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10 Best Shows On Acorn TV: Spoiler Alert - They Are All Crime TV

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Foyle's War

This series is a British detective drama television series set during and shortly after WWII, created by screenwriter and author Anthony Horowitz and commissioned by ITV after the long-running series Inspector Morse came to an end in 2000. It has been broadcast on ITV since 2002.

The acclaimed British mystery returns with three new episodes set amid the pressure and politics of the Cold War. Michael Kitchen (Out of Africa) stars as th...

Midsomer Murders

This is a British television detective drama that has aired on ITV since 1997. The show is based on Caroline Graham's Chief Inspector Barnaby book series, as originally adapted by Anthony Horowitz. The current lead character is DCI John Barnaby, who works for Causton CID. Dudgeon's character is the younger cousin of former lead character DCI Tom Barnaby. Dudgeon permanently joined the show in 2011 following Nettles' departure.

Keeping Faith

Keeping Faith (Acorn TV, 2018) is a British dramatic mystery thriller television series. Small-town Welsh lawyer Faith (Eve Myles) must cut short her extended maternity leave when her husband and business partner, Evan, goes missing and, as the truth of his actions surface, Faith must fight to protect her family and her sanity.

Award-winning actress Eve Myles (Torchwood) stars in this BBC thriller as Faith Howells, a lawyer with a happy marriage until her husband suddenly disappears...

Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries

Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries is an Australian television drama series. It was first broadcast on ABC on 24 February 2012. The series is based on author Kerry Greenwood's novels and was created by Deb Cox and Fiona Eagger. Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries revolves around the personal and professional life of Phryne Fisher, a glamorous private detective in 1920s Melbourne. Starring Essie Davis, The Babadook.

800 Words

800 Words (Seven Network, 2015), stylised as "800 words", is an Australian–New Zealand comedy-drama television series. George Turner (Erik Thomson) is a popular columnist for a top-selling Sydney newspaper, writing a weekly column which he insists must be exactly 800 words. After his wife dies, he buys (over the internet and unseen) a new home in a (fictional) small New Zealand seaside town called Weld, where his parents took him on holiday as a child.

Mystery Road

Mystery Road (Australian Broadcasting Company, 2018) is an Australian television drama series. Detective Jay Swan (Aaron Pedersen) is assigned to investigate a mysterious disappearance on an outback cattle station, but his investigation uncovers a past injustice that threatens the fabric of the whole community.

Two-time Oscar nominee Judy Davis (Feud, Life with Judy Garland) and award-winning actor Aaron Pedersen (Jack Irish) star in this Acorn TV Original drama set...

The Brokenwood Mysteries

The Brokenwood Mysteries (Prime, 2014) is a New Zealand detective and drama television series. Detective Inspector Mike Shepherd (Neill Rea) is sent from Auckland to Brokenwood to investigate a local police officer, with a possible murder investigation underway that might link the two, Shepherd takes charge - after the investigation, Shepherd reassesses his life and decides to stay on indefinitely.

Inspector George Gently

Inspector George Gently is a British television series produced by Company Pictures for BBC One, set in the 1960s and based on some of the 46 Inspector Gently novels written by Alan Hunter. The series features Martin Shaw as the eponymous inspector, Lee Ingleby as Detective Sergeant John Bacchus, Simon Hubbard as PC Taylor at the police station front desk, and Lisa McGrillis as WPC Rachel Coles. The show moved the setting of the stories to Northumberland and County Durham.

In the final season of the acclaimed BBC detective drama, DCI George Gently (Tony nominee Martin Shaw) investigates two last cases before retirement. But as ...

Manhunt

Manhunt (ITV, 2019) is a British television drama based on the true story surrounding the initial investigation into the death of French student Amélie Delagrange. Led by Detective Chief Inspector Colin Sutton (Martin Clunes), the Metropolitan Police investigation established that their suspect, Levi Bellfield (Celyn Jones), might have also slain another young woman.

Written by Ed Whitmore (Silent Witness, Strike Back) and directed by Marc Evans (Trauma, Safe House, Hinterland), Manhunt is the real-life story of how the m...

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