Any BRITISH cop shows worth checking out?

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Andydevine82 — 11 years ago(October 14, 2014 11:32 AM)

You could also try The Cops if you can find it! 3 series very similar to Southland but set in Manchester. It was done late 90's I think.

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PrickWithAFork — 11 years ago(October 16, 2014 06:34 AM)

I loved The Cops and went on a few dates with a (female) cast memeber! No names, no pack drillthey were filming near me and I just went for it.
Happy Valley is staggeringly good, enough said.
I'm a Prick With a Fork.

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Andydevine82 — 11 years ago(February 26, 2015 07:01 PM)

Lucky bugger lol

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sixpaws67 — 11 years ago(October 31, 2014 11:08 PM)

Ripper Street is awesome. The first episode focuses on a modern-day Jack the Ripper, to draw us in, but after that it's normal cop stuff and it is excellent. First-rate.
I heard Whitechapel is good but I have only just started it.

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kimscorner — 10 years ago(July 22, 2015 10:25 PM)

1. Amnesia
2. Collision
3. Copper
4. DCI Banks
5. The Escape Artist
6. Frost
7. Messiah (Ken Stotts)
8. Ripper Street
9. Thorne: Sleepyhead
10. Blackpool is another British series that is done very differently. It is a murder mystery musicallol in every episode one or some of the characters breaks into song. It sounds strange but they pulled it off wonderfully.
    I am not sure if Crossing Lines is an American show or from somewhere else but it involves an international group of detectives working together.
    Also I would recommend the Swedish version of The Bridge.
    I have watched most of the British shows recommended by others that answered your question and I liked them all.
    Another British show is called Silk. It isn't about Police but about people trying to rise through the ranks of the court system and the cases they try.

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lensue88 — 10 years ago(January 08, 2016 10:12 AM)

Southland was very good and I didn't watch too many police shows. Last year we got Netflix and I went on a British/Irish binge. Highly recommend The Fall, Happy Valley and Broadchurch.

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Gemma_Philips — 10 years ago(January 31, 2016 10:53 PM)

This is the Southland message board. If you are looking for a show close to Southland but set in the UK, you should check out the show called "The Bill".
Like Southland it shows the work of both the Uniformed Police and the Detectives. The stories are all realistic everyday type of scenarios the British police encounter.
The shows being suggested to you in this thread are the equivalent of the X-Files in terms of reality.
Southland was good because of it's realism and honesty. The only British Cop show like it is "The Bill".

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PurpleProseOfCairo — 10 years ago(February 19, 2016 06:14 AM)

(cough My suggestion, Juliet Bravo, was quite realistic too. As was The Cops)

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Gemma_Philips — 9 years ago(June 22, 2016 01:55 AM)

I was too young to find Juliet Bravo interesting.
The Bill is still the top cop show for realism and the nearest to Southland.

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lensue88 — 10 years ago(March 08, 2016 07:01 PM)

I watched 3 British/Irish shows last year, The Fall, Happy Valley and Broadchurch, all excellent. They were on Netflix

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Gemma_Philips — 9 years ago(June 28, 2016 12:31 AM)

All are good shows. The new season of The Fall has been my most anticipated since the end of the last one. More so than Banshee, Walking Dead, Black Sails, Penny Dreadful and more.