20 Best Drama TV Shows on Peacock 2026
Find the strongest Peacock drama picks, from Supernatural and Yellowstone to Law & Order, Line of Duty, and more standout series now.
If you’re searching for Peacock shows that deliver real tension, strong characters, and stories that stick with you, this list is built for you. From the dark supernatural edge of Supernatural (2005) to the sweeping crime drama Yellowstone (2018), Peacock offers plenty of series that keep the stakes high. You’ll also find smart, atmospheric picks like Line of Duty (2012), Vigil (2021), and The Undeclared War (2022), plus long-running staples such as Law & Order (1990). With drama, fantasy, horror, mystery, and thriller titles in the mix, this roundup helps you find the right next binge without wasting time.
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Line of Duty
crime · drama · mystery · thriller
A drama about the investigations of AC-12, a controversial police anticorruption unit.
Directed by John Strickland, Jennie Darnell, Douglas Mackinnon, Daniel Nettheim, Jed MercurioCast Martin Compston, Vicky McClure, Adrian Dunbar, Craig Parkinson, Gregory PiperAmazon Prime VideoPeacock PremiumFreevee -
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Supernatural
drama · fantasy · horror · mystery · thriller
When they were boys, Sam and Dean Winchester lost their mother to a mysterious and demonic supernatural force. Subsequently, their father raised them to be soldiers. He taught them about the paranormal evil that lives in the dark corners and on the back roads of America ... and he taught them how to kill it. Now, the Winchester brothers crisscross the country in their '67 Chevy Impala, battling every kind of supernatural threat they encounter along the way.
Directed by Robert Singer, Philip Sgriccia, John F. Showalter, Thomas J. Wright, Kim MannersCast Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles, Misha Collins, Mark Sheppard, Jim BeaverAmazon Prime VideoPeacock Premium -
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Yellowstone
drama · western
Follow the violent world of the Dutton family, who controls the largest contiguous ranch in the United States. Led by their patriarch John Dutton, the family defends their property against constant attack by land developers, an Indian reservation, and America’s first National Park.
Directed by Stephen Kay, Taylor Sheridan, Christina Alexandra Voros, Guy Ferland, John DahlCast Kevin Costner, Luke Grimes, Kelly Reilly, Wes Bentley, Cole HauserPeacock Premium -
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Lonesome Dove
adventure · drama · western
A pair of longtime friends and former Texas Rangers crave one last adventure before hanging-up their spurs. After stealing over a thousand head of cattle from rustlers south of the border, they recruit an unlikely crew of hands to drive the herd 3,000 miles north to the grasslands of Montana.
Directed by Simon WincerCast Robert Duvall, Tommy Lee Jones, Danny Glover, Diane Lane, Robert UrichAmazon Prime VideoPeacock Premium -
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Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
crime · drama · mystery · thriller
In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit. These are their stories.
Directed by Jean de Segonzac, David Platt, Peter Leto, Juan José Campanella, Norberto BarbaCast Mariska Hargitay, Ice-T, Dann Florek, Richard Belzer, Kelli GiddishHuluPeacock Premium -
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Person of Interest
action · crime · drama · mystery · sci-fi · thriller
John Reese, former CIA paramilitary operative, is presumed dead and teams up with reclusive billionaire Finch to prevent violent crimes in New York City by initiating their own type of justice. With the special training that Reese has had in Covert Operations and Finch's genius software inventing mind, the two are a perfect match for the job that they have to complete. With the help of surveillance equipment, they work "outside the law" and get the right criminal behind bars.
Directed by Chris Fisher, Richard J. Lewis, Frederick E.O. Toye, Jeffrey G. Hunt, Stephen SurjikCast Jim Caviezel, Kevin Chapman, Michael Emerson, Amy Acker, Taraji P. HensonAmazon Prime VideoPeacock Premium -
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Modern Family
comedy · drama · romance
The Pritchett-Dunphy-Tucker clan is a wonderfully large and blended family. They give us an honest and often hilarious look into the sometimes warm, sometimes twisted, embrace of the modern family.
Directed by Gail Mancuso, Steven Levitan, Beth McCarthy-Miller, Michael Spiller, Jason WinerCast Ed O'Neill, Sofía Vergara, Julie Bowen, Ty Burrell, Jesse Tyler FergusonHuluPeacock Premium -
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Vigil
crime · drama · mystery · thriller
The mysterious disappearance of a Scottish fishing trawler and a death on-board the submarine HMS Vigil bring the police into conflict with the Navy and British security services. DCI Amy Silva and DS Kirsten Longacre lead an investigation on land and at sea into a conspiracy that goes to the very heart of Britain’s national security.
Directed by Andy De Emmony, Isabelle Sieb, James Strong, Joss AgnewCast Suranne Jones, Rose Leslie, Gary Lewis, Orla Russell, Shaun EvansPeacock Premium -
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The Five-Star Weekend
drama
After her husband's unexpected death and a very public breakdown, famed cook Hollis hosts her best friends for an elaborate weekend on Nantucket.
Directed by Jennifer Morrison, Minkie SpiroCast Jennifer Garner, D'Arcy Carden, Gemma Chan, Regina Hall, Chloë SevignyPeacock Premium -
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The Undeclared War
drama · thriller
In the post-pandemic world of 2024 during an upcoming British general election involving the UK’s first Black Conservative prime minister, a leading team of analysts at the heart of the UK’s NSA-style spy agency GCHQ attempt to ward off a cyber-attack on the country’s electoral system.
Directed by Peter Kosminsky, Paul McGuiganCast Simon Pegg, Hannah Khalique-Brown, German Segal, Maisie Richardson-Sellers, Edward HolcroftPeacock Premium -
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Suits
comedy · drama
While running from a drug deal gone bad, Mike Ross, a brilliant young college-dropout, slips into a job interview with one of New York City's best legal closers, Harvey Specter. Tired of cookie-cutter law school grads, Harvey takes a gamble by hiring Mike on the spot after he recognizes his raw talent and photographic memory.
Directed by Michael Smith, Anton Cropper, Christopher Misiano, Kevin Bray, Roger KumbleCast Gabriel Macht, Rick Hoffman, Sarah Rafferty, Patrick J. Adams, Meghan MarkleNetflixPeacock Premium -
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The Good Place
comedy · drama · fantasy · mystery · romance
Eleanor Shellstrop, an ordinary woman who, through an extraordinary string of events, enters the afterlife where she comes to realize that she hasn't been a very good person. With the help of her wise afterlife mentor, she's determined to shed her old way of living and discover the awesome (or at least the pretty good) person within.
Directed by Dean Holland, Beth McCarthy-Miller, Morgan Sackett, Drew Goddard, Michael SchurCast Kristen Bell, William Jackson Harper, Jameela Jamil, D'Arcy Carden, Manny JacintoAmazon Prime VideoHuluPeacock Premium -
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Heartland
drama · family
Life is hard on the Flemings' ranch in the Alberta foothills where abused or neglected horses find refuge with a kind, hard-working family. Debts abound and the bank is about to foreclose. Can they keep the ranch running?
Directed by Dean Bennett, Chris Potter, Grant Harvey, Eleanore Lindo, Ken FilewychCast Amber Marshall, Michelle Morgan, Shaun Johnston, Chris Potter, Graham WardleNetflixHuluPeacock Premium -
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Law & Order
crime · drama · mystery · thriller
In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects until someone is taken into custody. The district attorney's office then builds a case to convict the perpetrator by proving the person guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Working together, these expert teams navigate all sides of the complex criminal justice system to make New York a safer place.
Directed by Constantine Makris, Edwin Sherin, Jace Alexander, David Platt, Richard DobbsCast Sam Waterston, S. Epatha Merkerson, Jerry Orbach, Steven Hill, Jesse L. MartinNetflixHuluPeacock Premium -
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All Her Fault
drama
In Chicago, Marissa Irvine arrives at 14 Arthur Avenue, expecting to pick up her young son Milo from his first playdate with a boy at his new school. But the woman who answers the door isn't a mother she recognizes. She isn't the nanny. She doesn't have Milo. And so begins every parent's worst nightmare.
Directed by Kate Dennis, Minkie SpiroCast Sarah Snook, Dakota Fanning, Michael Peña, Jake Lacy, Duke McCloudPeacock Premium -
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Broadchurch
crime · drama · mystery
The murder of a young boy in a small coastal town brings a media frenzy, which threatens to tear the community apart.
Directed by James Strong, Paul Andrew Williams, Euros Lyn, Mike Barker, Jessica HobbsCast David Tennant, Olivia Colman, Jodie Whittaker, Andrew Buchan, Carolyn PicklesNetflixPeacock Premium -
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Downton Abbey
drama · romance
A chronicle of the lives of the aristocratic Crawley family and their servants in the post-Edwardian era—with great events in history having an effect on their lives and on the British social hierarchy.
Directed by Brian Percival, David Evans, Philip John, Andy Goddard, Catherine MorsheadCast Hugh Bonneville, Laura Carmichael, Jim Carter, Brendan Coyle, Michelle DockeryAmazon Prime VideoPeacock Premium -
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The Day of the Jackal
action · crime · drama · thriller
An unrivalled and highly elusive lone assassin, the Jackal, makes his living carrying out hits for the highest fee. But following his latest kill, he meets his match in a tenacious British intelligence officer who starts to track down the Jackal in a thrilling cat-and-mouse chase across Europe, leaving destruction in its wake.
Directed by Brian Kirk, Paul Wilmshurst, Anu Menon, Anthony Philipson, Neasa HardimanCast Eddie Redmayne, Lashana Lynch, Eleanor Matsuura, Chukwudi Iwuji, Úrsula CorberóPeacock Premium -
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Snowpiercer
action · drama · sci-fi · thriller
More than seven years after the world has become a frozen wasteland, the remnants of humanity inhabit a gigantic, perpetually-moving train that circles the globe as class warfare, social injustice and the politics of survival play out.
Directed by Christoph Schrewe, Leslie Hope, James Hawes, Sam Miller, Helen ShaverCast Daveed Diggs, Mickey Sumner, Alison Wright, Iddo Goldberg, Roberto UrbinaAmazon Prime VideoHuluPeacock PremiumAMC+ -
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The Vampire Diaries
drama · fantasy · horror · mystery · romance · thriller
The story of two vampire brothers obsessed with the same girl, who bears a striking resemblance to the beautiful but ruthless vampire they knew and loved in 1864.
Directed by Chris Grismer, Joshua Butler, Michael A. Allowitz, Marcos Siega, Pascal VerschoorisCast Paul Wesley, Ian Somerhalder, Kat Graham, Candice King, Zach RoerigPeacock PremiumMax
Wrapping Up
Whether you want crime cases, haunted-road tension, or sharp political intrigue, Peacock’s lineup has plenty to keep a drama fan busy. Titles like The Good Place (2016), M.I.A. (2026), and the rest of this list show how wide the platform’s range can be, from genre-bending stories to grounded, high-stakes series. Bookmark this page so you can come back when you need a fresh pick, because it’s updated regularly as the catalog changes. That makes it an easy place to check before starting your next watch.
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Last updated: September 11, 2026