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Cult Scottish comedy about the lives of two OAP's (Old Age Pensioners) Jack and Victor and their views on how it used to be in the old days and how bad it is now in the fictional town of Craiglang.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 8 |
Network: | BBC One |
Created By: | Ford Kiernan, Greg Hemphill |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 8.6 / 10 (13) |
A modern update finds the famous sleuth and his doctor partner solving crime in 21st century London.
Publisher: | BBC One |
Genres: | Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery |
Number Of Seasons: | 4 |
Network: | BBC One |
Created By: | Mark Gatiss, Steven Moffat |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 8.3 / 10 (1561) |
A troubled war veteran is assigned to protect a controversial politician who may be the target of a terror plot.
Genres: | Crime, Drama, War & Politics |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | BBC One |
Created By: | Jed Mercurio |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 8.3 / 10 (72) |
David Attenborough presents a documentary series exploring how animals meet the challenges of surviving in the most iconic habitats on earth.
Publisher: | BBC Natural History Unit, ZDF, BBC America, BBC Studios |
Genres: | Documentary, Family |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | BBC One |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 8.5 / 10 (277) |
A gangster family epic set in 1919 Birmingham, England and centered on a gang who sew razor blades in the peaks of their caps, and their fierce boss Tommy Shelby, who means to move up in the world.
Genres: | Drama, Crime |
Number Of Seasons: | 4 |
Networks: | BBC Two, BBC One |
Created By: | Steven Knight |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 8.2 / 10 (409) |
Africa, the world's wildest continent. David Attenborough takes us on an awe-inspiring journey through one of the most diverse places in the world. We visit deserts, savannas, and jungles and meet up with some of Africa's amazing wildlife.
Publisher: | British Broadcasting Corporation |
Genre: | Documentary |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | BBC One |
Created By: | David Attenborough |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 8.1 / 10 (58) |
Adventurer James Keziah Delaney returns to London from Africa in 1814 along with fourteen stolen diamonds to seek vengeance after the death of his father.
Genres: | Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Networks: | BBC One, FX |
Created By: | Steven Knight, Tom Hardy, Chips Hardy |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 8 / 10 (422) |
It's the late 1960s, homosexuality has only just been legalised and Jeremy Thorpe, the leader of the Liberal party, has a secret he's desperate to hide.
Genres: | Drama, Crime, Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Created By: | Russell T Davies, John Preston |
Network: | BBC One |
Status: | Ended |
Origin Country: | GB |
User Score (votes): | 8 / 10 (22) |
A motley group of London con artists pull of a series of daring and intricate stings.
Genres: | Comedy, Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery |
Number Of Seasons: | 8 |
Network: | BBC One |
Created By: | Tony Jordan |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.9 / 10 (61) |
Lee is a childish northerner who lives in a fancy penthouse apartment in London who goes through a variety of jobs such as a janitor and ice cream man as well as attempting relationships with female flatmates. His best mate, Daily Mail reading, middle cla
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 9 |
Network: | BBC One |
Created By: | Lee Mack |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.8 / 10 (21) |
Lyra is an orphan who lives in a parallel universe in which science, theology, and magic are intertwined. Her search for a kidnapped friend uncovers a sinister plot involving stolen children and turns into a quest to understand a mysterious phenomenon cal
Genres: | Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Networks: | BBC One, HBO |
Status: | Returning Series |
Origin Country: | GB |
User Score (votes): | 7.8 / 10 (59) |
Former British soldier Jonathan Pine navigates the shadowy recesses of Whitehall and Washington where an unholy alliance operates between the intelligence community and the secret arms trade. To infiltrate the inner circle of lethal arms dealer Richard On
Genres: | Action & Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Networks: | BBC One, AMC |
Created By: | David Farr |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.7 / 10 (215) |
The various generations of the Hughes family, who all love, work and fight like any other clan, find they must learn to communicate all over again when the youngest member is diagnosed with autism.
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | BBC One |
Created By: | Keren Margalit |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.5 / 10 (11) |
Silent Witness is a British crime thriller series focusing on a team of forensic pathology experts and their investigations into various crimes.
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 21 |
Network: | BBC One |
Created By: | Nigel McCrery |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.4 / 10 (22) |
Family-based sitcom set in the capital of British Pakistan - Sparkhill, Birmingham. Citizen Khan follows the trials and tribulations of loud-mouthed, tight-fisted, self-appointed community leader Mr Khan and his long suffering family, wife Mrs Khan and da
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 5 |
Network: | BBC One |
Created By: | Adil Ray |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.4 / 10 (11) |
Mrs. Brown's Boys is a British-Irish award winning sitcom created by and starring writer and performer Brendan O'Carroll. The show is based on O'Carroll's stage plays about the character Agnes Browne, which were developed from books and straight-to-DVD fi
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 4 |
Networks: | BBC One, RTÉ One |
Created By: | Brendan O'Carroll |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.3 / 10 (31) |
Two detectives with opposing viewpoints are partnered together five years before the Apocalypse.
Genres: | Crime, Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | BBC One |
Created By: | Neil Cross |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.3 / 10 (14) |
Transylvania, 1897. The blood-drinking Count Dracula is drawing his plans against Victorian London. And be warned: the dead travel fast.
Genres: | Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Created By: | Mark Gatiss, Steven Moffat, Claes Bang |
Network: | BBC One |
Status: | Ended |
Origin Country: | GB |
User Score (votes): | 7.3 / 10 (93) |
The black sheep of the Argyll family, Jack Argyll, was accused of murdering their matriarch a year ago, but now a man shows up on their doorstep claiming Jack’s innocence. The family must come to terms with this news and the fact that the real killer migh
Genres: | Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | BBC One |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.5 / 10 (9) |
Alex Godman, the English-raised son of Russian mafia exiles, has spent his life trying to escape the shadow of their past, building his own legitimate business and forging a life with his girlfriend Rebecca. But when a murder forces his family's past to r
Genres: | Crime, Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | BBC One |
Created By: | Hossein Amini, James Watkins |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7 / 10 (24) |
The unlikely friendship between Merlin, a young man gifted with extraordinary magical powers, and Prince Arthur, heir to the crown of Camelot.
Genres: | Action & Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 5 |
Network: | BBC One |
Created By: | Jake Michie, Johnny Capps, Julian Murphy, Julian Jones |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.1 / 10 (184) |
The Doctor looks and seems human. He's handsome, witty, and could be mistaken for just another man in the street. But he is a Time Lord: a 900 year old alien with 2 hearts, part of a gifted civilization who mastered time travel. The Doctor saves planets f
Genres: | Drama, Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 12 |
Network: | BBC One |
Created By: | Sydney Newman, C. E. Webber, Donald Wilson |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7 / 10 (1340) |
Drama following the lives of a group of midwives working in the poverty-stricken East End of London during the 1950s, based on the best-selling memoirs of Jennifer Worth.
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 7 |
Networks: | BBC One, PBS |
Created By: | Heidi Thomas |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 6.8 / 10 (71) |
A gripping anthological relationship thriller series exploring the emotional fallout of a child's abduction not only on the family but on the wider community, told over two time frames.
Genres: | Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Networks: | BBC One, Starz |
Created By: | Jack Williams, Harry Williams |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 6.8 / 10 (130) |
Set against the backdrop of the Wars of the Roses, the series is the story of the women caught up in the protracted conflict for the throne of England.
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | BBC One |
Created By: | Emma Frost |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 6.5 / 10 (55) |
Mrs Brown opens the doors to her house for a Saturday night entertainment show in which she and the family are joined by celebrity guests.
Genres: | Comedy, Talk |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | BBC One |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 6.5 / 10 (2) |
The adventures of Mma Ramotswe, a Motswana woman who starts Botswana's first female-owned detective agency.
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Networks: | BBC One, HBO |
Created By: | Richard Curtis, Anthony Minghella |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 6.4 / 10 (8) |
Having lost her job for whistle-blowing, a skilled, hardworking nurse assumes her best friend's identity as a senior doctor to start a new life in Edinburgh.
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | BBC One |
Created By: | Dan Sefton |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 6.5 / 10 (5) |
A war veteran turned private detective operates out of a tiny office in London’s Denmark Street. Although wounded both physically and psychologically, his unique insight and background as a military police investigator prove crucial in solving complex cri
Genres: | Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery |
Number Of Seasons: | 3 |
Network: | BBC One |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 6.4 / 10 (42) |
Edith's dreams of retirement to the sun with her long-term suitor Phil are shattered when her 50-year-old son Roger arrives home, seeking to recapture his boyhood happiness.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | BBC One |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 6 / 10 (1) |
Fleeing their doomed warren, a group of rabbits struggle to find and defend a new home.
Genre: | Animation |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | BBC One |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 5.7 / 10 (6) |
A therapist tries to save her marriage after a cycling accident causes them to reassess their relationship.
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Networks: | BBC One, Netflix |
Created By: | Nick Payne |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 5 / 10 (5) |
British version of the reality competitions series that sees young entrepreneurs compete in several business tasks, attempting to survive the weekly firings in order to become the business partner of one of the most successful businessmen.
Genre: | Reality |
Number Of Seasons: | 14 |
Network: | BBC One |
Created By: | Mark Burnett |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 5.4 / 10 (11) |
Still Open All Hours is a sitcom set in a grocer's shop. It is a sequel to the series Open All Hours, written by original series writer Roy Clarke and featuring several of the permanent cast members of the original series
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 5 |
Network: | BBC One |
Created By: | Roy Clarke |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 5.4 / 10 (16) |
The everyday lives of working-class residents of Albert Square, a traditional Victorian square of terrace houses surrounding a park in the East End of London's Walford borough.
Genres: | Soap, Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 35 |
Network: | BBC One |
Created By: | Julia Smith, Tony Holland |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 3.7 / 10 (142) |
A woman suspects her husband of having an affair. After following several lines of enquiries far more unravels including a streak of violence below the surface.
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | BBC One |
Created By: | Mike Bartlett |
Status: | In Production |
User Score (votes): | 7.1 / 10 (0) |
Number Of Seasons: | 4 |
Network: | BBC One |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 0 / 10 (0) |