Blue Bloods concluded its epic run in 2024, and fans of the family cop drama are itching for more. The show was a gem, releasing weekly case-of-the-week style.
With a Raegen-centered family navigating institutional politics while also solving crimes realistically, without giving in to sensationalism. We’ve compiled a list of five upcoming cop dramas in 2026 to start you off with.
The Blame Mixes Mystery With Scandals
The Blame is a six-part crime thriller premiering on ITV that shares Blue Bloods‘ style of police integrity, along with family drama. ITV’s Director of Drama, Polly Hill, commented about the story: “The series begins when the body of teenage figure skater Sophie Madsen is discovered, sending shockwaves through the town of Wakestead. As DI Crane (Keegan) and DI Radley (Booth) dig deeper, what starts as a tragic death, spirals into a tangled web of lies, institutional cover-ups, and moral compromise. As the clock ticks and trust fractures, Crane must navigate both a murder investigation and the treacherous politics inside her own team.”
The show will dive deep into cop drama, politics, and moral compromises, giving us a taste of intercop rivalry and policing.
The Blame is expected to release in 2026 on ITV in the U.S.
Agatha Christie’s Seven Dials Is a Procedural Mystery
The Netflix series Agatha Christie’s Seven Dials will premiere in January 2026, ready to deliver a classic whodunnit set in the ’20s. The procedural generation of unraveling mysteries will mirror Blue Bloods’ energy. The Agatha Christie plot goes as follows:
“England. 1925. At a lavish country house party, a practical joke appears to have gone horribly, murderously wrong. It will be up to the unlikeliest of sleuths — the fizzingly inquisitive Lady Eileen “Bundle” Brent (Bruce) — to unravel a chilling plot that will change her life, cracking wide open the country house mystery.”
Much like the NYPD cases that expose ethical ramifications in Blue Bloods, diving into moral grey areas.
Memory of a Killer Flips the Cop Perspective
Memory of a Killer by FX is set to release in 2026, inspired by the 2003 Belgian film De Zaak Alzheimer. The story follows a hitman who develops early-onset Alzheimer’s.
Deadline reports the story of the show going:
“Angelo Ledda lives two totally separate lives — fearsome NYC hitman and sleepy upstate Cooperstown photocopier salesman and father. Both of them are threatened when he is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, a disease he already lost his older brother to.”
In the vein of Blue Bloods, we have cops bending the rules by mirroring the Reagans’ principled stands against corruption.
Girl Taken Has Family-Centered Stakes
Girl Taken, Paramount+’s six-part psychological thriller, is debuting in January, with the plot being (via Good House Keeping):
Girl Taken will flip Blue Bloods’ family narrative while maintaining the cop drama aesthetic because of the post-trauma situation.
Run Away Is a Raegen-esque Story
The Netflix series Run Away is an eight-episode thriller that will yield a Reagan-esque tale of a father’s unyielding quest to rescue his runaway daughter. Netflix reports that the story goes as follows:
” Run Away is about family — about what we will do to keep our family intact, what secrets we keep within our family, and what secrets we keep as a family. Every time you walk past the house, there’s a whole universe that goes on behind that door and none of us have a clue what it is.”
The series is based on Harlan Coben’s novel of the same name that embodies the Reagan patriarch archetype. With high stakes being the central energy, Blue Bloods fans will enjoy the family drama combined with police issues.