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1) The Librarians - It has Christian Kane, Dean Devlin (screenwriter), and I’m told good OT3 vibes. Initial google searches reveals action-adventure Librarians, thief main character and Lesley-Ann Brandt!

EDIT [05/12/2021] - A review by @mademoisellelottchen

The Librarians: It's what happens when Doctor Who meets Indiana Jones.

2) Psych - This is the one we started watching! It’s got (fake) psychic detectives! I may have sold it to my parents as “The Mentalist, only it’s a comedy with 100% less reoccurring serial killers.”. 

3) Brooklyn 99 - Another cop show, although this one may or may not have fake psychics. It has (checks IMDb and sees all the famous people)... a cast... and (checks google)...awards...and (checks google some more) ...Halloween Heists?! God that’s awesome.

4) The Good Place - Turns out the worst form of torture is pretending you’re good enough to get into heaven...

5) White Collar - Jail is a terrible place and breaking out is both hard and illegal. Good news, the FBI agent who spent years chasing you is friend-shaped and will let you serve the rest of your extended sentence helping the FBI on work-release. Bad news, he is not into heists. Featuring hats, suits, a really adorable and stable marriage, a dog and some really cool cons. I may be watching this by myself while my parents work.

6) Hustle - A group of grifters target marks whose activities are often immoral and/or illegal while displaying a moral honourable code withing their team... Yeah, it’s British Leverage. Funny story, I got my parents to watch Leverage by comparing it to Hustle.

7) Due South - A Mountie really pisses off his superiors by exposing corruption leading to a permanent posting in Chicago along with his deaf wolf. He mostly ends up helping the Chicago Police Department who just decides to roll with it after a while. He works with Ray Vecchio and from Season Three, Ray Vecchio.

8) Northern Exposure - If you think moving from a remote outpost to the city is hard, you have no idea what moving from the city to the country is like. For instance a New York City doctor moving to a small town in Alaska is probably not going to go smoothly as they made 110 episodes about it.

9) Almost Paradise - Christian Kane, Dean Devlin, the Philippines...I’m weak and it’s about an ex-DEA Agent trying and failing to retire peacefully. And while googling this it turns out that Dean Devlin wrote Stargate (1994). It’s like the universe looked inside my head and picked out all the good stuff and smashed it together.

10) Galavant - It has Timothy Omundson in and looks like a medieval fair came to life. And there’s music. Gives me serious BBC Merlin and Once Upon a Time vibes from the pictures.

Thank you very much to @agirlinthegalaxy, @richaldis, @miamatx, @jothehat, @tidalrace and @only-inthemorning who I think I may have pushed back into White Collar obsession. Sorry.

EDIT [26/07/2020] An additional list by @littlehobbit13:

11) Pushing Daisies - Ned the Pie-maker (played by Lee Pace) can raise the dead with a simple touch. He frequently uses this gift for the benefit of his Private Investigator friend to quickly solve murders, but life gets slightly more complicated when he raises a recently murdered childhood sweetheart – you see, one touch revives them, but another touch puts them to rest forever.

12) Royal Pains - From the same USA channel era as Psych and White Collar… An ER doctor is blacklisted from all major hospitals after he chooses to save a random kid’s life rather focus all his attention on a wealthy hospital donor. Down and out, his younger brother hauls him out for a long weekend in the Hamptons, where he discovers there’s a market for Concierge Medicine – old school house calls – that allows him to focus on actually helping patients (not just wealthy ones) instead of playing hospital politics. (Diversity Bonus: The core trio are two Jewish brothers and an Indian woman. Plus, Henry Winkler, reoccurring!)

EDIT: This review was edited slightly to remove the name of an actor.

13) Warehouse 13 - Slightly preceding The Librarians but very similar in premise. Two Secret Service agents are reassigned to isolated South Dakota at the mysterious Warehouse 13. The Warehouse houses artifacts whose intense historical/emotional relevance have imbued them with supernatural powers (Disney’s paintbrush, Driftwood from the Titanic, Pavlov’s bell, Julia Childs’ apron, etc). Coed cast with fun found-family vibes.

EDIT #2 [03/08/2020] A recommendation from @lianabrooks​:

14) Burn Notice - You all have a competency kink from Leverage, I have one from this show. What happens when the CIA disavows a spy? If you’re Michael Weston, you get sent to Miami. You end up doing odd jobs for people in trouble. You meet up with your ex-girlfriend from the IRA, Bruce Campbell in the flesh and end up training your mother in espionage. This show also has possible the greatest character introductions you will ever see. There’s fucking freeze-frames and name cards. It’s glorious.

EDIT #3 [04/08/2020] A recommendation from @2glassesofchianti:

15) (A Town Called) Eureka - What do you do with all of the nations top scientists? Stick them in a hidden town and let them do basically whatever they want.  Problem; Uncontrolled scientific experiments can cause...shenanigans shall we say. Enter one US Marshall Jack Carter, who accidentally finds the town and gets an unexpected “promotion” to Sheriff. This does not solve the problem, but it does make it funnier.

I did mention it to my mother and she has caught bits and pieces of it and it is Mum Approved. The highest compliment that can be reached in this house, as she is Nerd Supreme.

EDIT #4 [09/08/2020] A recommendation from @regretnothingdearest:

16) Breakout Kings: It looks like an unholy cross between Leverage and White Collar. A group of criminals make a deal with the US Marshalls to reduce their sentences by catching escaped criminals. It has Jimmi Simpson in it, who played Mary Lightly if you’ve ever watched Psych. From the pictures it looks a bit more serious than most of the stuff on this list, but I have learnt not to trust that tyype of thing.