Poll: Top TV Criminal Consultants

A poll by Ed_Jones_XLIX

Results of 332 votes:

  1. 60

    Martin Freeman and Benedict Cumberbatch in Sherlock (2010)

  2. 52

    Tom Ellis in Lucifer (2016)

  3. 26

    Mads Mikkelsen in Hannibal (2013)

  4. 25

    Simon Baker in The Mentalist (2008)

  5. 19

    James Spader in The Blacklist (2013)

  6. 18

    Angela Lansbury in Murder, She Wrote (1984)

  7. 17

    Tony Shalhoub in Monk (2002)

  8. 15

    Rose McIver in iZombie (2015)

  9. 13

    Jonny Lee Miller and Lucy Liu in Elementary (2012)

  10. 10

    Nathan Fillion in Castle (2009)

  11. 9

    Joshua Jackson and John Noble in Fringe (2008)

  12. 8

    Dulé Hill and James Roday Rodriguez in Psych (2006)

  13. 7

    Tom Braidwood, Dean Haglund, and Bruce Harwood in The X-Files (1993)

  14. 7

    Tim Roth in Lie to Me (2009)

  15. 6

    Tom Payne in Prodigal Son (2019)

  16. 6

    James Roday Rodriguez in Psych (2006)

  17. 4

    Lance Henriksen in Millennium (1996)

  18. 4

    Robbie Coltrane in Cracker (1993)

  19. 4

    David Krumholtz in Numb3rs (2005)

  20. 4

    Robson Green in Wire in the Blood (2002)

  21. 3

    Patricia Arquette in Medium (2005)

  22. 3

    Cobie Smulders in Stumptown (2019)

  23. 3

    Brendan Gleeson in Mr. Mercedes (2017)

  24. 3

    Jake McDorman in Limitless (2015)

  25. 2

    Jennifer Carpenter in The Enemy Within (2019)

  26. 1

    Jaimie Alexander in Blindspot (2015)

  27. 1

    Tom Bosley, Tracy Nelson, and Mary Wickes in Father Dowling Mysteries (1989)

  28. 1

    Rufus Sewell in Eleventh Hour (2008)

  29. 1

    Angela Roy and Tom Beck in Einstein (2017)

  30. 0

    Alan Cumming in Instinct (2018)

  31. 0

    Jack Cutmore-Scott in Deception (2018)

  32. 0

    Wisdom of the Crowd (2017)

  33. 0

    Kirill Käro in Sniffer (2013)

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