This post details the Acorn TV 2022 crime drama highlights including Acorn TV originals. With details of top new releases each month.
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Acorn TV 2022 Highlights
This round-up of new Acorn TV shows to watch includes Acorn originals plus more top crime dramas.
Acorn TV 2022 – January
Queens of Mystery Season 2 (Acorn TV Original)
In Series 2 of this “surefire crowd-pleaser” (LA Times), detective Matilda Stone and her three crime-writing aunts investigate a murder at a health spa, a killing in the contemporary art world, and the theft of an Edgar Allen Poe manuscript. While Matilda’s love life hits a snag, she makes headway in the case of her mother’s long-ago disappearance-despite the best efforts of those closest to her. For more details and episode list: Queens of Mystery – Top New Acorn TV Mystery.
Republic of Doyle Series 6 (UK)
In the final season, things are looking grim as Jake (Allan Hawco) faces murder charges, and Leslie recovers from the attack. But this PI family knows how to fight back.
Murder Maps Season 1 (US)
This true crime drama-doc series takes you back in time to the most shocking and surprising murder cases in history. Hosted by Nicholas Day, each episode covers a notorious true crime from British history. With a combination of detailed discussion and drama reconstructions, he retells the events as they are believed to have happened. Season 1 includes 4 infamous British true crime cases: 1. The Bermondsey Horror, 2. In The Shadow Of Jack the Ripper, 3. Finding Dr Crippen and 4. The Brides In The Bath Killer.
Acorn TV 2022 – February
Chelsea Detective Series 1 (Acorn TV Original, UK)
DI Max Arnold polices the streets of Chelsea, London’s richest borough. It’s a beautiful place for beautiful people-hiding a dark side of deception, greed, and murder. For more details, episode list and where to watch online: New on Acorn TV February 2022: Chelsea Detective
Murdoch Mysteries Season 15 (US)
In Season 15, Detective Murdoch (Yannick Bisson) seeks to protect his son from the Black Hand gang, while Crabtree (Jonny Harris) tries to save Effie from her kidnappers.
Candice Renoir Season 3
In Series 3 of this witty French drama, police commandant Candice Renoir continues to rely more on her school-of-life methods than on anything in the police handbook.
Murder Maps Season 2 (US)
Presenting the most shocking and surprising murder cases from Britain’s last century, Series 2 of this drama-documentary series details a couple who were both adulterous and murderous, a serial killer at work during the London Blitz, a soldier returned from war who brought savagery back with him, and a nightmare of a man, who stashed his victims on his property in Notting Hill.
Conviction: The Case of Stephen Lawrence (US)
ITV crime drama based on the tragic murder of a black teenager in South-East London in 1993, which even today raises questions on many social issues in Britain. Including racism, policing, our legal system and what it means to be a person of colour in modern Britain. Thirteen years after their son’s murder by a racist gang, Stephen Lawrence’s parents still fight for justice, and DCI Driscoll (Steve Coogan) strives to solve the case.
Acorn TV 2022 – March
Chelsea Detective Series 1 (Acorn TV Original, US)
DI Max Arnold polices the streets of Chelsea, London’s richest borough. It’s a beautiful place for beautiful people-hiding a dark side of deception, greed, and murder. For more details, episode list and where to watch online: New on Acorn TV February 2022: Chelsea Detective.
The Paradise Series 1
When a Finnish family is murdered on Spain’s Costa del Sol, veteran detective Hilkka Mantymaki is sent to help the local police on a case that soon claims new victims.
Murder Maps Season 3 (US)
Revealing the most shocking and horrifying murders from Britain’s last century, this documentary series goes back in time to dramatize the horrid tales. True crime cases in series 3 include: 1. The Brighton Trunk Murders, 2. The Acid Bath Murders, 3. The Towpath Murders and 4. Ruth Ellis.
*Available to watch on Acorn TV with UK Amazon and US Amazon with free trial.
Acorn TV 2022 – April
Harry Wild Season 1 (Acorn TV Original)
Harry Wild Series 1: Literature professor Harriet “Harry” Wild (Jane Seymour) is adjusting to retirement when she’s mugged. While recovering at the home of her son (Kevin Ryan), a detective in the Dublin police, Harry gleans a clue for his current case. But when she’s rebuffed, Harry decides to solve the crime herself. Recruiting an unlikely young sidekick (Rohan Nedd), she finds a new path as a private investigator. For more details, episode list and where to watch online: Harry Wild – Acorn TV Original Crime Drama for April 2022.
Candice Renoir Season 4
Chief Inspector Candice Renoir has her investigative methods ridiculed in court; loses her deputy, Antoine Dumas; and finds her mother implicated in a string of murders.
Hidden Assets Season 1 (US)
In BBC crime thriller ‘Hidden Assets’, a routine raid led by Detective Emer Berry and her team in the Irish Criminal Assets Bureau sets off a chain of events which unravel a political conspiracy. Starring Angeline Ball.
Balthazar Season 4
Seven months after his life was upended, forensic pathologist Balthazar (Tomer Sisley) is forced to face his demons by the arrival of an outspoken, energetic new partner.
Acorn TV 2022 – May
Signora Volpe Season 1 (Acorn TV Original)
Disillusioned with her job and longing to reconnect with her family, British spy Sylvia Fox (Emilia Fox, Delicious) moves to Italy and begins a new life as a detective. For more details, episode list and where to watch online: Signora Volpe – New Acorn TV Original (May 2022).
Agatha Raisin Series 4 (Acorn TV Original)
Ashley Jensen (Catastrophe, Extras) is back as formidable and fashionable PI Agatha Raisin in Series 4 of this comic mystery series based on the books by MC Beaton. For more details, book and episode list: Agatha Raisin Series 4 New on Acorn TV.
The Truth Will Out Season 2 (US Acorn 05/16/22)
A murdered colleague of Peter’s brother is found to have many old files at his home, so the under-staffed Cold Case team become part of the investigation. In Swedish with English subtitles.
Dead Lucky Season 1 (US Acorn 05/30/22)
Rachel Griffiths (Six Feet Under) headlines this cinematic, fast-paced thriller. Detective Grace Gibbs is obsessed with catching the armed robber who killed her partner, while her new trainee (Yoson An, Mortal Engines) blames her for his best friend’s death. The feuding detectives must work together to hunt down a killer who is leaving a trail of broken lives across Sydney. For more details, episode list and where to watch online: Dead Lucky Season 1 New on Acorn TV.
*Available to watch on Acorn TV with UK Amazon and US Amazon with free trial.
Keeping Faith Series 3 (UK)
The final season of the BBC crime thriller now on Acorn TV 2022, Faith deals with her divorce, one of the most complex legal cases of her career, and her mother returning, threatening to expose long-buried secrets. Starring: Eve Myles, Mark Lewis Jones, Hannah Daniel. For more details, episode list and where to watch online: Keeping Faith Series 3 New on UK Acorn TV.
Cardinal Series 4 (UK)
Detectives John Cardinal and Lise Delorme have to put family and personal matters aside when a missing-persons case turns into a spree of nightmarish murders.
The Madame Blanc Mysteries Series 1 (UK Acorn 23/05/22)
Antiques dealer Jean White (Sally Lindsay, Mount Pleasant) is nearly bankrupt after her husband’s sudden death, and so she heads to their one last asset: a cottage in antiques hub Sainte Victoire, France. There, Jean begins investigating his death, aided by sympathetic taxi driver Dom (Steve Edge). She soon finds the colourful locals have a treasure trove of other mysteries for her to assess, too. For more details and where to watch online free: The Madame Blanc Mysteries New on Acorn TV (May 2022) Episode List.
Acorn TV 2022 – June
Crownies
Crownies follows five young solicitors fresh out of law school as they face the pressures and madness of modern single life. In a fast paced workplace that highlights the moral dilemmas and big issues facing an apparently civilised society.
Acorn TV 2022 – September
Recipes For Love and Murder
Plot: Tannie Maria sees food as “medicine for the body and heart”. She envies romance as much as she enjoys cooking and eating. But it’s death that shakes up Tannie Maria’s life, when one of the correspondents to her column is brutally murdered. Starring: Maria Doyle Kennedy, Tony Kgoroge and Kylie Fisher.
For more details: Recipes For Love and Murder, New on Acorn TV – Episode List.
Acorn TV 2022 – October
My Life Is Murder Series 3
Retired detective Alexa Crowe (Lucy Lawless) moved back to her hometown of Auckland, New Zealand, to bake amazing sourdough and reconnect with her ex-con brother.
For more details: My Life Is Murder Series 3 – New on Acorn TV – Episode List.
*Available to watch on Acorn TV via UK Amazon and US Amazon with free trial.
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