The best TV shows about lawyers. 1. Suits (2011–2019) Error: please try again. On the run from a drug deal gone bad, brilliant college dropout Mike Ross, finds himself working with Harvey Specter, one of New York City's best lawyers. Stars: Gabriel Macht, Patrick J. Adams, Meghan Markle, Sarah Rafferty. 2. L.A. Law (1986–1994)
TV’s 10 Best Women Detectives. 1 ‘Pepper’ Anderson — Police Woman (1974-1978) Angie Dickinson in Police Woman. 2 Christine Cagney and Mary Beth Lacey — Cagney and Lacey (1982-1988) 3 Jane Marple — Miss Marple (1984-1992) 4 Jessica Fletcher — Murder She Wrote (1984-1996) 5 Jane Tennison — Prime Suspect (1991-2006) More items
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000–2015) Series following an elite team of police forensic evidence investigation experts as they work their cases in Las Vegas. Stars: Laurence Fishburne, Marg Helgenberger, George Eads, Eric Szmanda 48. Blue Bloods (2010– ) Revolves around a family of New York cops. 49. Narcos (2015–2017)
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There is no doubt that Reasonable Doubt is not going anywhere. The Investigation Discovery series has been renewed for a fourth season, which will air early next year.
TNT has cancelled the Cold Justice TV show. Star and former crime scene investigator, Yolanda McClary, has confirmed the cancellation via her verified Facebook account.
Cold Case Files is a reality legal show/documentary on the cable channel A&E Network and the rebooted series on Netflix.
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Cold Justice, 911 Crisis Center, Black Widow Murders: Oxygen Announces New and Returning Shows for 2022-23 Season. Oxygen is setting up its programming for this summer and next season. The cable channel has renewed nine existing true-crime shows for new seasons.
Right now you can watch Cold Justice on Netflix or fuboTV.
Many of the crimes featured in Cold Case are based on real-life cases. These include the murder of Emmett Till, the Columbine school shooting, and, most notably, Philadelphia's real-life "Boy in the Box" case, which as of the year 2021 still remains unsolved.
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White Collar is set to leave the last remaining Netflix region having departed in the US and other regions before now.
White Collar was partially inspired by the true story of conman Frank Abagnale Jr, who also served as inspiration for Steven Spielberg's Catch Me If You Can. The USA Network series was a hit with audiences, many of whom enjoyed the evolution of Caffrey's friendship with FBI agent Peter Burke (Tim DeKay).
In season two, the decreased presence of the character Elizabeth Burke, and conspicuous green-screen scenes, was due to the pregnancy of her actress, Tiffani Thiessen.
As Vulture argues, audiences love crime shows because they allow a form of escape that other genres cannot. One thing that is relatively recent in mainstream crime stories, however, is the rise of the female protagonist.
The Killing 's American adaptation stars Mireille Enos as Detective Sarah Lindon, who is drawn into a huge investigation when the body of a teenage girl is found in the trunk of a submerged vehicle. Lindon also begins mentoring another detective, Stephen Holder, and each season of the show focuses on a new murder investigation. The Killing will keep you guessing until the very end, as every time the detectives think they've pinned how to solve the case, some new detail bubbles to the surface.
Colman's Detective Miller is a strong but realistic character who massively evolves over Broadchurch 's three seasons — and not always for the better. This is one of those shows that's tough to stop watching once you get started.
The 1920s are apparently the perfect time period for strong female detectives, as Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries is not the only one appearing on this list. This Australian series showcases Essie Davis in the lead role as the glamorous Phryne Fisher, a private eye in Melbourne who always seems to be the cleverest person in the room.
Prime Suspect. Prime Suspect is a really fascinating series. Each season (besides the three-episode season four) is only two episodes, and the seasons span over a decade of television. The first aired in 1991, with the seventh airing in 2006.
Frankie Drake Mysteries, a Canadian series, takes a slightly lighter tone and succeeds because of it.
Mindhunter might be a bit of a stretch in the "female lead" department, as its central female character takes a bit of a backseat (especially early on) to the main duo. However, Dr. Wendy Carr (Anna Torv) becomes every bit as important to the show's themes as it moves along, with several episodes in the second season focusing more time and attention on her role in the FBI's Behavioral Science Unit than what Agents Ford and Tench are up to.
As played by Marg Helgenberger , Willows is a former stripper who works as a lab supervisor, solving crimes as part of the Las Vegas Police Department’s Crime Scene Investigation team. Combining intelligence and compassion with a no-nonsense attitude, Willows works her way up to Director of the Las Vegas Crime Lab. While the length and number of CSI seasons means we really got to know the Catherine away from the job, her complicated family life the source of much intrigue and drama.
Together with their friends Fred and Shaggy — and Great Dane Scoody-Doo — they cruise around in the Mystery Machine solving hundreds of crimes. Most of them seem supernatural in nature, but these atrocities are actually usually carried out by embittered old men, who would have got away with it if it hadn’t been for those meddling kids. Brainbox Velma and Danger-Prone Daphne even appeared on the silver screen, with Linda Cardellini and Sarah Michelle Gellar playing the dynamic duo in a pair of successful films.
Divorced and living with her heroin-addicted sister, she’s still coming to terms with the suicide of her daughter, who killed herself after becoming pregnant by rape. When her rapist is let out of prison, Cawood makes it her mission to bring him down, no matter what the cost.
Prime Suspect is quite simply one of the greatest TV shows of all-time, and much of that is down to the character Jane Tennison, a Detective Chief Inspector who has had to work twice as hard as the men around her to get to that position, and who faces institutional racism every day of her working life. The firs series focussed on that issue, while later seasons tackled racism, alcoholism, prostitution and child abuse. The drama anchored by a career-best performance from Helen Mirren. And as the actress told The Independent, the character resonated with a segment of society that had previously been ignored: “She certainly spoke to a whole generation of successful and economically powerful women. They were a market who’d been ignored. They could buy big Mercedes and expensive mortgages and pensions and were a success in the workplace, but nobody had ever shown what it had been like for them to get there. Prime Suspect showed that. Instead of being a victim, Tennison barrelled her way through — as those women did in real life — without whining or going to tribunals.”
Jessica Fletcher — Murder She Wrote (1984-1996) Angela Lansbury as Jessica Fletcher. For 12 years, and over the course of 246 episodes, Jessica Fletcher solved crimes in her home town of Cabot Cove (where murder occurred all-too-regularly) and in locations all over the world.
With Cagney and Lacey we see a tale of two very different detectives, Christine Cagney (Sharon Gless) a single woman focussed on her career, and Mary Beth Lacey (Tyne Daley), who was married with a kid, and struggling to balance family and work.
On the big screen, the character was played by Margaret Rutherford and Angela Lansbury (more on her in just a tick). But for our money, Joan Hickson is the most memorable of all the Marples, appearing in lavish BBC adaptations of every one of those 12 mysteries.
When Musante left the series after a single season, the concept was remade as Baretta, with Robert Blake starring in the title role. The show went on to become one of the classic 70’s police crime dramas and is still popular today.
Baretta is an American detective television series that ran on the ABC television network from 1975 to 1978. Baretta was a modified version of a previous show called Toma. Toma starred Tony Musante as a chameleon-like, real-life New Jersey police officer named David Toma. While the original Toma program was actually popular, it received a great deal of criticism. The criticism was due to its realistic and frequent depiction of police and criminal violence. When Musante left the series after a single season, the concept was remade as Baretta, with Robert Blake starring in the title role.
Cagney & Lacey. Cagney & Lacey is an American television series that first aired on the CBS television network in the year 1982. It ran for a total of seven full seasons from 1982 to 1988. Cagney and Lacey are considered to be American television’s first serious police crime drama series with two female leads.
Actor and producer Jack Webb’s goals for the Dragnet show were to portray a realistic, true life, picture of a police officer and their day-to-day lives. He managed to achieve both and the show continued to be influential on subsequent police TV crime dramas for many years to come.
The Dragnet television show takes its name from an actual police term, a “dragnet ”.
The A-Team is an American action-adventure television series about a fictional group of ex-United States Army Special Forces men who work as soldiers of fortune who are on the run from the military. They were on the run for a “crime they didn’t commit” while in Vietnam. The series debuted in 1983 and ran for a total of five seasons on the NBC television network. It was created by writers and producers Frank Lupo and Stephen J. Cannell. The members of the A-Team cast consist of:
The series ran for 26 episodes.
Lansbury, 94, won worldwide fame at 59 as Agatha Christie-like Jessica Fletcher, a smart and successful mystery writer who put all that skill to work for real when her small town, Cabot Cove, became infested by murderers and she had to solve a case a week. Older widow characters used to be demeaned on TV, but Fletcher was sharper, wittier, and more independent and well-traveled than the youngsters. So what if she couldn't drive? She got around.
Hargitay, 56, as the feminist heroine NYPD Capt. Olivia Benson, is the dame no perp wants to meet in a dark interrogation room . Benson's not just strong, she's deeply, sensitively devoted to the “special victims” her unit serves, often female sexual assault survivors, having braved assaults in her past. She's risen through the ranks through hard work and unflagging compassion — she doles out plenty of hugs — but it's her dogged pursuit of justice that makes her the perfect modern-day heroine of the #metoo era.
London's ruthlessly intelligent, cranky (especially whilst quitting smoking) Detective Chief Inspector Jane Tennison was inspired by real-life DCI Jackie Malton, who also triumphed over sexist colleagues as well as criminals. Tart-tongued, Tennison solved crimes so cleverly that she rose through the ranks of command.
Though Merkerson, 67, who played NYPD 27th Precinct chief Lt. Anita Van Buren, wasn't the star of the show, she gradually rose to become its most enduring character. Van Buren was the earth-mother type, supporting and protecting the other cop characters, who usually got more of the spotlight in the episode's main story. Yet her sheer gravitas, magnetism and moral authority won out, and she faced challenges few TV cops ever had — the guilt of accidentally shooting an innocent, betrayal by a friend in forensics who faked evidence, a lawsuit against racist hiring that caused bosses to retaliate. Her kindly yet take-no-bull persona had staying power: Van Buren became the longest-running character on the longest-running drama in TV history.
Regina King, Watchmen (2019) King, 49, played ex-Tulsa detective Angela Abar, who donned a mask when the sun went down and became butt-kicking Sister Night, the scourge of white supremacists in a town still haunted by the (unfortunately real) 1921 Tulsa race massacre. She's the rogue cop you will actually root for.
Sedgwick, 54, played LAPD Deputy Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson, head of the Major Crimes Division, as a woman with a Southern-fried accent, high intelligence and volatile emotions — and not just concerning her passionately beloved snack, Ding Dongs. When men couldn't close a case, she did, by playing on a suspect's heartstrings like a Stradivarius. Intuitive about others yet completely clueless about herself, she was a cop we could relate to.
En español | Edie Falco, 56 , who played a mob wife on The Sopranos and an addict on Nurse Jackie, debuts this week as the Los Angeles Police Department's first female chief on Tommy (CBS, Thursdays starting Feb. 6, 10 p.m.). She joins a corps of TV women crime solvers that goes back to the 1960s and gave grownup actresses far greater visibility ...
Jack Reacher was arrested for murder and now the police need his help. Based on the books by Lee Child.
A financial advisor drags his family from Chicago to the Missouri Ozarks, where he must launder money to appease a drug boss.
Picking up where The Suicide Squad (2021) left off, Peacemaker returns home after recovering from his encounter with Bloodsport - only to discover that his freedom comes at a price.
Eccentric detective Terry Seattle teams up with clueless celebrity guest stars to investigate a series of murders in this improvisational crime comedy.
Anthology series that examines how and why ordinary people commit brutal crimes.
A gangster family epic set in 1900s England, centering on a gang who sew razor blades in the peaks of their caps, and their fierce boss Tommy Shelby.
A high school chemistry teacher diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer turns to manufacturing and selling methamphetamine in order to secure his family's future.
When I think of the protagonist Neal Caffrey in USA Network’s White Collar, I immediately think of SSA Penelope Garcia from Criminal Minds too, because they had more or less the same backstory of how they came to work with the FBI.
Like in Leverage, this group’s targets are often those who have done some sort of injustice or illegal act. While they themselves are criminals and cheats by trade, they still live by a moral code when pulling their long cons – a code that involves returning things they’ve “borrowed” to pull their cons and sometimes even providing financial aid to the victims of their target. Each episode of Hustle features a new target and con, so the excitement never ends!
TNT’s drama series Good Behavior was based on the book series of the same name written by Blake Crouch and ran for two seasons before being canceled.
Snatch features a cast of familiar faces that you’ll be happy to see grace your screens again such as Rupert Grint ( Harry Potter movies), Luke Pasqualino ( Our Girl ), Dougray Scott ( Hemlock Grove ), and even Ed Westwick ( Gossip Girl ). From a rich kid-turned-hustler to a Cuban crime lord and a dirty Detective Inspector, ...
Nate’s team – composed of grifter and art thief Sophie, hacker Alec, retrieval specialist, and weapons expert Eliot, and expert safe-cracker and thief Parker – begin their operations as “Leverage Consulting & Associates”.
After years of successfully evading the FBI, Neal was finally caught. After escaping prison and getting caught again, Neal negotiates a tit-for-tat deal with Burke: in exchange for an early release, he would help the FBI in capturing white-collar criminals.
To do that, they interview convicted serial killers like Ed Kemper, Jerry Brudos, David Berkowitz (Son of Sam), Dennis Rader (BTK), Richard Speck, Charles Manson, and a few others.
When you think of Los Angeles in the late 1960s, a particular killer will probably come to mind: Charles Manson. Detective Sam Hodiak of the LAPD and his young colleague Officer Brian Shafe are investigating the disappearance of a teenage girl named Emma when he crosses paths with Manson and his “family” – including Emma herself.
That’s certainly the case with Dexter Morgan – a forensic analyst specializing in blood spatter analysis by day, and vigilante serial killer by night.
Investigators Nagja Simon and Matthias Köhler are on the trail of a killer whose signature seems to be removing his victims’ body hair. As strange as this seems, they find that their initial suspects used to experiment with human scents under the inspiration of the Perfume novel (an amazing, meta self-reference, too!).
It focuses primarily on Malcolm Bright, a former FBI profiler who now works as a consultant for the NYPD. Bright’s reputation precedes him not just for his unique ability to look at crimes through the eyes of the killer, but also as the man who implicated his own father – Martin Whitly, or better known as the notorious serial killer “The Surgeon” – when he was a young boy.
Here, the protagonist in question is the eponymous Marcella Backland, a former detective with the London Metropolitan Police Service. After an unexpected upheaval in her marriage, she returns to work and channels her energy into investigating an 11-year old multiple murder case when the killer seems to have struck again.
In The Following, former FBI agent Ryan Hardy is in pursuit of an escaped murderer named Joe Carroll, who has since amassed a loyal fanbase to do his bidding in a grand scheme targeting Agent Hardy himself. The second and third seasons introduce new cults and serial killers but simultaneously sustains Carroll’s story arc as he continues ...