Over 41K TV viewers have voted on the 105+ Best British Detective Series and TV Shows, Ranked. Current Top 3: Endeavour, Inspector Lewis, Unforgotten
Having been critically acclaimed for his performance as George Smiley, Gary Oldman plays a very different sort of British spy inthis seriesadapted from theSlough Houseseries of novels by Mick Herron. A more modern spy than Smiley, far less neat and from a very different background, what they...
And Deeper 8 Super-Suspensful Spy Series To Watch On Netflix Now 2 The Crown Imelda Staunton, Jonathan Pryce, Lesley Manville 628 votes Is The Crown Watchworthy? Watch This Show If You Love: Victoria, The Tudors, Downton Abbey, The Royal House of Windsor, Elizabeth I Why Sho...
“Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy“Focus Features/Everett Collection Based on John le Carré’s page-turner of the same name, “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy” sets forth a seemingly straightforward puzzle: Who is the mole at the top of British intelligence? Directed by Tomas Alfredson, this thorny esp...
This British spy show is the anti-James Bond. Based on a series of novels by Mick Herron,Slow Horsesfollows a group of intelligence officers who operate out of Slough House, a boring MI5 administrative outpost where the agency sends agents it can’t fire but wants to punish. The hou...
Here's the best British TV shows of 2024 and where you can watch them, both within the UK and outside it. 33. Shardlake Credit: Adrienn Szabo Based on C. J. Sansom's novels, spanning the reigns of Henry VIII and Elizabeth I, historical mystery series Shardlake was an unexpected ...
When you think of the biggest TV shows ever, the likes of Sopranos and The Wire tend to crop up as two of the best crime dramas around, but have you heard of the British gangster series Top Boy? The show first aired on the UK broadcaster Channel 4 – season 1 arrived in 2011 follow...
On Spybrary we often joke that the Brits write the best realistic spy novels, but the Americans are really starting to stake their claim. Three of the writers I’ve chosen (Vidich, McCloskey, and Berry) are American. I might offend some Americans, but they are writing in a British styl...
From Richard Madden's 'Bodyguard' to 'Peaky Blinders' starring Cillian Murphy, Netflix has a wide selection of must-watch British crime dramas.
There’s a Russian mole embedded in the depths of MI6, the British secret intelligence service, and George Smiley, solemnly played by Gary Oldman, has been brought out of retirement in order to find them. The film is an anti-spy movie of sorts. You won’t find car chases here. No ex...