Criminal Record (2024)

The one about a case that was supposedly closed. An anonymous phone call sends Cush Jumbo's young detective June Lenker back to an old London murder and a possible miscarriage of justice, which sets her against Peter Capaldi's DCI Daniel Hegarty, the veteran officer who handled the original case. The pleasure here is the standoff between two very good actors, and the way the series treats a wrongful conviction as something an institution would rather leave buried. For this list, season 1 is the one to watch: the second season of Paul Rutman's Apple TV drama, released in 2026, moves on to a new, present-day murder at a political rally.