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British police procedural television series, a subgenre of procedural drama and detective fiction that emphasizes the investigative procedure of a police officer or department as the protagonist(s), as contrasted with other genres that focus on either a private detective, an amateur investigator or the characters who are the targets of investigations.
The following is a list of episodes of the British police procedural television drama series Prime Suspect, which stars Helen Mirren as Jane Tennison. As one of the first female detective chief inspectors in Greater London's Metropolitan Police Service, she eventually rises to rank of detective superintendent while confronting the institutionalised sexism that exists within the police force.
Criminal: UK (or Criminal: United Kingdom) is a British police procedural television anthology series created by George Kay and Jim Field Smith, starring Katherine Kelly, Lee Ingleby, Mark Stanley, Rochenda Sandall and Shubham Saraf as the highly trained members of a special interrogative division of the Metropolitan Police.
Line of Duty is a British police procedural and serial drama television series created and written by Jed Mercurio for the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Mercurio originally pitched the programme to BBC One , but was turned down and directed towards BBC Two , [ 3 ] which commissioned the series nine months later. [ 4 ]
New Tricks is a British police procedural comedy-drama that follows the fictional Unsolved Crime and Open Case Squad (UCOS) of the Metropolitan Police Service. [1] The show was created by Roy Mitchell and Nigel McCrery, [2] and premiered in 2003 with a 90-minute special, which later resulted in show's first full series airing. [3]
The original cast of New Tricks – Amanda Redman with (clockwise from left) Alun Armstrong, Dennis Waterman, and James Bolam. New Tricks is a British television police procedural comedy drama, created by Nigel McCrery and Roy Mitchell, produced primarily by Wall to Wall (until its final year, when it was handled by Headstrong Pictures), and broadcast on BBC One.
Rather than existing in the tradition of gritty British police procedurals, Passenger is one of a growing trend of terrestrial shows – the BBC’s Boat Story being one; Netflix’s Sex Education ...
Granite Harbour is a British police procedural television drama series set in Aberdeen, Scotland. [1] [2] It is based on an idea by Adriel Luff & Kul Muhay. The series was first broadcast on BBC Scotland on 1 December 2022, followed by BBC One. [3] A second series was broadcast in May 2024.