If You Liked Broadchurch, Watch These Next
Finished Broadchurch (2013) and want more of the same? These 20 TV shows are what its fans watched next, ranked by how often people who liked it also liked these. Like Broadchurch, most of them are crime, drama, mystery.
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20 titles · updated 3rd October 2026
1.Shetland(2013)
7.5CrimeDramaMysteryAlso crime and drama
Created from the novels by award winning crime writer Ann Cleeves, Shetland follows DI Jimmy Perez and his team as they investigate crime within the close knit island community. In this isolated and sometimes inhospitable environment, the team have to rely on a uniquely resourceful style of policing.
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2.Murder in a Small Town(2024)
6.9DramaCrimeAlso drama and crime
Karl Alberg moves to a quiet coastal town to soothe a psyche that has been battered by big-city police work but finds himself needing to call upon all his skills to solve the murders that continue to wash up on his shore.
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3.Agatha Christie's Marple(2004)
7.8DramaCrimeMysteryAlso drama and crime
The adventures of Miss Jane Marple, an elderly spinster living in the quiet little village of St Mary Mead. During her many visits to friends and relatives in other villages, Miss Marple often stumbles upon mysterious murders which she helps solve. Although the police are sometimes reluctant to accept Miss Marple's…
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4.The Brokenwood Mysteries(2014)
7.6MysteryDramaCrimeAlso mystery and drama
In a seemingly quiet country town the newest resident, Detective Inspector Mike Shepherd, finds that murder lurks in even the most homely location.
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5.Scream: The TV Series(2015)
6.9DramaCrimeMysteryAlso drama and crime
What starts as a YouTube video going viral, soon leads to problems for the teenagers of Lakewood and serves as the catalyst for a murder that opens up a window to the town's troubled past. Everyone has secrets. Everyone tells lies. Everyone is fair game.
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6.Southcliffe(2013)
6.7CrimeDramaAlso crime and drama
Following a raft of shootings in an English market town, the crimes are retold in a nonlinear narrative structure through the eyes of a journalist and the tragedies' victims.
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7.Miss Marple: The Body in the Library(1984)
7.6CrimeDramaMysteryAlso crime and drama
Amateur detective Miss Jane Marple investigates the murder of a young woman whose body is found in the library at Gossington Hall, home of Colonel and Mrs. Arthur Bantry.
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8.Ordeal by Innocence(2018)
6.9CrimeDramaMysteryAlso crime and drama
The black sheep of the Argyll family, Jack Argyll, was accused of murdering their matriarch a year ago, but now a man shows up on their doorstep claiming Jack’s innocence. The family must come to terms with this news and the fact that the real killer might still be among them.
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9.Coroner(2019)
7.0DramaCrimeMysteryAlso drama and crime
Jenny Cooper investigates unexplained or sudden deaths in the city of Toronto. Fierce and quick-witted, Jenny is a newly-widowed single mother with secrets of her own to unearth.
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10.Sister Boniface Mysteries(2022)
6.5CrimeDramaMysteryAlso crime and drama
First there was Father Brown. Now, say hello to Sister Boniface. This clever, moped-riding nun is the police's secret weapon for solving murders in this divine Father Brown spin-off.
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11.Endeavour(2013)
8.1CrimeDramaMysteryAlso crime and drama
The early days of a young Endeavour Morse, whose experiences as a detective constable with the Oxford City Police will ultimately shape his future.
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12.Perry Mason(1957)
7.7MysteryDramaCrimeAlso mystery and drama
The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most difficult of cases in the aid of the innocent.
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13.Under Salt Marsh(2026)
6.6CrimeMysteryAlso crime and mystery
Morfa Halen is a tight-knit Welsh town precariously nestled between towering mountains and a fast-encroaching sea that threatens its very existence. As a once-in-a-generation storm begins to gather far out at sea, former detective turned teacher Jackie Ellis discovers the body of her 8-year-old pupil, Cefin,…
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14.Midsomer Murders(1997)
7.5CrimeDramaMysteryAlso crime and drama
The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed under suspicion, and it is up to a veteran DCI and his young sergeant to calmly and diligently eliminate the innocent and ruthlessly pursue the guilty.
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15.Steeltown Murders(2023)
6.8CrimeMysteryAlso crime and mystery
The hunt to catch the killer of three young women in the Port Talbot area in 1973 and the remarkable story of how - in the first case of its kind - the mystery was solved almost 30 years later using pioneering DNA evidence. Contrasting the policing methods of the 1970s with the forensic breakthroughs of the early…
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16.Silk Stalkings(1991)
6.2CrimeDramaAction & AdventureAlso crime and drama
Silk Stalkings is a crime drama television series. The series portrays the daily lives of two detectives who solve sexually-based crimes of passion among the ultra-rich of Palm Beach, Florida.
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17.Mystery Road(2018)
6.9MysteryDramaCrimeAlso mystery and drama
When there is a mysterious disappearance on an outback cattle station, Detective Jay Swan is assigned to investigate. Working with local cop Emma James, Jay’s investigation uncovers a past injustice that threatens the fabric of the whole community.
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18.Dalziel and Pascoe(1996)
6.4MysteryCrimeDramaAlso mystery and crime
In the fictional Yorkshire town of Wetherton, the unlikely duo of politically incorrect elephant-in-a-China-shop-copper DS Andrew Dalziel (pronounced Dee-ell) and his more sensitive and university educated sidekick DS, later DI, Peter Pascoe is always on hand to solve the classic murder mystery, while maintaining…
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19.The Hardy Boys(2021)
7.2DramaMysteryAlso drama and mystery
When Frank and Joe Hardy arrive in Bridgeport, they set out to uncover the truth behind the recent tragedy that has changed their lives. In doing so, they stumble upon something much more sinister - something only the Hardy Boys can stop.
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20.Mosaic(2018)
6.5DramaCrimeMysteryAlso drama and crime
Explore the psychological underpinnings of love and murder in a small mountain resort town while following popular children’s book author and illustrator Olivia Lake, whose literary success makes her a local celebrity in the tight-knit community.
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