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Agatha Christie Hour Season 1 From renowned mystery writer Agatha Christie come these tales of intrigue and romance set in Art Deco-era England. "An engrossing, mystery-lover's treasure from beginning to end" (Library Bookwatch), these classic adaptations feature star-studded casts, including John Nettles (Midsomer Murders),...
The Boy with the Topknot
United From the creator of Broadchurch, this poignant, inspirational drama tells the true story of the legendary Manchester United team that turned tragedy into triumph after a 1958 plane crash that killed 8 players. "Powerful, haunting, and very human" (The Guardian), it stars David Tennant (Good Omens...
Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime Season 1 Jessica Raine (Wolf Hall, Call the Midwife) and David Walliams (Little Britain) star in these delightful adaptations of Agatha Christie's Tommy and Tuppence mysteries. Set in Cold War Britain, the bickering, bantering couple find themselves embroiled in a series of mysteries and espionage plots....
A Berry Royal Christmas
Agatha Raisin Season 3 Ashley Jensen stars in this quintessential British-village mystery based on the bestselling books by M.C. Beaton. Fulfilling a lifelong dream, Agatha Raisin retires early to a quaint village in the Cotswolds and soon finds a second career as an amateur detective investigating mischief, mayhem, an...
A Nightingale Falling
Agatha Christie's The Witness for the Prosecution
Amber Season 1 An emotional journey filled with psychological insight and unexpected twists, Amber is the story of what happens after a 14-year-old goes missing and her recently separated parents work to get her back. Each episode of the four-part series reveals the perspective of one individual connected with...
Belonging Brenda Blethyn (Vera) and Kevin Whately (Inspector Lewis) are Jess and Jacob Copplestone, a married couple caring for his elderly relatives. But when Jacob leaves her, Jess must adapt to her new life. Based on the acclaimed novel and written by BAFTA winner Alan Plater (The Last of the Blonde Bom...
Caligula with Mary Beard
Backstrom Season 2 Series 2 Premieres in North America and the United Kingdom September 19th. Evert Bäckström is a rock star among cops. Starring as a TV expert doesn't help his ego or reputation. He thinks he's a genius-and he is, at solving crimes. When a woman's skull is found, it seems she was murdered recently...
Balthazar Season 5 Suave, smart, and somewhat strange, Raphaël Balthazar (Tomer Sisley) can make the dead speak like no one else. As a forensic pathologist in Paris, he works with no-nonsense chief inspector Hélène Bach (Hélène de Fougerolles) to solve the city's most disturbing crimes. But there's one case that co...
Dalgliesh Based on P.D. James's global bestsellers, this riveting mystery series stars Bertie Carvel (Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, Doctor Foster) as enigmatic Inspector Adam Dalgliesh. A recent widower and acclaimed poet, Dalgliesh employs his exceptional empathy and insight to plumb the darker depths of...
Blood Season 2 Likened to Broadchurch and The Killing by critics, this psychological mystery is "must-see TV…taut, stylish, and suspenseful" (The Irish Times). BAFTA nominee Adrian Dunbar (Line of Duty) stars as a respected doctor in a small Irish town. When his wife dies, everyone believes it was an accident--...
Discovering Hamlet
Golden Years Retired couple Arthur (Bernard Hill, Wolf Hall) and Martha (Virginia McKenna, The Camomile Lawn) Goode live a quiet suburban life, tending to their garden and socializing with friends at their club. But when the nation's financial crisis empties their hard-earned pension accounts, the couple seiz...
Help
Last Love
Candice Renoir Season 6 After 10 years abroad, Candice Renoir is back in the south of France and back on the case as a police commandant. Newly divorced with four kids, Candice feels rusty at work-and her skeptical colleagues don't help. Determined to prove her so-called weaknesses are strengths, she solves complex case...
Marvellous
Midsomer Murders 20th Anniversary Special
Mind Games
Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries This stylish and sexy period mystery stars Essie Davis (The Babadook) as Phryne Fisher, a thoroughly modern woman operating in a mostly male world. Set in 1920s Melbourne, the series follows the glamorous lady detective as she goes about her work with a pistol close at hand and, more often than n...
Collision Season 1 From the creator of Foyle's War, this "brilliant" (TV Times) and "terrifically engaging" (Telegraph) miniseries depicts a devastating car crash, its impact on the victims, and the many revelations that emerge, from smuggling to conspiracies and romance to murder. Douglas Henshall (Shetland) and K...
Murdoch Mysteries
Poirot: Super Sleuths
Crownies Season 1 Crownies are young solicitors in the Office of Public Prosecutions. Their passion for justice collides with the realities of huge caseloads rigid rules of evidence and a judicial system that struggles to protect the vulnerable and to find the truth behind human frailty. They are smart and ambitio...
Shakespeare: The Legacy
Still Life: A Three Pines Mystery Based on the award-winning novel by Louise Penny, this TV movie stars Nathaniel Parker (The Inspector Lynley Mysteries) as a detective who arrives in the sleepy town of Three Pines to investigate the strange death. With the aid of the victim's best friend, Clara Morrow, he begins to unravel sordi...
Darby & Joan Season 1 Widowed English nurse Joan Kirkhope (Greta Scacchi) is on a quest to find answers about her husband's mysterious death, while ex-detective Jack Darby (Bryan Brown) has taken to the open road to escape his past. But when they collide in the Australian outback and become drawn into a series of myst...
Dead Still Season 1 Brock Blennerhasset makes a living out of photographing the dead in Victorian Ireland. When a series of murders threatens to sully Blennerhasset's reputation, a tenacious detective drags him into an investigation of Dublin's criminal underbelly. Set within the fascinating historical period of pos...
The Mystery of a Hansom Cab
The Scapegoat
The Stalker's Apprentice
The Way Back
The Wipers Times Based on a true story, this poignant yet comedic WWI drama revels in the resilience of the human spirit in the face of overwhelming adversity. Ben Chaplin stars as Capt. Fred Roberts, who publishes a satirical newspaper on the Western Front, using humor and wit to help his men stay sane amid the...
Turning Green
Victoria Wood's A Nice Cup of Tea
Fallen Angel Season 1 This riveting miniseries explores the mind and motivation of a psychopath (Emilia Fox, Delicious), moving backwards through time to learn where it all went wrong. Ethereal beauty Angel Wharton is the devil in disguise. But what--or who--made her that way? Is it the fault of Angel's father (Charle...
Wreckers
Family Business Season 2 In this scintillating French drama, mother and daughter Astrid (Catherine Marchal) and Audrey (Ophélia Kolb) are lawyers specializing in family law who make the perilous decision to work together. Along with partner Sofia (Charlotte des Georges), they deal with clients from a divorcing couple fig...
Four Seasons Season 1 Based on the works of Rosamunde Pilcher, this sweeping saga follows a momentous year in the life of the Combe family at their magnificent estate on the Cornish coast. When Julia (Senta Berger) returns after being banished years earlier, it upends life at Endellion, unlocking secrets from the past...
Foyle's War Season 10 Combining historical accuracy with compelling mysteries, this award winning British series is "a triumph from start to finish" (The Wall Street Journal). Michael Kitchen stars as Christopher Foyle, the upright, laconic detective tasked with investigating cases on the home front as WWII ravages th...
George Gently Season 8 In this acclaimed BBC detective drama, Tony nominee Martin Shaw (Death in Holy Orders) stars as Inspector George Gently, an incorruptible cop transplanted from London to the North East of England in the mid-1960s. Gently and his cocky young protege, John Bacchus (Lee Ingleby, Line of Duty), inves...
Harry Wild Season 1 Literature professor Harriet "Harry" Wild (Jane Seymour) is adjusting to retirement when she's mugged. While recovering at the home of her son (Kevin Ryan), a detective in the Dublin police, Harry gleans a clue for his current case. But when she's rebuffed, Harry decides to solve the crime hersel...
Hidden Assets Season 1 When evidence from a raid links a small-time drug dealer to a series of bombings in Belgium, Irish detective Emer Berry (Angeline Ball, Acceptable Risk) heads to Antwerp, where she's confronted by Christian de Jong (Wouter Hendrickx) of the anti-terrorism squad. Together, they begin to untangle a...
Jack Irish Season 4 Series 3 premiering in Latin America April 28. Emmy Award-winner Guy Pearce (Memento, Iron Man 3) is ex-lawyer turned PI Jack Irish in this acclaimed Aussie noir series. Aided by journalist-and sometimes girlfriend-Linda Hillier (Marta Dusseldorp, A Place to Call Home, Janet King), Jack takes on...
Jack Taylor Season 3 Jack Taylor (Iain Glen, Game of Thrones, Downton Abbey) is a former cop turned private investigator in this gripping drama hailed as "brilliant" (The People, UK) and "impressive" (Daily Mail). Based on the bestselling novels of Ken Bruen, the series follows Jack as he investigates some of Ireland...
Kingdom Season 3 Stephen Fry (Jeeves and Wooster) stars in this "charming" (Examiner.com) British dramedy as Peter Kingdom, a compassionate solicitor running a law practice in a quaint and beautiful Norfolk town. As he handles the cases of his oddball clients, he also contends with the mysterious disappearance of...
Ladies of Letters Season 1 Two British widows who met at a wedding trade letters in which they attempt to one-up each other with stories and events from their lives. Based on the iconic BBC radio show, this 10-part series stars Maureen Lipman (The Pianist) and Anne Reid (Last Tango In Halifax).
Line of Duty Season 6 From the creator of Bodyguard, this thrilling British drama has earned universal praise for its "nail-biting action, complex characters, and intricate plotting" (TV Guide). At internal affairs unit AC-12, Supt. Hastings (Adrian Dunbar, Blood) leads his team of DS Arnott (Martin Compston, The Nest...
London Kills Season 3 London's best detectives take on its worst crimes in this sleek mystery series from the creator of Suspects. DI David Bradford (Hugo Speer, Father Brown) heads an elite murder squad, but the one case he can't crack is the one closest to him - the disappearance of his wife. Also starring Sharon Sm...
Missing Season 1 In this British mystery thriller, Golden Globe® winner Joanne Froggatt (Downton Abbey) stars as Sybil Foster, a young runaway who has learned to survive by scamming unsuspecting men. But when one of her marks gets murdered, Sybil quickly becomes the police's prime suspect. Was she in the wrong pl...
Mr. and Mrs. Murder Season 1 Leaving UK and Ireland 05/31/2022. In this Aussie import, fun-loving and flirtatious married couple Nicola (Kat Stewart, Offspring) and Charlie Buchanan (Shaun Micallef) run a cleaning service for crime scenes. The amateur detectives quickly realize that closing cases comes just as naturally as c...
Murder Investigation Team Season 1 From the makers of The Bill, Murder Investigation Team reveals the gritty reality of police work, where success is part grueling procedure and part gut instinct. Leaders of an elite squad of detectives, brusque DI Vivien Friend (Samantha Spiro, Me Before You) and intuitive DC Rosie MacManus (Lind...
Murderland Season 1 Three-time BAFTA Award winner Robbie Coltrane (Harry Potter, Cracker) stars in this gripping thriller about revenge, redemption, and rough justice. A girl (Bel Powley, The Diary of a Teenage Girl) witnesses the murder of her mother, and years later she contacts the original detective on the case...
My Life is Murder Season 3 Lucy Lawless (Xena: Warrior Princess, Parks and Recreation) stars in this contemporary Australian detective drama as retired cop Alexa Crowe. With her old boss (Bernard Curry, Once Upon a Time) regularly asking for her insight on cold cases and a young police data-analyst (Ebony Vagulans) eager t...
Newton's Law Season 1 From the team behind Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries, this Aussie legal drama is "intelligent, stylish and nicely romantic" (The Australian). Claudia Karvan (Jack Irish) stars as Josephine Newton, a skilled lawyer juggling her busy personal life along with a full caseload of quirky clients.
One Lane Bridge Season 3 In this dark crime drama with a supernatural edge, a small town in New Zealand is upended when a local man's body is found at the bottom of a one-lane bridge that's long been a locus of unexplained events. While investigating the murder, an ambitious Māori detective inadvertently reawakens his se...
Queens of Mystery Season 2 This "wickedly offbeat" (Parade), contemporary murder-mystery series follows the adventures of a perennially single detective and her three crime-writing aunts as they solve murders in the picturesque English region of Wildemarsh. Starring Florence Hall (The Princess Switch franchise), Julie Gra...
Recipes for Love & Murder Season 1 When a woman who wrote to recipe/advice columnist Tannie Maria (Maria Doyle Kennedy, Outlander) turns up dead, Maria and her colleague, rookie journalist Jessie (Kylie Fisher), spring into action. They're determined to solve the murder in their small South African town, to the annoyance of police...
Republic of Doyle Season 6 For Jake Doyle (Allan Hawco), trouble is a way of life. He and his ex-cop father, Malachy (Sean McGinley), run a Newfoundland detective agency in a rugged seaside town. They never lack for intriguing cases-and they're not always on the right side of the law-but the real fireworks stem from Jake's...
Rosamunde Pilcher's Coming Home Season 1 Based on the best-selling book by Rosamunde Pilcher, this is the captivating tale of a shy young woman whose introduction to the English aristocracy is halted by World War II. Starring Peter O'Toole, Joanna Lumley, Emily Mortimer, David McCallum, and Paul Bettany.
Rosamunde Pilcher's The Shell Seekers Season 1 Based on the novel by Rosamunde Pilcher, The Shell Seekers stars Vanessa Redgrave in "a fine, flinty performance" (Variety) as Penelope Keeling, who reflects on her life following a heart attack. As she recalls her wild childhood, one true love, and unhappy marriage, Penelope assesses her differi...
Signora Volpe Season 1 Disillusioned British spy Sylvia Fox (Emilia Fox) is in Italy for her niece's wedding when the groom goes missing. Sylvia solves the mystery and, longing to reconnect with her sister (Tara Fitzgerald), decides to start anew in Umbria. Soon she's tackling other cases and winning over a handsome lo...
Small Claims Season 1 Chrissy (Rebecca Gibney, Under the Vines) and Jo (Claudia Karvan, Love My Way) are two suburban mothers whose domestic responsibilities keep them more than busy. But when a young mom with a shady past vanishes in mysterious circumstances, they form a partnership to track her down. This leads the...
Straight Forward Season 1 With stunning scenery and high-stakes action, this gritty international thriller is an adrenaline-filled ride across the globe. When her father is murdered, Danish con-woman Sylvia (Cecilie Stenspil) plots revenge on crime kingpin Ravn (Mark Mitchinson, Dear Murderer). Forced to flee to New Zeala...
Suspects Season 5 Suspects is a "fresh, very different, and absolutely cracking drama" - Daily Mail (UK). Using improvised dialogue and filming techniques usually associated with factual programming, this unique procedural crime drama follows D.I. Martha Bellamy (Fay Ripley, Cold Feet) and her team as they investi...
The Brokenwood Mysteries Season 7 Series 8 premieres in Australia July 3. This quirky New Zealand mystery follows DI Mike Shepherd, who arrives to the seemingly peaceful town of Brokenwood with a classic car, a country music collection, and an indeterminate number of ex-wives. His assistant, DC Kristin Sims, is a by-the-book inve...
The Chelsea Detective Season 1 New episodes premiering weekly in North America. London's Chelsea neighborhood is a beautiful borough for beautiful people, but it has a dark underside of deception, violence, greed-and murder. Bodies have a way of showing up, and things are rarely what they seem. DI Max Arnold (Adrian Scarboroug...
The Circuit Season 2 Aaron Pedersen (Mystery Road, Jack Irish) is Drew Ellis, an Indigenous lawyer who joins the Aboriginal Legal Service on a circuit court serving a vast and remote region of the Australian outback. In this challenging and chaotic world, Ellis gets a rude awakening as he realizes that one law for tw...
The Clinic Season 7 In modern-day Dublin, a group of dedicated medical professionals work in a busy city health clinic. There they experience many joys and sorrows as they confront the frailty of human life, their hidden longings, and the cost of their professional ambitions. Starring Amy Huberman (Finding Joy), Chr...
The Field of Blood Season 2 Peter Capaldi (Doctor Who) and David Morrissey (The Missing) co-star in this acclaimed BBC crime drama. Set in the gritty Glasgow of the early 1980s, Paddy (BAFTA Award winner Jayd Johnson) struggles to make a name for herself in the macho newsroom of the Daily News, but her dedication to seeking...
The Gulf Season 2 Premieres October 5th. In this gripping psychological mystery from New Zealand, Detective Jess Savage (Kate Elliott, Wentworth) is recovering from a car crash that killed her husband when she learns about a new lead in a cold case. Jess restarts the investigation but notices troubling lapses in h...
The Hour Season 2 Set in the 1950s, this Emmy-winning and Golden Globe-nominated BBC drama delves into the high-stakes world of TV news. Ben Whishaw (Spectre), Romola Garai (Emma), and Dominic West (The Affair) headline an all-star cast that includes Anna Chancellor (Ordeal by Innocence) and Peter Capaldi (Doctor...
The Madame Blanc Mysteries Season 1 Antiques dealer Jean White (Sally Lindsay, Mount Pleasant) is nearly bankrupt after her husband's sudden death, and so she heads to their one last asset: a cottage in antiques hub Sainte Victoire, France. There, Jean begins investigating his death, aided by sympathetic taxi driver Dom (Steve Edge...
The Other Wife Season 1 Rebecca (Natalia Wörner) has it all: a beautiful home and family, with a loving husband, Richard (John Hannah)-until he suddenly dies, exposing his double life. Reeling, Rebecca turns to Richard's brother (Rupert Everett), but can he be trusted?
The Paradise Season 2 The murders of a family in cold blood deeply shake a Finnish community living in their own little paradise on the shores of the Mediterranean. Veteran detective Hilkka Mäntymäki is sent from Finland to the Costa del Sol, Spain, to help the local police on a case that will soon claim new victims.
800 Words Season 2 Leaving Australia 14 June. This sweet, refreshing family drama hailed as "wonderful" (Tribune NS) follows recent widower George Turner's decision to start afresh in the New Zealand coastal town of Weld. The Aussie invaders quickly become the center of attention in this small town populated by wei...
Acceptable Risk Season 1 Family secrets and international intrigue collide in this riveting Acorn TV Original drama from Ireland. After her husband is murdered, Sarah Manning slowly realizes that she knew almost nothing about his past. The investigation forces her to reckon with who he actually was--and what he did in hi...
Acorn TV in Conversation Season 1 Acorn TV's biggest stars sit down for an intimate chat about their shows.
Aftertaste Season 2 When his latest outburst goes viral, volatile celebrity chef Easton West (Erik Thomson) flees back to his Australian hometown and tries to reinvent himself through an unlikely partnership with his 19-year-old pastry wunderkind niece (Natalie Abbott). This "sharp satire" (The Guardian) also stars...
Ain't Misbehavin' Season 1 Dashing duo Robson Green (Grantchester, Wire in the Blood) and Jerome Flynn (Game of Thrones) play a pair of musicians during the London Blitz in this delightfully funny miniseries. When the mismatched mates get caught up in a conflict between London gang bosses, music and misadventures ensue. Ji...
And Then There Were None Season 1 On the brink of World War II, 10 troubled strangers are invited to an isolated island--and targeted for death, one by one. Based on the bestselling crime novel of all time by Agatha Christie, this "TV event of the year" (The Guardian, UK) boasts an all-star cast including Charles Dance, Sam Neill...
Balthazar - Coming Soon Season 1 Season 5 Premieres May 1. Falsely accused of murder, Balthazar (Tomer Sisley) is on the run, while his colleagues on the police and at the Forensic Institute have been suspended. When a diabolical killer emerges, Balthazar comes out of hiding to set things right.
Candice Renoir - Coming Soon Season 1 Premieres April 17. Inspector Candice Renoir is as self-assured as ever as she and her unit tackle a string of challenging cases, but when Antoine returns after a year away and is named the brigade's new chief, intense passion turns into fiery complications
Cold Call Season 1 After single mother June (Sally Lindsay, Scott & Bailey) receives a fateful phone call, she takes increasingly desperate measures to salvage her family's future in this dark thriller. Finding herself the victim of a scam that wipes out her savings, June tries to hunt down those responsible with t...
Dead Lucky Season 1 Oscar® nominee Rachel Griffiths (Six Feet Under) headlines this cinematic, fast-paced thriller. Detective Grace Gibbs is obsessed with catching the armed robber who killed her partner, while her new trainee (Yoson An, Mortal Engines) blames her for his best friend's death. The feuding detectives...
Finding Joy Season 2 Amy Huberman (Striking Out, The Clinic) created, wrote, and stars in this quirky, life-affirming Irish comedy. Orderly, structured Joy is dealing with a messy breakup when a new work assignment forces her to look for happiness in the most unusual places. "Huberman has warm, almost effortless like...
Injustice Season 1 James Purefoy (Rome) leads a distinguished cast featuring Dervla Kirwan (Ballykissangel), Charlie Creed-Miles (The Fifth Element), and Nathaniel Parker (The Inspector Lynley Mysteries) in a taut five-part thriller of murder, conspiracy, secrets, and guilt created and written by Anthony Horowitz (...
Janet King Season 4 Award-winning actress Marta Dusseldorp (A Place to Call Home, Jack Irish) is brilliant senior crown prosecutor Janet King in this acclaimed Australian legal drama. Full of twists and turns, this "astutely realized mystery" (The Australian) is "unnervingly intricate, dark, but steadily intriguing"...
Like Father Like Son Season 1 Dee Stanton (Jemma Redgrave, Holby City) seems to have a perfect life, with a blossoming career and a handsome fiance (Robson Green, Grantchester). But Dee's tragic past comes back to haunt her when her son learns his father is a convicted serial killer. After a girl's murder, Dee fears history i...
Liverpool 1 Season 2 Striking a "satisfying balance between crime-fighting and private emotional upheaval" (The Glasgow Herald), this gritty police procedural follows vice-squad detectives Isobel de Pauli (Samantha Womack, Mount Pleasant) and Mark Callaghan (Mark Womack, Babylon) as they fight crime and corruption in...
Missing Angel Season 1 Premiering in the North America & United Kingdom March 27th. The sudden disappearance of her teenage daughter devastates Suzanne, but eight years go by without any leads. Then Suzanne spots a recent newspaper photo of a woman resembling her daughter and sets out to find her in this award-winning...
Sando Season 1 With "echoes...of Arrested Development" (Sydney Morning Herald), this madcap Australian comedy delivers riotous laughs and outlandish characters. Sacha Horler (Jack Irish, Crownies) stars as Victoria "Sando" Sandringham, the CEO of a furniture-store empire, who tries to win back her family and he...
Seachange Season 1 Series 4 leaving New Zealand December 31. When Laura Gibson's (Sigrid Thornton, Wentworth) life suddenly falls apart, she decides to make a fresh start with her two children in a small coastal town. But Pearl Bay isn't exactly the seaside idyll she remembers from a vacation years before, nor are...
The Cry (2018) Season 1 Nominated for an International Emmy® for Best Actress, Jenna Coleman (Victoria, Doctor Who) mesmerizes as young mother Joanna in this intense psychological thriller. When tragedy strikes Joanna and her partner, Alistair (Ewen Leslie, Top of the Lake), it sets off a disturbing chain of events that...
The Drowning Season 1 When Jodie's young son vanished from a lakeside picnic, it was presumed he drowned, but Jodie believed he was abducted. Years later, she sees a boy she's certain is her son. Jeopardizing the life she's painstakingly rebuilt, Jodie begins a dangerous and morally dark journey to prove the boy is he...
The Poison Tree Season 1 Emmy nominee Matthew Goode (A Discovery of Witches, The Crown) stars in this "gripping… psychological crime thriller" (Mirror, UK) of deception, seduction, and twisted family ties. Released from prison, convicted murderer Rex returns home to his devoted wife, Karen (MyAnna Buring, Ripper Street),...
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Season 1 Beloved actress Geraldine McEwan (Agatha Christie's Marple) stars as imperious, unorthodox teacher Jean Brodie in this drama adapted from the novel by Muriel Spark. The series tells the story of an educator's effect on impressionable young ladies at the Marcia Blaine School for Girls in Edinburgh...
The Secret Agent Season 1 In this thrilling BBC adaptation of Joseph Conrad's timeless novel, Golden Globe nominee Toby Jones (Detectorists, The Hunger Games) stars as Anton Verloc, an unassuming Soho shopkeeper. Unbeknownst to even his loyal wife, Winnie (Vicky McClure, Line of Duty, Broadchurch), Verloc also works for t...

What's on Acorn TV?

Agatha Christie Hour

Season 1

From renowned mystery writer Agatha Christie come these tales of intrigue and romance set in Art Deco-era England. "An engrossing, mystery-lover's treasure from beginning to end" (Library Bookwatch), these classic adaptations feature star-studded casts, including John Nettles (Midsomer Murders),...

The Boy with the Topknot

United

From the creator of Broadchurch, this poignant, inspirational drama tells the true story of the legendary Manchester United team that turned tragedy into triumph after a 1958 plane crash that killed 8 players. "Powerful, haunting, and very human" (The Guardian), it stars David Tennant (Good Omens...

Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime

Season 1

Jessica Raine (Wolf Hall, Call the Midwife) and David Walliams (Little Britain) star in these delightful adaptations of Agatha Christie's Tommy and Tuppence mysteries. Set in Cold War Britain, the bickering, bantering couple find themselves embroiled in a series of mysteries and espionage plots....

A Berry Royal Christmas

Agatha Raisin

Season 3

Ashley Jensen stars in this quintessential British-village mystery based on the bestselling books by M.C. Beaton. Fulfilling a lifelong dream, Agatha Raisin retires early to a quaint village in the Cotswolds and soon finds a second career as an amateur detective investigating mischief, mayhem, an...

A Nightingale Falling

Agatha Christie's The Witness for the Prosecution

Amber

Season 1

An emotional journey filled with psychological insight and unexpected twists, Amber is the story of what happens after a 14-year-old goes missing and her recently separated parents work to get her back. Each episode of the four-part series reveals the perspective of one individual connected with...

Belonging

Brenda Blethyn (Vera) and Kevin Whately (Inspector Lewis) are Jess and Jacob Copplestone, a married couple caring for his elderly relatives. But when Jacob leaves her, Jess must adapt to her new life. Based on the acclaimed novel and written by BAFTA winner Alan Plater (The Last of the Blonde Bom...

Caligula with Mary Beard

Backstrom

Season 2

Series 2 Premieres in North America and the United Kingdom September 19th. Evert Bäckström is a rock star among cops. Starring as a TV expert doesn't help his ego or reputation. He thinks he's a genius-and he is, at solving crimes. When a woman's skull is found, it seems she was murdered recently...

Balthazar

Season 5

Suave, smart, and somewhat strange, Raphaël Balthazar (Tomer Sisley) can make the dead speak like no one else. As a forensic pathologist in Paris, he works with no-nonsense chief inspector Hélène Bach (Hélène de Fougerolles) to solve the city's most disturbing crimes. But there's one case that co...

Dalgliesh

Based on P.D. James's global bestsellers, this riveting mystery series stars Bertie Carvel (Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, Doctor Foster) as enigmatic Inspector Adam Dalgliesh. A recent widower and acclaimed poet, Dalgliesh employs his exceptional empathy and insight to plumb the darker depths of...

Blood

Season 2

Likened to Broadchurch and The Killing by critics, this psychological mystery is "must-see TV…taut, stylish, and suspenseful" (The Irish Times). BAFTA nominee Adrian Dunbar (Line of Duty) stars as a respected doctor in a small Irish town. When his wife dies, everyone believes it was an accident--...

Discovering Hamlet

Golden Years

Retired couple Arthur (Bernard Hill, Wolf Hall) and Martha (Virginia McKenna, The Camomile Lawn) Goode live a quiet suburban life, tending to their garden and socializing with friends at their club. But when the nation's financial crisis empties their hard-earned pension accounts, the couple seiz...

Help

Last Love

Candice Renoir

Season 6

After 10 years abroad, Candice Renoir is back in the south of France and back on the case as a police commandant. Newly divorced with four kids, Candice feels rusty at work-and her skeptical colleagues don't help. Determined to prove her so-called weaknesses are strengths, she solves complex case...

Marvellous

Midsomer Murders 20th Anniversary Special

Mind Games

Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries

This stylish and sexy period mystery stars Essie Davis (The Babadook) as Phryne Fisher, a thoroughly modern woman operating in a mostly male world. Set in 1920s Melbourne, the series follows the glamorous lady detective as she goes about her work with a pistol close at hand and, more often than n...

Collision

Season 1

From the creator of Foyle's War, this "brilliant" (TV Times) and "terrifically engaging" (Telegraph) miniseries depicts a devastating car crash, its impact on the victims, and the many revelations that emerge, from smuggling to conspiracies and romance to murder. Douglas Henshall (Shetland) and K...

Murdoch Mysteries

Poirot: Super Sleuths

Crownies

Season 1

Crownies are young solicitors in the Office of Public Prosecutions. Their passion for justice collides with the realities of huge caseloads rigid rules of evidence and a judicial system that struggles to protect the vulnerable and to find the truth behind human frailty. They are smart and ambitio...

Shakespeare: The Legacy

Still Life: A Three Pines Mystery

Based on the award-winning novel by Louise Penny, this TV movie stars Nathaniel Parker (The Inspector Lynley Mysteries) as a detective who arrives in the sleepy town of Three Pines to investigate the strange death. With the aid of the victim's best friend, Clara Morrow, he begins to unravel sordi...

Darby & Joan

Season 1

Widowed English nurse Joan Kirkhope (Greta Scacchi) is on a quest to find answers about her husband's mysterious death, while ex-detective Jack Darby (Bryan Brown) has taken to the open road to escape his past. But when they collide in the Australian outback and become drawn into a series of myst...

Dead Still

Season 1

Brock Blennerhasset makes a living out of photographing the dead in Victorian Ireland. When a series of murders threatens to sully Blennerhasset's reputation, a tenacious detective drags him into an investigation of Dublin's criminal underbelly. Set within the fascinating historical period of pos...

The Mystery of a Hansom Cab

The Scapegoat

The Stalker's Apprentice

The Way Back

The Wipers Times

Based on a true story, this poignant yet comedic WWI drama revels in the resilience of the human spirit in the face of overwhelming adversity. Ben Chaplin stars as Capt. Fred Roberts, who publishes a satirical newspaper on the Western Front, using humor and wit to help his men stay sane amid the...

Turning Green

Victoria Wood's A Nice Cup of Tea

Fallen Angel

Season 1

This riveting miniseries explores the mind and motivation of a psychopath (Emilia Fox, Delicious), moving backwards through time to learn where it all went wrong. Ethereal beauty Angel Wharton is the devil in disguise. But what--or who--made her that way? Is it the fault of Angel's father (Charle...

Wreckers

Family Business

Season 2

In this scintillating French drama, mother and daughter Astrid (Catherine Marchal) and Audrey (Ophélia Kolb) are lawyers specializing in family law who make the perilous decision to work together. Along with partner Sofia (Charlotte des Georges), they deal with clients from a divorcing couple fig...

Four Seasons

Season 1

Based on the works of Rosamunde Pilcher, this sweeping saga follows a momentous year in the life of the Combe family at their magnificent estate on the Cornish coast. When Julia (Senta Berger) returns after being banished years earlier, it upends life at Endellion, unlocking secrets from the past...

Foyle's War

Season 10

Combining historical accuracy with compelling mysteries, this award winning British series is "a triumph from start to finish" (The Wall Street Journal). Michael Kitchen stars as Christopher Foyle, the upright, laconic detective tasked with investigating cases on the home front as WWII ravages th...

George Gently

Season 8

In this acclaimed BBC detective drama, Tony nominee Martin Shaw (Death in Holy Orders) stars as Inspector George Gently, an incorruptible cop transplanted from London to the North East of England in the mid-1960s. Gently and his cocky young protege, John Bacchus (Lee Ingleby, Line of Duty), inves...

Harry Wild

Season 1

Literature professor Harriet "Harry" Wild (Jane Seymour) is adjusting to retirement when she's mugged. While recovering at the home of her son (Kevin Ryan), a detective in the Dublin police, Harry gleans a clue for his current case. But when she's rebuffed, Harry decides to solve the crime hersel...

Hidden Assets

Season 1

When evidence from a raid links a small-time drug dealer to a series of bombings in Belgium, Irish detective Emer Berry (Angeline Ball, Acceptable Risk) heads to Antwerp, where she's confronted by Christian de Jong (Wouter Hendrickx) of the anti-terrorism squad. Together, they begin to untangle a...

Jack Irish

Season 4

Series 3 premiering in Latin America April 28. Emmy Award-winner Guy Pearce (Memento, Iron Man 3) is ex-lawyer turned PI Jack Irish in this acclaimed Aussie noir series. Aided by journalist-and sometimes girlfriend-Linda Hillier (Marta Dusseldorp, A Place to Call Home, Janet King), Jack takes on...

Jack Taylor

Season 3

Jack Taylor (Iain Glen, Game of Thrones, Downton Abbey) is a former cop turned private investigator in this gripping drama hailed as "brilliant" (The People, UK) and "impressive" (Daily Mail). Based on the bestselling novels of Ken Bruen, the series follows Jack as he investigates some of Ireland...

Kingdom

Season 3

Stephen Fry (Jeeves and Wooster) stars in this "charming" (Examiner.com) British dramedy as Peter Kingdom, a compassionate solicitor running a law practice in a quaint and beautiful Norfolk town. As he handles the cases of his oddball clients, he also contends with the mysterious disappearance of...

Ladies of Letters

Season 1

Two British widows who met at a wedding trade letters in which they attempt to one-up each other with stories and events from their lives. Based on the iconic BBC radio show, this 10-part series stars Maureen Lipman (The Pianist) and Anne Reid (Last Tango In Halifax).

Line of Duty

Season 6

From the creator of Bodyguard, this thrilling British drama has earned universal praise for its "nail-biting action, complex characters, and intricate plotting" (TV Guide). At internal affairs unit AC-12, Supt. Hastings (Adrian Dunbar, Blood) leads his team of DS Arnott (Martin Compston, The Nest...

London Kills

Season 3

London's best detectives take on its worst crimes in this sleek mystery series from the creator of Suspects. DI David Bradford (Hugo Speer, Father Brown) heads an elite murder squad, but the one case he can't crack is the one closest to him - the disappearance of his wife. Also starring Sharon Sm...

Missing

Season 1

In this British mystery thriller, Golden Globe® winner Joanne Froggatt (Downton Abbey) stars as Sybil Foster, a young runaway who has learned to survive by scamming unsuspecting men. But when one of her marks gets murdered, Sybil quickly becomes the police's prime suspect. Was she in the wrong pl...

Mr. and Mrs. Murder

Season 1

Leaving UK and Ireland 05/31/2022. In this Aussie import, fun-loving and flirtatious married couple Nicola (Kat Stewart, Offspring) and Charlie Buchanan (Shaun Micallef) run a cleaning service for crime scenes. The amateur detectives quickly realize that closing cases comes just as naturally as c...

Murder Investigation Team

Season 1

From the makers of The Bill, Murder Investigation Team reveals the gritty reality of police work, where success is part grueling procedure and part gut instinct. Leaders of an elite squad of detectives, brusque DI Vivien Friend (Samantha Spiro, Me Before You) and intuitive DC Rosie MacManus (Lind...

Murderland

Season 1

Three-time BAFTA Award winner Robbie Coltrane (Harry Potter, Cracker) stars in this gripping thriller about revenge, redemption, and rough justice. A girl (Bel Powley, The Diary of a Teenage Girl) witnesses the murder of her mother, and years later she contacts the original detective on the case...

My Life is Murder

Season 3

Lucy Lawless (Xena: Warrior Princess, Parks and Recreation) stars in this contemporary Australian detective drama as retired cop Alexa Crowe. With her old boss (Bernard Curry, Once Upon a Time) regularly asking for her insight on cold cases and a young police data-analyst (Ebony Vagulans) eager t...

Newton's Law

Season 1

From the team behind Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries, this Aussie legal drama is "intelligent, stylish and nicely romantic" (The Australian). Claudia Karvan (Jack Irish) stars as Josephine Newton, a skilled lawyer juggling her busy personal life along with a full caseload of quirky clients.

One Lane Bridge

Season 3

In this dark crime drama with a supernatural edge, a small town in New Zealand is upended when a local man's body is found at the bottom of a one-lane bridge that's long been a locus of unexplained events. While investigating the murder, an ambitious Māori detective inadvertently reawakens his se...

Queens of Mystery

Season 2

This "wickedly offbeat" (Parade), contemporary murder-mystery series follows the adventures of a perennially single detective and her three crime-writing aunts as they solve murders in the picturesque English region of Wildemarsh. Starring Florence Hall (The Princess Switch franchise), Julie Gra...

Recipes for Love & Murder

Season 1

When a woman who wrote to recipe/advice columnist Tannie Maria (Maria Doyle Kennedy, Outlander) turns up dead, Maria and her colleague, rookie journalist Jessie (Kylie Fisher), spring into action. They're determined to solve the murder in their small South African town, to the annoyance of police...

Republic of Doyle

Season 6

For Jake Doyle (Allan Hawco), trouble is a way of life. He and his ex-cop father, Malachy (Sean McGinley), run a Newfoundland detective agency in a rugged seaside town. They never lack for intriguing cases-and they're not always on the right side of the law-but the real fireworks stem from Jake's...

Rosamunde Pilcher's Coming Home

Season 1

Based on the best-selling book by Rosamunde Pilcher, this is the captivating tale of a shy young woman whose introduction to the English aristocracy is halted by World War II. Starring Peter O'Toole, Joanna Lumley, Emily Mortimer, David McCallum, and Paul Bettany.

Rosamunde Pilcher's The Shell Seekers

Season 1

Based on the novel by Rosamunde Pilcher, The Shell Seekers stars Vanessa Redgrave in "a fine, flinty performance" (Variety) as Penelope Keeling, who reflects on her life following a heart attack. As she recalls her wild childhood, one true love, and unhappy marriage, Penelope assesses her differi...

Signora Volpe

Season 1

Disillusioned British spy Sylvia Fox (Emilia Fox) is in Italy for her niece's wedding when the groom goes missing. Sylvia solves the mystery and, longing to reconnect with her sister (Tara Fitzgerald), decides to start anew in Umbria. Soon she's tackling other cases and winning over a handsome lo...

Small Claims

Season 1

Chrissy (Rebecca Gibney, Under the Vines) and Jo (Claudia Karvan, Love My Way) are two suburban mothers whose domestic responsibilities keep them more than busy. But when a young mom with a shady past vanishes in mysterious circumstances, they form a partnership to track her down. This leads the...

Straight Forward

Season 1

With stunning scenery and high-stakes action, this gritty international thriller is an adrenaline-filled ride across the globe. When her father is murdered, Danish con-woman Sylvia (Cecilie Stenspil) plots revenge on crime kingpin Ravn (Mark Mitchinson, Dear Murderer). Forced to flee to New Zeala...

Suspects

Season 5

Suspects is a "fresh, very different, and absolutely cracking drama" - Daily Mail (UK). Using improvised dialogue and filming techniques usually associated with factual programming, this unique procedural crime drama follows D.I. Martha Bellamy (Fay Ripley, Cold Feet) and her team as they investi...

The Brokenwood Mysteries

Season 7

Series 8 premieres in Australia July 3. This quirky New Zealand mystery follows DI Mike Shepherd, who arrives to the seemingly peaceful town of Brokenwood with a classic car, a country music collection, and an indeterminate number of ex-wives. His assistant, DC Kristin Sims, is a by-the-book inve...

The Chelsea Detective

Season 1

New episodes premiering weekly in North America. London's Chelsea neighborhood is a beautiful borough for beautiful people, but it has a dark underside of deception, violence, greed-and murder. Bodies have a way of showing up, and things are rarely what they seem. DI Max Arnold (Adrian Scarboroug...

The Circuit

Season 2

Aaron Pedersen (Mystery Road, Jack Irish) is Drew Ellis, an Indigenous lawyer who joins the Aboriginal Legal Service on a circuit court serving a vast and remote region of the Australian outback. In this challenging and chaotic world, Ellis gets a rude awakening as he realizes that one law for tw...

The Clinic

Season 7

In modern-day Dublin, a group of dedicated medical professionals work in a busy city health clinic. There they experience many joys and sorrows as they confront the frailty of human life, their hidden longings, and the cost of their professional ambitions. Starring Amy Huberman (Finding Joy), Chr...

The Field of Blood

Season 2

Peter Capaldi (Doctor Who) and David Morrissey (The Missing) co-star in this acclaimed BBC crime drama. Set in the gritty Glasgow of the early 1980s, Paddy (BAFTA Award winner Jayd Johnson) struggles to make a name for herself in the macho newsroom of the Daily News, but her dedication to seeking...

The Gulf

Season 2

Premieres October 5th. In this gripping psychological mystery from New Zealand, Detective Jess Savage (Kate Elliott, Wentworth) is recovering from a car crash that killed her husband when she learns about a new lead in a cold case. Jess restarts the investigation but notices troubling lapses in h...

The Hour

Season 2

Set in the 1950s, this Emmy-winning and Golden Globe-nominated BBC drama delves into the high-stakes world of TV news. Ben Whishaw (Spectre), Romola Garai (Emma), and Dominic West (The Affair) headline an all-star cast that includes Anna Chancellor (Ordeal by Innocence) and Peter Capaldi (Doctor...

The Madame Blanc Mysteries

Season 1

Antiques dealer Jean White (Sally Lindsay, Mount Pleasant) is nearly bankrupt after her husband's sudden death, and so she heads to their one last asset: a cottage in antiques hub Sainte Victoire, France. There, Jean begins investigating his death, aided by sympathetic taxi driver Dom (Steve Edge...

The Other Wife

Season 1

Rebecca (Natalia Wörner) has it all: a beautiful home and family, with a loving husband, Richard (John Hannah)-until he suddenly dies, exposing his double life. Reeling, Rebecca turns to Richard's brother (Rupert Everett), but can he be trusted?

The Paradise

Season 2

The murders of a family in cold blood deeply shake a Finnish community living in their own little paradise on the shores of the Mediterranean. Veteran detective Hilkka Mäntymäki is sent from Finland to the Costa del Sol, Spain, to help the local police on a case that will soon claim new victims.

800 Words

Season 2

Leaving Australia 14 June. This sweet, refreshing family drama hailed as "wonderful" (Tribune NS) follows recent widower George Turner's decision to start afresh in the New Zealand coastal town of Weld. The Aussie invaders quickly become the center of attention in this small town populated by wei...

Acceptable Risk

Season 1

Family secrets and international intrigue collide in this riveting Acorn TV Original drama from Ireland. After her husband is murdered, Sarah Manning slowly realizes that she knew almost nothing about his past. The investigation forces her to reckon with who he actually was--and what he did in hi...

Acorn TV in Conversation

Season 1

Acorn TV's biggest stars sit down for an intimate chat about their shows.

Aftertaste

Season 2

When his latest outburst goes viral, volatile celebrity chef Easton West (Erik Thomson) flees back to his Australian hometown and tries to reinvent himself through an unlikely partnership with his 19-year-old pastry wunderkind niece (Natalie Abbott). This "sharp satire" (The Guardian) also stars...

Ain't Misbehavin'

Season 1

Dashing duo Robson Green (Grantchester, Wire in the Blood) and Jerome Flynn (Game of Thrones) play a pair of musicians during the London Blitz in this delightfully funny miniseries. When the mismatched mates get caught up in a conflict between London gang bosses, music and misadventures ensue. Ji...

And Then There Were None

Season 1

On the brink of World War II, 10 troubled strangers are invited to an isolated island--and targeted for death, one by one. Based on the bestselling crime novel of all time by Agatha Christie, this "TV event of the year" (The Guardian, UK) boasts an all-star cast including Charles Dance, Sam Neill...

Balthazar - Coming Soon

Season 1

Season 5 Premieres May 1. Falsely accused of murder, Balthazar (Tomer Sisley) is on the run, while his colleagues on the police and at the Forensic Institute have been suspended. When a diabolical killer emerges, Balthazar comes out of hiding to set things right.

Candice Renoir - Coming Soon

Season 1

Premieres April 17. Inspector Candice Renoir is as self-assured as ever as she and her unit tackle a string of challenging cases, but when Antoine returns after a year away and is named the brigade's new chief, intense passion turns into fiery complications

Cold Call

Season 1

After single mother June (Sally Lindsay, Scott & Bailey) receives a fateful phone call, she takes increasingly desperate measures to salvage her family's future in this dark thriller. Finding herself the victim of a scam that wipes out her savings, June tries to hunt down those responsible with t...

Dead Lucky

Season 1

Oscar® nominee Rachel Griffiths (Six Feet Under) headlines this cinematic, fast-paced thriller. Detective Grace Gibbs is obsessed with catching the armed robber who killed her partner, while her new trainee (Yoson An, Mortal Engines) blames her for his best friend's death. The feuding detectives...

Finding Joy

Season 2

Amy Huberman (Striking Out, The Clinic) created, wrote, and stars in this quirky, life-affirming Irish comedy. Orderly, structured Joy is dealing with a messy breakup when a new work assignment forces her to look for happiness in the most unusual places. "Huberman has warm, almost effortless like...

Injustice

Season 1

James Purefoy (Rome) leads a distinguished cast featuring Dervla Kirwan (Ballykissangel), Charlie Creed-Miles (The Fifth Element), and Nathaniel Parker (The Inspector Lynley Mysteries) in a taut five-part thriller of murder, conspiracy, secrets, and guilt created and written by Anthony Horowitz (...

Janet King

Season 4

Award-winning actress Marta Dusseldorp (A Place to Call Home, Jack Irish) is brilliant senior crown prosecutor Janet King in this acclaimed Australian legal drama. Full of twists and turns, this "astutely realized mystery" (The Australian) is "unnervingly intricate, dark, but steadily intriguing"...

Like Father Like Son

Season 1

Dee Stanton (Jemma Redgrave, Holby City) seems to have a perfect life, with a blossoming career and a handsome fiance (Robson Green, Grantchester). But Dee's tragic past comes back to haunt her when her son learns his father is a convicted serial killer. After a girl's murder, Dee fears history i...

Liverpool 1

Season 2

Striking a "satisfying balance between crime-fighting and private emotional upheaval" (The Glasgow Herald), this gritty police procedural follows vice-squad detectives Isobel de Pauli (Samantha Womack, Mount Pleasant) and Mark Callaghan (Mark Womack, Babylon) as they fight crime and corruption in...

Missing Angel

Season 1

Premiering in the North America & United Kingdom March 27th. The sudden disappearance of her teenage daughter devastates Suzanne, but eight years go by without any leads. Then Suzanne spots a recent newspaper photo of a woman resembling her daughter and sets out to find her in this award-winning...

Sando

Season 1

With "echoes...of Arrested Development" (Sydney Morning Herald), this madcap Australian comedy delivers riotous laughs and outlandish characters. Sacha Horler (Jack Irish, Crownies) stars as Victoria "Sando" Sandringham, the CEO of a furniture-store empire, who tries to win back her family and he...

Seachange

Season 1

Series 4 leaving New Zealand December 31. When Laura Gibson's (Sigrid Thornton, Wentworth) life suddenly falls apart, she decides to make a fresh start with her two children in a small coastal town. But Pearl Bay isn't exactly the seaside idyll she remembers from a vacation years before, nor are...

The Cry (2018)

Season 1

Nominated for an International Emmy® for Best Actress, Jenna Coleman (Victoria, Doctor Who) mesmerizes as young mother Joanna in this intense psychological thriller. When tragedy strikes Joanna and her partner, Alistair (Ewen Leslie, Top of the Lake), it sets off a disturbing chain of events that...

The Drowning

Season 1

When Jodie's young son vanished from a lakeside picnic, it was presumed he drowned, but Jodie believed he was abducted. Years later, she sees a boy she's certain is her son. Jeopardizing the life she's painstakingly rebuilt, Jodie begins a dangerous and morally dark journey to prove the boy is he...

The Poison Tree

Season 1

Emmy nominee Matthew Goode (A Discovery of Witches, The Crown) stars in this "gripping… psychological crime thriller" (Mirror, UK) of deception, seduction, and twisted family ties. Released from prison, convicted murderer Rex returns home to his devoted wife, Karen (MyAnna Buring, Ripper Street),...

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Season 1

Beloved actress Geraldine McEwan (Agatha Christie's Marple) stars as imperious, unorthodox teacher Jean Brodie in this drama adapted from the novel by Muriel Spark. The series tells the story of an educator's effect on impressionable young ladies at the Marcia Blaine School for Girls in Edinburgh...

The Secret Agent

Season 1

In this thrilling BBC adaptation of Joseph Conrad's timeless novel, Golden Globe nominee Toby Jones (Detectorists, The Hunger Games) stars as Anton Verloc, an unassuming Soho shopkeeper. Unbeknownst to even his loyal wife, Winnie (Vicky McClure, Line of Duty, Broadchurch), Verloc also works for t...

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