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The 50 best TV shows of 2025: No 5 – Blue Lights

This precision-crafted Belfast police drama is a tense, thrilling watch that’s rich with detail. Has there ever been a more terrifying cliffhanger than it served up this season?

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‘A 66-minute stress bomb’: TV’s most intense episodes ever

A nuclear clear up, a bloody massacre, an extremely fraught game of marbles … From The Bear to Blue Lights, here are television’s most heart-pounding outings

The Guardian - UK

‘The best cop show’: Blue Lights just gets better with every single episode

This rivetingly tense Bafta-winning drama crackles with raw energy. Its third series is its finest yet – and is rapidly becoming one of the greatest TV series in existence

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Blue Lights season three review – the lovable cop show has lost its roots

When it began, Blue Lights was a thrilling saga that could only be set in Northern Ireland. Now, it feels like any other generic crime show. The spark that ignited it has gone

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TV tonight: Belfast’s brilliant cop show is back on the beat

Northern Irish police drama Blue Lights returns for season three. Plus, Prof Jim Al-Khalili gets inside our heads in a Horizon two-parter on the human brain. Here’s what to watch this evening

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Champagne-soaked sex and slow-burn longing – was this the swooniest year of TV ever?

Be it the understated romance of Japanese epic Shōgun, Danny Dyer’s tree sex in Rivals or Adam Brody risking his career for love – this was the year TV stole hearts

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Blue Lights recap: series two finale – terrific, beautiful and a wee bit soapy

There were seriously satisfying happy endings all round – with a gruesome twosome getting their comeuppance, and a well-loved pair sharing a smooch

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Blue Lights recap: series two, episode five – air punch moments, and a killer cliffhanger

Annie decking Canning was the most satisfying moment of the series. But disaster quickly struck again with a gunshot fired at Grace and Stevie. This could be the end for one of them

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Blue Lights recap: series two, episode four – no, Tommy, no!

Gruesome twosome Canning and Shane throw poor wee Tommy to the lions to ‘get results’. But they should know better than to mess with one of this loyal lot

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Blue Lights recap: series two, episode three – sexy, messy affairs

It’s not just new drug boss Lee causing tensions to rise on the streets of Belfast, as more tangled twosomes get steamy on patrol and Stevie deals with a heartwrenching case

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Blue Lights recap: series two, episode two – move or die

Things ratchet up in the explosive Belfast police drama, with blazing house fires, a most terrifying murder and the arrival of a very familiar face

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Blue Lights recap: series two, episode one – a blistering comeback

Welcome back, peelers! The Belfast police drama returns in heart-stopping style, with petrol-bombs, pharmacy stick-ups … and good old-fashioned romance

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Blue Lights: getting up to speed with season two, from cast, to plot, to filming locations

The excellent Belfast-based police-drama, which has picked up nothing but rave reviews, is back for more nail-biting action. Here’s what to know

Evening Standard

The 50 best TV shows of 2023: No 7 – Blue Lights

This thrilling cop drama about three rookies on the beat in Belfast is raw, relentless – and has one of the most devastating TV deaths in years

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Blue Lights review – don’t sleep on this fantastically tense Belfast cop show

This tantalising police drama sees naive newcomers utterly unprepared for the dangerous situations they face on the job. You’ll be instantly hooked

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Blue Lights: release date, cast, plot, trailer, interviews, first looks and all about the police drama set in Belfast

Blue Lights on BBC1 follows three rookie cops trying to fight crime and navigate the tricky politics of Belfast.

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Blue Lights: Watch trailer for new BBC police drama set in Belfast

Blue Lights follows three rookie police officers working in Belfast

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