Series like Boston Blue

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   L.A.'s Finest

   Same creator

   2019 · Crime · Drama

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   Syd Burnett has left her complicated past behind to become an LAPD detective. Paired with a new partner, Nancy McKenna, a working mom with an equally complex past, Syd is pushed to examine whether her unapologetic lifestyle might be masking a greater personal secret. These two women don't agree on much, but they find common ground when it comes to taking on the most dangerous criminals in Los Angeles.

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   • the same creator
   • strong genre and series-style overlap

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   City on a Hill

   Strong story similarity

   2019 · 55 min · Crime · Drama

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   In early 90s Boston, an African-American District Attorney comes in from Brooklyn advocating change and forms an unlikely alliance with a corrupt yet venerated FBI veteran invested in maintaining the status quo. Together they take on a family of armored car robbers from Charlestown in a case that grows to encompass and eventually upend Boston’s city-wide criminal justice system.

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   Law & Order: Organized Crime

   Similar atmosphere

   2021 · 42 min · Crime · Drama

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   The detectives of the Organized Crime Control Bureau work to dismantle New York City's most vicious and violent illegal enterprises.

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   • strong genre and series-style overlap
   • a closely matched era
   • similar audience response

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   Alert: Missing Persons Unit

   Shared cast

   2023 · 44 min · Crime · Drama

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   When police officer Nikki Batista’s son goes missing, she joins the Philadelphia Police Department's Missing Person’s Unit (MPU) to help other people find their loved ones, even as she searches for her own. Six years later, her world is turned upside-down when her ex-husband, Jason Grant, a former police officer, shows up with a proof-of-life photo of their missing boy. Or is it?

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   • strong genre and series-style overlap
   • a principal cast member
   • a closely matched era

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   Chicago Justice

   Strong story similarity

   2017 · 43 min · Crime · Drama

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   The State's Attorney's dedicated team of prosecutors and investigators navigates heated city politics and controversy head-on, while fearlessly pursuing justice.

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   • strong story and style similarity
   • strong genre and series-style overlap

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   East New York

   Strong story similarity

   2022 · 42 min · Crime · Drama

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   Regina Haywood is the newly promoted deputy inspector of East New York, a working-class neighborhood at the edge of Brooklyn. She leads a diverse group of officers and detectives, some of whom are reluctant to deploy her creative methods of serving and protecting in the midst of social upheaval and the early seeds of gentrification.

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   • strong story and style similarity
   • strong genre and series-style overlap
   • a closely matched era

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   S.W.A.T.

   Similar atmosphere

   2017 · Action & Adventure · Crime · Drama

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   A Los Angeles S.W.A.T. sergeant is assigned to lead a highly skilled unit in the community where he grew up. Torn between loyalty to the streets, where the cops are sometimes the enemy, and allegiance to his brothers in blue, he strategically straddles the two worlds.

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   • strong genre and series-style overlap
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   Blue Bloods

   Strong story similarity

   2010 · Crime · Drama

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   A drama about a multi-generational family of cops dedicated to New York City law enforcement. Frank Reagan is the New York Police Commissioner and heads both the police force and the Reagan brood. He runs his department as diplomatically as he runs his family, even when dealing with the politics that plagued his unapologetically bold father, Henry, during his stint as Chief.

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   • strong story and style similarity
   • strong genre and series-style overlap
   • shared themes: police and police procedural

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   Hightown

   Similar atmosphere

   2020 · 55 min · Crime · Drama

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   Amid the drug trade on Cape Cod, a body washes ashore and is discovered by an irreverent National Marine Fisheries Service officer, Jackie Quinones, who is determined to help solve the murder even if the state cops want her nowhere near the case.

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    So Help Me Todd

    Same network

    2022 · 45 min · Comedy · Drama · Mystery

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    Despite their opposing personalities, a talented but directionless P.I. who is the black sheep of his family begrudgingly agrees to work as the in-house investigator for his overbearing mother, a successful attorney reeling from the recent dissolution of her marriage.

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    • strong recommendation signals
    • shared network: CBS

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