This week we get exciting new Netflix spy drama Black Doves, with Keira Knightley, Ben Whishaw and Happy Valley’s Sarah Lancashire. And Dalgliesh Season 3 debuts on Channel 5, taking us back to the 1970s and a remote seminary where a body has been discovered.

Another terrific offering on Netflix is docuseries Cold Case: Who Killed JonBenét Ramsey Massive Police missteps and – IMO – outright idiocy – plus a crazed media circus – derailed the JonBenét Ramsey murder case. Netflix says “this definitive docuseries chronicles the decades-long quest for justice.” Well worth a watch for an unbiased account of what actually happened and who is likely the real killer – NO it is not her parents or her brother.

Plus we get more new episodes of the brilliant Get Millie Black, as well as a new Shetland, the last episode of Lioness, The Jackal and spy drama The Agency. That’s more than enough on telly to keep us all busy between holiday gatherings.

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Black Doves

When a spy posing as a politician’s wife learns her lover has been murdered, an old assassin friend joins her on a quest for truth — and vengeance. It’s The Guardian’s “pick of the week’: “A slick, nasty festive thriller”. I’m in!

5 December. Netflix.

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Dalgliesh

Season 3 of the popular detective series starring Bertie Carvel debuts on Channel 5. Based on P.D. James Inspector Dalgliesh Mysteries, the new season consists of six episodes, divided into three adaptations of the books, starting with Death in Holy Orders.

5 December. Channel 5 and Acorn TV.

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Cold Case: Who Killed JonBenet Ramsey

This fascinating new Netflix docuseries revisits the infamous and shocking child murder case in Colorado, exploring blatant police missteps – and outright incompetency – so bad it’s almost unbelievable. The series examines what it would take to finally bring the killer to justice.

25 November. Netflix.

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Get Millie Black

Former Scotland Yard detective Millie-Jean Black returns to her hometown, Kingston, Jamaica, to work on missing persons cases. The five-episode HBO Original limited series stars Tamara Lawrance and was created and executive produced by Booker Prize-winning author Marlon James.

The reviews are in: “Get Millie Black is a vivid, pulsating reminder of how forcefully the cobwebs can be swept from even the stodgiest of plots if you find a location viewers haven’t tired of, introduce characters who rise organically from that environment and honor those elements as thoroughly as you do the inevitably rising body count and the unfolding conspiracy.‘’ ~ The Hollywood Reporter

25 November. HBO, Channel 4, Max.

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The Agency

The Agency follows a CIA agent ordered to abandon his undercover life and return to London. When the love he left behind reappears, romance reignites and he is thrown into a deadly game of international intrigue.

29 November. Paramount+

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Matlock

A terrifically cast Kathy Bates stars as lawyer Madeline ‘Matty’ Matlock, who decides to get back into the workforce in her 70s. But don’t let age and her unassuming approach fool anyone.

26 November. Sky Witness, fuboTV, Paramount+ Amazon.

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A Man on the Inside

For something light, funny, and just perfect for the holidays give A Man on the Inside a try; Starring Ted Danson as a retired professor who gets a new lease on life when a private investigator hires him to go undercover inside a San Francisco retirement home. Nine episodes in all.

21 November. Netflix.

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Shetland

Shetland reveals more about what the mysterious research centre is up to, as DI Calder and DI McIntosh investigate the murders of Annie Bett and Anton Bergen.

SPOILER ALERT: RECAP-REVIEW

(New episode) 20 November. Season 9. BBC One.

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Lioness

Lioness continues, in a tense new direction. Only one more episode left and what a tumultuous and deadly ride it’s been this season.

17 November. Season 2. Paramount+

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November 2023: More Top Crime Thrillers to Stream

The Day of the Jackal – Peacock in the US and Sky Atlantic in the UK

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Yellowstone – Paramount Network/Plus

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The Buckingham Murders – Netflix

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Say Nothing – Disney+/Hulu

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ETo4hnxVFho

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Hightown – Starz

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6GPuSkPH9pU

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Ludwig. BBCiPlayer

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Whitstable Pearl Season 3. Acorn TV

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DI Ray Season 2. ITV1

SPOILER ALERT: RECAP-REVIEW

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The Lincoln Lawyer Season 3. Netflix

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The Cate Blanchette thriller Disclaimer. She is really good in it, but it’s Kevin Kline (remember him in The Big Chill, French Kiss – yes it’s really him) who really steals the show.

Apple TV+

SPOILER ALERT: RECAP-REVIEW