British TV by air date, a list by EssenceHello

First Dates takes its matchmaking magic to Spain and a stunning beachside setting for cocktails and flirting by the pool.

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43

/3/

100

/1/

The Thames Torso Murderer terrorised 19th-century London but escaped justice. Lucy Worsley unearths this dark and dangerous story - can she unmask a forgotten serial killer?

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Award-winning investigations - revealing secrets, rooting out injustice, and exposing crime, corruption, and abuse. The biggest stories from BBC correspondents all over the world.

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10

/1/

20

/1/

Helen Skelton leads a team of experts in search of precious items lost by members of the public in the Lake District.

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7.9

/76/

64

/7/

60

/2/

Relax, reset and recharge. Robson takes the roads less travelled across his beloved North East England. With friends and family, he finds wellbeing and adventure in wonderful places.

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5.8

/48/

60

/1/

60

/1/

Research, restore and ready for sale! Bargain Hunt's Christina Trevanion and The Repair Shop's Will Kirk help families turn unwanted items into winning lots.

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51

/6/

Series celebrating the house-buying success stories of people who went on to purchase a rural property they were introduced to on their original Escape to the Country journey.

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7.6

/350/

66

/36/

63

/3/

Twelve famous faces embark on one of the toughest tests of their lives, for Stand Up To Cancer. And Ant Middleton and his instructors are making no allowances for their celebrity status.

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5.6

/54/

52

/8/

60

/2/

Celebrity Mastermind is a British television quiz show broadcast by BBC television. The show is a spin-off of the long-running quiz show Mastermind, with the exception that all the contestants are celebrities. As with the main show, John Humphrys is the host and question-master. Magnus Magnusson was quizmaster on the 2003/04 episodes featuring Jonathan Meades as winner.

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74

/120/

73

/33/

The Eurovision Song Contest is an international song competition, organised annually by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and featuring participants representing primarily European countries. Each participating country submits an original song to be performed on live television and radio, transmitted to national broadcasters via the EBU's Eurovision and Euroradio networks, with competing countries then casting votes for the other countries' songs to determine the winner.

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6.3

/58/

32

/5/

30

/2/

Rip Off Britain is a BBC One series which exposes Britain's rip-offs and helps consumers. It began on 30 November 2009, presented by former news journalists Angela Rippon, Gloria Hunniford and Jennie Bond. Newsreader Julia Somerville replaced Bond from series three. From the second series onwards, the show was remade into cut-down editions of 30 minutes which air in a prime time slot on Friday evenings.

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28

7.8

/1157/

75

/81/

60

/23/

Each week a group of four famous faces go toe to toe in testing their general knowledge skills in a variety of entertaining games.

81

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7.9

/225/

63

/10/

100

/1/

Charlie Dimmock and the Rich brothers compete to design gardens for home owners around the country. Each comes up with a design to suit the space and the budget and the garden owner chooses which gets built.

69

44

7.2

/3289/

73

/49/

64

/41/

Quiz in which contestants try to score as few points as possible by plumbing the depths of their general knowledge to come up with the answers no-one else can think of.

50

39

4.8

/9932/

62

/155/

41

/218/

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.

53

36

4.6

/4740/

64

/62/

50

/66/

The daily soap that follows the loves, lives and misdemeanours of a group of people living in the Chester village of Hollyoaks where anything could, and frequently does, happen...

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20

8.0

/783/

82

/70/

64

/12/

The fiendishly difficult quiz show in which two teams of three contestants have to find the connection between seemingly unrelated clues, where patience and lateral thinking are as vital as knowledge.

64

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6.1

/787/

56

/26/

72

/7/

Two teams of amateur collectors have an hour at an antiques fair in which to acquire the best bargains possible.

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10

/1/

In the wealthy London suburb of Hampstead, residents are scammed out of a million pounds by a prolific fraudster who masquerades as a shaman.

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70

/2/

An all-access pass to decadence and adventure, taking us aboard some of the world's most opulent movable feasts - from cruise liners with enviable art collections, to million-pound motorhomes.

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3.7

/37/

27

/5/

The big names behind the big stories. Laura Kuenssberg talks to those making the news, inside and outside politics.

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8.6

/34825/

80

/1243/

75

/245/

81

/18/

age 14+

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.

83

IMDb 9

8.0

/118710/

79

/5871/

78

/1146/

Letterboxd

3.9

/30895/

93

/86/

Popcorn

89

81

/40/

age 15+

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 Onslow Roper, Pine must himself become a criminal.

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54

8.6

/2807/

81

/92/

75

/47/

BBC's football highlights and analysis. "The longest-running football television programme in the world" as recognised by Guinness World Records in 2015.

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76

/3/

Social Media Monsters examines serious crimes where social media played a significant role, meeting victims, friends and families, and gaining insight from police, psychologists and other experts

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7.7

/237/

56

/11/

40

/3/

A philosopher begins teaching a class of men in prison. Each week, Dan leads discussions about dominance, freedom, luck and other topics that have troubled philosophers for thousands of years – topics that gain a new meaning when seen through the prisoners' eyes - both igniting passions and creating tension.

63

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6.1

/259/

70

/16/

60

/5/

Romesh Ranganathan takes charge of the back-stabbing big money game show. Can the contestants create a chain of answers and avoid the boot?

47

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5.6

/243/

51

/9/

35

/2/

Saturday Kitchen Live is a 90 minute cookery programme, which is broadcast live on BBC One on Saturday mornings. Matt Tebbutt is the predominant presenter. Andi Oliver and Michel Roux Jr. have also presented several episodes. Previous presenters have included Antony Worrall Thompson and Gregg Wallace. The programme is currently produced by Cactus TV. The programme has also aired on RTÉ One in Ireland on Saturday mornings, the episodes shown are several months old.

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46

6.1

/3986/

73

/82/

61

/83/

Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department, charting the ups and downs in their personal and professional lives.

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55

/2/

Besties Amanda Holden and Alan Carr have packed their boiler suits once again, raring to spend a summer on the idyllic Ionian island of Corfu.

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56

/3/

Besties Amanda Holden and Alan Carr take on a big fat Greek renovation on the idyllic Ionian island of Corfu. It’s tearing down walls by day and smashing plates by night.

56

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7.1

/106/

52

/20/

45

/4/

Catch up from the castle. The latest banished and murdered have their say with Ed Gamble. How will they react to the betrayals, revelations, mind games and manipulations?

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81

8.7

/7640/

80

/586/

72

/49/

90

/38/

Popcorn

93

70

/13/

Strangers play the ultimate game of detection, backstabbing and trust in the hope of winning up to £120,000. But hidden amongst the players are three Traitors, who secretly ‘murder’ a player every night. It’s up to the Faithfuls to banish them from the game before they become the next victim. If the Faithfuls eliminate all the Traitors they split the cash; but if a Traitor remains undetected to the end of the game, they take all the money.

80

8.3

/10802/

80

/638/

77

/123/

A comedic panel show featuring team captains Lee Mack and David Mitchell plus two guests per side, hosted by Rob Brydon (formerly Angus Deayton). Each person must reveal embarrassing facts and outrageous lies during a series of different rounds including "Home Truths", "This Is My..." and "Quickfire Lies". It is up to the opposing team to tell tall tales from fantastic facts.

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8.4

/14170/

77

/744/

72

/274/

age 14+

Each week celebrity guests join Irish comedian Graham Norton to discuss what's being going on around the world that week. The guests poke fun and share their opinions on the main news stories. Graham is often joined by a band or artist to play the show out.

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7.8

/17185/

76

/429/

76

/127/

Father Brown is based on G. K. Chesterton's detective stories about a Catholic priest who doubles as an amateur detective in order to try and solve mysteries.

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72

IMDb 59

7.5

/6267/

71

/302/

75

/42/

88

/17/

Popcorn

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.

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30

6.5

/881/

62

/57/

55

/10/

75

/4/

Dom and Kay join the Met Police in the hope of cleaning up their community, but are unwittingly thrust into the murky world of deep cover infiltration as they become part of a powerful criminal enterprise. But for Dom and Kay it quickly becomes more of a fiasco than Donnie Brasco…

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6.7

/199/

59

/10/

Debbie Fenton is a granny, lawn bowler, tinpot dictator - who will stop at nothing to make sure her family's protected. Unfortunately, most of the time the person they really need protecting from is her. When her hermit-like husband William unexpectedly dies, she makes an outlandish decision that will put the family under more pressure than ever before.

66

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8.2

/309/

69

/27/

50

/3/

Dr Alice Roberts follows a year of British archaeology, joining up the results of digs and investigations the length of the country.

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Rick revisits his Aussie home from home. Catching up with old friends and foodie favourites, he explores exciting new dishes, from the arid Outback to the dazzling Sapphire Coast.

75

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7.8

/133/

74

/19/

A gripping series with extraordinary access to the police as they investigate murders and search for missing people.

83

8.6

/35368/

85

/1558/

79

/266/

Comedy quiz show full of quirky facts, in which contestants are rewarded more if their answers are 'quite interesting'.

77

18

7.8

/391/

74

/49/

79

/15/