Cul De Sac is an American thriller drama created by British television writer Sarah Phelps and author JK Rowling that aired on NBC from 2016 to 2018 and then Lifetime from 2019 onwards. For the first two seasons, it revolved around the murder of a major community leader and the repercussions of the crime. Subsequent series followed other residents of the same Cul De Sac, Apple Tree Grove.