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I like Montalbano, plus quite a few of the other European crime dramas, including some cracking Belgian stuff like Cordon (2014), Salamander (2012 onwards) and the bizarre Professor T (2015 onwards) - although Prof T is on the Channel 4 family of channels here. I remember when I lived in France, loads of French people adored Inspecteur Barnaby (aka Midsommer Murders) and asked if the British countryside really was that dangerous. Maybe we can’t learn too much about a country from their TV crime dramas...