No one does gritty inner city police shows quite like the Brits
I do like the imported shows, like Patrick Stewart in
Eleventh Hour, the original version of
Broadchurch,
Luther, and the AUS origional version of
Rake. Heck, I even though the UK version of
Law & Order was more interesting than most of the US versions. Every couple of years or so a US broadcaster will show an imported series so over the years I've watched several, just wish that BBC America showed more.
Law & Order is a bit of a ironic situation because the UK version was more akin to the police procedural series that the original US version started off as before it morphed into the character turmoil of the week series that it ended as.