Also this year...
7 Grantchester
ITV RETURNING
Reverend Will Davenport and DI Geordie Keating (Tom Brittney and Robson Green, right) are back to solve more crimes as the action moves to the summer of 1959.
8 Shakespeare & Hathaway
BBC1 RETURNING
Jo Joyner and Mark Benton return to Stratford-upon-avon as mismatched detective duo Luella Shakespeare and Frank Hathaway in a fourth series of this fun daytime drama.
9 Shetland
BBC1 RETURNING
After that unexpected ending to series six, it’s time to find out the fate of brooding cop DI Jimmy Perez (Douglas Henshall, right), as the classy crime drama returns for another outing.
10 Pretty Hard Cases
Alibi NEW
This 10-part, Canadian buddy-cop drama follows two very different detectives, by-the-book Sam Wazowski (Meredith Macneill) and streetwise Kelly Duff (Adrienne C Moore), as they join forces in Toronto to catch the same target.
11 Mcdonald & Dodds
ITV RETURNING Popular duo DS Dodds and DCI Mcdonald – played by Jason Watkins and Tala Gouveia (right) – are reunited in Bath for a third series of four new cases.
12 Gangs of London
Sky Atlantic RETURNING
The grisly drama about the struggles of rival gangs in present-day London is back for a second outing, with battle lines redrawn one year on from the violent events of series one.
13 Silent Witness
BBC1 RETURNING Original cast member Amanda Burton (right) reprises her role as pathologist Sam Ryan, who was last seen at The Lyell in 2004, for the forensic drama’s 25th anniversary series.
14 Traces
Alibi RETURNING
The second series of the popular drama starring Laura Fraser, Martin Compston and Molly Windsor finds the Scottish Institute of Forensic Science analysing evidence to find who’s behind a series of bombings in Dundee.
15 Suspect
C4 NEW
This eight-part thriller sees James Nesbitt as veteran detective Danny Frater, who turns up at a mortuary for what he thinks is a routine ID check, only to find the body is that of his own estranged daughter.
16 We Own This City
Sky Atlantic NEW
Based on the book by Baltimore
Sun reporter Justin Fenton, this six-part series chronicles the rise and fall of the Baltimore Police Department’s Gun Trace Task Force. The cast includes Jon Bernthal
(The Walking Dead), Josh
Charles (The Good Wife), and
Jamie Hector (The Wire).
17 The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe
ITV NEW
In this four-part factual drama, penned by Chris Lang (Unforgotten), Monica Dolan plays Anne Darwin, who became complicit in an attempt by husband John (Eddie Marsan) to convince the world that he had gone missing on a 2002 canoeing trip and claim life insurance.
18 Miss Scarlet and the Duke Alibi
RETURNING
Kate Phillips and Stuart Martin are back as fearless Eliza Scarlet and Inspector William ‘The Duke’ Wellington in a second series of the Victorian-set caper.
19 Unforgotten
ITV RETURNING
The acclaimed cold-case drama returns for a fifth series, with a new case and a new partner-in-crimesolving for DI Sunny Khan
(Sanjeev Bhaskar).
20 Grace
ITV RETURNING
John Simm’s tenacious cop DS Roy Grace is on the case in three new episodes of the gritty Brighton-based drama inspired by the best-selling novels by Peter James.