If I can just resurrect this discussion, I watched
'The Glades' and have to admit I quite liked it. One of the few US shows in the last few years to have a decent theme tune that actually got played too (it's a shame a lot of US shows have dropped this these days). I would agree with the earlier comment about the lead character though, he could be annoying at times. It's a TV crime that the show was left as it was dangling from that cliff.
In the UK 'The Glades' was broadcast on the 'Alibi' channel which meant it was never going to be a massive smash. Kiele Sanchez was very easy on the eye for male viewers too. Clayne Crawford (aka Martin Riggs from the new 'Lethal Weapon' reboot) also starred as her ex-husband.
It's great to read '
Person of Interest' mentioned earlier in the thread, another stand out superb series. Again, this never really got a decent airing in the UK, broadcast at all sorts of different times on UK Channel 5. This is one of the best series made in the last 10 years. Caviezel was great as John Reese and (for me at least) could have been a real contender as the first American actor to play James Bond off the back of this.
In recent years I've also enjoyed Australian series '
Harrow' with Ioan Gruffudd playing a coroner who likes to do PI work much to the as annoyance of his boss. This is a more serious version of his character from the 2014 US series 'Forever' in which he played coroner Dr Henry Morgan, only he was immortal. That was a great show too, a lot of fun to watch.
Two strictly PI shows worth a mention would be two British shows - firstly
'Vincent' with Ray Winstone from 2005. I believe this has had an outing on BBC America. Also Clive Owen in '
Sharman' from the 90s. Generally I can't stand Clive Owen and there's more personality in my workbench, but he's pretty good in Sharman and it gets a lot better as it goes along.
Nobody seems to have mentioned the 90s outings of Mike Hammer on here either which probably means they were in the category labelled forgettable TV.
