UK Television Prime Time Dramas 2024
by JRB-NorthernSoul | created - 4 months ago | updated - 3 days ago | PublicTV Drama Series broadcast in 2024 produced in the UK or Ireland and shown in prime evening slots 7-10 pm in the UK. Two parts or more. (Includes shows premiered on Britbox, ITVX, Alibi and Acorn.)
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1. Mr Bates vs. The Post Office (2024)
53 min | Biography, Drama
One of the greatest miscarriages of justice in British legal history where hundreds of innocent sub-postmasters and postmistresses were wrongly accused of theft, fraud and false accounting due to a defective IT system.
Stars: Toby Jones, Monica Dolan, Julie Hesmondhalgh, Will Mellor
Votes: 10,551
2. Julia (2022–2023)
TV-MA | 45 min | Biography, Drama
Inspired by Julia Child's extraordinary life and her show The French Chef, which essentially invented food television.
Stars: Sarah Lancashire, David Hyde Pierce, Bebe Neuwirth, Fran Kranz
Votes: 13,151
Series 2
3. Waterloo Road (2006– )
TV-14 | 53 min | Drama, Romance
Contemporary drama series set in a challenging, diverse British secondary school.
Stars: Philip Martin Brown, Jason Done, Chelsee Healey, Denise Welch
Votes: 3,927
Series 13
4. Truelove (2024– )
43 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
A group of old friends reunited at a funeral make a drunken pact. Rather than let each other suffer a slow and painful decline they would engineer a dignified death. But what starts out as a fanciful idea soon morphs into shocking reality.
Stars: Lindsay Duncan, Clarke Peters, Peter Egan, Fiona Button
Votes: 726
5. The Tourist (2022–2024)
TV-MA | 693 min | Action, Drama, Mystery
When a man wakes up in the Australian outback with no memory, he must use the few clues he has to discover his identity before his past catches up with him.
Stars: Jamie Dornan, Danielle Macdonald, Greg Larsen, Victoria Haralabidou
Votes: 29,518
Series 2
6. The Madame Blanc Mysteries (2021– )
TV-14 | 60 min | Drama, Mystery
Antiques expert moves to France suspicious of how her husband died and uses her skills to become a PI aiding the local police and simultaneously bonding with the town's popular taxi driver.
Stars: Steve Edge, Alex Gaumond, Sally Lindsay, Sue Vincent
Votes: 3,260
Series 3
7. Call the Midwife (2012– )
TV-PG | 60 min | Drama, History
Chronicles the lives of a group of midwives living in East London in the late 1950s to late 1960s.
Stars: Vanessa Redgrave, Laura Main, Jenny Agutter, Stephen McGann
Votes: 31,538
Series 13
8. Vera (2011–2025)
TV-PG | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
With her caustic wit and singular charm, DCI Vera Stanhope leads her team as they face a series of captivating murder mysteries set against the breathtaking Northumberland landscape.
Stars: Brenda Blethyn, Jon Morrison, Riley Jones, Kenny Doughty
Votes: 20,122
Series 13
9. Silent Witness (1996– )
TV-14 | 120 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A team of exceptional forensic pathologists and scientists investigate heinous crimes and use their skills to catch the people responsible.
Stars: Emilia Fox, David Caves, William Gaminara, Tom Ward
Votes: 12,742
Series 27
10. After the Flood (2024– )
47 min | Thriller
Joanna finds an unidentified man dead in a lift in a underground car park after a devastating flood, police assumes that he became trapped as the waters rose, but she is obsessed with discovering what happened to him.
Stars: Sophie Rundle, Matt Stokoe, Nicholas Gleaves, Lorraine Ashbourne
Votes: 1,759
11. Grantchester (2014–2025)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A Cambridgeshire clergyman finds himself investigating a series of mysterious wrongdoings in his small village of Grantchester.
Stars: Robson Green, Tessa Peake-Jones, Al Weaver, Kacey Ainsworth
Votes: 17,203
Series 8 - Premiered on PBS in the US in July 2023
12. Finders Keepers (2024)
Drama, Thriller
Keen detectorist Martin and his wheeler dealer soon to be son-in-law Ashley who, while on a boys bonding trip in the idyllic fields of rural Somerset, discover a hoard of buried Saxon treasure worth millions.
Stars: James Buckley, Fay Ripley, Neil Morrissey, Jessica Rhodes
Votes: 506
13. Trigger Point (2022– )
TV-MA | 60 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Drama series following Lana Washington, an experienced bomb disposal officer working for the Metropolitan Police.
Stars: Vicky McClure, Eric Shango, Nabil Elouahabi, Kerry Godliman
Votes: 8,407
Series 2
14. Domino Day (2024– )
42 min | Drama, Fantasy
Follows Domino, who is a powerful young witch who is haunted by her need to feed on the energy of others.
Stars: Poppy Lee Friar, Percelle Ascott, Siena Kelly, Alisha Bailey
Votes: 503
15. Death in Paradise (2011– )
TV-PG | 60 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Cultures collide when British Detective Inspector is transferred from England to the Caribbean island of Saint Marie to head the island's police department.
Stars: Elizabeth Bourgine, Don Warrington, Danny John-Jules, Joséphine Jobert
Votes: 28,065
Series 13
16. Miss Scarlet & the Duke (2020– )
TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
When Eliza Scarlet's father dies, he leaves her penniless, but she resolves to continue his detective agency. To operate in a male-dominated world, though, she needs a partner - step forward a detective known as the Duke.
Stars: Kate Phillips, Stuart Martin, Cathy Belton, Simon Ludders
Votes: 11,019
Series 4
17. Kin (2021– )
TV-MA | Crime, Drama
Kin tells the story of a fictional Dublin family embroiled in gangland war and speaks to the enduring unbreakable bonds of blood and family.
Stars: Charlie Cox, Clare Dunne, Aidan Gillen, Emmett J Scanlan
Votes: 13,303
Series 2
18. Alice & Jack (2023–2024)
120 min | Drama, Romance
Follows the story of a 16-year relationship between two imperfect lovers and its highs and lows.
Stars: Domhnall Gleeson, Andrea Riseborough, Sunil Patel, Aimee Lou Wood
Votes: 1,537
19. Too Good to Be True (2024)
Drama
Rachel, a single mother and cleaner, is offered a better job by a wealthy businessman. She accepts, but grows suspicious of his motives as she becomes more involved in his affairs.
Stars: Kara Tointon, Allen Leech, Charlie Hodson-Prior, Sara Powell
Votes: 533
20. The Way (II) (2024)
Drama
Follows the Driscolls, an ordinary family caught in between power struggles that forces them to leave the country they call home.
Stars: Steffan Rhodri, Mali Harries, Sophie Melville, Callum Scott Howells
Votes: 982
21. Breathtaking (II) (2024)
142 min | Drama
Drama series following a doctor looking after the most gravely unwell patients in the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Stars: Joanne Froggatt, Bhav Joshi, Donna Banya, Naomi Denny
Votes: 1,325
22. Boarders (2024– )
Comedy, Drama
Comedy drama following 5 underprivileged black students from inner-city London who win scholarships to an elite boarding school, stepping out of the urban metropolis and into a world they can only describe as something out of Harry Potter.
Stars: Josh Tedeku, Jodie Campbell, Myles Kamwendo, Aruna Jalloh
Votes: 751
23. Mary & George (2024– )
Drama, History
The Countess of Buckingham who molded her son to seduce King James I and become his all-powerful lover, through intrigue, becoming richer, more titled and influential than England has ever seen.
Stars: Julianne Moore, Nicholas Galitzine, Tony Curran, Mark O'Halloran
Votes: 3,990
24. The Marlow Murder Club (2024– )
50 min | Mystery
Judith, Suzie and Becks start an investigation. To assist with official police investigation, headed by Tanika, They must suspect witnesses, and face down real danger as they work against the clock to stop the killer in their tracks.
Stars: Samantha Bond, Jo Martin, Cara Horgan, Natalie Dew
Votes: 748
25. Love Rat (2024– )
Drama
Recently divorced Emma enjoys a whirlwind holiday romance with hotel proprietor Niko on the paradise island of Cyprus. When she realises Niko has scammed her out of her life savings she enlists the help of her ex to get the money back.
Stars: Ramon Tikaram, Sally Lindsay, Neil Morrissey, Gerald Kyd
Votes: 454
26. Beyond Paradise (2023– )
TV-PG | 58 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Having left Saint Marie to be with Martha, DI Humphrey Goodman starts a new life with her in Devon, bringing his unique brand of chaotic genius to the small, close-knit community.
Stars: Kris Marshall, Sally Bretton, Zahra Ahmadi, Dylan Llewellyn
Votes: 4,825
Series 2
27. Coma (2024)
Drama, Thriller
Simon's neighborhood falls victim to the antics of a group of teenagers. Simon and his wife want to move their daughter to a safer area. He confronts the leader of the group, and a split-second decision changes everything.
Stars: Jason Watkins, Jonas Armstrong, Claire Skinner, Joe Barber
Votes: 739
28. Passenger (2024– )
60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A close-knit community is sent spinning on its axis following a series of strange and unnatural crimes.
Stars: Wunmi Mosaku, David Threlfall, Rowan Robinson, Barry Sloane
Votes: 1,247
29. Professor T (2021– )
46 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Professor Jasper Tempest, a genius Cambridge University criminologist with OCD and an overbearing mother, assists the police in solving crime.
Stars: Barney White, Ben Miller, Frances de la Tour, Emma Naomi
Votes: 5,485
Series 3
30. This Town (2024– )
58 min | Drama
An Extended family and four young people are drawn into the world of ska and two-tone music, which exploded from the grass roots of Coventry and Birmingham in the late '70s and early '80s which united black, white and Asian youths.
Stars: Levi Brown, Jordan Bolger, Ben Rose, Eve Austin
Votes: 1,267
31. Traces (2019–2022)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
While attending an online forensic course, young lab assistant discovers that the fictitious case study has a link to her past. With the help of two female professors she works on bringing a killer to justice.
Stars: Laura Fraser, Michael Nardone, Jennifer Spence, Andrea Hart
Votes: 6,778
Series 2
32. The Cuckoo (2024)
45 min | Drama
A family's desire for a fresh start unravels when their lodger's true identity is revealed, sparking a perilous journey to uncover dark family secrets and the cost of maternal love.
Stars: Jill Halfpenny, Lee Ingleby, Claire Goose, Freya Hannan-Mills
Votes: 505
33. The Regime (2024)
TV-MA | 54 min | Drama
Kate Winslet stars in this limited series as the Chancellor of an unnamed Central European nation that is unraveling behind the palace walls.
Stars: Kate Winslet, Matthias Schoenaerts, Guillaume Gallienne, Danny Webb
Votes: 9,182
34. Midsomer Murders (1997– )
TV-14 | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A veteran Detective Chief Inspector and his young Sergeant investigate murders around the regional community of Midsomer County.
Stars: John Nettles, Jane Wymark, Barry Jackson, Neil Dudgeon
Votes: 39,505
Series 23
35. Blue Lights (2023– )
TV-MA | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Follows rookie police officers working in Belfast, a city in which being a frontline response cop comes with unique pressures and dangers.
Stars: Nathan Braniff, Sian Brooke, Katherine Devlin, Martin McCann
Votes: 11,812
Series 2
36. Red Eye (2024– )
Action, Thriller
London police officer DC Hana Li is escorting Dr Matthew Nolan back to Beijing where he has been accused of a crime. However, on board flight 357, she finds herself embroiled in an escalating conspiracy and a growing number of murders.
Stars: Richard Armitage, Jing Lusi, Lesley Sharp, Jemma Moore
Votes: 1,775
37. The Red King (2024– )
47 min | Thriller
Character-driven mystery-thriller, combining a powerful story of a knotty police investigation with chilling, atmospheric folk-horror through the island's eerie past devotion to a pagan God called the Red King and the cult of the True Way.
Stars: Anjli Mohindra, James Bamford, Lu Corfield, Adjoa Andoh
Votes: 267
Premiered on Alibi
38. Granite Harbour (2022– )
59 min | Crime, Drama
Lance Corporal arriving in Aberdeen as a new recruit with Police Scotland. After completing his last assignment with the Royal Military Police, Lindo dreams of becoming a detective at New Scotland Yard.
Stars: Romario Simpson, Hannah Donaldson, Bhav Joshi, Michelle Jeram
Votes: 1,148
Series 2
39. The Responder (2022– )
TV-MA | 57 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A crisis-stricken, morally-compromised first-responder tackles a series of night shifts on the beat in Liverpool.
Stars: Martin Freeman, Adelayo Adedayo, Warren Brown, Faye McKeever
Votes: 13,000
Series 2
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