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.
2025 · 2 seasons · BBC
Thrown together by the murder of John's neighbour, John and Janie are an odd, yet hilarious duo with opposing instincts. Every week, they get to the bottom of gripping murders, with various stunning Welsh locations providing a backdrop to their investigations.
1977 · 1 season · BBC
Murder Most English is a seven-part BBC detective series from 1977., based on Colin Watson's comic crime novels.
2018 · 1 season · BBC
Set in 1933, several years after his heyday, an older, greyer, and largely forgotten Hercule Poirot begins receiving taunting letters threatening murder from a mysterious sender who signs themselves only "A.B.C."
2022 · 4 seasons · BBC
First there was Father Brown. Now, say hello to Sister Boniface. This clever, moped-riding nun is the police's secret weapon for solving murders in this divine Father Brown spin-off.
1996 · 12 seasons · BBC
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.
2015 · 2 seasons · BBC
Set in the fictional South Devon coastal town of Lighthaven, The Coroner follows Jane Kennedy, a high-flying solicitor who returns to the seaside town she left as a teenager following the breakdown of a relationship, taking up the post of coroner and becoming an advocate for the dead.
2026 · 1 season · BBC
Agatha Christie’s sleuthing couple are brought into present-day London. Tommy Beresford is a crime writer who has lost his spark. Tuppence is an actor who won’t take no for an answer.
2025 · 1 season · BBC
England, 1936. After a scandalous celebrity divorce, tennis star Nevile Strange and his ex-wife Audrey make the surprising decision to spend a summer together at Gull’s Point, the clifftop home of Nevile’s formidable aunt, Lady Tressilian, alongside his new wife Kay.
2022 · 3 seasons · BBC
Set in Aberdeen, Scotland, Granite Harbour follows Davis Lindo, a former Royal Military Police sergeant whose dreams of becoming a New Scotland Yard detective are dashed when he's despatched north to train as a Detective Constable in the unfamiliar "Granite City.
1972 · 5 seasons · BBC
Set in 1920s and 1930s England across country estates, London gentlemen's clubs, and rural villages, Lord Peter Wimsey follows an aristocratic amateur detective
2026 · 1 season · BBC
Set against the sweeping Northumberland coastline and its surrounding market towns, The Northumbria Mysteries pairs Joe Ruby, a jack-of-all-trades and ex-convict with links to the criminal world, with DI Rose O'Connell, an Oxford-educated detective and rarefied intellectual with an ice-cool manner
