Blue Lights

Produced in Belfast by Two Cities Television for BBC One, Blue Lights is an original police drama created by Declan Lawn and Adam Patterson (writers of The Salisbury Poisonings). The series tells the story of three rookie police officers working in contemporary Belfast, a city in which being a frontline response cop comes with a unique set of pressures and dangers.

Blue Lights launched to critical acclaim in March 2023 and three additional series have since been commissioned by the BBC. The drama placed fifth in The Sunday Times' best TV shows of 2023 list and third in the Radio Times' list of the top TV dramas of the year, behind Succession and Happy Valley. The series was also ranked number 7 in both the Daily Telegraph and The Guardian's best TV shows of 2023 lists, with the former calling it "fresh as a daisy" and the latter describing it as "six hours of raw, relentless TV".