BBC crime drama television shows

Peaky Blinders

Series Age rating: 16 Year: 2013 IMDB Rating: 8.8

A gangster family epic set in 1919 Birmingham, England and centered on a gang who sew razor blades in the peaks of their caps, and their fierce boss Tommy Shelby, who means to move up in the world.

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Line of Duty

Series Age rating: 15 Year: 2012 IMDB Rating: 8.7

A drama about the investigations of AC-12, a controversial police anticorruption unit.

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Happy Valley

Series Age rating: 16 Year: 2014 IMDB Rating: 8.5

Happy Valley is a dark, funny, multi-layered thriller revolving around the personal and professional life of Catherine, a dedicated, experienced, hard-working copper. She is also a bereaved mother who...

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Luther

Series Age rating: 15 Year: 2010 IMDB Rating: 8.4

A dark psychological crime drama starring Idris Elba as Luther, a man struggling with his own terrible demons, who might be as dangerous as the depraved murderers he hunts.

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Shetland

Series Age rating: 12 Year: 2013 IMDB Rating: 8.3

Created from the novels by award winning crime writer Ann Cleeves, Shetland follows DI Jimmy Perez and his team as they investigate crime within the close knit island community. In this isolated and s...

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Time

Series Age rating: 16 Year: 2021 IMDB Rating: 8.2

Guilt, violence and impossible choices – what does it take to survive? Tense, gritty and heartbreaking – Jimmy McGovern's award-winning prison drama, with an all-star cast.

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Jonathan Creek

Series Age rating: 12 Year: 1997 IMDB Rating: 8.1

Working from his home in a converted windmill, Jonathan Creek is a magician with a natural ability for solving puzzles. He soon puts this ability to the use of solving impossible crimes and mysterious...

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Bodyguard

Series Age rating: 16 Year: 2018 IMDB Rating: 8.1

A troubled war veteran is assigned to protect a controversial politician who may be the target of a terror plot.

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Ripper Street

Series Age rating: 15 Year: 2012 IMDB Rating: 8.1

A drama set in the East End of London in 1889, during the aftermath of the "Ripper" murders. The action centres around the notorious H Division – the police precinct from hell – which is charged with...

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