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The top 20 true crime dramas to watch on demand right now: Our critics sift through hundreds of options to choose the shows worth watching

Olivia Colman, Renee Zellweger, Hugh Grant - they all take a starring and chilling role in our pick of the best true crime dramas available to watch now.

The cast is huge and peppered with familiar faces, not least Hugh Bonneville as the man leading the police task force and Jack Lowden as ringleader Kenneth ‘Kenny’ Noye – but special mention also goes to Tom Cullen as John Palmer, smelting the gold in a shed at the bottom of his garden, and Charlotte Spencer as the fictional ‘Flying Squad’ detective who has intimate knowledge of the kind of villains she’s chasing. Kris Hitchen, Lee Ingleby, Stephen Tompkinson, Toby Jones and Jack Deam star as the team who are determined to catch a killer in a sensitively handled drama that brings a new perspective to a well-documented story, while never forgetting the victims. This six-part drama, loosely based on the book Missing, Presumed by former police officer Alan Bailey, follows a reporter (Normal People's India Mullen) who, in 1996, writes an article about the murder of her mother that triggers a wave of interest in the case.

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