingPBS Passport

Season 2

Adrian Dunbar's retired detective returns to solve murders in the northern hills.

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Shetland

U.S. date TBABritBox

Season 11 · U.S. date not yet announced

Island murders and tight-knit secrets in Scotland's far north.

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Unforgotten

StreamingPBS

Season 6

Cold-case detectives uncovering crimes buried for decades.

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Vera

StreamingBritBox

Season 14

Brenda Blethyn's DCI Vera Stanhope, from first case to final farewell.