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💥 Most of the series I watch I find on BritBox.
📺 New Tricks (2004) 12 seasons, WTF? – A team of retired former detectives with over 80 years service between them and three very distinct personalities is recruited to re-examine unsolved crimes. The squad is headed up by Sandra Pullman - a detective in disgrace after bungling a hostage situation.
📺 Silicon Valley (2014) – Parodying the culture of the technology industry in Silicon Valley, the series focuses on Richard Hendricks (Thomas Middleditch), a programmer who founds a startup company called Pied Piper, and chronicles his struggles to maintain his company while facing competition from larger entities. 👍
📺 The OA (2016) – a popular, mind-bending Netflix original series about Prairie Johnson, a blind woman who returns home after being missing for seven years, now with her sight restored, and recruits locals for a mysterious mission involving other dimensions and near-death experiences. 👍
📺 Towards Zero (2025) (TV series) – England, 1936. Tennis star Nevile Strange's scandalous divorce sparks tension at Lady Tressilian's estate. When a murder occurs, detective James Leach must uncover the truth before someone else falls victim to the unknown killer. Really a movie broken into 3 parts. A BBC One mystery television series, adapted by Rachel Bennette from the 1944 novel Towards Zero by Agatha Christie. 👍
📺 Vera (2011) – Vera, an easily angered investigator obsessed with her work and driven by her own mental problems. Vera is a completely unlikable woman that rubs everybody the wrong way, and appears to go out of her way to be annoying to others.
📺 The Office (US) – Based on the award-winning British comedy of the same name, "The Office" exposes the humorous and often foolish events at Dunder-Mifflin Paper Company. 👍
📺 The Office (UK) – Manager David Brent has office workers squirming on their sofas in this multi-award winning comedy. File this fly-on-the-wall mocumentary under petty rivalry, bad management and easily bruised egos. 👍
📺 Breaking Bad (2008) - 5 seasons – follows Walter White (Bryan Cranston), an over-qualified, dispirited high-school chemistry teacher struggling with a recent diagnosis of stage-three lung cancer. White turns to a life of crime and partners with a former student, Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul), to produce and distribute methamphetamine to secure his family's financial future before he dies, while navigating the dangers of the criminal underworld. 👍
📺 Pie in the Sky (1994) – After being shot, DI Crabbe retires from the police force and sets up his own restaurant. Unfortunately, his ex-boss, Chief Constable Fisher, is constantly dragging him back in. 👍 Honestly, the premise is pretty dopey, but there's something very appealing and comforting about this show.
📺 Murder in Provence (2022) – Bienvenue en Provence! Among the sun-drenched hills of southern France, chief magistrate Antoine Verlaque (Roger Allam) and his sharp-witted partner and amoureuse, Marine Bonnet (Nancy Carroll), investigate the dark underbelly of the beautiful town of Aix. Based on the much-loved books by ML Longworth.
📺 A Confession (2019) – DS Steve Fulcher (Martin Freeman) is putting everything on the line when catching the culprit behind the disappearance of the 22-year-old Sian O’Callaghan contradicts with police protocol.
📺 Prime Suspect: Tennison – During the early days of her career in the 1970s, 22-year-old Jane Tennison is pulled into a brutal murder investigation.
📺 Sherwood (2022) 2 seasons 12 episodes – A complex political past means that the industrial villages around Sherwood Forest have often been divided communities. But when two local residents are killed, old wounds are reopened and the town is engulfed in tension and fear. (woke, lesbians)
📺 Three Pines (2022) – Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Sûreté du Québec and his team investigate a series of perplexing murders in the mysterious Eastern Townships village of Three Pines, uncovering the buried secrets of its eccentric residents and in the process forcing Gamache to confront buried secrets of his own. 👍
📺 Sherlock (2010) – a modern adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle’s detective stories, starring Benedict Cumberbatch as Sherlock Holmes and Martin Freeman as Dr. John Watson. Set in contemporary London, the series follows the brilliant, eccentric detective solving complex cases with sharp wit, aided by Watson’s loyalty. 👍
📺 A Nero Wolfe Mystery (2001) – Genius detective Nero Wolfe and his right-hand man: Archie Goodwin, solve seemingly impossible crimes, in 1950's New York. 👍
📺 Nero Wolfe (1981) – Nero Wolfe is an American drama television series based on the characters in Rex Stout's series of detective stories. William Conrad fills the role of the detective genius Nero Wolfe, and Lee Horsley is his assistant Archie Goodwin. Produced by Paramount Television, the series updates the world of Nero Wolfe to contemporary New York City and draws few of its stories from the Stout originals.
📺 The Rockford files (1974) – This classic TV series centers on Jim Rockford (James Garner), a top-shelf private investigator with a background his clients would never expect. A former jailbird who lives in a trailer in Malibu, Jim has a fine-tuned sense of justice that was honed when he was framed for a crime. That's why he's set up a shingle and committed his life to hounding those who are truly guilty.
📺 Columbo (1968) – Columbo is the landmark series that inspired an entire genre. Columbo stars Peter Falk in his 4-time Emmy-winning role as the cigar-chomping, trench coat-wearing police lieutenant. 👍 I watched this show as a kid. Watching it again will be like a stroll down memory lane.
📺 Fisk (2021) – An Australian comedy series starring Kitty Flanagan as a recently disgraced lawyer navigating probate law in a quirky Melbourne firm. The show’s charm lies in its deadpan humor, oddball characters, and understated storytelling, making it a refreshing, grounded alternative to flashy legal dramas. Reminds me a great deal of Curb Your Enthusiasm. 👍
📺 Good Omens (2019) – A fantasy-comedy TV series based on the novel by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett. It follows an angel and a demon teaming up to stop the apocalypse. The show blends wit, theology, and friendship, starring Michael Sheen and David Tennant in brilliantly charismatic roles.
📺 Dept. Q (2025) – Carl, a former top-rated detective, is wracked with guilt following an attack that left his partner paralysed and another policeman dead. On his return to work, Carl is assigned to a cold case that will consume his life. 👍
📺 Shrinking - Jason Segel and Harrison Ford star in this comedy series about a therapist who decides to be brutally honest.👍
📺 The Young Pope (2017) – Two-time Oscar-nominee Jude Law stars in this 10-episode limited series about a radical new Pope. Diane Keaton co-stars.
📺 Faceoff: Inside the NHL (6 episodes) – "Faceoff: Inside the NHL" gives an unprecedented, unfiltered look into the lives of the greatest hockey players in the NHL chasing the hardest trophy to win in sports: the Stanley Cup.
📺 All or Nothing: Toronto Maple Leafs (5 episodes) – Go behind the blue & white curtain for an all-access pass to life in-and-around the Toronto Maple Leafs. With a talented young core of hockey players - and a dynamic front office staff, the Leafs open up their locker room for an inside look at the trials and tribulations of an NHL season, as they deal with injuries, successes, setbacks, triumphs, and the looming spectre of Covid-19.
📺 Cracker (1993) (3 seasons +2 specials 25 episodes) – A collection of three separate mini-series which test the strength of Fitz, the criminal psychologist, in solving the crimes behind three very different and mysterious events. Starring Robbie Coltrane as the wise-cracking Dr Eddie 'Fitz' Fitzgerald.
📺 Therapy (2023) – A gripping psychological thriller based on Fitzek’s bestseller: With no witnesses, no traces, and no corpse, Josy, the 13-year-old daughter of well-known psychiatrist Viktor Larenz, has disappeared in unexplained circumstances. Two years later, a mysterious woman appears. She forces Viktor to face up to his daughter’s disappearance and pushes him to his psychological limits.
📺 Maigret (1992) 2 seasons 12 episodes – a fictional French police detective, a commissaire of the Paris Brigade Criminelle, created by writer Georges Simenon. The programme was filmed in Budapest which doubled for post-WWII France. Airing in two seasons, each of the episodes was based on a single book. The series covered only 12 of Georges Simenon's 75 novels and 28 short stories about the detective.
📺 Dickensian (2016) 1 season, 10 episodes – Set within the fictional realms of Charles Dickens' critically acclaimed novels, Dickensian brings together some of literature's most iconic characters, including Scrooge, Fagin and Miss Havisham, as their lives intertwine in 19th century London.
📺 Severance (2022) – From Ben Stiller, this series stars Adam Scott as a man whose memories have been surgically divided by his employer. 🗣 This series is unproven and even unfinished. After 2 seasons it's going nowhere, and people are talking about it as another show like "Lost" where even when it's done regular viewers still will not be able to say what it was about or what happened. To not waste your time, it's best to wait to the series is over, learn from others if it made any sense, and only then give it a watch
📺 Monk (2002) 8 seasons // 125 episodes – He's ingenious, he's phobic, he's obsessive-compulsive. Two-time Emmy and Golden Globe-winner Tony Shalhoub is former police detective Adrian Monk. The brilliant Monk is now back fighting crime and his abnormal fears of germs, cars, heights, crowds and virtually everything else known to man.
📺 The Booth at the End (2011) – One of the best, if not the best, series I've ever seen. Season 1 & Season 2 👍
📺 Madam Secretary (2014) // 6 seasons / 120 episodes – Tea Leoni stars as Elizabeth McCord, the shrewd, determined, newly appointed Secretary of State who drives international diplomacy, battles office politics and circumvents protocol as she negotiates global and domestic issues, both at the White House and at home.
📺 The Inspector Lynley Mysteries (2002) 6 seasons, 24 episodes – Based on the novels from the best-selling stories by Elizabeth George, this series of contemporary murder mysteries feature the charismatic Inspector Lynley, whose title as the 8th Earl of Asherton fuels a sparky relationship with his working class sidekick Barbara Havers.
📺 The Pembrokeshire Murders (2021) – The extraordinary true-to-life pursuit of the most notorious serial killer in Welsh history. This three-part drama unravels the top-notch detective work that would enable Steve Wilkins and his team to catch serial killer John Cooper.
📺 The Woman in White (2018) – One of the world's first whodunits, where a strange woman may hold the key to unlocking a mystery. What is the secret of the wild-eyed woman in white?
📺 Taboo (2017) – Adventurer James Keziah Delaney (Tom Hardy) returns to London during the War of 1812 to rebuild his late father's shipping empire. However, ominous forces seek his inheritance. At any cost.
📺 Landman (2024) – Set in the boomtowns of Texas, Landman is a modern tale of fortune seeking amongst roughnecks and billionaires in the world of oil.
📺 Agatha Christie's Poirot – David Suchet stars as the dapper, diminutive Belgian who solves the most serpentine cases with the sharpest of minds and the driest of wits. 👍
📺 Archangel (2006) – Four days in the life of Fluke Kelso, a dissipated, middle-aged former Oxford historian, who is in Moscow to attend a conference on the newly opened Soviet archives. What starts as an idle enquiry in the Lenin Library soon caused him to become embroiled in a series of murders that seem to be getting closer to him. A BBC series.
📺 Reacher (2022) - "Saddle up, cause we're about to do a whole lot of cowboy shit." 👍
📺 Prime Suspect (1994) 7 seasons – Helen Mirren is Det. Jane Tennison, rising through the ranks, solving horrific crimes while battling office sexism that she sees everywhere because she is a total bitch with a chip on her solider, and horrible human being.
📺 The Sopranos (1999) – The Sopranos takes a realistic, darkly humorous look at members of a suburban New Jersey family, whose patriarch Tony Soprano happens to be a mob boss. James Gandolfini stars as the gangster whose stressed-out life forces him to seek therapy. – One of the great things about this show is makes you feel how much better you are than everyone on this show. I love thinking of the pitch meeting for the show. How about a show where every single character is a total degenerate. Think how good it will make the audience think about them selved compared to these horrible people. Let's definitely green light this one.
📺 The Mallorca Files (2019) – Ambitious young British detective Miranda Blake and her laid-back German partner Max Winter look like the perfect team - if only they could see it. But as this mismatched partnership starts to solve some of Mallorca's most mysterious cases, the chemistry starts to build.
📺 McDonald & Dodds (2020) – The ambitious DCI McDonald has swapped the mean streets of London to climb the career ladder in picturesque Bath. A tough, driven cop, McDonald cracks cases through sheer force of will. When partnered up with shy DS Dodds, the unlikely pair instantly lock horns over their different approaches to policing – and to life.
📺 Grace (2021) – A British television crime drama series, based in the English city of Brighton and Hove, that stars John Simm in the title role of Detective Superintendent Roy Grace, a dogged detective who, haunted by the disappearance of his wife some years previously, solves a variety of cases. - Wait... so this dude risks a court conviction, and is in trouble with his boss for using a psychic, and now in every episode he's going to use this psychic? It's like this series has jumped the shark in the first episode. LOL! And this show is into it's 4th season? So the kooks that are into psychics are a big market now I guess. Sadly, episode 2 also has a big US style macine gun shoot out. Exactly the kind of this I try to avoid by watching British TV. OK, so we know, be careful / suspect of British TV series made after 2020. Also, appears the show is an advertisement for devient sex. Also seems like we got a replay of the series Lewis, where the detective and the autopsy lady want to do rumpy-pumpy.
📺 Lewis (2008) 9 seasons – Recovering from his wife's death, Lewis steps out of Morse's shadow to solve intriguing murder mysteries with DS Hathaway. – Here's a bad sign, episode 2 has some of that horrible screeching opera music. Why wouldn't they get rid of that crazy screaming opera noise when they got rid of Morris? Could it be that the old lonely spinster ladies market that Morse was targeted to appeal to is the market that this Lewis series is also going after? Although I don't Think I'll be able to watch any of the episodes without thinking of the line; "just a bit of the old rumpy-pumpy". OMG! The Brits certainly are the best for language expressions.
📺 Death in Paradise (2011) 13 freaking seasons? – DI Richard Poole hates the sun, sea and sand, so he is less than pleased when he is sent to a tiny island on Caribbean to solve a mysterious murder. And awaiting him is a ramshackle station and a very different type of policing.
📺 The Inspector Alleyn Mysteries (1993) 2 seasons – A British detective television series, broadcast on BBC1, which was adapted from nine of the novels by Dame Ngaio Marsh.
📺 Inspector Morse (1987) 8 seasons – The first series of the incredibly popular detective series starring John Thaw as the cultured Inspector Morse, with Kevin Whately as his more down to earth sidekick. - Morse is a horrible human being, with horrible taste in music. The screeching opera vocal will eventually get on your nerves. It's a miracle nobody kills him or punches him in the face. I later asked the Perplexity LLM who the Morse character was supposed to appeal to, and it told me he appealed to very old widowed lonely ladies.
📺 The Peripheral (2022) 1 season 8 episodes – set in near and post apocalyptic versions of the future. The story focuses on a young rural-town American woman who lives in the near future, and on a London publicist who lives 70 years thereafter. The novel focuses on the girl and her brother, Burton. When Burton is hired for a security job which takes place in what he thinks is cyberspace and Flynne temporarily takes his place, she witnesses a possible murder.
📺 Upstairs, Downstairs (1974) – This Emmy Award-winning British drama series tells the story of the wealthy, aristocratic Bellamys and their loyal and lively servants.
📺 Mr. Selfridge (2013) – Fresh from a successful retail career in Chicago, a dashing Harry Selfridge arrives in London with his family intent on building the world's largest department store in the capital's Oxford Street.
📺 The Paradise (2013) – The series is nothing like the book. They turned it into a pathetic soap opera. Listen to the book (free) instead
📺 DCI Banks (2011) series – Banks looks like he is gonna explode at any moment. Any boss should remove this guy from a work environment and send him to anger management therapy. These shows are hysterical. Just a giant lump of anger and unhappiness.
📺 A Touch of Frost (1992) - It takes a lot of tea drinking to commit and solve murders in England. 👍
📺 Agatha Christie's Marple (2004) 6 seasons – Geraldine McEwan brilliantly portrays the iconic Miss Marple as she astutely investigates a series of crimes, even when the police are reluctant to accept her help. 👍
📺 Broken (2017) – Drama series about a well-respected Catholic priest presiding over a large parish on the outskirts of a major city in northern England. 👍
📺 Catch Me a Killer (2024) – Charlotte Hope portrays former journalist turned psychologist Micki Pistorius, South Africa's first serial killer profiler, in this harrowing true story based on the acclaimed novel.
📺 In Plain Sight (2016) – An intensely dramatic re-telling of a unique period in British history about Scotland's first serial killer, Peter Manuel, and his sixteen-day trial.
📺 Miss Marple (1984) - I can watch this kind of stuff all day long. 👍
📺 Rumpole of the Bailey (1978) - this guy talks even louder than me, which I didn't know was possible. Not sure I'm going to actually be able to watch this show because the variation between Rumpole's voice and everyone's else's is so jarring. It's like he's performing on stage and projecting to an audience, and everyone else is in regular life.
📺 Rumpole of the Bailey (1978) - this guy talks even louder than me, which I didn't know was possible.
📺 Miss Marple (2005) 3 Seasons
📺 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1985) 4 seasons – a British TV series starring Jeremy Brett as Sherlock Holmes and David Burke as Dr. Watson. Faithfully adapting Conan Doyle’s stories, it follows the detective’s brilliant investigations in Victorian London, blending mystery, wit, and period authenticity with exceptional performances. 👍
📺 Luther (2019) Season 5, 4 episodes
📺 The Doctor Blake Mysteries (2016) Season 4, 8 episodes
📺 Luther (2015) season 4, 2 episodes
📺 Bergerac (1983) season 2, 9 episodes
📺 The Doctor Blake Mysteries (2018) Season 3
📺 A Ghost Story for Christmas (series) – a British TV anthology series, originally aired by the BBC from 1971, adapting classic ghost stories, primarily M.R. James’s tales. Airing around Christmas, it delivers chilling, atmospheric supernatural narratives set in eerie British locales, blending gothic horror with psychological depth and period settings. 👍
📺 Hanna (2019) Program creator: David Farr
📺 The Missing - Season 2 (2016) 8 episodes
📺 DCI Banks (2011) series - Based on the Inspector Banks novels from award-winning international crime writer Peter Robinson, this series features carefully worked stories crammed with twists and turns, and intriguing and memorable characters.
📺 Jo (2019) series, 8 episodes - Jo St-Clair is a veteran detective in Paris' elite Criminal Brigade, tackling the city's most challenging murder cases. Brilliant and brutal, St-Clair must outwit pathological killers to solve the most shocking murders, all while juggling a personal life just as challenging and as dangerous as the cases he solves.
📺 Endeavour (2013) - Before Inspector Morse, there was the rookie Constable Morse, fed up with police work and ready to nip his career in the bud by handing in his resignation.
📺 Flack (2019) series 2 seaons. Bad Behavior. Great Publicists. Ever wonder what the real story is behind those celebrity gossip columns? Flack has all the dirt. Four quick-witted and relentless flackers led by Robyn, played by Academy Award Winner Anna Paquin, are tasked to make the best of their celebrity client’s terrible decisions. Will their ability to clean up their client’s lives translate to their own?
📺 LuLaRich (2021) 4 episodes - OMG! Multi-level marketings + social media... what could possibly go wrong? 😃
📺 American Horror Story, seasons 1-9
📺 Victoria (TV series, 3 seasons starting 2016) - Victoria is a British historical television drama series created and principally written by Daisy Goodwin, starring Jenna Coleman as Queen Victoria. The series premiered in the United Kingdom on ITV on 28 August 2016 with eight episodes, and in the United States on PBS on 15 January 2017; PBS supported its production as part of the Masterpiece anthology. Episode 1 went right for the donkey show
📺 All Creatures Great and Small (1978) 7 seasons – In 1937, a young, newly-qualified veterinarian surgeon, James Herriot arrives in the picturesque village of Darrowby to take up his first job in the established veterinary practice of Sigfried and Tristan Farnon. But in rural Yorkshire, with few medicines available, the treatment of sick animals still seems to be rooted in the Dark Ages. This, together with the country-folk's inherent suspicion of strangers, poses problems for James Herriot in the early years of his career.
📺 Downton Abbey (2010) TV Series, 6 seasons - Downton Abbey is a British historical drama television series set in the early 20th century, created and co-written by Julian Fellowes. The series first aired on ITV in the United Kingdom on 26 September 2010, and in the United States on PBS, which supported production of the series as part of its Masterpiece Classic anthology, on 9 January 2011.
📺 Dexter (2006) TV Series - Dexter is an American crime drama television series that aired on Showtime from October 1, 2006, to September 22, 2013. Set in Miami, the series centers on Dexter Morgan, a forensic technician specializing in bloodstain pattern analysis for the fictional Miami Metro Police Department, who leads a secret parallel life as a vigilante serial killer, hunting down murderers who have not been adequately punished by the justice system due to corruption or legal technicalities.
📺 Them (2021) series. THEM is an anthology series that explores terror in America. The first season, set in 1950’s, centers around a Black family who move from North Carolina to an all-white Los Angeles neighborhood. Their idyllic home becomes ground zero where malevolent forces, next door and otherworldly, threaten to taunt, ravage and destroy them. Subtitles available now.
📺 Humans: Series 1 - In a parallel present where the latest must-have gadget for any busy family is a 'Synth' - a highly-developed robotic servant that's so similar to a real human it's transforming the way we live.