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2000s
Prison Break (2005)
Byte-Sized Overview Prison Break is a high-concept escape thriller built around a brotherly rescue plan with the emotional subtlety of…
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1990s
Oz (1997)
Byte-Sized Overview Oz is HBO’s grimy prison drama set inside the fictional Oswald State Correctional Facility, usually called Emerald City…
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2010s
Happy Valley (2014)
Byte-Sized Overview Happy Valley is a West Yorkshire crime drama that starts with a local police sergeant, Catherine Cawood, doing…
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2000s
Hustle (2004)
Byte-Sized Overview Hustle is a glossy British con drama about a small, highly disciplined team of charm merchants who make…
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1990s
Silent Witness (1996)
Byte-Sized Overview Silent Witness is the BBC’s long-running forensic crime drama, launched in 1996 and built around the grimly fascinating…
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2000s
State of Play (2003)
Byte-Sized Overview State of Play is a six-part BBC One political thriller from 2003, written by Paul Abbott and directed…
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1990s
Due South (1994)
Byte-Sized Overview Due South is the gloriously oddball 1994 crime-comedy-drama about a Canadian Mountie, Benton Fraser, who arrives in Chicago…
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2000s
The Wire (2002)
Byte-Sized Overview The Wire is a five-season HBO crime drama set in Baltimore, where a police detail, drug crews, docks,…
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1990s
ER (1994)
Byte-Sized Overview ER is the fast-moving NBC medical drama set in the emergency department of County General Hospital in Chicago,…
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1990s
Cracker (1993)
Byte-Sized Overview Cracker is the sort of 1990s British crime drama that arrives in a cloud of cigarette smoke, bad…
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2020s
MobLand (2025)
Byte-Sized Overview MobLand is a British gangster drama set in and around London, where two crime families are edging towards…
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2010s
The Blacklist (2013)
Byte-Sized Overview The Blacklist is a glossy, twisty NBC crime thriller built around one irresistible proposition: Raymond “Red” Reddington, a…
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