Shows Like Sherlock

Luther

Idris Elba's brilliant, emotionally volatile detective gets inside the minds of London's most disturbing killers — a darker, more psychologically intense heir to Sherlock's gift for reading people others can't.

This one's ended — five series, complete.

Jonathan Creek

A reclusive magic-trick designer applies his gift for illusion to solving apparently impossible crimes — a different flavor of genius than Sherlock's, but the same delight in a fiendishly clever puzzle solved through pure reasoning.

Ripper Street

Detectives in Whitechapel investigate brutal crimes in the shadow of Jack the Ripper — the same 1890s London that Conan Doyle wrote Holmes into, rendered with real grit and moral complexity.

This one's ended — five series, complete.

Miss Scarlet

Victorian London's first female private detective takes on cases Scotland Yard can't crack — set in the same foggy, gaslit London where Holmes made his name, with the same relish for a clever deduction.

Ending with its seventh season in 2026.

Endeavour

The young Endeavour Morse's earliest cases in 1960s Oxford — a quieter, more melancholic kind of brilliant mind than Sherlock's, but built from the same tradition of a singular genius solving what everyone else overlooks.