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The Best TV Shows on BBC Three

Every BBC Three Show Ranked From Best To Worst

Across the timeline from 2001 to 2024, BBC Three has presented audiences with over 20 captivating shows. Premiering in 2001 and 2003, Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps and Little Britain are among BBC Three’s most celebrated shows. Our curated list, current as of November 2024, showcases over 20 of BBC Three’s highest-rated series.

  • 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)8.1

    Doctor Who Confidential is a documentary series created by the British Broadcasting Corporation 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. Described as focusing on the human element of the series, Confidential features behind-the-scenes footage on the making of Doctor Who through clips and interviews with the cast, production crew and other people, including those who have participated in the television series over the years of its existence. Each episode deals with a different topic, and in most cases refers to the Doctor Who episode that preceded it. There have also been two episodes of Doctor Who Confidential broadcast apart from the showing of Doctor Who episodes: in November 2006 an edition subtitled "Music and Monsters" was produced going behind the scenes of a televised concert of soundtrack music produced as part of that year's Children in Need appeal, and on 3 January 2009, a special edition was broadcast to announce the actor chosen to play the Eleventh Doctor.

  • 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

    Gavin is an ordinary boy from Billericay, Essex. Stacey is an ordinary girl from Barry Island, South Wales. They’ve spoken on the phone every day at work for months but they’ve never actually met… until now.

  • A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
    A Good Girl's Guide to Murder (2024)7.5

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

  • Stacey Dooley Investigates
    Stacey Dooley Investigates (2009)7.3

    Stacey Dooley investigates current affairs issues affecting young people around the world.

  • Conversations with Friends
    Conversations with Friends (2022)7.3

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

  • In the Flesh
    In the Flesh (2013)7.2

    Thousands of dead people have risen from their graves and nearly destroyed Britain. A cure has been found - but can the treated zombies be rehabilitated back into living society?

  • Little Britain
    Little Britain (2003)7.1

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

  • 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.

  • Being Human
    Being Human (2009)7.0

    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.

  • Bad Education
    Bad Education (2012)7.0

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

  • Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps
    Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps (2001)6.8

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

  • Starstruck
    Starstruck (2021)6.8

    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.

  • Cuckoo
    Cuckoo (2012)6.7

    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.

  • 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.

  • Ginger's House
    Ginger's House (2024)N/A

    RuPaul’s Drag Race UK winner Ginger Johnson invites some of her RuGirl sisters round for a good old chinwag… before putting these queens to work with a few cheeky house chores.