The Best TV Shows on BBC Three

Every BBC Three Show Ranked From Best To Worst

As of February 2026, our compilation of BBC Three’s top-rated series boasts over 20 unique shows. For top-tier entertainment, BBC Three delivered Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps and Little Britain in 2001 and 2003. BBC Three’s extensive portfolio includes more than 20 shows, spanning the years from 2001 to 2025.

  • Fleabag
    Fleabag (2016)8.3

    A portrait into the mind of a dry-witted, sexual, angry, porn-watching, grief-riddled woman, trying to make sense of the world. As she hurls herself headlong at modern living, Fleabag is thrown roughly up against the walls of contemporary London, with all its frenetic energy, late nights, and bright lights.

  • Doctor Who Confidential
    Doctor Who Confidential (2005)8.2

    Doctor Who Confidential is a documentary to complement the revival of the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. Each episode was broadcast on BBC Three on Saturdays, immediately after the broadcast of the weekly television episode on BBC One. The running time of the first two series was 30 minutes, being extended to 45 minutes in the third. BBC Three also broadcast a cut-down edition of the programme, lasting 15 minutes, shown after the repeats on Sundays and Fridays and after the weekday evening repeats of earlier seasons.

  • Ideal
    Ideal (2005)8.1

    Sitcom about a small-time dope dealer and his strange collection of acquaintances.

  • Normal People
    Normal People (2020)8.1

    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.

  • The Mighty Boosh
    The Mighty Boosh (2004)7.6

    A British comic fantasy containing humour and pop-culture references. Episodes often featured elaborate musical numbers in different genres, such as electro, heavy metal, funk, and rap. The show has been known for popularising a style called "crimping"; short acappella songs which are present throughout all three series.

  • Gavin & Stacey
    Gavin & Stacey (2007)7.5

    Essex and Wales collide when Gavin and Stacey fall in love - bringing their friends, family and baggage with them.

  • A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
    A Good Girl's Guide to Murder (2024)7.4

    Five years after the death of schoolgirl Andie Bell, Pippa Fitz-Amobi sets out to uncover what really happened to her. Sal Singh, Andie's boyfriend, admitted to the murder before taking his own life, but Pip doesn't believe he's responsible and teams up with Sal's brother Ravi to uncover the truth. If Sal Singh isn't a murderer and the real killer is still out there, how far will they go to keep Pip from finding out the truth?

  • Torchwood
    Torchwood (2006)7.3

    The exploits of a team of people whose job is to investigate the unusual, the strange and the extraterrestrial.

  • The Fades
    The Fades (2011)7.2

    Seventeen-year old Paul can see the spirits of the dead. When one of these restless spirits crosses back into the living world, he is forced into a fight to prevent the apocalypse.

  • Little Britain
    Little Britain (2003)7.1

    A zany comedy show with Matt Lucas and David Walliams, featuring characters from all over Little Britain.

  • Being Human
    Being Human (2009)7.1

    Deciding to turn over a new leaf, a group of friends who also happen to be vampires and werewolves move into a house together, only to find that it is haunted by ghosts of people who have been killed under mysterious circumstances. As they deal with the challenges of being supernatural creatures, their desire to be human bonds them.

  • RuPaul's Drag Race UK
    RuPaul's Drag Race UK (2019)7.1

    RuPaul has made the trip across the pond in search of a queen with the most charisma, uniqueness, nerve and talent in all the land.

  • Bad Education
    Bad Education (2012)6.9

    Young teacher Alfie Wickers is "the worst teacher ever to grace the British education system" – at Abbey Grove School, in Watford, Hertfordshire.

  • Conversations with Friends
    Conversations with Friends (2022)6.9

    Two college students, Frances and Bobbi, forge a strange and unexpected relationship with a married couple.

  • Cuckoo
    Cuckoo (2012)6.8

    Cuckoo is every parent's worst nightmare - a slacker full of outlandish, New Age ideas. Ken is the over-protective father of a girl who's impulsively married an American hippie on her gap year.

  • Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps
    Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps (2001)6.7

    Sitcom about the lives and loves of five twenty-somethings in Runcorn.

  • Man Like Mobeen
    Man Like Mobeen (2017)6.6

    Man Like Mobeen is a four-part series that welcomes you into the life of Mobeen Deen, a 28 year-old from Small Heath in Birmingham. All Mobeen wants to do is follow his faith, lead a good life, and make sure his younger sister fulfils her potential. But can he juggle these when his criminal past and reputation is always chasing him?

  • RuPaul's Drag Race UK vs The World
    RuPaul's Drag Race UK vs The World (2022)6.2

    Elite international queens convene in the UK to battle for the crown, cash and glory in a bid to be crowned "The Queen of the Mothertucking World".

  • The Apprentice: You're Fired!
    The Apprentice: You're Fired! (2006)5.0

    The Apprentice: You're Fired!, sometimes named You're Fired!, The Apprentice: You're Hired! or You're Hired!, is a British television show made by the BBC and filmed at Riverside Studios as a spin-off from the reality TV hit The Apprentice. It was hosted by Adrian Chiles from 2006 to 2009, and Dara Ó Briain took over as host in 2010 after Chiles' move to ITV. The programme airs in a 30 minute slot after each episode of The Apprentice finishes. It was originally shown on BBC Three, but moved to BBC Two in 2007. Its format is similar to that of Big Brother's Little Brother and Strictly Come Dancing: It Takes Two. The final episode of each series is renamed "The Apprentice: You're Hired!" and involves interviews with the winner, the runner-up and Lord Sugar himself, and a reunion with all of the former candidates.

  • What It Feels Like for a Girl
    What It Feels Like for a Girl (2025)4.8

    To find yourself, sometimes you need to lose yourself. It's Y2K, and Byron's flirting with discovery and destruction, love and anarchy. Inspired by Paris Lees's raw, riotous memoir.