Humor, cozy feel, low stakes, comforting
2026 · 1 season · BBC
Set in the fictional village of Blossom Vale in the West Midlands during the 1970s, The Hairdresser Mysteries follows Lily Petal, a high-end London hair stylist who trades the competitive city scene for a small salon at the top of a quiet cobbled street.
1994 · 5 seasons
After a botched sting operation, and denied his imminent retirement, DI Crabbe is suspended from the police and opens his own restaurant. However, his ex-boss, Assistant Chief Constable Freddy Fisher, constantly calls him back on duty.
2026 · 1 season · Prime
Set in 1870s Oxford, Young Sherlock follows a disgraced 19-year-old Sherlock Holmes—raw, unfiltered, and lacking discipline—as he finds himself embroiled in a murder investigation that threatens his liberty.
1979 · 2 seasons · BBC
Set in an unnamed city in the West of England and filmed in Bristol, Shoestring follows Eddie Shoestring, a rumpled former computer expert rebuilding his life after a breakdown, who becomes a private detective and the "Private Ear" of local station Radio West.
2013 · 13 seasons · BBC
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.
2014 · 12 seasons
Set in the fictional small North Island town of Brokenwood, this quirky New Zealand whodunit follows Detective Inspector Mike Shepherd, a country-music-loving veteran detective with a colourful romantic history, who investigates an implausibly high murder rate amongst Brokenwood's eccentric residents
2020 · 7 seasons · U
London, 1882. When her father dies and leaves her penniless, Eliza Scarlet refuses to accept marriage as her only option and resolves to continue his detective agency under his name. Headstrong and clever, she becomes London’s first female private detective, working her way through the murkiest corners of Victorian London with the help of her loyal circle and the Scotland Yard detective at her side.
1996 · 4 seasons
Henrietta "Hetty" Wainthropp represents a unique figure in British detective fiction—a woman of ordinary means and background who possesses extraordinary observational skills and an unerring instinct for human nature.
2003 · 3 seasons · ITV
Brought together by professional and personal heartache, two plucky ladies plant the seeds for a brighter future. Rosemary Boxer, with a doctorate in plant pathology, and Laura Thyme, a former police constable and avid gardener, discover their shared love of green-thumbness and start a gardening business.
2018 · 5 seasons · BBC
Frank Hathaway, a hardboiled private investigator, and his rookie sidekick Lu Shakespeare form the unlikeliest of partnerships as they investigate the secrets of rural Warwickshire's residents.
1992 · 18 seasons · ITV
Set in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield during the 1960s, Heartbeat follows the lives and adventures of rural police constables, medical staff, and village residents in a nostalgic period drama that combines gentle crime stories with community tales.
2015 · 1 season · BBC
In 1950s Britain, at the start of the Cold War, Tommy and Tuppence Beresford are a married couple keeping bees and growing restless with suburban life.
2023 · 4 seasons · BBC
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.
2023 · 1 season
Set in Slough, Berkshire, Mrs Sidhu Investigates follows the recently widowed Mrs. Sidhu, a high-end caterer with a taste for crime and her own Indian Aunty brand of nosy sleuthing.
1981 · 9 seasons · BBC
Set on the picturesque island of Jersey, Bergerac follows Detective Sergeant Jim Bergerac, a recovering alcoholic and divorced father who works for Le Bureau des Étrangers (The Foreigners' Office), investigating crimes involving non-Jersey residents. Unorthodox and maverick in his methods, Bergerac navigates complex cases among Jersey's wealthy tax exiles and criminals while driving his iconic burgundy 1947 Triumph Roadster.
A Remarkable Place to Die is a New Zealand-Australian crime drama in which Detective Anaís Mallory leaves her career with the Sydney police and returns to her hometown of Queenstown on New Zealand’s South Island
1983 · 1 season · ITV
In 1920s London, newly married Tommy and Tuppence Beresford are bored with comfortable domestic life. They take over a private detective agency and solve cases in the styles of the famous fictional detectives they admire.
2024 · 3 seasons · BBC
Set in the idyllic coastal hamlet of Dolphin Cove on Australia's Illawarra coast, Return to Paradise follows Mackenzie "Mack" Clarke, a golden girl of the London Metropolitan Police whose seemingly unrivalled detective instincts are overshadowed by a career-ending scandal, forcing her to return to the childhood home—and the murky past—she left behind six years earlier.
2019 · 3 seasons · BBC
The Mallorca Files follows the unlikely partnership between Miranda Blake, a serious, by-the-book British detective, and Max Winter, a laid-back, unconventional German detective
1977 · 1 season · BBC
Murder Most English is a seven-part BBC detective series from 1977., based on Colin Watson's comic crime novels.
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.
2022 · 2 seasons
Widowed English nurse Joan Kirkhope is on a quest to find answers about her husband's mysterious death, while ex-detective Jack Darby has taken to the open road to escape his past.
2023 · 2 seasons · Channel 5
Former police detective Jack Grayling, pursuing his dream of becoming a cabaret singer on a luxury Mediterranean cruise ship, investigates a series of murders on board with the help of the ship's first officer, Kate Woods.
