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TV crime drama

November 2024

  • Zahn McClarnon as Joe Leaphorn in Dark Winds

    TV tonight
    TV tonight: Zahn McClarnon’s hit noir crime thriller is back

  • Shaun Evans and Anna Maxwell Martin, in character, drinking wine together uncomfortably on a sofa

    Observer TV reviews
    The week in TV: Until I Kill You; The Day of the Jackal; Junior Taskmaster; Asia – review

October 2024

  • Megan standing by the sea

    TV review
    Love Cheats review – these depressing scam tales make you long for the apocalypse

  • Ice-T

    The reader interview
    Ice-T: ‘Anybody that thinks controversy is a way to make money, it’s not. You need lawyers!’

September 2024

  • film still of an american football player

    TV review
    American Sports Story: Aaron Hernandez review – bleakly compelling tragedy

  • Rory Sparrow (Perry Fitzpatrick) outside a house wielding an axe

    Sherwood was so good the tension gave you a stomach ache. And yet …

  • Model at corkboard with photos, maps etc linked by red string

    Pass notes
    Elementary, Watson! Why one-third of Britons believe they could solve a murder

  • ‘A cosier approach to crime’ … Steve Martin, Selena Gomez, Martin Short.

    ‘More emotionally involved’: why podcasters are TV crime-dramas’ hottest new detectives

August 2024

  • Chloe Ayling (played by Nadia Parkes) standing in a garden, reading a statement to reporters

    TV review
    Kidnapped: The Chloe Ayling Story review – TV as nonsensical as the crime it’s based on

  • Dougray Scott as Ray Lennox in Irving Welsh’s Crime.

    TV review
    Irvine Welsh’s Crime series two review – as dark and twisted as Luther

July 2024

  • Mick Herron.

    Mick Herron: ‘Most people didn’t know I was writing – I was a secretive kind of writer’

    His spy series became the TV hit Slow Horses, and now his earlier novels are being adapted for screen, starring Emma Thompson. Mick Herron talks about finding recognition
  • Those About To Die - Season 1<br>THOSE ABOUT TO DIE -- Episode -- Pictured: (l-r) -- (Photo by: PEACOCK)

    Observer TV reviews
    The week in TV: Those About to Die; Lady in the Lake; The Jetty; Simone Biles Rising – review

    Anthony Hopkins fights for his life in a Game of Thrones-lite ancient Rome; Natalie Portman is a small-screen natural; a great twist lifts a clunking crime drama; and from trauma to domestic bliss with the star gymnast

    • If you like Baby Reindeer, you’ll love Young Mungo! 29 terrific TV shows – and the books to read instead

    • Observer TV reviews
      The week in TV: Wimbledon; Euro 2024; GF Newman Remembers… Law and Order; The Turkish Detective; Spent; Sunny – review

    • Pass notes
      ‘Some violent moments’: does Midsomer Murders really need a trigger warning?

June 2024

  • Alice Englert in Exposure, 2024 Stan drama

    Exposure review – Alice Englert shines in this interesting, if flawed mystery series

  • Five people sit in a row as they look and smile at each other, the woman in the middle holding a microphone

    The Sopranos cast reunites in New York City: ‘Everyone up here, that’s a family’

May 2024

  • Vicky McClure in pyjamas looking tired in Insomnia.

    Observer TV reviews
    The week in TV: Insomnia; Cold Case Investigators: Solving Britain’s Sex Crimes; Rebus; Trying; The Nevermets – review

  • Ears ringing … Grace (Siân Brooke) and Henry (Alfie Lawless).

    Blue Lights: episode by episode
    Blue Lights recap: series two finale – terrific, beautiful and a wee bit soapy

April 2024

  • Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas holding firearms in front of a Ferrari

    Stream team
    Miami Vice is cheesy and brutally unsubtle – but it remains sexy as hell

    In this neon dream of a police procedural, Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas take on the city’s crime problem while looking as cool as possible
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