UK TV hidecol, a list by Adam Braithwaite

75

/546/

66

/51/

3.3

/2795/

83

/23/

41

58

/9/

2.0

age 14+

A desperate father searching for his runaway daughter gets caught up in a murder case — and stumbles upon secrets which could destroy his family for good.

74

IMDb 19

7.5

/26374/

76

/864/

82

/93/

3.8

/25055/

80

/40/

73

63

/18/

3.0

age 14+

In Chicago, Marissa Irvine arrives at 14 Arthur Avenue, expecting to pick up her young son Milo from his first playdate with a boy at his new school. But the woman who answers the door isn't a mother she recognizes. She isn't the nanny. She doesn't have Milo. And so begins every parent's worst nightmare.

69

IMDb 89

7.0

/11175/

68

/824/

67

/65/

79

/57/

59

71

/23/

age 15+

When a child goes missing in the aftermath of a house explosion, a concerned neighbor teams up with a private investigator to find them. As secrets unravel and a military conspiracy emerges, all hell is unleashed on South Oxford's sleepy suburbs.

87

65

8.6

/2131/

82

/213/

80

/15/

100

/5/

90

/5/

An all-star cast play the ultimate game of deceit and betrayal.

75

7.4

/25081/

76

/1308/

75

/104/

90

/51/

67

72

/20/

age 15+

Dublin, 1868. The Guinness family patriarch is dead, and his four children — each with dark secrets to hide — hold the brewery's fate in their hands.

71

IMDb 93

7.3

/40456/

74

/1693/

70

/140/

3.7

/10354/

67

/63/

81

63

/24/

age 15+

A rising-star restaurateur is forced into New York's criminal underworld when his chaotic brother returns to town with loan sharks on his trail.

78

69

7.1

/4412/

72

/202/

68

/23/

100

/24/

77

80

/9/

A deaf catering worker who is struggling to make ends meet is called upon by a police detective superintendent to lip-read the conversations of criminals.

77

66

7.7

/2698/

73

/321/

69

/22/

3.7

/555/

89

/9/

80

/4/

age 15+

London is rocked by terrorist attacks as armed police shoot dead an innocent man on his way to work.

73

63

7.1

/3152/

66

/164/

55

/23/

100

/8/

81

70

/6/

Explosive events unfold after Wright family patriarch Jack is discovered dead from a supposed suicide, leaving his immediate family utterly devastated.

75

73

7.3

/5593/

70

/429/

83

/39/

3.5

/20952/

age 15+

When popular vlogger Ruby Franke is arrested for child abuse in August 2023, it quickly becomes one of the biggest trending stories in America. For years, the Frankes' YouTube channel had documented a wholesome, happy family life, with nearly 3 million subscribers tuning in at its peak. But as the cracks began to show, the family turned to counselor Jodi Hildebrandt for guidance – and rapidly found themselves trapped in a nightmare.

80

7.5

/12057/

75

/660/

70

/67/

3.7

/7237/

100

/20/

85

82

/8/

3.0

age 14+

When dozens of babies in Corby are born with disabilities, their mothers embark on a battle to hold those responsible to account.

75

70

7.4

/3995/

76

/342/

75

/46/

3.6

/2358/

age 15+

In extraordinary detail, US soldiers and Somali fighters recall the 1993 Battle of Mogadishu and the now-famous downing of three Black Hawk helicopters.

75

62

7.4

/2812/

73

/165/

61

/23/

3.7

/1066/

92

/25/

79

73

/14/

age 10+

Miss Austen takes a literary mystery – Cassandra Austen notoriously burning her famous sister Jane’s letters – and reimagines it as a fascinating, witty and heart-breaking story of sisterly love, while creating in Cassandra a character as captivating as any Austen heroine.

75

72

IMDb 59

7.5

/6267/

71

/302/

75

/42/

88

/17/

77

66

/13/

age 13+

Patience Evans works in a clerical role filing police records. An autistic woman, she has a special interest in solving puzzles and a secret fascination and talent for criminology—her unique perspective allows her to connect the dots through clues in a way others simply cannot.

78

61

7.4

/4022/

68

/132/

75

/16/

100

/10/

73

/4/

age 14+

Susan has left publishing and is living in Crete with her long-time boyfriend, Andreas. But her idyll is disturbed by the shadow of a murder committed at a British country hotel eight years ago. Alan Conway visited the hotel and wrote a novel based on what happened there. Cecily MacNeil, the young woman who helps run the hotel, read the book and believed the wrong man had been arrested. Now she has disappeared. Can Susan uncover the secret hidden in the book and find Cecily before it is too late?

75

7.4

/47194/

75

/2587/

72

/324/

78

/54/

83

70

/22/

age 15+

As discord reigns on Mount Olympus and almighty Zeus spirals into paranoia, three mortals are destined to reshape the future of humankind.

70

67

7.2

/4441/

68

/261/

73

/51/

3.7

/2034/

78

/27/

70

61

/13/

The career of respected news presenter Douglas is threatened after he makes an ill-advised joke. With her 2 million social media followers, tech-savvy co-anchor Madeline could throw Douglas a lifeline by posting in his defense… but will she?

76

7.0

/21122/

73

/1442/

74

/235/

100

/20/

69

71

/12/

age 15+

When five ordinary South Londoners discover they have extraordinary powers, it's down to just one man to bring them together to save the woman he loves.

82

62

8.5

/2625/

79

/101/

71

/13/

3.9

/1257/

100

/11/

88

71

/7/

Gabriel and his partner Andy adopt a child. But Gabriel has a history and he will need to embark upon a journey of self-discovery and attempt to repair his relationship with his dad before he can truly begin to parent 7-year old Jake.

74

65

7.1

/3260/

67

/179/

63

/28/

100

/12/

71

75

/8/

Iconic character John Rebus is reimagined as a younger Detective Sergeant, drawn into a violent criminal conflict that turns personal when his brother Michael, a former soldier, crosses the line into criminality.

71

8.0

/13601/

78

/617/

80

/135/

4.0

/4388/

77

/35/

75

60

/17/

2.0

age 16+

The powerful real-life story of Lali Sokolov, a Jewish prisoner who was tasked with tattooing ID numbers on prisoners' arms in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp during World War II.

61

IMDb 50

7.1

/10260/

70

/628/

71

/91/

38

/19/

61

59

/6/

age 14+

London police officer DC Hana Li is escorting Dr Matthew Nolan back to Beijing where he has been accused of a crime. However, on board flight 357, she finds herself embroiled in an escalating conspiracy and a growing number of murders.

77

7.4

/10544/

72

/563/

72

/101/

87

/31/

87

70

/14/

age 14+

England, 1705: Framed for murder and on the run with her sisters, Nell Jackson turns her hand to highway robbery to survive. Aided by her superpowered sidekick, a plucky little sprite called Billy Blind, Nell realizes that fate has put her on the wrong side of the law for a reason. A reason much bigger than she could have ever imagined: to defeat a magical plot against the Queen of England.

72

7.0

/7108/

66

/483/

64

/75/

84

/32/

80

70

/14/

age 14+

Legendary highwayman Dick Turpin sets out on a series of wildly absurd escapades when he's made the reluctant leader of a band of outlaws—and tasked with outwitting utterly corrupt lawman Jonathan Wilde.

78

8.0

/63825/

79

/1604/

76

/270/

4.1

/222339/

92

/49/

85

76

/23/

2.5

age 15+

After spending graduation night together, Emma and Dexter go their separate ways — but their lives remain intertwined.

81

7.5

/23933/

77

/1403/

74

/111/

3.6

/23918/

96

/23/

89

76

/8/

age 15+

After a harrowing home invasion and kidnapping in 2015, a couple is accused of staging the ordeal when the woman reappears in this true-crime docuseries.

81

73

8.2

/4745/

77

/245/

85

/83/

4.0

/4695/

age 15+

From the locker room to the pitch, this docuseries offers exclusive access to all 32 teams as they fight for football glory in the 2022 FIFA World Cup.

81

80

8.2

/6943/

81

/456/

80

/89/

4.1

/3097/

age 15+

Through vividly enhanced archival footage and voices from all sides of the conflict, this docuseries brings WWII to life like never before.

72

67

7.2

/6043/

73

/367/

73

/34/

3.2

/3790/

age 14+

Dr. Paolo Macchiarini is world famous for his revolutionary stem cell-infused windpipe transplants. There's just one problem: His patients keep dying.

78

72

7.4

/3363/

71

/224/

71

/42/

100

/33/

82

73

/14/

age 15+

Sisters Josie and Billie and their single mother Deb navigate life armed with nothing but poor judgement and self-esteem exclusively tied to people who couldn't care less about them. They're vain, selfish, heavily in debt, pathologically desperate for affection and bursting with misplaced, terrifying love.

69

64

7.2

/4665/

67

/196/

72

/37/

3.5

/351/

63

/8/

72

73

/6/

Two hard-up strangers stumble across a haul of cocaine on a shipwrecked boat. After agreeing to sell it and split the cash, they become entangled with police, masked hitmen, and a sharp-suited gangster known as 'The Tailor'.

84

81

8.4

/4211/

78

/331/

78

/53/

4.0

/3020/

89

/9/

91

age 15+

Keanu Reeves tells one of the greatest sagas in Formula 1 history. Through the insights of Ross Brawn and revered racing icons like Jenson Button and Rubens Barrichello, all is revealed in this gripping four-part series. From the formation of Brawn GP see their remarkable journey through strategic manoeuvres and financial trials during an exceptionally competitive era in the annals of the sport.

81

8.1

/39797/

77

/1247/

80

/168/

3.9

/31755/

88

/25/

95

69

/8/

age 14+

With never-before-seen footage, this docuseries follows David Beckham's meteoric rise from humble beginnings to global football stardom.

83

81

7.7

/6236/

73

/362/

73

/54/

4.0

/5723/

100

/19/

93

age 15+

Eight months after her mentor Andy Jones suffered a heart attack, Head Chef Carly is battling to forge a name for new London restaurant Point North alongside her old kitchen crew. With the pressure to draw in new, hungry customers and the financial squeeze to keep the business profitable, the team must find a way to manage their complicated personal lives whilst creating quality food day in, day out.

79

78

7.7

/10761/

72

/419/

75

/65/

3.8

/1086/

87

/15/

88

76

/8/

age 16+

Dramatizing one of the most infamously notorious and shocking serial killer cases in the world, the hunt for Peter Sutcliffe, commonly dubbed the Yorkshire Ripper, between October 1975 and January 1981, South Yorkshire police undertook the biggest manhunt in British criminal history. The search for Sutcliffe lasted five years, involved over a thousand officers and changed the way the British police worked forever.

82

62

7.4

/1798/

69

/72/

71

/21/

96

/18/

100

82

/10/

Linda finds a new lease on life when she learns that she's experiencing menopause. So she heads to the forest on a journey of self-discovery.

86

63

8.8

/1337/

78

/66/

84

/13/

4.3

/1282/

90

/10/

92

88

/6/

Twenty-five years on from a peace agreement being reached, Once Upon a Time in Northern Ireland shares intimate, unheard testimonies from all sides of the conflict.

72

66

7.1

/4623/

65

/198/

69

/38/

3.4

/336/

78

/9/

81

69

/5/

The hunt to catch the killer of three young women in the Port Talbot area in 1973 and the remarkable story of how - in the first case of its kind - the mystery was solved almost 30 years later using pioneering DNA evidence. Contrasting the policing methods of the 1970s with the forensic breakthroughs of the early 2000s, the series portrays a town dealing with the repercussions of an unsolved case three decades on, and asks if justice can ever truly be found.

85

64

8.2

/2309/

76

/146/

86

/12/

3.9

/2262/

100

/5/

89

80

/5/

age 14+

For the first time ever, global superstar, Ed Sheeran opens the doors to a definitive and searingly honest view into his private life as he explores the universal themes that inspire his music. This series follows Ed after he learns of life changing news and reveals his hardships and triumphs during the most challenging period of his life. Featuring exclusive footage behind his iconic hits, never-before-seen personal archive with his friends and family, and epic stadium performances giving insight into Ed’s world.

76

62

7.2

/3131/

68

/125/

68

/26/

93

/14/

83

Dr Lucinda Edwards is a smart, battle-hardened doctor, but we meet her on a nightmare shift that ends in the death of an opioid overdose victim, Edith Owusu. Despite the support of her medical supervisor, Dr Leo Harris, Edith’s grieving father Sir Anthony Owusu, demands an enquiry into Lucinda’s actions on the fateful night.

87

80

8.2

/4010/

77

/214/

79

/47/

4.1

/3153/

100

/5/

98

age 10+

A vast community of chimpanzees thrives in a forest in Uganda, navigating complex social politics, family dynamics and dangerous territory disputes.

87

67

8.6

/1366/

79

/136/

82

/26/

3.9

/556/

100

/6/

90

86

/5/

age 6+

This nature documentary introduces viewers to the fauna and flora of Britain and Ireland across four main areas: woodlands, grasslands, freshwater and marine.

67

64

7.4

/7337/

70

/314/

66

/45/

60

/9/

After leaving paradise and seeking a quieter life, Humphrey has taken a job as Detective Inspector in his fiancée Martha's hometown. But with the high crime rate, maybe things will be louder than expected.

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71

61

7.5

/3323/

71

/259/

73

/33/

69

/9/

age 11+

Award-winning actor and nervous explorer Eugene Levy steps out of his comfort zone for a whirlwind tour of the world's most beautiful and intriguing destinations.

72

64

7.5

/3928/

65

/151/

69

/41/

75

/16/

84

65

/12/

age 16+

A young woman from Blackpool finds her voice in the male dominated world of the 1960s comedy, and in doing so takes London by storm.

77

65

7.3

/3009/

67

/116/

62

/29/

3.6

/1089/

100

/15/

82

79

/10/

age 14+

Exploring the rise and fall of one of the most famous faces on British television in the 60s and 70s: Noele Gordon (or Nolly to her friends).

81

7.4

/29796/

75

/1729/

76

/291/

94

/16/

94