The Killing Times massive, impressively weighty 2024 autumn/winter crime drama preview

To coin a popular phrase used by a popular journalist during football transfer season to confirm a player’s movement from one club to another… HERE WE GO!

Yes, it’s that time of year where we roll out our great, big, enormous, ridiculous crime drama preview for the upcoming autumn/winter season. It’s our 10th year of doing this and, as ever, there’s enough quality stuff here to make you not want to leave your house for the foreseeable future.

We’ve scoured the highways and byways of the internet, had conversations with all the channels and even taken an educated guess on one or two of these. And, as you would expect, some dates might change.

Enjoy!

Additional reporting: Charlotte Carling

BBC One

Nightsleeper
Alexandra Roach and Joe Cole lead the cast of the suspense thriller. Alexandra plays Abby Aysgarth, the Acting Technical Director at the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre, who’s finally about to take a well-earned holiday when she receives a phone call that will change everything – the UK railway network is under attack. Joe Cole plays Joe Roag, an off-duty cop onboard and hoping for a quiet night. However, over the next six rollercoaster hours, Joe’s about to get anything but, as he and Abby battle both their own distrust and the unpredictable behaviour of the person or persons now in control, desperate to try and stop the Heart of Britain from reaching the end of the line, in more ways than one…
Incoming: September

Ludwig
When John ‘Ludwig’ Taylor’s (David Mitchell) identical twin, DCI James Taylor, disappears off the face of the earth, John takes over his brother’s identity in a quest to discover his whereabouts.
Incoming: September

Dead and Buried
Outside a supermarket with her young son, Cathy (Annabel Scholey) encounters Michael (Colin Morgan) – the man convicted of the brutal murder of her brother, 20 years earlier. Ignoring the advice of her best friend, Cathy takes to social media, uncovering the successful career and family life Michael has forged for himself since his early release from prison, while she grieved for her brother. Re-traumatised by her past, Cathy instigates a clandestine relationship with the man she despises, embarking on a campaign of harassment and deceit. As Cathy’s obsession grows, dark fantasies of revenge and reality blur as she sets out on a campaign of psychological warfare to destroy Michael’s life.
Incoming: TBC

Apples Never Fall
Based on Liane Moriarty’s #1 New York Times bestselling novel of the same name, it centres on the seemingly picture-perfect Delaney family. Former tennis coaches Stan and Joy have sold their successful tennis academy and are ready to start what should be the golden years of their lives. While they look forward to spending time with their four adult children, everything changes when a wounded young woman knocks on Joy and Stan’s door, bringing the excitement they’ve been missing. But when Joy suddenly disappears, her children are forced to re-examine their parents’ so-called perfect marriage as their family’s darkest secrets begin to surface. The series stars Annette Bening and Sam Neill as Joy and Stan, with Jake Lacy, Alison Brie, Conor Merrigan-Turner and Essie Randles as their four children.
Incoming: TBC

Showtrial (Series 2)
Adeel Akhtar stars in the second series of the legal anthology series alongside Nathalie Armin, Michael Socha, Joe Dempsie, Fisayo Akinade, Tom Padley, Kerrie Hayes and Barney Fishwick. BAFTA-winner Francesca Annisalso appears. When high-profile climate activist Marcus Calderwood (Fishwick) is left for dead in a violent hit and run, he uses his dying moments to apparently identify his killer – a serving policeman. But who is this unnamed Officer X? What does his own history reveal about the nature of trauma and revenge, and was Marcus’ death a tragic accident or pre-meditated murder? As public outrage reaches fever-pitch, the series asks what happens when a trial is dominated by cultural divisions and if the truth is ever clear cut. Is a fair trial even possible when tensions are riding so high?
Incoming: Autumn

Moonflower Murders
Moonflower Murders is a sequel to the acclaimed Magpie Murders, and returning in the lead roles are Lesley Manville as book editor turned sleuth Susan Ryeland and Timothy McMullan as famous literary detective Atticus Pünd. New cast members include Mark Gatiss as Parris/Berlin, Rosalie Craig as Lisa/Melissa, Pippa Bennett-Warner as Madeline and Adrian Rawlins as Lawrence/Lance.
Incoming: Autumn

Return to Paradise
Australian spin-off of Death In Paradise. Return to Paradise follows DI Mackenzie Clarke (Anna Samson), an Australian ex-pat who’s made a name for herself in London’s Metropolitan Police for cracking uncrackable murder cases. When she is accused of tampering with evidence, Mackenzie returns to Australia, back to the last place she ever wanted to be – her hometown of Dolphin Cove. Having fled the town six years ago, infamously leaving her ex- fiancée Glenn (Tai Hara) at the altar, Mackenzie is not welcome there. But with no other job options, and a unique talent for solving a mystery, no matter how challenging, a reluctant Mack joins the team at Dolphin Cove Police Station. Once a case lands on her desk, she can’t rest until she’s figured it out, and the killer is in handcuffs. It’s that tenacity and work ethic that might just, over time, help Mackenzie win over her new colleagues, and the people of Dolphin Cove.
Incoming: Autumn

Shetland (Series 9)
The new six-part series sees DI Calder (Ashley Jensen) – now a resident of the Isles – thrown in at the deep end after a friend of Tosh’s (O’Donnell) goes missing. The chilling tale of disappearances and death sparks a labyrinthine investigation for Tosh and Calder that challenges the line between the personal and professional. Ian Hart guest stars.
Incoming: Autumn

Towards Zero
Agatha Christie adaptation. The three-part adaptation is set in 1936. After a scandalous celebrity divorce, British tennis star Nevile Strange (Oliver Jackson-Cohen) and his ex-wife Audrey (Ella Lily Hyland) make the unthinkable decision to spend a summer together at Gull’s Point, their childhood home and the coastal estate of Nevile’s aunt, Lady Tressilian (Anjelica Huston). With unfinished business between the former childhood sweethearts, plus the presence of Nevile’s new wife Kay (Mimi Keene), tensions are running high. Add to this a long-suffering lady’s companion, a mysterious gentleman’s valet, an exiled cousin with a grudge, a venerable family lawyer, an inquisitive orphan and a French con man, and soon there will be murder. A troubled detective must rediscover his purpose to untangle a toxic web of jealousy, deceit and dysfunction. Can he solve the crime before another victim meets their death? Could this sneak into the back end of 2024?
Incoming: TBC

ITV1

The Tower (Series 3)
Nearly two years since we last saw Sarah Collins, we catch up with her as she is called to the brutal stabbing of a teenager. Her investigation soon finds itself at cross purposes with a covert operation led by Kieran Shaw, who is working with Sarah’s old partner, Steve Bradshaw, now deep undercover. Lizzie Adama meanwhile, is back at Farlow trying to balance her new role as a Detective with a family life. Her path and Kieran’s are about to cross.
Incoming: Monday 2nd September

Playing Nice
Set against a sweeping Cornish landscape, two couples discover that their toddlers were switched at birth in a hospital mix-up and face a horrifying dilemma: do they keep the sons they have raised and loved or reclaim their biological child? Living a waking nightmare, Pete (James Norton) and Maddie (Niamh Algar) are jettisoned into the world of the other couple Miles (James McArdle) and Lucy (Jessica Brown Findlay). At first it seems all four are agreed on a solution, but it soon becomes clear that hidden motives are at play – how far can each couple trust the real parents of their child or even each other? As Pete and Maddie are stretched to breaking point, they realise that they will stop at nothing to keep their family together.
Incoming: TBC

Joan
Inspired by the real Joan Hannington and certain events from her life, this exhilarating and emotional new six-part series is created and written by the acclaimed screenwriter Anna Symon. The series opens with Joan, a fiery and uncompromising woman in her twenties who is deeply scarred and vulnerable – she is a devoted mother to her six-year-old daughter Kelly but is trapped in a disastrous marriage with a violent criminal named Gary. When Gary goes on the run, Joan seizes the opportunity to create a new life for herself and her daughter. Adopting new identities and making new acquaintances along the way, Joan becomes a masterful jewel thief – she embarks on a thrilling and highstakes journey that challenges her every limit while driven by her desire to care for her daughter and create a secure home for them both.
Incoming: TBC

Until I Kill You
The extraordinary true story of Delia Balmer (Anna Maxwell-Martin), who survived a near-fatal relationship with murderer John Sweeney, is the subject of this drama. In 1991, Delia leads an itinerant and solitary life in London working as an agency nurse – when she meets fellow free spirit John Sweeney in a local pub, it seems like the connection she has been searching for. As the relationship develops, Sweeney’s artistic anti-establishment persona gives way to a darker side culminating in a series of violent attacks on Delia, during which he tells her that he killed his former girlfriend and disposed of her body in an Amsterdam canal. Sweeney is arrested, but he is granted bail due to a catastrophic failure by the court to realise how dangerous he is. He immediately pursues Delia and subjects her to a horrific near-fatal attack – she survives, but Sweeney evades capture and disappears. Shattered by the trauma and injuries inflicted by Sweeney, Delia bravely seeks to rebuild her life, but Sweeney returns seven years later and is arrested for the murder of another girlfriend in North London. Delia’s fragile recovery is shattered all over again as she has to face Sweeney in open court, her testimony vital to the prosecution case against him.
Incoming: TBC

DI Ray (Series 2)
The crime drama returns for a second series starring Parminder Nagra in the lead role of Detective Inspector Rachita Ray. The new series will see Leicester-born DI Ray investigating the murder of a high-profile criminal – sensitive ethnic issues relating to the case ignite racial tensions causing a personal conflict for Rachita, both as a British Asian woman and as a police officer, which she must fight to prevent a turf war erupting on the streets of Birmingham.
Incoming: TBC

Channel 4

After The Party 
After The Party tells the story of Penny Wilding, played by Robyn Malcolm (Outrageous Fortune, Black Bird, Top of the Lake). Penny is a science teacher, basketball coach, environmental activist, mother and grandmother. Penny tells it like it is, whether she’s waging graffiti attacks on fishing boats, lecturing teenage boys on how porn will destroy their sex lives or laying her middle-aged body bare for life-drawing artists. Her attitude wins her few friends in her close-knit coastal town of Wellington, and Penny’s fine with that. But five years ago, Penny’s world imploded when she accused her husband Phil, played by Peter Mullan (Ozark, The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, Westworld, War Horse, Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows: Part 1, Trainspotting), of a sex crime and nobody believed her. When Penny’s now ex-husband returns to town, her daughter pressures her to let go of her accusations and move on. As her old furies rise to the surface, Penny must decide what’s more important – the truth or rebuilding her relationships with everyone around her?
Incoming: TBC

Channel 5

The Teachers
This new series – and follow up to The Teacher – stars Kara Tointon, Emmett J. Scanlan and Will Mellor. When a student’s death is revealed to be murder, Dani, a dedicated art teacher, quickly becomes entangled in a web of desire and deceit with her own marriage at the centre of it.
Incoming: TBC

The Wives
Jo Joyner, Tamzin Outhwaite and Angela Griffin, is a six-part mystery drama that follows the unravelling of one family in a summer that changes all their lives.
Incoming: TBC

Ellis
The series follows DCI Ellis, a tenacious cop who is parachuted into failing investigations. As a black female cop, Ellis is used to being dismissed and overlooked, but she is a first-class murder detective, with a determination for justice and a deep well of compassion for those who need it.
Incoming: TBC

Dalgliesh (Series 3)
Three more PD James novels get the TV adaptation treatment, with Bernie Carvel once again in the lead role. In the first book, Death in Holy Orders, Dalgliesh travels to a remote seminary overlooking a windswept lake, where a body has been found gruesomely murdered. Nearly everyone in the seminary has reason to resent the victim, and Dalgliesh and DS Tarrant must unpick a complicated set of motives to find their killer. Cover Her Face sees Dalgliesh investigate a murder in the Essex home of the Mehtas, a staggeringly wealthy family with connections to the British government. With the help of local detective Clive Roscoe, Dalgliesh builds a picture of events in the weeks leading to the crime, confronting a blanket of secrecy among his guarded suspects. Finally, in Devices and Desires, Dalgliesh is sent on an urgent mission to investigate a terrorist plot against a nuclear power station on the Kent coast. He is soon drawn into a complex and highly charged hunt for a serial killer, working once more alongside former colleague Kate Miskin, now an acting DCI.
Incoming: Autumn

Walter Presents/More4

The Wall (Series 2) (More4)
The murder takes place at Quebec City Château Frontenac, in the midst of a major civil engineering convention. Could the fierce competition between companies for a huge construction contract of a new bridge, between Quebec and its south shore be the backbone for the tragedy?
Incoming: Friday 16th September

1985 (Walter Presents online)
A journey back in time to the turmoil of the 1980s, when the Brabant Killers sowed terror in Belgium.
Incoming: 13th September

Visions (Walter Presents online)
A young girl disappears at her mother’s birthday party in the south of France. A young boy has strange visions tied to the tragedy. How are police captain Romain and, above all, his psychologist wife Sarah linked to the unfolding drama?
Incoming: 27th September

A Good Family (More4)
Anna and Henrik are thrust into a dangerous underworld when their son brings a heinous crime to their doorstep. Parental instincts quickly overcome morality as the couple does everything in their power to protect their family and future.
Incoming: October

Nordic Murders (Series 5) (Walter Presents online)
Former district attorney Karin Lossow and Detective Chief Superintendent Julia Thiel, a formidable mother-daughter duo, solve criminal cases on the picturesque island of Usedom.
Incoming: October

Oxen (More4)
War veteran and former hunter soldier Niels Oxen, Denmark’s most decorated soldier ever. Sent home with war trauma, he tries to create meaning in life and to make everyday life fit together.
Incoming: Winter

Syndrome E (Walter Presents online)
He is Franck Sharko, a crabby cop at the end of his rope. She is Lucie Henebelle, a lieutenant on the anti-crime squad obsessed with evil. Sharko and Lucie investigate top-secret scientific experiments and programs.
Incoming: Winter

Judge Marianne (Walter Presents online)
Marianne Vauban, an outspoken magistrate, solves complex cases with her unique methods, humanity, and a team comprising Captain Pastor and clerk Yves, across surprising settings.
Incoming: Winter

Black Tulip (Series 1 and 2) (Walter Presents online)
Follows two families in the countryside of the Netherlands, who become archenemies after a mysterious accident in the past.
Incoming: Winter

Freezing Embrace (Walter Presents online)
The chief inspector Antti Hautalehto has hired a young policeman, whose father has worked with him for more than 20 years. Hautalehto finds himself between a rock and hard place, when it turns out that the new policeman has serious mental problems, which he has managed to hide in all tests. At the same time mysterious murders start to take place. Almost every week a young man is found drowned into the river. Eventually Hautalehto admits that the new policeman is inevitably guilty for the murders. He is arrested and the killings come to an end. Only the policeman’s father still believes in his son’s innocence. The chief inspector gives him a chance to prove his claims. Finally, Hautalehto can’t take the policeman’s guilt for granted. To find out the truth Hautalehto has to bring to light a traumatic event from their past and relieve the false memories that father had planted into son’s mind. Only this leads Hautalehto to the tracks of the real killer.
Incoming: Winter

S4C

Cleaddau
The murder of a nurse sends shockwaves through a small-town community in this emotionally charged and psychologically driven thriller. Elen Rhys, Richard Harrington, Rhian Blythe and Ioan Hefin star.
Incoming: 13th October

Sky Atlantic

The Penguin
Starring Colin Farrell as Oz Cobb (aka “The Penguin”), developed by showrunner Lauren LeFranc, the series centres on the character played by Farrell in the film.
Incoming: 20th September

The Day Of The Jackal
Eddie Redmayne stars as top assassin The Jackal from Frederick Forsyth’s famous novel. This thriller series gives a modern twist to the story which was originally set in the 1960s and turned into a hit 1973 film starring Edward Fox. This version of The Day of The Jackal digs deeper into the psyche of the infamous killer for hire as The Jackal traverses the world, playing a high-stakes game of cat-and-mouse with those desperate to capture him, including tenacious law enforcement agent Bianca (Lashana Lynch). 
Incoming: 7th November

Sky Witness

Matlock
Stars Kathy Bates as the brilliant septuagenarian lawyer Madeline “Matty” Matlock.
Incoming: October

Elsbeth
Elsbeth stars Emmy Award winner Carrie Preston as Elsbeth Tascioni, an astute but unconventional attorney who utilises her singular point of view to make unique observations and corner brilliant criminals alongside the NYPD.
Incoming: TBC

Netflix

The Perfect Couple
Amelia Sacks is about to marry into one of the wealthiest families on Nantucket. Her disapproving future mother-in-law, famous novelist Greer Garrison Winbury, has spared no expense in planning what promises to be the premiere wedding of the season – until a body turns up on the beach. As secrets come to light, the stage is set for a real-life investigation that feels plucked from the pages of one of Greer’s novels. Suddenly, everyone is a suspect. Starring Nicole Kidman, Liev Schreiber, Eve Hewson and Dakota Fanning
Incoming: Thursday 5th September

Midnight At The Pera Palace (Series 2)
At a historic Istanbul hotel, a journalist is thrust into the past and must stop a plot that could change the fate of modern Turkey.
Incoming: Thursday 12th September

Iganno (Deceitful Love)
This series follows a relationship full of passion, with shadows and secrets, that challenges social conventions, family balances, and the role of motherhood in Mediterranean culture.
Incoming: 9th October

Justice / The Assault 
Polish series where a young detective seeks the help of a discharged police officer, giving him the chance to reclaim his old life in exchange for solving a bank raid case.
Incoming: Wednesday 16th October

Achtsam Murder (Murder Mindfully)
When mafia lawyer Björn attends a mindfulness class to find a better work-life balance, he discovers surprising new coping strategies — including murder.
Incoming: 13th October

Black Doves
Set against the backdrop of London at Christmas, Black Doves is a sharp, action-filled and heartfelt story of friendship and sacrifice. It follows Helen Webb (Keira Knightley), a quick-witted, down to earth, dedicated wife and mother — and professional spy. For 10 years, she’s been passing on her politician husband’s secrets to the shadowy organisation she works for: the Black Doves. When her secret lover Jason (Andrew Koji) is assassinated, her spymaster, the enigmatic Reed (Sarah Lancashire) calls in Helen’s old friend to keep her safe. Sam Young (Ben Whishaw) is a suave, Champagne-drinking assassin. But having been out of the game since a failed job with disastrous consequences, he’s come home to a London that has moved on without him. As his past threatens to catch up with him, his task is to protect Helen as she investigates who killed Jason and why. Together, they set off on a mission that will lead them to uncover a vast, interconnected conspiracy. One that links the murky underworld of London to a looming geopolitical crisis – and leads them to question the cost of the moral choices they’ve made.
Incoming: Winter

1992
Álex de la Iglesia’s new series is a thriller revolving around a series of murders connected to the Universal Exposition of Seville in ‘1992‘
Incoming: December

Missing You
Eleven years ago Detective Kat Donovan’s fiancé Josh – the love of her life – disappeared and she’s never heard from him since. Now, swiping profiles on a dating app, she suddenly sees his face and her world explodes all over again. Josh’s reappearance will force her to dive back into the mystery surrounding her father’s murder and uncover long-buried secrets from her past. From Harlan Coben and starring Jessica Plummer, Richard Armitage, Ashley Walters, Lenny Henry, Steve Pemberton, James Nesbitt.
Incoming: TBC

Toxic Town
Based on one of the UK’s biggest environmental scandals, Toxic Town is the story of the people at the heart of the Corby poisonings. Focusing on the mothers, who took on a David and Goliath battle for justice, the series traces through the years of their fight as a terrible truth comes to the surface. Jodie Whittaker, Aimee Lou Wood, Robert Carlyle, Rory Kinnear, Stephen McMillan, Lauren Lyle, Joe Dempsie, Michael Socha and Brendan Coyle all star.
Incoming: TBC

Helikopterrånet (The Helicopter Heist)
In 2009, a helicopter lands on Sweden’s safest cash depot, disappearing with several millions. This action drama series tells the story behind the crime.
Incoming: TBC

Apple TV+

Slow Horses (Series 4)
In season three, a romantic liaison in Istanbul threatens to expose a buried MI5 secret in London. When Jackson Lamb and his team of misfits are dragged into the fight, they find themselves caught in a conspiracy that threatens the future not just of Slough House but of MI5 itself.
Incoming: Wednesday 4th September

Disclaimer
Acclaimed journalist Catherine Ravenscroft (Cate Blanchett) built her reputation revealing the misdeeds and transgressions of others. When she receives a novel from an unknown author, she is horrified to realise she is now the main character in a story that exposes her darkest secrets. As Catherine races to uncover the writer’s true identity, she is forced to confront her past before it destroys her life and her relationships with her husband Robert (Sacha Baron Cohen) and their son Nicholas (Kodi Smit-McPhee). The ensemble cast includes Lesley Manville, Louis Partridge, Leila George and Hoyeon, and features Indira Varma as the narrator.
Incoming: Friday 11th October

Bad Sisters (Series 2)
Two years after the “accidental death” of Grace’s abusive husband, the close-knit Garvey sisters may have moved on, but when past truths resurface, the ladies are thrust back into the spotlight, suspicions are at an all-time high, lies are told, secrets revealed and the sisters are forced to work out who they can trust.
Incoming: Wednesday 13th November

The Dispatcher
Police detective Ian Hunt’s life fell apart 10 years ago when his young daughter Maggie disappeared without a trace. Now working as a police dispatcher, the only thing that has kept him going is his implacable refusal to accept that she might be gone forever. When he receives a distress call from a young girl he is certain is Maggie, he will stop at nothing to find her and reunite his broken family, whatever the cost. Australian drama starring Patrick Brammall.
Incoming: TBC

Amazon Prime Video

The Devil’s Hour (Series 2)
The Devil’s Hour season two sees Lucy (Jessica Raine) and Gideon (Peter Capaldi) forming an uneasy alliance in order to prevent a recurring tragedy and hunt down an elusive monster. Lucy’s double life sees her torn between family and duty as she finds herself in the crosshairs of her past-life husband, DI Ravi Dhillon (Nikesh Patel). Assisting Dhillon in his investigation is DS Sam Boyd (Saffron Hocking) who was mentored by DI Lucy Chambers in a previous life.
Incoming: 18th October

Cross
TV series based on James Paterson’s Alex Cross novels. Alex Cross (Aldis Hodge) is a detective and forensic psychologist, uniquely capable of digging into the psyches of killers and their victims, in order to identify – and ultimately capture – the murderers. Aldis Hodge stars as the titular character and also serves as a producer on the series. Cross also stars Isaiah Mustafa, Juanita Jennings, Alona Tal, Samantha Walkes, Caleb Elijah, Melody Hurd, Jennifer Wigmore, Eloise Mumford and Ryan Eggold.
Incoming: Thursday 14th November

Disney+

High Potential
Starring Kaitlin Olson, High Potential follows a single mom with an exceptional mind, whose unconventional knack for solving crimes leads to an unusual and unstoppable partnership with a by-the-book seasoned detective (Daniel Sunjata). 
Incoming: September

The Old Man (Series 2)
The fast-paced thriller series is back for a new season. Former CIA agent Dan Chase (Jeff Bridges) and former FBI Assistant Director Harold Harper (John Lithgow) set off to recover Emily Chase (Alia Shawkat) after she is kidnapped. As the stakes rise and secrets are uncovered, Emily finds herself in an identity crisis with dire implications.
Incoming: Friday 13th September

Nemesis
Dutch police thriller that follows Public Prosecutor Sylvia van Maele who, after a brutal murder of a key witness in her own house, decides to take matters into her own hands. With an underground team of detectives, she opens the hunt for a group of international criminals who have remained out of reach of the law until then.
Incoming: Wednesday 16th October

Say Nothing
Say Nothing is a gripping story of murder and memory in Northern Ireland during The Troubles. Spanning four decades, the series opens with the shocking disappearance of Jean McConville, a single mother of ten who was abducted from her home in 1972 and never seen alive again. Telling the story of various Irish Republican Army (IRA) members, “Say Nothing” explores the extremes some people will go to in the name of their beliefs, the way a deeply divided society can suddenly tip over into armed conflict, the long shadow of radical violence for all affected, and the emotional and psychological costs of a code of silence.
Incoming: Thursday 14th November

Koka björn (To Cook a Bear)
Set in the wild far north of Sweden in 1852, To Cook a Bear follows a fugitive Sami boy, Jussi, and his mentor, the revivalist preacher Laestadius, as they investigate a brutal murder in their remote community.
Incoming: TBC

Paramount+

Tulsa King (Series 2)
Sylvester Stallone stars as a New York mafia capo who is exiled by his boss to set up shop in Tulsa, Okla.
Incoming: Sunday 15th September

Curfew
Starring Sarah Parish, Alexander Burke and Mandip Gill, Curfew is an adaptation of Jayne Cowie’s novel After Dark. The series is set in an alternative reality where all men live under ‘The Women’s Safety Act’, bound by a strict curfew from 7pm to 7am every night with their movements tracked by an ankle tag 24 hours a day. When a woman’s body is discovered brutally murdered during curfew hours and left on the steps of the Women’s Safety Centre, veteran Police officer Pamela Green (Sarah Parish) believes that a man is responsible. But in a world where men are bound by the curfew system, her theory is rejected. The introduction of The Women’s Safety Act almost three years ago is widely considered as effective at protecting women, who have been able to go out at night without looking over their shoulders, and nobody wants to hear different. If Pamela proves a man committed this murder, it could bring The Women’s Safety Act crashing down… people in high places are determined to make the curfew a success and will do all it takes to prevent Pamela from discovering the truth.
Incoming: Autumn

U&Drama

The Brokenwood Mysteries (Series 10)
The Brokenwood Mysteries is a series of two-hour murder mystery stories set in a seemingly quiet country town in New Zealand where Detective Mike Shepherd (Neill Rea) finds that murder lurks in even the most homely location. The latest series opens in The Brokenwood Museum, where the team get an unexpected lesson in local history when the museum uncovers a dead body in the most unlikely of places.
Incoming: October

Alibi

Hightown (Series 2)
Monica Raymund returns as Marine Fisheries agent Jackie Quiñones in a new second series of Hightown, the Cape Cod-set coastal crime drama. As a newly-minted state cop, Jackie Quinones is thrust into the wave of deadly carfentanyl that is sweeping Cape Cod. She is laser focused on bringing down Frankie Cuevas, the druglord she holds responsible for the death of her best friend. But it is a mighty struggle as Jackie holds on to her sobriety while trying to fix the unfixable, both in her world and in herself.
Incoming: October

CSI: Vegas (Series 3)
Amidst the neon lights and long shadows, dark threats continue to lurk in Sin City. Maxine Roby (Paula Newsome) leads her brilliant team of Crime Scene Investigators as they use science to solve baffling cases.
Incoming: October

Viaplay UK

The Box
Sharon Pici (Anna Friel) is a Kansas City police officer surrounded by headstrong men who are convinced she is losing her mind after handling a difficult investigation. However, it soon becomes clear that she is being targeted by supernatural forces far greater than herself. As her sanity is called into question, Sharon finally realises her true strength and decides it’s time to take her life into her own hands.​ Can she reclaim her sanity, or will the dark powers that haunt her prove too powerful to defeat?
Incoming: Monday 2nd September

Taelgia
This standout Swedish crime drama follows the lives of residents, police and criminals as they struggle to survive on the mean streets of Södertälje. Created by Jens Östberg (Blowfly Park), Taelgia gets its UK premiere on Viaplay on 9 September.  In Södertälje, families, police and criminals are caught in a crossfire of loyalties, demands and guilt. While some try to find a better life for themselves, some can’t escape. With criminals running riot, the young adults are sucked into a life of crime, like moths to a flame. Starting out as runners who sell drugs and rig getaway mopeds it’s not long before they’re forced into dangerous assignments. When Gabriel (John Hanna) moves into the Ronna district of Södertälje, he meets teenager Marko (Jonay Pineda Skallak) who deals drugs in the local area. It’s not long before the pair become embroiled in the murky underworld of serious crime and as unrest mounts, debts owed by Gabriel’s family take their toll. Can they find a way out or be consumed by the chaos around them?
Incoming: Monday 9th September

From around the world…

US

Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist (Peacock)
Following his return to boxing after dodging the draft, Ali beats Jerry Quarry. Later that night, hundreds are robbed at his after-party in a massive armed robbery.
Incoming: Wednesday 5th September

Grostesquerie (FX)
A detective and a nun investigate a series of heinous crimes that seem personal, while grappling with personal issues and uncovering a sinister web.
Incoming: Wednesday 25th September

The Irrational (NBC)
Alec Mercer is a world-renowned behavioural scientist who lends his expertise to an array of high-stakes cases involving governments, law enforcement and corporations with his unique and unexpected approach to understanding human behaviour.
Incoming: Tuesday 1st October

Found (NBC)
The series focuses on recovery specialist Gabi Mosely and her team of associates who work to find missing people who have been ignored or forgotten.
Incoming: Friday 3rd October

IRELAND

The Gone (Series 2)
Detective Theo Richter teams up with Kiwi Detective Diana Huia in a desperate search for a missing Irish journalist in New Zealand.
Incoming: TBC

I’m Yours
Follows Zo, a successful solicitor navigating the clash between her Irish and Pakistani identities as she prepares to meet her arranged fiancé for the first time.
Incoming: TBC

SHUSH
psychological thriller that asks how far a mother would go to keep her baby close.
Incoming: TBC

FINLAND

Paratiisi (Series 3)
In the third season, the body of a young Spanish man found in Finland leads criminal investigator Hilkka Mäntymä to his colleagues in Spain. This time, the leads of the criminal investigation take the trio to the Canary Islands, where they have to face the dark world of the waste business.
Incoming: 1st September

SWEDEN

Tunna blå linjen (Thin Blue Line) (Series 3) (SVT)
Officers must face “the addicts, the ‘party junkies’, the drug lords and the heavy criminals – those who rule but are not always seen, at least not in connection with the drugs.
Incoming: 27th September

Gåsmamman (Series 7) (TV4)
In this concluding story, the Ek family’s dramatic history comes to an end. It is an epilogue in two parts that deals with division, understanding, reconciliation and atonement.
Incoming: October

From the Inside (Från insidan) (SVT)
A three-way drama about life and death for three young gang criminal men who undergo therapy treatment in prison.
Incoming: November

Beck (TV4)
Episode 51, and (hopefully the first of two new feature-length episodes this season). A new police chief has taken office and Vilhelm (Valter Skarsgård), Martin Beck’s (Peter Haber) grandson gets a new way of relating to the Beck group.
Incoming: TBC

Vargasommar (When Crying Wolf) (TV4)
Adapted from Hans ‘The Bridge’ Rosendeldt’s debut novel. When human remains are found in the stomach of a dead wolf, the quiet Wester knows that the summer won’t be like any other. The remains can soon be linked to a bloody drug deal across the border in Finland. Suddenly, the small border town becomes the site of a chain of brutal events, as a Russian assassin (played of Sumner) is sent to try to get hold of the lost money and drugs.
Incoming: Autumn

Doktrinen (The Doctrine) (TV4)
Set in a world of intrigue and internal conflicts, in a nerve-wracking and terrifying drama that places the viewer in the middle of the events at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. At a fast pace, the viewer is thrown between intimate drama, big politics and espionage at the highest level.
Incoming: 12th November

ICELAND

The Darkness (Símmin)
Detective Inspector Hulda Hermannsdóttir, two weeks before retirement, has to solve the cold case of a young Russian woman, whose body washes up on an Icelandic shore. Hulda discovers that another young woman vanished at the same time, and that no one is telling her the whole story. Even her colleagues in the police seem determined to put the brakes on her investigation.
Incoming: 12th September

Black Sands (Svörtu sandar) (Series 2) (Stöð 2)
The series is about a policewoman (Aldís Amah Hamilton), who is forced to face her past when she investigates a series of mysterious deaths in her hometown on the south coast of Iceland. The second series is a direct continuation of the first and begins where she gives birth to a daughter and struggles with postpartum depression.
Incoming: 6th October

France

Master Crimes (MHz Choice)
Louise Arbus (Muriel Robin, Captain Marleau, Call My Agent!) is a psycho-criminology professor, as brilliant as she is exasperating. But when she is called to consult at a crime scene that seems to have some connection to her, she recruits four of her students to help – and a new investigative team is born.
Incoming: Tuesday

Germany

I Am Scrooge (RTL)
Fact-based crime drama following the pursuit of infamous extortionist Arno ‘Scrooge’ Funke.
Incoming: TBC

Australia

Human Remains (Channel 9)
Inspired by real events, the six-part series unveils the turbulent life of Detective Holly O’Rourke (Leeanna Walsman) and her homicide team as they navigate a shocking murder investigation that threatens to destroy her career, her family and her faith in justice.  As she scrambles to redeem her personal and professional reputation, Holly and her detectives uncover a criminal conspiracy that will change their lives forever. When a suburban mother, Sonia Mathews, is murdered in her driveway in front of her son all the evidence points to a gangland hit. But who ordered the execution-style killing in broad daylight?  Holly’s search for answers takes an unexpected turn when she discovers that a fellow police officer had a motive to murder Sonia. As the investigation heats up, Holly’s team uncovers a web of crime for which murder is just the tip of the iceberg. 
Incoming: Wednesday 11th September

Black Snow – Jack Of Clubs (Stan)
Travis Fimmel reprises his role as Detective Cormack as he tackles two separate missing persons cases. One is professional, as he investigates the disappearance of Zoe Jacobs, who disappeared from her own 21st birthday party in 2003. And the other is personal, as Cormack searches desperately for his own younger brother, who went missing when they were children.
Incoming: TBC

Netherlands

Één van ons (The Hunt) (Canal+)
The Hunt (for Jasper S.) is a Dutch drama series that is inspired by the search for the murderer of sixteen-year-old Marianne Vaatstra. She was found lifeless in a meadow near Veenklooster in 1999.
Incoming: Thursday 12th September

Canada

Murder in a Small Town (Global)
Based on the Edgar Award-winning book series, Murder in a Small Town follows Karl Alberg (Rossif Sutherland), who moves to a quiet coastal town to soothe a psyche that has been battered by big-city police work. But this gentle paradise has more than its share of secrets, and Karl will need to call upon all the skills that made him a world-class detective in solving the murders that continue to wash up on his shore.
Incoming: Tuesday 24th September

Murdoch Mysteries (Series 18) (CBC)
Paul Sun-Hyung Lee has joined the cast. He’ll be playing Inspector Albert Choi, who brings a whole new perspective to Station House #4.
Incoming: Wednesday 30th September