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Sunday Night Dramas

The kind of British TV built for a Sunday evening on the sofa — slow-burn, character-driven, appointment viewing. Five favourites, and where to stream each one in the US.

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Vera

ITV · BritBox

Brenda Blethyn's DCI Vera Stanhope is one of British television's most enduring detectives — rumpled, brilliant, and deeply human beneath the battered hat and mac. Set against the wild, beautiful Northumberland coast, each feature-length case is a slow-burn character study as much as a murder mystery.

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Happy Valley

BBC · BritBox

Sarah Lancashire won two BAFTAs for her performance as Sergeant Catherine Cawood — a Yorkshire police officer holding her fractured family together while facing down a psychopath. Raw, powerful, and utterly gripping from first episode to last.

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Shetland

BBC · BritBox

On the remote, windswept islands of Shetland, DI Jimmy Pérez — and later DI Ruth Calder — investigate crimes that ripple through tight-knit island communities. Adapted from Ann Cleeves' novels, it's brooding, beautifully shot, and powered by slow Nordic-noir tension.

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Grantchester

ITV · PBS Masterpiece

In the picturesque village of Grantchester, a charismatic clergyman teams up with a gruff police detective to solve murders in 1950s Cambridgeshire. The cases are satisfying, but the real draw is the warm, evolving friendship at its heart.

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All Creatures Great and Small

Channel 5 · PBS Masterpiece

A gorgeous, gentle remake of the classic series following young vet James Herriot as he finds his footing in a 1930s Yorkshire Dales practice. The scenery is breathtaking, the animals are adorable, and the found-family warmth is irresistible.

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