Lots of great stuff to look forward to this week, including Mark Gatiss’s jovial period crime drama, Bookish, and the Eric Bana Netflix series, Untamed. Look out for series two of Karen Pirie and The Couple Next Door. Enjoy!

1 Smoke *NEW UK PREMIERE EPISODE*
S1 E5/9
While Gudsen heads out of town for a conference, Calderone tries to track down his old partner. Freddy seeks revenge.
Friday 18th July, Apple TV+

2 Bookish *NEW UK PREMIERE SERIES*
S1 E1&2/6
Detective drama set in post-war London starring Mark Gatiss, following a bookseller who helps the police solve the strangest of crimes and the knottiest of murders – while hiding his own secrets. There’s a new assistant to train up at Book’s Books, but the excavation of a nearby bombsite that’s full of skeletons leads to book-selling taking a back sea.
Wednesday 16th and Thursday 17th July, 8m and 9.10pm, U&Alibi

3 Karen Pirie *NEW UK PREMIERE SERIES*
S2 E1/3
Amid societal unrest in 1984, oil heiress Catriona Grant and her son Adam are kidnapped at gunpoint, but after sending two ransom notes the culprits unexpectedly fall silent and the pair are never seen again. When a man’s body is discovered 40 years later in a quarry with a piece of evidence connected to the case, DI Karen Pirie is tasked with reopening the case with the first new lead in decades. 
Sunday 20th July, 8pm, ITV1

4 Untamed *NEW UK PREMIERE SERIES*
S1 E1-6/6
Kyle Turner (played by Bana), a special agent for the National Parks Service who works to enforce human law in nature’s vast wilderness. The investigation of a brutal death sends Inman on a collision course with the dark secrets within the park, and in his own past.
Thursday 17th July, Netflix

5 The Couple Next Door *NEW UK PREMIERE SERIES*
S2 E1-3/6
Leo’s return sparks a change in Charlotte, and Mia seizes the opportunity to work her way into Jacob and Charlotte’s confidence, their street, and eventually their bed, befriending cul-de-sac outcast Alan along the way.
Monday 14th, Tuesday 15th and Wednesday 16th July, 9pm, Channel 4

6 Dexter: Resurrection *NEW UK PREMIERE EPISODE*
S1 E3/10
No synopsis available.
Friday 18th July, Paramount+

7 Détective Surprenant *NEW UK PREMIERE SERIES*
S1 E1-6/6
Detective André Surprenant investigates the murder of a teenage girl on the Madeleine Islands. He faces hostility from an investigator dispatched from Quebec City as he seeks to unravel the islanders’ secrets to solve the crime.
Friday 18th July, All4/Walter Presents

8 Sight Unseen *UK PREMIERE EPISODE*
S1 E5/10
Tess works her first case as a police consultant with Sunny in her ear after one of Matt’s colleagues is found dead in the college pool.
Friday 18th July, Paramount+

9 The Sommerdahl Murders *NEW UK PREMIERE SERIES*
S3 E3&4/8
Early one bright morning, a wandering young couple find a boat that has washed ashore. They get a shock when they see it contains a bloodstained body. Upon the initial investigation, the team find out that the dead man, Theis Jorgensen, seems to have collected plenty of enemies in his bid to develop a local marina. Can his murderer be found?
Friday 18th July, 9pm, More4

10 Miss Marple *REPEAT*
A Murder Is Announced
A police inspector enlists the sleuthing spinster’s help to investigate when a local newspaper small ad outlines details of a forthcoming murder in the village of Chipping Cleghorn.
Saturday 19th July, 8pm, BBC Four