British Shows By Release, a list by Mark Gauci

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.

82

79

7.8

/9483/

75

/352/

72

/36/

91

/11/

94

Michael has been involved in organized crime all of his adult life, working for his friend and the gang leader Ronnie. When Ronnie begins to hint at retirement, Michael too begins to imagine another life. Because, for the first time in his life, Michael is in love. For the first time in his life, he sees beyond the day-to-day, he sees a future: something to win and something to lose - Diana.

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

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.

82

7.9

/16306/

74

/542/

71

/64/

4.0

/9717/

95

/40/

90

84

/14/

age 15+

It is 1986 and Britain is booming. "Rivals" dives headfirst into the cutthroat world of TV where hair-dos are big and ambitions are even bigger. Deals are brokered in boardrooms, as well as bedrooms. Nobody can be sure who will come out on top. With every man and woman out only for themselves, can true love really blossom?

74

7.5

/41793/

72

/1613/

74

/255/

3.7

/38391/

76

/102/

65

70

/32/

3.5

age 16+

When an intriguing novel appears at the bedside of a journalist whose career has been built on revealing transgressions, she is horrified to realize she's a key character in a long-buried story—one that exposes her darkest secret.

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.

77

7.5

/13063/

73

/628/

68

/115/

3.9

/2249/

92

/37/

80

74

/22/

age 14+

Count Alexander Rostov finds himself going from riches to rags following the Russian revolution. A Soviet tribunal banishes him to the attic room of an opulent hotel, where, oblivious to the world outside, he discovers the true value of friendship, family and love.

84

8.4

/15614/

79

/599/

79

/69/

3.9

/3396/

95

/20/

91

80

/8/

age 13+

The story of one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in British legal history, where hundreds of innocent sub-postmasters and postmistresses were wrongly accused of theft, fraud and false accounting due to a defective IT system.

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.

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.

78

74

7.7

/8535/

73

/250/

66

/44/

3.8

/1347/

90

/20/

86

80

/7/

A series that dramatises the shocking story of the true-life murder of former Stowe schoolmaster and deeply closeted evangelical Christian, 69-year-old Peter Farquhar by his 28-year-old student and young churchwarden Ben Field in October 2015.

83

8.2

/20971/

79

/833/

74

/105/

94

/39/

91

82

/18/

Follows rookie police officers working in Belfast, a city in which being a frontline response cop comes with unique pressures and dangers.

82

81

8.7

/7640/

80

/586/

72

/49/

90

/38/

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.

77

7.8

/32722/

74

/1136/

72

/218/

3.9

/6383/

84

/63/

84

74

/26/

3.0

age 15+

An aristocratic Englishwoman, Lady Cornelia Locke, arrives into the new and wild landscape of the American West to wreak revenge on the man she sees as responsible for the death of her son.

79

7.6

/32550/

75

/1628/

74

/266/

3.8

/5922/

95

/20/

88

71

/8/

age 15+

Lucy wakes every night at exactly 3:33am. Nothing in her life has made sense for a long time. But the answers are out there, somewhere, at the end of a trail of brutal murders.

80

7.5

/16316/

76

/1050/

73

/164/

94

/16/

91

72

/4/

age 15+

Caught between two warring clans, the son of a notorious witch responsible for a deadly massacre tries to find his place in the world — and his powers.

83

79

8.7

/6759/

82

/326/

82

/63/

3.9

/472/

Join Red Guy, Yellow Guy and Duck as they learn everything there is to know with the help of some friendly talking objects, in this comedy-horror puppet show based off the popular YouTube web series.

78

77

7.6

/13725/

74

/386/

69

/80/

95

/22/

82

76

/13/

When a 25-year-old murder in St Andrews becomes the subject of a provocative true-crime podcast, DS Karen Pirie is tasked with heading up a review. Digging up the past, Karen uncovers fresh evidence and a potential perpetrator. But when suspects start coming under attack, the cold case turns into an active investigation. Can Karen find the killer before it’s too late?

77

69

7.5

/5412/

71

/202/

73

/26/

94

/23/

80

73

/16/

age 15+

Nic is lonely, stuck in her marriage, and the cat’s missing. She loves her son but wants more from life. When new mum Jen arrives in town, Nic’s life is lit up. But it comes at a cost.

78

8.2

/53068/

79

/1859/

75

/255/

88

/102/

72

76

/39/

age 15+

The tight-knit Garvey sisters have always looked out for one another. But when the toxic brother-in-law they all wanted dead actually dies, it turns their lives upside down and tests their bond like nothing before.

75

72

8.2

/6604/

76

/303/

81

/36/

3.8

/3094/

80

/5/

75

60

/4/

Follow the iconic football club during an unforgettable season. As fans return to stadiums, the 2021-22 football season puts pressure on Arsenal's manager Mikel Arteta and his young team to get back to their former glories and back into Europe. Offering unprecedented access and capturing the highs and lows of life on and off the pitch, this is football at its finest: raw, dramatic and full of passion.

85

83

8.4

/6498/

81

/347/

75

/38/

100

/29/

89

84

/14/

Big Boys is a silly, sweet comedy about two boys from very different ends of the “spectrum of masculinity” who become best mates at Brent Uni Freshers Week 2013.

88

8.5

/91169/

84

/4221/

85

/1628/

98

/147/

95

81

/39/

age 14+

Teens Charlie and Nick discover their unlikely friendship might be something more as they navigate school and young love in this coming-of-age series.

79

77

7.5

/9592/

73

/294/

70

/62/

100

/16/

81

79

/9/

An editor gets drawn into a web of intrigue and murder when she receives an unfinished manuscript.

86

8.3

/21984/

80

/1021/

76

/149/

4.4

/23160/

96

/45/

92

91

/20/

age 15+

The unvarnished truth of life as a doctor working in obstetrics and gynaecology.

74

69

7.6

/7289/

69

/198/

67

/59/

75

/12/

93

69

/9/

A recent widower and acclaimed poet, enigmatic Inspector Adam Dalgliesh employs his exceptional empathy and insight to plumb the darker depths of the human psyche while investigating complex crimes in 1970s England.

77

7.7

/19691/

73

/864/

74

/139/

86

/43/

82

75

/15/

age 12+

Seven strangers from different walks of life - people who would never normally interact - are forced to work together to renovate a derelict community centre. They resent the menial physical labour and they resent each other. But when one of their number gets dragged into a dangerous world of organised crime, they unite in ways none of them thought possible.

87

9.0

/82841/

84

/3633/

85

/363/

97

/29/

97

70

/17/

age 14+

Follow Jeremy Clarkson as he embarks on his latest adventure, farming. The man who on several occasions claims to be allergic to manual labour takes on the most manually labour intensive job there is. What could possibly go wrong?

83

8.2

/31473/

77

/1044/

75

/242/

4.1

/8450/

96

/38/

88

81

/16/

Guilt, violence and impossible choices – what does it take to survive? Tense, gritty and heartbreaking – Jimmy McGovern's award-winning prison drama, with an all-star cast.

82

8.3

/7651/

80

/527/

75

/73/

97

/68/

75

84

/29/

age 15+

An anarchic, laugh-out-loud music comedy following a Muslim female punk band called Lady Parts, tracking the highs and lows of the band members as seen through the eyes of Amina Hussein — a geeky doctorate student who is recruited to be their unlikely lead guitarist.

77

7.5

/9293/

72

/456/

68

/55/

96

/83/

78

77

/33/

age 17+

A drunken New Year's Eve hook-up becomes far more complicated for Jessie when she discovers her one night stand is actually a film star.

68

7.6

/54091/

73

/1899/

74

/358/

3.8

/12607/

69

/35/

80

59

/18/

2.0

age 16+

The remarkable story of how murderer Charles Sobhraj was captured. As the chief suspect in unsolved murders of young Western travellers across India, Thailand and Nepal’s ‘Hippie Trail’ in 1975 and 1976, Sobhraj had repeatedly slipped from the grasp of authorities worldwide to become Interpol's most wanted man, with arrest warrants on three different continents.

78

73

7.8

/5737/

74

/228/

68

/87/

4.2

/8129/

97

/468/

76

age 15+

An anthology series of five stories looking at the lives of a group of friends and their families in London’s West Indian community from the late 1960s to the early 80s.

73

7.5

/19396/

73

/1259/

78

/354/

67

/8/

age 14+

Alex Rider is an ordinary teenager enlisted to work on behalf of MI6, where he uses skills he didn't know he had to become an extraordinary spy.

82

8.2

/5989/

78

/404/

75

/63/

4.0

/2145/

100

/5/

79

age 14+

The epic motorcycle adventure continues in this third chapter of the Long Way series, as Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman journey to glorious landscapes across South and Central America—on the backs of prototype electric Harley-Davidsons.

79

7.6

/24020/

74

/962/

71

/183/

3.8

/11132/

90

/20/

92

75

/7/

The story of one of the most infamous cases in UK criminal history, that of serial killer Dennis Nilsen. Told through the prism of three men, the series explores the personal and professional consequences of coming into contact with a man like Nilsen.

81

79

8.0

/7071/

73

/338/

71

/67/

3.7

/3544/

100

/5/

83

A fly-on-the-wall inside look at the goings-on of Tottenham Hotspur during the 2019-20 football season.

82

8.5

/11568/

80

/479/

79

/96/

89

/28/

98

63

/13/

age 14+

David Tennant and Michael Sheen (playing themselves) were due to star in a production of 'Six Characters in Search of an Author' in the West End. The pandemic has put an end to that, but their director (Simon Evans) is determined not to let the opportunity pass them by.

81

8.0

/14845/

78

/822/

77

/119/

96

/51/

91

69

/13/

age 14+

All Nikki and Jason want is a baby—the one thing they can't have. So they decide to adopt. With their dysfunctional friends, screwball families, and chaotic lives, will the adoption panel agree that they're ready to be parents?

85

8.4

/112173/

81

/3622/

81

/1269/

4.4

/542247/

91

/91/

92

82

/25/

age 16+

Marianne and Connell weave in and out of each other's lives in this exploration of sex, power and the desire to love and be loved.

75

8.0

/52092/

79

/2999/

78

/635/

84

/53/

66

67

/27/

age 16+

When the head of a criminal organisation, Finn Wallace is assassinated, the sudden power vacuum his death creates threatens the fragile peace between the intricate web of gangs operating on the streets of the city. Now it’s up to the grieving, volatile and impulsive Sean Wallace to restore control and find those responsible for killing his father.

72

7.7

/13378/

74

/417/

73

/106/

67

/5/

age 13+

When Eliza Scarlet's father dies, he leaves her penniless, but she resolves to continue his detective agency. To operate in a male-dominated world, though, she needs a partner... step forward a detective known as the Duke. Eliza and The Duke strike up a mismatched, fiery relationship as they team up to solve crime in the murkiest depths of 1880’s London.

69

7.6

/18538/

72

/737/

73

/209/

3.6

/3724/

53

/19/

83

62

/4/

Two 19th-century footballers on opposite sides of a class divide navigate professional and personal turmoil to change the game — and England — forever.

82

7.5

/15090/

74

/932/

72

/233/

100

/65/

89

85

/22/

age 16+

Recovering addict and comedian Mae tries to control the addictive behaviors and intense romanticism that permeate every facet of their life. Life is further complicated by a new and all-consuming relationship with their new girlfriend George.

73

7.5

/10264/

71

/423/

71

/86/

3.4

/901/

75

/36/

81