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Modern Crime Procedurals
Set firmly in the present day — five gripping British crime procedurals for viewers who want their mysteries contemporary, tense, and true to how policing actually works now.
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Ben Miller stars as Jasper Tempest, a brilliant but deeply eccentric Cambridge criminology professor whose unconventional methods crack cases everyone else has given up on. A stylish English remake of the hit Belgian series, blending crisp procedural plotting with real psychological depth.
From the team behind Line of Duty, this white-knuckle thriller follows the Met's bomb-disposal officers as they defuse devices that could go off at any second. Vicky McClure anchors it as Lana Washington, a former soldier whose steady hands hide real trauma.
Following rookie police officers on the streets of post-Troubles Belfast, Blue Lights is tense, authentic, and surprisingly tender, capturing the danger of frontline policing without ever losing sight of the people behind the uniforms. Winner of Best Drama Series at the 2025 BAFTA TV Awards.
AC-12, an anti-corruption unit, hunts bent coppers inside the force in Jed Mercurio's nerve-shredding thriller. Famous for its feature-length interrogation scenes and cliffhangers that had the whole country theorising, it's appointment viewing built for bingeing.
A cold-case unit reopens decades-old murders, slowly drawing together the lives of strangers whose pasts are bound to a single long-buried crime. What sets it apart is its compassion — as interested in grief and guilt as in whodunit.
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