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Professor T

★ 7.4 10K votes 2021–present 5 seasons · 30 episodes Returning Series ITV1
Genius leadExceptional intellect as the protagonist's engine.This show: 9/10Detective mysteryCrime-solving from the investigator's side of the table.This show: 9/10ProceduralA case or problem of the week, solved by a formula that works.This show: 8/10EpisodicSelf-contained episodes you can watch in almost any order.This show: 7/10
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Starring
Ben MillerBarney WhiteSarah WoodwardDouglas ReithFrances de la TourJuliet Stevenson
Starring
Ben MillerBarney WhiteSarah WoodwardDouglas ReithFrances de la TourJuliet Stevenson
Ratings per Episode
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Votes per Episode
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About

"A prickly genius makes ordinary murder cases interesting"

Professor T follows a brilliant but socially awkward Cambridge criminology lecturer with obsessive-compulsive tendencies who is drawn into helping police solve murders his own methods often crack faster than they do. Each episode plays out as a fairly traditional case-of-the-week mystery, but the real pull is the professor himself: prickly, precise, and quietly damaged, with a complicated relationship to his controlling mother. It's gentle, well-lit British crime drama, more character study than thriller, easy to dip into and comfortable rather than gripping.

Watch it for

the lead performance turning a stock genius-detective format into something oddly tender and specific.

Maybe skip if

you want fast-paced, twist-heavy crime drama rather than a slow character study.

Written by our AI editor to help you decide, spoiler-free by design.

All Seasons

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Season 12021
7.54K64h 35m
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Season 22022
7.63K64h 55m
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Season 32024
7.83K64h 38m
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Season 4
7.92K64h 39m
Professor Jasper Tempest, a genius Cambridge University criminologist with OCD and an overbearing mother, assists the police in solving crime.
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Season 5
7.995764h 50m

Full Cast & Crew

Cast

Ben Miller Professor Jasper Tempest
Barney White DS Dan Winters
Sarah Woodward Ingrid Snares
Douglas Reith The Dean
Frances de la Tour Adelaide Tempest
Juliet Stevenson Dr. Helena Goldberg
Emma Naomi Lisa Donckers
Andy Gathergood Paul Rabbit
Juliet Aubrey Christina Brand
Sunetra Sarker DCI Maiya Goswami

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