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British thriller television series
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The list British thriller television series includes
The Fall, Whitechapel, Exile, Strangers and Bodyguard.
The list consists of 151 members.
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The Fall
Irish-British television series
Overview: The Fall is a crime drama television series filmed and set in Northern Ireland. The series, starring Gillian Anderson as Detective Superintendent Stella Gibson, is created and written by Allan Cubitt and ...
Genre: Drama, Thriller, CrimeDirector: Allan Cubitt, Jakob VerbruggenProducer: Allan Cubitt, Patrick IrwinWriter: Allan CubittA seemingly cold but very passionate policewoman goes head to head with a seemingly passionate father who is in fact a cold serialist in this procedural ...
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Tales of the Unexpected
1979-1988 British television series
Overview: Tales of the Unexpected (known as Roald Dahl's Tales of the Unexpected for the first two series) is a British television series that aired between 1979 and 1988. Each episode told a story, often with ...Release date: 24 March 1979Genre: Thriller, HorrorDirector: Graham Evans, John GorrieProducer: John Woolf, John RosenbergWriter: Robin Chapman, Roald DahlDramatizations of many 0
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Whitechapel
Television series
Overview: Whitechapel is a British police procedural, produced by Carnival Films and distributed by BBC Worldwide, in which detectives in London's Whitechapel district deal with murders which replicated historical ...Genre: Thriller, Crime, MysteryDirector: S.J. Clarkson, David EvansProducer: Sally Woodward Gentle, David BoulterWriter: Ben Court, Caroline IpA fast-tracked inspector, a hardened detective sergeant, and an expert in historical homicides investigate modern crimes with connections to the past in ... 0
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Viewpoint
British TV series or programme
Overview: Viewpoint is a British police procedural drama thriller television miniseries created by Harry Bradbeer and Ed Whitmore and starring Noel Clarke and Alexandra Roach. Produced by Tiger Aspect Productions ...
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The Irregulars
British crime drama streaming television series
Overview: The Irregulars is a British mystery adventure crime drama television series created by Tom Bidwell for Netflix. Loosely based on the works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, it features the Baker Street Irregulars ...
Director: Joss Agnew, Johnny AllanCast: McKell Celaschi-David, Thaddea Graham, Jojo Macari, Harrison Osterfield, Darci Shaw, Clarke PetersProducer: Tom Bidwell, Greg BrenmanWriter: Tom Bidwell, Sarah Simmonds 0
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Bodyguard
2018 British television drama series
Overview: Bodyguard is a British political thriller television series created and written by Jed Mercurio and produced by World Productions as part of ITV Studios for the BBC. The six-part series centres around ...
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Killing Eve
2018 British spy thriller television series
Overview: Killing Eve is a British spy thriller television series produced in the United Kingdom by Sid Gentle Films for BBC America and BBC Three. The series follows Eve Polastri (Sandra Oh), a British intelligence ...
Director: Damon Thomas, Stella CorradiProducer: Lee Morris, Sandra OhWriter: Luke Jennings, Phoebe Waller-Bridge 0
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Clique
2017 British television series
Overview: Clique is a British thriller television series created by Jess Brittain, starring Synnøve Karlsen and Rachel Hurd-Wood. It was released as part of BBC Three's online-only schedule and later aired on BBC ...
Genre: Drama, ThrillerDirector: Andrea Harkin, Robert McKillopProducer: Jess Brittain, Bryan ElsleyWriter: Jess Brittain, Kirstie SwainChildhood soulmates Georgia and Holly are only a few weeks into the so-called best years of their lives at university in Edinburgh... 0
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Tin Star
Television series
Overview: Tin Star is a British crime drama television series created by Rowan Joffé. The series focuses on Jim Worth, a former London Metropolitan Police Service detective who becomes chief of police of a Canadian ...
Director: Gilles Bannier, Grant HarveyCast: Tim Roth, Sarah Podemski, Christina Hendricks, Genevieve O'Reilly, Abigail Lawrie, Oliver CoopersmithProducer: Jonathan Curling, Vicki DelowWriter: Rowan Joffe, Tom ButterworthCrime drama set in a mountain town overrun by migrant oil workers. 0
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Line of Duty
British television drama series
Overview: Line of Duty is a British police procedural and serial drama created by Jed Mercurio and produced by World Productions for the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). It first began broadcasting on BBC ...
Genre: Drama, Thriller, CrimeDirector: John Strickland, Douglas MackinnonProducer: Jed Mercurio, Simon HeathWriter: Jed MercurioDS Steve Arnott is transferred to the police anti-corruption unit after the death of a man in a mistaken shooting during a counter-terrorist operation ... 0
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Hidden
British TV series or programme
Overview: Hidden is a British television drama starring Philip Glenister, Thekla Reuten, Anna Chancellor, Michael Winder, Andrew Scarborough and David Suchet, which debuted on BBC One on 6 October 2011. The four-part ...Genre: Crime, Drama, ThrillerDirector: Niall MacCormickCast: Philip Glenister, Thekla Reuten, Anna Chancellor, Matthew Marsh, Bertie Carvel, Richard DormerProducer: Nicola Blacker, Joanie BlaikieWriter: Ronan Bennett, Walter BernsteinWhen a mysterious lawyer Gina Hawkes turns up asking Harry to find a missing alibi witness for her client... 0
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Exile
British TV series or program
Overview: Exile is a British psychological thriller television series dealing with the topic of Alzheimer's disease against a background of corruption. It stars John Simm and Jim Broadbent and was broadcast on BBC ...Release date: 1 April 2011Genre: Drama, ThrillerDirector: John AlexanderProducer: Paul Abbott, Sarah BrandistWriter: Paul Abbott, Daniel BrocklehurstA father and son story, with a thriller motor. It explores a mystery from the past with a brutal and shocking revelation. 0
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Strangers
British TV series or programme
Overview: Strangers is a British television crime drama series, principally written and created by Murray Smith, and first broadcast on ITV on 5 June 1978. The series, featuring the characters of Detective Sergeant ...Release date: 5 June 1978Genre: Thriller, CrimeDirector: Bill Gilmour, William BrayneProducer: Richard Everitt, Mervyn WatsonWriter: Murray Smith, Leslie DuxburyDon Henderson resurrected the eccentric police detective George Kitchener Bulman (from the short lived... 0
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Baby Reindeer
Upcoming British drama television series
Overview: Baby Reindeer is a British black comedy-drama thriller television miniseries created by and starring Richard Gadd, adapted from his autobiographical one-man show. Directed by Weronika Tofilska and Josephine ...
Director: Weronika Tofilska, Josephine BornebuschProducer: Wim De Greef, Petra FriedWriter: Richard Gadd 0
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The Tourist
Internationally co-produced television series
Overview: The Tourist is a 2022 drama-thriller black comedy television series. It stars Jamie Dornan as the victim of a car crash who wakes up in a hospital in the Australian outback with amnesia. The series pr ...
Director: Daniel Nettheim, Chris SweeneyCast: Jamie Dornan, Danielle Macdonald, Shalom Brune-Franklin, Greg Larsen, Olwen Fouéré, Ólafur Darri ÓlafssonProducer: Harry Williams, Jack WilliamsWriter: Harry Williams, Jack Williams 0
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Vigil
British police procedural television serial
Overview: Vigil is a British police procedural drama television series created by Tom Edge and produced by World Productions. The series premiered on BBC One on 29 August 2021. The first series stars Suranne Jones ...
Director: Andy DeEmmony, Isabelle SiebProducer: George Aza-Selinger, Elizabeth BinnsWriter: George Aza-Selinger, Tom Edge 0
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The Nest
British television series
Overview: The Nest is a British television drama series starring Sophie Rundle and Martin Compston as a married couple unable to conceive with Mirren Mack as the 18-year-old who offers to be their surrogate mother ...
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Roadkill
UK television miniseries
Overview: Roadkill is a British four-part television thriller written and created by David Hare, and directed by Michael Keillor. It was first broadcast on BBC One on 18 October 2020. In the United States, it was ...
Director: Michael KeillorCast: Hugh Laurie, Helen McCrory, Olivia Vinall, Jennifer Hennessy, Iain De Caestecker, Shalom Brune-FranklinProducer: Rebecca Eaton, George FaberWriter: David Hare 0
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Behind Her Eyes
Psychological thriller limited series
Overview: Behind Her Eyes is a British noir supernatural psychological thriller television series created by Steve Lightfoot, based on the 2017 novel of the same name by Sarah Pinborough, that premiered on Netflix ...
Director: Erik Richter StrandProducer: Christopher Lahr, Steve LightfootWriter: Steve Lightfoot, Sarah Pinborough 0
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The Stranger
2020 British mystery thriller miniseries
Overview: The Stranger is an eight-part British mystery thriller miniseries written primarily by Danny Brocklehurst and based on the 2015 Harlan Coben novel of the same title. The miniseries premiered on Netflix ...
Director: Daniel O'Hara, Hannah QuinnCast: Richard Armitage, Shaun Dooley, Siobhan Finneran, Jacob Dudman, Misha Handley, Jennifer SaundersProducer: Madonna Baptiste, Richard FeeWriter: Daniel Brocklehurst, Mick Ford 0
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