Luther
When Netflix announced it was reviving the Luther franchise as a feature film, it seemed like the culmination of Idris Elba's campaign to continue the franchise that the BBC had put to bed. However, it appears that Netflix genuinely believes there's still life in the aging
Paramount+
Paramount+ has been going full speed ahead with the global series since launching in the U.K. Its parent company, Paramount, at the time declared it wanted to put 50 international series in production for 2023. While it's unclear if it hit that target, the sheer dint of
Acorn TV
Acorn TV's period-set mystery series Dalgliesh will officially return for a second season this spring. The news that Season 2 will arrive in April was released during a flurry of announcements from AMC's panels at the winter edition of the Television Critics Association press tour in
Miss Scarlet (and the Duke)
It's worth saying: The cold open for Miss Scarlet & the Duke's Season 3 premiere is one of the best sequences the show's ever done. Not only is the image of Eliza, Ivy, Clementine, some dude named Sampson, and Mr. Potts, of all people
Mystery
The thing about a good police procedural is that it can go on forever because crime never ends. There are always cases to solve, mysteries to uncover, and a deep-seated hunger in the public psyche for the sense of justice and order that provides among the chaos of daily life.
Mystery
There are very few shows where historical period dramas and police procedural mysteries crossover. The lack of shows that meet the criteria of both fandoms is why Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries was so popular and why Miss Scarlet & The Duke is currently such a massive hit for
PBS
Success begets success in the TV industry. In the U.K., there are very few police procedurals that have reached the levels of Line of Duty, the Jed Mercutio series about the internal investigations into its fictionalized Birmingham police force. Mercutio's HTM Television (Hat Trick Mercurio Ltd) has
Mystery
Vienna Blood didn't premiere at the most auspicious time, arriving in January 2020 just ahead of the pandemic shutdown and with a lead-in of Masterpiece's first season of Sanditon, which was already canceled before it arrived. With Austria (where the show is filmed) in lockdown, it
Mystery
The first season of Annika wasn't the most sparkling of PBS' fall 2022 lineup, but it was a solid series, the kind of workhorse procedural that can run for years without losing the audience's interest. The combination of Nicola Walker (Unforgotten) as the titular Annika
Amazon Studios/Prime Video
Amazon originally greenlit The Rig, a supernatural thriller, back in the doldrums of the 2020 lockdowns. At the time, it was the first commissioned series planned to be filmed entirely in Scotland, with Amazon utilizing the brand new FirstStage Studios, a film and TV studio space in Edinburgh which had
Miss Scarlet (and the Duke)
Season 2 of Miss Scarlet and the Duke just ended and Season 3 is still a few weeks away (unless you're a PBS Passport member who decided to take the opportunity to watch the new episodes early), but fans of the popular mystery series can rest easy in
Mystery
Changing leads midstream is not unusual for long-running police procedures; it’s just a matter of figuring out how to incorporate it. It’s why shows like Grantchester aren’t called “The Sidney Chambers Mysteries” or the Chief Inspector Ganache adaptation will be called the Three Pines series because that