Beyond Paradise
Beyond Paradise follows Detective Inspector Humphrey Goodman who, after leaving the Caribbean island of Saint Marie, relocates to the fictional coastal town of Shipton Abbott in Devon to be with his fiancée Martha Lloyd.
Network: BBC
The home of British cozy crime for decades, the BBC has produced some of the most beloved mystery series in television history. From Miss Marple to Father Brown, BBC programming combines quintessentially British settings with intricate plotting and memorable detectives. Their commitment to high-quality period dramas and contemporary mysteries has made them the gold standard for cozy crime television.
Father Brown (2013 onwards)
Set in the fictional Cotswold village of Kembleford in the early 1950s, Father Brown follows a slightly rumpled, mild-mannered Catholic priest whose apparent innocence and unassuming manner belie a razor-sharp intellect and profound understanding of human nature.
Life on Mars
After being hit by a car in 2006, Manchester Detective Chief Inspector Sam Tyler wakes up in 1973, where he’s now a Detective Inspector working under the command of the brutal, hard-drinking DCI Gene Hunt.
Dalziel & Pascoe
Set in the fictional Yorkshire town of Wetherton, Dalziel & Pascoe follows the unlikely partnership between the gruff, politically incorrect Detective Superintendent Andy Dalziel and his university-educated, well-mannered Detective Inspector Peter Pascoe. Despite being complete opposites who get on each other’s nerves, their contrasting approaches make them a brilliantly effective crime-solving team.
Endeavour
Endeavour follows the early career of the young Detective Constable Endeavour Morse as he solves complex cases in 1960s and 1970s Oxford.
Hamish Macbeth
In the breathtakingly beautiful Highland village of Lochdubh, laid-back Police Constable Hamish Macbeth patrols the streets with his West Highland Terrier, Wee Jock, solving crimes while determinedly avoiding promotion or transfer out of his ideal posting. With mystical elements including ghostly visions and clairvoyant premonitions, this charming Scottish mystery series blends quirky comedy, romantic entanglements, and community-focused policing in equal measure.
Strike (C.B. Strike)
War veteran Cormoran Strike operates a struggling private detective agency from a cramped London office, taking on complex cases that have baffled the police, aided by his assistant Robin Ellacott who proves far more capable than her temporary secretary role suggests. As they solve increasingly dangerous cases together, Strike battles his physical and psychological war wounds whilst an unspoken attraction grows between the mismatched pair, complicated by Robin’s engagement and Strike’s determination to keep their relationship strictly professional.
Magpie Murders
When book editor Susan Ryeland receives the unfinished manuscript of bestselling author Alan Conway’s latest Atticus Pünd mystery, she discovers the final chapter is missing and Conway is dead. As Susan searches for the missing pages, she realises that Conway’s 1950s whodunit contains thinly veiled caricatures of real people in his life, and that his apparent suicide may actually be murder.
New Tricks
When three retired detectives are brought back to form the Unsolved Crime and Open Case Squad (UCOS), their old-school methods clash with modern policing but prove surprisingly effective at cracking cold cases. Led by a determined DCI who must wrangle these stubborn, brilliant mavericks, the team discovers that you can teach old dogs new tricks – even if they resist every step of the way.
Ludwig
John Taylor lives in quiet solitude, designing puzzles for a living, under the nom-de-plume of ‘Ludwig’. When his identical twin, James, disappears off the face of the earth, John takes over his brother’s identity in a quest to discover his whereabouts.