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WHAT TO WATCH: BEST NEW CRIME DRAMAS (7-14 APR)
This week’s crime drama lineup offers a dark comedy and new seasons of critically acclaimed dramas, Beef and Turn of the Tide, highlighting how quickly ordinary lives can unravel, with stories that turn quiet town calm, personal rivalry and sudden opportunity into something far more sinister. The Burbs (Sky One / NOW, 1 April 2026)Inspired by…
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WHAT TO WATCH: BEST NEW CRIME DRAMAS (31 MAR-7 APR)
This week’s crime drama picks lean into a second season of suburban secrets and lies, and classroom tension as a school-set anthology drama returns. Meanwhile, The Capture continues to captivate us with each tension-filled episode — and brilliant performances by Holliday Grainger. It’s a must-watch! Ellis (Channel 5, 10 March)You can binge all four episodes of…
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WHAT TO WATCH: BEST NEW CRIME DRAMAS (25-31 MAR)
This week’s crime drama lineup delivers real-life scandal, Nordic-noir serial-killer suspense and the return of one of ITV’s most reliable detective hits. Power: The Downfall of Huw Edwards (Channel 5, 24 March)Power: The Downfall of Huw Edwards explores the double life of one of British television’s most recognisable news presenters, charting how his public authority unravelled following…
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WHAT TO WATCH: BEST NEW CRIME DRAMAS (18-25 MAR)
This week’s crime drama picks span Florida noir, a glossy friendship thriller and outback absurdity — proof that crime storytelling comes in many forms. And, if you haven’t started Gone – featured last week – it’s a must-watch, brilliantly acted, cat-and-mouse whodunnit! Scarpetta is slowly getting very interesting.(Am I the only one who wonders why…
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WHAT TO WATCH: BEST NEW CRIME DRAMAS (11-18 MAR)
This week’s crime drama picks include the highly anticipated new Nicole Kidman forensic adaptation, a twist-filled friendship mystery with another big name — and a neo-Western drama set in the expanding Yellowstone universe. Scarpetta (Prime Video, 11 March)The wait is over! Based on Patricia Cornwell’s bestselling novels, Scarpetta stars Nicole Kidman as forensic pathologist Dr. Kay Scarpetta and Jamie Lee…
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The Capture Season 3: Deepfakes and a Terror Attack
The BBC’s surveillance thriller returns with a timely and chilling new chapter as The Capture opens one year after Rachel Carey (Holliday Grainger) exposed the intelligence service’s secret video manipulation programme, Correction. Now acting head of SO15, Rachel is preparing to launch Operation Veritas — a revolutionary camera network designed to detect live deep-fakes — with backing…
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WHAT TO WATCH: BEST NEW CRIME DRAMAS (24 FEB-10 MAR)
This week’s crime drama picks include a cat-and-mouse ITV thriller starring Eve Myles, a young Sherlock, a gripping Navajo Nation investigation and suburban secrets simmering behind closed doors Down Under. Dark Winds – Season 4 (AMC, 22 Feb.)The fourth season of Dark Winds follows Lt. Joe Leaphorn, played by Zahn McClarnon, as he, Jim Chee and Bernadette Manuelito race…
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💕 WHAT TO WATCH: BEST NEW CRIME DRAMAS (10 FEB-3 MAR)
Mid-February kicks off a new slate of crime dramas, including several buzzy streaming returns and a darkly comic mystery set in Ireland that’s getting rave reviews. Valentine’s weekend is for staying in and keeping cosy. How To Get To Heaven from Belfast (Netflix, 12 Feb.)Created by Lisa McGee, How To Get To Heaven from Belfast begins with the…
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WHAT TO WATCH: BEST NEW CRIME DRAMAS (27 JAN-10 FEB)
A haunting crime drama set in Wales, a cop drama on a Caribbean isle, and courtroom battles where the lawyer becomes the accused — there’s plenty to add to your watchlist. Under Salt Marsh (Sky, 30 Jan.)Yellowstone’s Kelly Reilly is a former detective turned teacher who is pulled back into a devastating small-town murder as a once-in-a-generation…
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WHAT TO WATCH: BEST NEW CRIME DRAMAS (20-27 JAN)
Espionage is back in force this week, with Hugh Laurie resurfacing in Tehran, while Patrick Dempsey takes a lead role in a new crime drama. Tehran (Apple TV+, 9 Jan.)The Mossad thriller returns as Tamar infiltrates Iran once more, risking everything after a mission goes wrong. Hugh Laurie joins the cast as a nuclear inspector, raising the stakes…
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WHAT TO WATCH: BEST NEW CRIME DRAMAS (13-20 JAN)
This week’s roundup sees a popular British detective drama return for a new season, and no shortage of international intrigue. Plus all our favourite crime drama actors are back in action — Olivia Colman, Lesley Sharp, Martin Compston — just to name a few. From burning moors and Miami money to country house murders and…
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🥂 Your New Year Crime Drama Guide 2026 – January
🎇 Idris Elba, Tom Hiddleston, James Nesbitt, Eve Myles and more. A new year is here, and with it comes a packed lineup of new crime dramas ready to pull you into darker corners, cosy towns and tangled mysteries. As 2026 settles in and winter nights stretch a little longer, there’s no better time to…
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Industry: January’s S4 Teases Ruthless Power Shift in HBO Finance Thriller
Yes we’ll all really miss Harry Lawty’s Robert — but Ken Leung’s Eric Tao is back and more ruthless than ever along with emerging stars Myha’la and Marisa Abela, who appear to be quickly following in his shady footsteps. When Industry first burst onto HBO, it distinguished itself as a fresh and sexy TV drama, focused on…
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🎁 Your Holiday Crime Drama Guide 2025/2026
It’s arrived — your ultimate crime drama holiday watchlist. With the gifts wrapped and the festive chaos winding down, it’s the perfect moment to retreat, curl up and dive into a season packed with whodunnits, troubled detectives, and high-stakes intrigue from now into the New Year. Whether you’re craving cosy Agatha Christie vibes or a…
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WHAT TO WATCH: BEST NEW CRIME DRAMAS (18-25 NOV)
Big-name stars lead a slate of new crime dramas this week, from Claire Danes diving into a chilling psychological duel in The Beast in Me, to a Scottish mystery unfolding in Summerwater with Dougray Scott, and Shirley Henderson, where a devastating fire exposes the tense, tangled lives of families holidaying at a loch-side cabin park. Classic detective fiction gets a…
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WHAT TO WATCH: BEST NEW CRIME DRAMAS (4-11 NOV)
Two heavyweight crime dramas are back with new seasons, while two new thrillers promise to keep you on edge as autumn TV hits peak intensity. Vicky McClure returns as an increasingly troubled Lana Washington in Trigger Point’s third season, where a chemical bomb and a chilling message ignite a chain of deadly attacks across the city. As the…
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Task: Twisty new cop drama on HBO is a must-watch
The creator of Mare of Easttown is back with Task, a gritty new seven-episode HBO limited series. Set in the sprawl of suburban Philadelphia, the show pits Mark Ruffalo’s weary and troubled (aren’t they all) FBI agent Tom Brandis against Tom Pelphrey’s unsuspecting trash-collector family man – Robbie Prendergrast – to put an end to a string…
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WHAT TO WATCH: BEST NEW CRIME DRAMAS (22-31 OCT)
This week’s lineup delivers two pulse-pounding thrillers. Down Cemetery Road from producers behind Slow Horses sees Ruth Wilson and Emma Thompson unravel a government conspiracy after a girl disappears in suburban Oxford. And in A House of Dynamite on Netflix, Idris Elba as POTUS races against time to stop a nuclear missile in Kathryn Bigelow’s nerve-shredding procedural…
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WHAT TO WATCH: BEST NEW CRIME DRAMAS (15-22 OCT)
This week brings a packed slate of new and returning crime dramas across streaming platforms. Acclaimed Netflix political thriller The Diplomat returns for its third season, with Keri Russell. I love the interplay of Russell effortlessly navigating global crises while her complex marriage threatens to unravel under the same high-stakes pressure as her political world. Season 2 ended…
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WHAT TO WATCH: BEST NEW CRIME DRAMAS (7-14 OCT)
High-seas suspense, small-town secrets and punk-rock rebellion. This week’s lineup of crime and drama series offers a bit of everything plus powerhouse female performances. The Woman in Cabin 10 kicks off the week with Keira Knightley leading this Netflix thriller based on the bestseller. I always thought the TV version would actually be better than the book, which…
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