The Best TV Shows on TV-3

Andrey Viktorovich Izvorin is a very creative person. He draws comics and publishes them under the pseudonym Hunter, and the rest of the time he teaches history at a university and sincerely loves his subject. Izvarin came up with a theory according to which every unsolved crime, including if an innocent person was punished for it, inevitably repeats itself. The ability to draw and think with pictures, as well as knowledge of history, help him and investigator Anna Rybakova to follow the trail of the most unusual maniacs and solve the most complicated murders.

Detective Stas Khabarov is shot in the back attempting to arrest a well-known drug dealer. When Stas comes to his senses, he is shocked to realise that he has actually died and become a ghost. He sees a vision of his estranged wife Vera being murdered on her birthday by the same person who attacked him. Determined to find his killer, he decides to stay on Earth to solve the mystery and prevent the death of his beloved wife.

5 youths give chase after a man who has stolen 8 million rubles from them. The man reveals on his video blog his intention to travel to Chernobyl. With every kilometer the journey of the heroes becomes more dangerous and confusing.

Experienced Moscow police officer Maksim Pokrovskiy is sent to Northern Russia to investigate the murder of the local Oligarch's daughter.

In the near future, life on earth is destroyed except for a small area in Eastern Europe. Russian military fights off hoards of remaining humans controlled by aliens and work to prevent a successful invasion by an alien force set on conquering the plant.

Nineteen-year-old Anna, living at the end of the nineteenth century in the town of Zatonsk, unexpectedly discovers that she possesses supernatural powers. The spirits of the dead literally haunt her, begging to help. Aided by her visions, Anna manages to investigate and solve a number of mysterious crimes which have baffled the police. An experienced detective, 37-year-old Yakov Shtolman, who is assigned to the police department and teams up with Anna and becomes her partner in hunting down criminals.

Bitva Extrasenov (Битва Экстрасенсов), Battle of the Psychics, is a Russian-language TNT (ТНТ) TV show based on Britain’s Psychic Challenge. Each season starts with 8-13 participants selected for their superior psychic abilities, but tries to expose them as frauds. Tasks in the beginning of the series are relatively simple, such as revealing the contents of a sealed box or what lies behind an impenetrable screen, and progressively become more difficult. One participant judged to be worst is eliminated each week, but all participants advance to the next round if the panel is unable to come to a decision.

A former opera singer from Petrovka is paired with a psychic girl. With private money, they are engaged in searching for missing persons, investigating murders, deaths and other cases where the police were powerless.

Marina is in her late 30s, she has a successful business and a close-knit family. Her husband is a surgeon and her daughters study at fancy establishments. To everybody her life seems perfect. Though, it is all just a facade concealing the real problems: her husband has a mistress, her elder daughter is a slacker and drug-dealer, her youngest is a sociopath. Well, Marina herself is not really a flower-lady, but a brothel-keeper who is hiding her dark business from everyone. The truth may come out when a girl of Marina’s is found dead.

The year 1829. Nikolay Gogol, a young Third Section clerk, is desperate: his own books seem shallow and mediocre, so he keeps buying entire print runs just to burn them all. He is suffering from violent epileptic seizures and struggles to keep on working. Investigator Yakov Guro accidentally witnesses one such fit and realizes that Gogol's visions contain clues that could help solve actual crimes. Together, Gogol and Guro take on a particularly weird and baffling case that brings them to a small village of Dikanka, where everyone has a huge secret to hide.

They are the most talented students of the provincial music school. There are four of them, they are a Quartet, and their common dream is to win an international music competition. But their life is not a series of lessons and rehearsals, their life is a constant struggle with their fears, manias and the world around them. Meet. First violin, Andrey is a kleptomaniac, unable to cope with his pernicious passion, which destroys his life. Polina, the second violinist, is madly devoted to music, and in order to maintain the instrument, buy Austrian strings and a dress in which even Schnittke would not be ashamed to play, works as a prostitute. Viola player Masha suffers from schizophrenia and believes that their Quartet is the embodiment of spirits from the fifth purple world. And the main character, cellist Nastya, lives under a false name and hides some terrible secret – and does not even know that a gang of thugs is following in her footsteps.

At the age of 40, the owner of the cabaret Igor understands that women and alcohol no longer bring joy. He is lonely and broken. His teenage son, Petya, has not spoken to him for a year. Igor tries to restore relations, but gets a hard refusal. To find out what is happening in his son's life and what is the reason for such a deep resentment, Igor sends an 18-year-old spy Lera to him. Lera works at Igor's cabaret as a waitress and is secretly in love with the chef, so she can't refuse him. By chance, both Lerin's best friend Danya and a young dancer Masha are involved in a spy operation. Igor does not yet know that these other people's children will become a real school of life and fatherhood for him. And the children still do not know how fateful this experience of "cooperation" with Igor will be.

Former border guard Sasha Dymov returns to his native village of Kordona after serving time in prison on false charges. There is nothing left of his previous life — his wife left for her best friend, it is impossible to return to law enforcement agencies. A faithful comrade Trofimych comes to the rescue — he takes Dymov under his wing and arranges an auto mechanic in his workshop. It would seem that there is no more peaceful occupation. But there is a border nearby, secret paths of smugglers, big money, weapons and criminals who dream of hiding from persecution behind the cordon… Only Sasha Dymov can stop this lawlessness. In addition to criminal showdowns, Sasha will have to find a way out of the love triangle. And it won't do without mysticism.