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What are the best newer British Mystery shows out there? (Original Post) bif Mar 2016 OP
If you love british mysteries either subscribe to Acorn TV or Hulu plus angstlessk Mar 2016 #1
Ummmm...define 'newer' Stonepounder Mar 2016 #2
Don't know how recent you mean but here's a few catchnrelease Mar 2016 #3
Yes to all of these Lydia Leftcoast Mar 2016 #10
Thanks for hte tip on MHz Choice. beac Apr 2016 #15
Line of Duty Series 3 just started nationalize the fed Apr 2016 #16
Death in Paradise just added season 4 NV Whino Mar 2016 #4
How could I have forgotten to recomment Death in Paradise. Stonepounder Mar 2016 #5
That was my guess, too. 😄 NV Whino Mar 2016 #6
We just finished all 4 seasons! Lars39 Mar 2016 #7
I haven't checked it out, but it looks like they would continue. NV Whino Mar 2016 #8
Yes! Lars39 Mar 2016 #9
Even Caroline Proust, who stars in the gritty French police drama Lydia Leftcoast Mar 2016 #11
Ooh, I don't know that series, but thanks for mentioning it! Lars39 Mar 2016 #12
You have three options Lydia Leftcoast Mar 2016 #14
Ah, that's where I had seen her NV Whino Mar 2016 #13
Not new but I really like "Foyle's War". jomin41 May 2016 #17
I'm coming into this thread a bit late, but I just wanted to second this suggestion. drm604 Jul 2016 #21
This message was self-deleted by its author artislife May 2016 #18
I caught a show on one of the British channels on a visit WolverineDG May 2016 #19
Endeavour mackerel Jun 2016 #20
Luther mantis49 Sep 2016 #22
Shetland, Luther, Endeavour, DCI Banks, Happy Valley... SMC22307 Nov 2016 #23

angstlessk

(11,862 posts)
1. If you love british mysteries either subscribe to Acorn TV or Hulu plus
Tue Mar 29, 2016, 10:49 PM
Mar 2016

Acorn $4.99... Hulu $7.99 but Hulu has much more!...and Acorn has many British shows not on Hulu

Stonepounder

(4,033 posts)
2. Ummmm...define 'newer'
Tue Mar 29, 2016, 10:58 PM
Mar 2016

New Tricks - police detectives with a twist (they are all retired)- 12 seasons 2003-2015
Vera - a motherly DCI in Northumberland and a damn good cop - 2011 to present
City Homicide - Melbourne, Australia homicide squad - 2007-2011
Blue Murder - DCI Janine Lewis, mother of 4 kids and leads a team of detectives - 2003-2009

And, of course, Midsomer Murders is still in production.

catchnrelease

(1,941 posts)
3. Don't know how recent you mean but here's a few
Tue Mar 29, 2016, 11:26 PM
Mar 2016

Broadchurch, The Fall, Happy Valley 1&2, Wallander w/Kenneth Branagh (it's pretty slow and melancholy but still good), Crossing Lines (more international than just British), Hinterland, and River.

Those are a few that I've watched and enjoyed on Netflix.

Lydia Leftcoast

(48,217 posts)
10. Yes to all of these
Wed Mar 30, 2016, 06:55 PM
Mar 2016

Then there's Scott and Bailey, sort of a British Cagney and Lacey, but with more characterization. (Hulu and some PBS stations)

George Gently: A London police detective trying to get over the death of his wife relocates to Durham in northern England in 1960. The series deals with a lot of the social changes that occurred in that decade. (On both Hulu and Acorn)

Whitechapel: The first season was about a modern-day criminal imitating Jack the Ripper in the very neighborhood where the original operated, and the police efforts to find and stop him. Subsequent seasons took on a bit of an X-Files tone, but I still enjoyed it. (Hulu)

The Brokenwood Mysteries, mysteries in rural New Zealand. (Acorn)

The Field of Blood A young woman newspaper reporter in the early 1980s gets no respect from her colleagues. (Acorn)

Line of Duty: Two seasons with separate story arcs. I haven't seen the second one yet, but the first one is about a police detective who is pretty sure that his boss is crooked but can't prove it. (Acorn and Hulu)

Taggart: The longest running show in the UK, it continued even after the actor playing the title character died, so that there was no one named Taggart on the show for the last 15 years or so. Crime in Glasgow. The early episodes are on Acorn, and more recent episodes are on Hulu, but no one has all of them.

If you want to branch out, Hulu has some French, Scandinavian, Japanese, and Korean mysteries, but the go-to place for dramas, including mysteries, from France, Italy, Germany, the Netherlands, and Scandinavia, is MHz Choice, another subscription service. All have subtitles, of course.


nationalize the fed

(2,169 posts)
16. Line of Duty Series 3 just started
Sun Apr 3, 2016, 09:23 PM
Apr 2016

The Torygraph's blurb from "What's on TV Tonight"

Trying to second-guess Jed Mercurio’s crime thriller is a dangerous game. After last week’s surprise reappearance (no spoilers here), old wounds are reopened. Tense and well scripted, this is at least as good as the previous two series.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/2016/02/10/whats-on-tv-tonight/


LOD Series 2 was even better than 1. Keeley Hawes (Spooks) tore up the screen.

Marcella starts tomorrow- we somehow got a pre-release and the premier was excellent. Anna Friel gets off to a smashing start.

ITV, 9.00pm

A Scandi-style crime drama set here in the UK with a high-calibre cast? Count us in. This promising eight-part whodunit is written by Hans Rosenfeldt, creator of The Bridge, and stars Anna Friel as a former detective who rejoins the police after the breakdown of her marriage.

Marcella Blackland is heartbroken when husband Jason (Nicholas Pinnock) suddenly leaves, claiming he no longer loves her. She’s drawn back to her job on the Met’s murder squad which she gave up a decade previously. A serial murderer nicknamed “the Grove Park Killer”, her last case before she left to start a family, seems to have resurfaced. Meanwhile, what’s the connection to a family construction firm and a dating app called Sinnr.

A strong supporting cast includes Downton Abbey’s Laura Carmichael, Sinead Cusack, Patrick Baladi and Harry Lloyd. Friel does her best impression of The Killing’s Sarah Lund, and there are echoes of Homeland, Happy Valley and River in Marcella’s portrayal of a grieving, troubled central character. This is admirably ambitious, multi-layered Nordic noir with a twisting narrative – but no subtitles. MH

And for Hustle fans- Adrian Lester returns TONIGHT! in

Undercover

BBC One, 9.00pm

Adrian Lester and Sophie Okonedo star in this tense new drama, written by Peter Moffat, the man behind Criminal Justice. High-flying lawyer Maya (Okonedo) is offered the role of Director of Public Prosecutions, a position which could allow her to pursue justice for her murdered friend Michael Antwi. What Maya doesn’t know is that her husband (Lester) was undercover when they first met 20 years ago. Could his hidden past destroy the life they have built together? AB

Hope it's good (...appears to be set in the US...hmmm...)- Lester has been away far too long

And- Doctor Foster starring Suranne Jones (Scott and Bailey) is coming back sometime later this year. The first series is excellent.

Good British TV Blog:
http://www.thecustardtv.com/

Custard & Biscuits anyone?

NV Whino

(20,886 posts)
4. Death in Paradise just added season 4
Tue Mar 29, 2016, 11:46 PM
Mar 2016

Shot in the Caribbean with a great cast of British (and native) actors. Full of snappy dialog and Miss Marple-type revelations. Also features a cute little gecko.

Stonepounder

(4,033 posts)
5. How could I have forgotten to recomment Death in Paradise.
Tue Mar 29, 2016, 11:59 PM
Mar 2016

I agree with NV Whino in everything he said. It's great and the casting is wonderful. We've figured that the get so many guest stars simply by offering them a change to appear (and they get an all-expense paid trip to the Caribbean. LOL)

NV Whino

(20,886 posts)
8. I haven't checked it out, but it looks like they would continue.
Wed Mar 30, 2016, 06:10 PM
Mar 2016

Did you catch, Harry Potter's Nevil Longbottom in one of the last episodes?

Lydia Leftcoast

(48,217 posts)
14. You have three options
Wed Mar 30, 2016, 11:55 PM
Mar 2016

There are four seasons on Netflix and five seasons on Hulu and MHz Choice.

It can be intense at times.

jomin41

(559 posts)
17. Not new but I really like "Foyle's War".
Mon May 2, 2016, 01:50 PM
May 2016

Michael Kitchen is great, good cast, great plots remind me of Agatha Christie.

drm604

(16,230 posts)
21. I'm coming into this thread a bit late, but I just wanted to second this suggestion.
Fri Jul 1, 2016, 12:52 AM
Jul 2016

I love the depiction of wartime England.

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WolverineDG

(22,298 posts)
19. I caught a show on one of the British channels on a visit
Tue May 31, 2016, 10:22 PM
May 2016

to the UK last year: "Ordinary Lies." I was able to finish the series by watching it on Youtube.

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Not sure if it's still available anymore for streaming.

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