Lovejoy

Series Similar to Lovejoy

If you enjoyed Lovejoy, these series share similar themes, tone, and quality. Each recommendation is scored on genre overlap, tonal match, and critical acclaim.

1. Going Straight

   1978 · Comedy, Crime · ended

   Recommended for similar Crime profile, highly rated (8), also on BBC One.

   Sitcom sequel to Porridge. Fletch is finally released from Slade Prison, will he be able to stop himself from going back?

2. Psych

   2006 · Drama, Comedy, Crime · ended

   Recommended for similar Crime profile, highly rated (8.1).

   Psych is a quick-witted comedy starring James Roday as young police consultant Shawn Spencer, who solves crimes with powers of observation so acute that Santa Barbara PD detectives think he's psychic. Psych also stars Dule Hill as Shawn's best friend and reluctant sidekick, Gus, and Corbin Bernsen as Shawn's disapproving father, Henry, who ironically was the one who honed his son's "observation" skills as a child.

3. The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

   2009 · Drama, Comedy, Crime · ended

   Recommended for similar Crime profile, highly rated (8), hidden gem, also on BBC One.

   The first BBC drama to be filmed entirely on location in Botswana, The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency is a charming story chronicling the adventures of Mma Ramotswe, a Motswana woman who starts up the country's first female-owned detective agency. Based on the novels by Alexander McCall Smith.

4. Shakespeare & Hathaway - Private Investigators

   2018 · Drama, Comedy, Crime · returning

   Recommended for similar Crime profile.

   Frank Hathaway, a hardboiled private investigator, and his rookie sidekick Lu Shakespeare form the unlikeliest of partnerships as they investigate the secrets of rural Warwickshire's residents.Beneath the picturesque charm lies a hotbed of mystery and intrigue: extramarital affairs, celebrity stalkers, missing police informants, care home saboteurs, rural rednecks and murderous magicians, embezzling accountants and abducted au pairs, blackmail, comp claims and custody cases, all-night stake-outs and professional hits. Our odd couple of detectives will put the world to rights as they snoop and pry. They disagree on almost everything, yet somehow, together, they make a surprisingly effective team. Although they would never admit it.

5. Agatha Raisin

   2014 · Drama, Comedy, Crime · ended

   Recommended for similar Crime profile.

   Agatha Raisin is an exuberant and quirky crime drama starring Ashley Jensen as the notorious Agatha. Based on the novels of M. C. Beaton. She first appeared in the made for TV movie Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death.

6. Get Shorty

   2017 · Drama, Comedy, Crime · ended

   Recommended for similar Crime profile, highly rated (8), hidden gem.

   Inspired by Elmore Leonard's 1990 New York Times bestselling novel, Get Shorty is the story of Miles Daly, who works as muscle for a murderous crime ring in Nevada and attempts to change professions and become a movie producer, laundering money through a Hollywood film.

7. Terriers

   2010 · Drama, Comedy, Crime · ended

   Recommended for similar Crime profile, highly rated (8).

   Terriers is an American comedic drama television series. Ex-cop and recovering alcoholic Hank Dolworth partners with his best friend, former criminal Britt Pollack, in an unlicensed private investigation business. The series is set in Ocean Beach, San Diego, California, although it is portrayed as a distinct town, with Dolworth having once been a member of the fictional Ocean Beach Police Department. The duo, both struggling with maturity issues, solve crimes while avoiding danger and responsibility.

8. Lilyhammer

   2012 · Drama, Comedy, Crime · ended

   Recommended for similar Crime profile, hidden gem.

   Lilyhammer follows New York mobster Frank "The Fixer" Tagliano as he enters the federal witness protection program after ratting on his boss. A sports fan, Frank wants to make his new life in Lillehammer, the Norwegian town that hosted the 1994 Winter Olympics - or as he calls it "Lilyhammer." Frank has visions of a paradise of "clean air, fresh white snow and gorgeous broads" far away from the temptations of the Big Apple and from mob hit men. Reality, of course, turns out to be spectacularly different.

9. Babylon

   2014 · Drama, Comedy, Crime · ended

   Recommended for similar Crime profile, hidden gem.

   Razor-sharp comedy drama that takes a wry look at the people and politics of London's police force. 

10. Backstrom

    2015 · Drama, Comedy, Crime · ended

    Recommended for similar Crime profile, hidden gem.

    The series follows Detective Everett Backstrom, an unhealthy, offensive, irascible - albeit brilliant - detective who sees the worst in everyone, and he's usually right.