This title maps the development of the crime drama on international television‎.‎ The television crime drama has been a constant of the television landscape since it first migrated from film and radio onto the small screen in the 1950s‎.‎ Since then‎,‎ from Dixon of Dock Green to The Wire‎,‎ from Minder to The Sopranos or Cracker to Dexter‎,‎ the crime drama has continued to attract large audiences even as the depiction of the crime‎,‎ the perpetrators and the investigators has changed‎.‎ This book provides an historical analysis of the TV crime series as a genre by paying close attention not only to the nature of TV dramas themselves‎,‎ but also to the context of production and reception‎.‎ Rather than simply providing an overview‎,‎ this book offers a series of case studies to illuminate key issues in the trajectory of the genre‎.‎ Particular attention will be paid to the transnational career of the television crime drama‎,‎ including the British and American product‎,‎ as well as attention to crime drama series produced in other national contexts such as Europe and Australia‎.‎ In terms of reception‎,‎ this book includes original research on how the TV crime drama is perceived by audiences within the particular national context of Australia where American‎,‎ British and European crime dramas vie for attention in the TV schedule alongside the local product‎.‎ Finally‎,‎ the future of the TV crime series is canvassed in a discussion of the changing television landscape and the shift to other forms of TV consumption enabled by new digital technologies‎.‎ It includes case studies on The Wire‎,‎ Minder and The Killing‎.‎ It discusses drama from Australia‎,‎ the US‎,‎ Britain and Europe‎.‎