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* ''Series/PeakyBlinders'' based on a RealLife [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peaky_Blinders street gang]] in early 20th century [[UsefulNotes/TheMidlands Birmingham]] ([[LondonEnglandSyndrome the English one]]), and their attempts to gain prominence in the underworld against more powerful and influential gangsters. Also features some very [[CorruptCop bent coppers]] as well as appearances from the [[UsefulNotes/TheTroubles IRA]], communists, anarchists and a pre-Prime Minister WinstonChurchill.
UsefulNotes/WinstonChurchill.
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* ''Series/PeakyBlinders'' based on a RealLife [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peaky_Blinders street gang]] in early 20th century [[TheMidlands [[UsefulNotes/TheMidlands Birmingham]] ([[LondonEnglandSyndrome the English one]]), and their attempts to gain prominence in the underworld against more powerful and influential gangsters. Also features some very [[CorruptCop bent coppers]] as well as appearances from the [[TheTroubles [[UsefulNotes/TheTroubles IRA]], communists, anarchists and a pre-Prime Minister WinstonChurchill.
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* ''Series/BreakingBad'' about a mild-mannered high school chemistry teacher turned meth cook turned drug kingpin. Features an excellent progression [[ProtagonistJourneyToVillain progression]] for a VillainProtagonist, it transitions from petty/hanger-on to hardcore organized crime over about a season (at the beginning of Season 3, he hasn't even told his wife about his side business; at the end, he has already ordered a hit and his wife is laundering his money).
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* Examples: ''Series/{{Hustle}}'', ''Series/ItTakesAThief1968'', ''Manga/LupinIII'', ''Franchise/LupinIII'', ''Film/OceansEleven'', ''Series/{{Leverage}}''
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* Examples: ''Series/{{Hustle}}'', ''Series/ItTakesAThief1968'', ''Manga/LupinIII'', ''OceansEleven'', ''Film/OceansEleven'', ''Series/{{Leverage}}''
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* Examples: ''{{Weeds}}'', ''Series/{{Weeds}}'', ''Series/LockStock'', ''Series/BreakingBad'', ''{{Ideal}}''.
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* ''ToCatchAThief'' had Cary Grant as a suave jewel thief who supposedly had retired, until thefts in his style started happening again...
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* ''TheHotRock'': Robert Redford as GentlemanThief Dortmunder. See ''Literature'' below.
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* ''TheHotRock''and all of Donald E. Westlake's "Dortmunder" books involve cons, capers, criminals, and gentlemen thieves.
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* ''TheHotRock''and all of Donald E. Westlake's "Dortmunder" books involve cons, capers, criminals, and gentlemen thieves.
thieves.
* Also from Westlake (under his Richard Stark psuedonym), the Parker novels. In contrast to the Dortmunder books, the Parker books are dark, violent, and star an utterly amoral VillainProtagonist.
* Also from Westlake (under his Richard Stark psuedonym), the Parker novels. In contrast to the Dortmunder books, the Parker books are dark, violent, and star an utterly amoral VillainProtagonist.
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* ''TheHotRock'': Robert Redford as GentlemanThief Dortmunder. See ''Literature'' below.
* ''Film/TheSting'': Robert Redford and Paul Newman team up to scam a racketeer. The inspiration for and referenced by many others on this list.
** ''The Sting II''
* ''Film/{{Sneakers}}'': Robert Redford as the leader of a team of shady "security experts".
* ''ButchCassidyAndTheSundanceKid'': Robert Re... look, let's just say that Robert Redford really likes the GentlemanThief type and [[TheCaper capers]].
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* ''TheHotRock''and all of Donald E. Westlake's "Dortmunder" books involve cons, capers, criminals, and gentlemen thieves.
* ''Film/TheSting'': Robert Redford and Paul Newman team up to scam a racketeer. The inspiration for and referenced by many others on this list.
** ''The Sting II''
* ''Film/{{Sneakers}}'': Robert Redford as the leader of a team of shady "security experts".
* ''ButchCassidyAndTheSundanceKid'': Robert Re... look, let's just say that Robert Redford really likes the GentlemanThief type and [[TheCaper capers]].
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* Examples: ''Series/{{Oz}}'', ''SeriesPrisonBreak'', ''{{Porridge}}''''Series/PrisonBreak'', ''Series/{{Porridge}}''
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* ''TheSaint'' ''Series/TheSaint'' was a GentlemanThief with RobinHood tendencies, although the TV version downplayed this, portraying him more as an AmateurSleuth whom a police detective had [[InspectorJavert an inexplicable grudge against]].
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* ''LastResort'' centers around a RealityShow featuring several prisoners and convicts, all trying to earn their way out.
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* Examples: ''{{Hustle}}'', ''Series/{{Hustle}}'', ''Series/ItTakesAThief1968'', ''Manga/LupinIII'', ''OceansEleven'', ''Series/{{Leverage}}''
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* CatchThatKid. A movie about a girl and her friends who team up to rob the bank her mother works for to pay for her father's surgery.
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* ''Series/ItTakesAThief'' ''Series/ItTakesAThief1968'' with Robert Wagner was probably the first television program to do this.
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* ''TheWire'' tends to be evenly split between the lives of the criminals and the lives of the cops that are stalking them. Later seasons broadened this to politicians, journalists, and children who are getting into a life of crime.
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* ''{{Oz}}'' is an infamously violent show set in a US prison with a multitude of rapes, castrations, murders and more rapes.
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* ''LupinIII'' is an action/comedy anime series about a GentlemanThief and his accomplices.
* ''BlackLagoon'' encompasses just about all four types of "people outside the law" and even introduces characters that seem to fit in a criminal archetype all their own.
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* ''LupinIII'' ''Manga/LupinIII'' is an action/comedy anime series about a GentlemanThief and his accomplices.
*''BlackLagoon'' ''Manga/BlackLagoon'' encompasses just about all four types of "people outside the law" and even introduces characters that seem to fit in a criminal archetype all their own.
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* ''{{Leverage}}'': A formulaic but truly fun show where a band of TrueCompanions conmen/thieves/hitters/hackers/etc. take down the rich and greedy.
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The equal and opposite of the CopShow and PoliceProcedural, Crime Time TV focuses on people who are on the ''wrong'' side of the law. Generally they are split into four types, each focusing on a different type of criminal:
'''[[ConMan Con Men]] and [[GentlemanThief Gentlemen Thieves]]''' are the most popular, since it's easy to make them sympathetic to the audience by making [[TheMark their victims]] rich and greedy. They are also usually charismatic and attractive. Their shows are usually light in tone and there will almost certainly be one episode where they actually help the police to take down a violent (and therefore "bad") criminal. There may be a recurring police officer who tries (and fails) to capture the protagonists, or who coerces them into helping him out with his investigations.
* See also: TheCaper, TheCon.
* Examples: ''{{Hustle}}'', ''ItTakesAThief'', ''LupinIII'', ''OceansEleven'', ''{{Leverage}}''
'''Outsiders/Hangers On''' are the next rung down on the popularity ladder. Generally petty crooks, fencers, forgers, dealers of soft drugs and other people who are on the wrong side of the law but not sufficiently nasty to put off the viewing audience. Expect the really nasty criminals to pop up more regularly, usually as a plot device if the protagonists owe them money/drugs/something else. The outsiders are usually cowardly or otherwise non-violent. These guys typically star in dark comedies.
* See also: TheAggressiveDrugDealer (antithesis)
* Examples: ''{{Weeds}}'', ''Series/LockStock'', ''BreakingBad'', ''{{Ideal}}''.
'''Hardcore/Organised Criminals''' are the least popular protagonists for Crime Time TV, largely because they have to be shown to be despicable people in order to come across as being remotely realistic. It's also difficult to play down the crimes that they commit: murder, extortion, dealing in highly dangerous drugs, etc. As a result, such series tend to be very adult in tone and morally complex, and therefore not attractive to advertisers. Where there is humour, it tends to be pitch black.
* Examples: ''TheSopranos'', ''TheWire'', ''Film/TheGodfather'' (Book and Movie)
'''Convicts''' do not fit comfortably into the popularity ladder. This is because, since they have been taken off the street and are - in theory - paying for their crimes, they don't necessarily have to be shown committing criminal acts. Or, when they do commit such acts, they are usually against fellow inmates - which can be seen as justified to some viewers. As a result, series set in {{prison}} can have wildly different tones, from harrowing to comedic.
* See also: {{Prison}}, PrisonRape, LuxuryPrisonSuite
* Examples: ''{{Oz}}'', ''PrisonBreak'', ''{{Porridge}}''
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* ''LupinIII'' is an action/comedy anime series about a GentlemanThief and his accomplices.
* ''BlackLagoon'' encompasses just about all four types of "people outside the law" and even introduces characters that seem to fit in a criminal archetype all their own.
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* ''Hard Time'' was a short-lived but critically acclaimed DCComics series that combined convicts in prison with more fantastic elements. (It did ''not'' take place in TheDCU.)
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* ''To Catch a Thief'' had Cary Grant as a suave jewel thief who supposedly had retired, until thefts in his style started happening again...
* CatchThatKid. A movie about a girl and her friends who team up to rob the bank her mother works for to pay for her father's surgery.
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* ''TheSopranos'' is probably the best known example: a high-profile, critically acclaimed show following the exploits of Tony Soprano, mafia boss, and the various members of his two families.
* ''{{Hustle}}'' is a British TV series about a group of con artists, heavily inspired by the remake of the movie ''OceansEleven''.
* ''TheWire'' tends to be evenly split between the lives of the criminals and the lives of the cops that are stalking them. Later seasons broadened this to politicians, journalists, and children who are getting into a life of crime.
* ''{{Leverage}}'': A formulaic but truly fun show where a band of TrueCompanions conmen/thieves/hitters/hackers/etc. take down the rich and greedy.
* ''Series/LockStock'', a spin-off from the movie ''LockStockAndTwoSmokingBarrels'', featured a gang of Outsiders who invariably ended up on the wrong side of much nastier London gangsters.
* ''{{Weeds}}'' is a comedy/drama about a bereaved housewife who starts selling marijuana to pay the bills.
* ''{{Ideal}}'' is a sitcom about a small-time drug dealer.
* ''{{Porridge}}'' is a BritCom set in a small prison.
* ''{{Oz}}'' is an infamously violent show set in a US prison with a multitude of rapes, castrations, murders and more rapes.
* ''TheSaint'' was a GentlemanThief with RobinHood tendencies, although the TV version downplayed this, portraying him more as an AmateurSleuth whom a police detective had [[InspectorJavert an inexplicable grudge against]].
* ''It Takes a Thief'' with Robert Wagner was probably the first television program to do this.
* ''{{Intelligence}}'' is partly about an organized crime group engaged in the marijuana trade.
* ''Series/TheStraits'' is about the deadly smuggling trade between northern UsefulNotes/{{Australia}} and UsefulNotes/PapuaNewGuinea. It focuses on infighting in the Montebello crime family, but also how a drug trade between a developed nation (Australia) and a developing nation (PNG) impacts the people on all sides who get caught up in it.
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'''[[ConMan Con Men]] and [[GentlemanThief Gentlemen Thieves]]''' are the most popular, since it's easy to make them sympathetic to the audience by making [[TheMark their victims]] rich and greedy. They are also usually charismatic and attractive. Their shows are usually light in tone and there will almost certainly be one episode where they actually help the police to take down a violent (and therefore "bad") criminal. There may be a recurring police officer who tries (and fails) to capture the protagonists, or who coerces them into helping him out with his investigations.
* See also: TheCaper, TheCon.
* Examples: ''{{Hustle}}'', ''ItTakesAThief'', ''LupinIII'', ''OceansEleven'', ''{{Leverage}}''
'''Outsiders/Hangers On''' are the next rung down on the popularity ladder. Generally petty crooks, fencers, forgers, dealers of soft drugs and other people who are on the wrong side of the law but not sufficiently nasty to put off the viewing audience. Expect the really nasty criminals to pop up more regularly, usually as a plot device if the protagonists owe them money/drugs/something else. The outsiders are usually cowardly or otherwise non-violent. These guys typically star in dark comedies.
* See also: TheAggressiveDrugDealer (antithesis)
* Examples: ''{{Weeds}}'', ''Series/LockStock'', ''BreakingBad'', ''{{Ideal}}''.
'''Hardcore/Organised Criminals''' are the least popular protagonists for Crime Time TV, largely because they have to be shown to be despicable people in order to come across as being remotely realistic. It's also difficult to play down the crimes that they commit: murder, extortion, dealing in highly dangerous drugs, etc. As a result, such series tend to be very adult in tone and morally complex, and therefore not attractive to advertisers. Where there is humour, it tends to be pitch black.
* Examples: ''TheSopranos'', ''TheWire'', ''Film/TheGodfather'' (Book and Movie)
'''Convicts''' do not fit comfortably into the popularity ladder. This is because, since they have been taken off the street and are - in theory - paying for their crimes, they don't necessarily have to be shown committing criminal acts. Or, when they do commit such acts, they are usually against fellow inmates - which can be seen as justified to some viewers. As a result, series set in {{prison}} can have wildly different tones, from harrowing to comedic.
* See also: {{Prison}}, PrisonRape, LuxuryPrisonSuite
* Examples: ''{{Oz}}'', ''PrisonBreak'', ''{{Porridge}}''
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* ''LupinIII'' is an action/comedy anime series about a GentlemanThief and his accomplices.
* ''BlackLagoon'' encompasses just about all four types of "people outside the law" and even introduces characters that seem to fit in a criminal archetype all their own.
[[AC:ComicBooks]]
* ''Hard Time'' was a short-lived but critically acclaimed DCComics series that combined convicts in prison with more fantastic elements. (It did ''not'' take place in TheDCU.)
[[AC:{{Film}}]]
* ''To Catch a Thief'' had Cary Grant as a suave jewel thief who supposedly had retired, until thefts in his style started happening again...
* CatchThatKid. A movie about a girl and her friends who team up to rob the bank her mother works for to pay for her father's surgery.
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* ''TheSopranos'' is probably the best known example: a high-profile, critically acclaimed show following the exploits of Tony Soprano, mafia boss, and the various members of his two families.
* ''{{Hustle}}'' is a British TV series about a group of con artists, heavily inspired by the remake of the movie ''OceansEleven''.
* ''TheWire'' tends to be evenly split between the lives of the criminals and the lives of the cops that are stalking them. Later seasons broadened this to politicians, journalists, and children who are getting into a life of crime.
* ''{{Leverage}}'': A formulaic but truly fun show where a band of TrueCompanions conmen/thieves/hitters/hackers/etc. take down the rich and greedy.
* ''Series/LockStock'', a spin-off from the movie ''LockStockAndTwoSmokingBarrels'', featured a gang of Outsiders who invariably ended up on the wrong side of much nastier London gangsters.
* ''{{Weeds}}'' is a comedy/drama about a bereaved housewife who starts selling marijuana to pay the bills.
* ''{{Ideal}}'' is a sitcom about a small-time drug dealer.
* ''{{Porridge}}'' is a BritCom set in a small prison.
* ''{{Oz}}'' is an infamously violent show set in a US prison with a multitude of rapes, castrations, murders and more rapes.
* ''TheSaint'' was a GentlemanThief with RobinHood tendencies, although the TV version downplayed this, portraying him more as an AmateurSleuth whom a police detective had [[InspectorJavert an inexplicable grudge against]].
* ''It Takes a Thief'' with Robert Wagner was probably the first television program to do this.
* ''{{Intelligence}}'' is partly about an organized crime group engaged in the marijuana trade.
* ''Series/TheStraits'' is about the deadly smuggling trade between northern UsefulNotes/{{Australia}} and UsefulNotes/PapuaNewGuinea. It focuses on infighting in the Montebello crime family, but also how a drug trade between a developed nation (Australia) and a developing nation (PNG) impacts the people on all sides who get caught up in it.
[[AC:WebComics]]
* ''LastResort'' centers around a RealityShow featuring several prisoners and convicts, all trying to earn their way out.
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