Art Detectives Special Unveils Trailer and Key Art
AMC Global Media’s Acorn TV today announced the two-part Art Detectives special, starring and executive produced by Stephen Moyer (The Night Agent, The Forsytes, True Blood).
Set against a backdrop of Old Master paintings, priceless collectibles, rare antiquities, and era-defining fashion, the critically acclaimed series returns with a two-part special premiering Monday, December 7 and Monday, December 14, respectively, on Acorn TV in the U.S. and Canada.
Art Detectives, which debuted in 2025 as Acorn TV’s most-watched new series premiere ever, will premiere a six-episode second season in 2027. The trailer and key art for the brand-new two-part Art Detectives special were also released.
Art Detectives centers on the Heritage Crime Unit, a police department comprising art-loving DI Mick Palmer (Stephen Moyer) and straight-talking DC Shazia Malik (Nina Singh, Dalziel and Pascoe, Silent Witness). Together, they navigate a rich and colorful world driven by greed, obsession, lust, and revenge to solve murders tied to the art and antiques world.
In the all-new Art Detectives special, a wealthy antiquities collector is murdered, and DI Palmer (Moyer) and DC Malik (Singh) soon realize it’s much more than a burglary gone wrong, as they embark on one of their most challenging cases yet. The investigation takes them to a Mayfair gallery, a forgery workshop, and even the House of the Lords, as they hunt down a missing Roman bronze.
Meanwhile, Mick grapples with the prospect of Rosa (Sarah Alexander, Pennyworth, The Forsytes) moving to London while finding time to visit Ron, his art-forging father (Larry Lamb, Gavin & Stacey, EastEnders). Not easy when he’s in prison, and Mick’s the man who put him there.
Art Detectives is an Acorn TV Original Series, produced by Black Dog Television, Dynamic Television and Acorn Media Enterprises, with additional funding from Northern Ireland Screen. Dynamic Television also serves as worldwide distributor, while Acorn TV holds the rights in the U.S. and Canada.
The Art Detectives special is written by Dan Gaster, Will Ing, and Paul Powell, who also created the series, and directed by Jennie Paddon. The series is executive produced by Gaster, Ing, and Powell for Black Dog Television; Daniel March and Klaus Zimmermann for Dynamic Television; Bea Tammer and Lesley Pemberton for Acorn Media Enterprises (Acorn TV); and Stephen Moyer. Candida Julian-Jones is the series producer, and Martin Mahon is the producer.
ART DETECTIVES SPECIAL DESCRIPTIONS
The Greater Good: Part 1 – Premieres Monday, December 7 on Acorn TV
When antiquities collector Brannock Murray is murdered, Heritage Crime realizes it’s more than a failed burglary. Just one item is stolen – a Roman bronze – but the case leads to a Mayfair gallery, a forgery workshop, and even the Houses of Parliament.
The Greater Good: Part 2 – Premieres Monday, December 14 on Acorn TV
With two people dead and evidence that a serial killer is at work, Mick and Shazia discover the murders are connected to a group smuggling antiquities out of Afghanistan and into the UK. Can they catch the killer before they strike again?
