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The Best TV Shows on BBC iPlayer

Every BBC iPlayer Show Ranked From Best To Worst

Dive into our updated selection of BBC iPlayer’s finest, featuring more than 20 series as of February 2025. Leading the pack on BBC iPlayer are BBC Proms and Radio 1's Big Weekend, with their initial broadcasts in 1947 and 2010. BBC iPlayer has over 20 shows broadcast from as early as 1947 and as recent as 2023.

  • Russia 1985-1999: TraumaZone
    Russia 1985-1999: TraumaZone (2022)9.1

    What it felt like to live through the collapse of communism and democracy. A series of films by Adam Curtis.

  • The Earthshot Prize: Repairing Our Planet
    The Earthshot Prize: Repairing Our Planet (2021)9.0

    Aims to discover, celebrate and scale innovative solutions to the greatest environmental challenges facing our planet.

  • Get Even
    Get Even (2020)7.7

    On the surface Kitty, Margot, Bree and Olivia appear to have nothing in common - but there’s one passion which unites them: to expose injustice. They form their own secret society, DGM - they Don’t Get Mad, they Get Even - playing anonymous pranks to expose bullies.

  • BBC Proms
    BBC Proms (1947)7.5

    The World's Greatest Classical Music Festival. The BBC Proms is a classical music festival held every summer at the Royal Albert Hall in London, and in recent years has explored an innovative series of Proms around the UK with concerts in all four nations. Its aim: to bring the best in classical music to the widest possible audience, which remains true to founder-conductor Henry Wood’s original vision in 1895. Whether you are a classical connoisseur or think classical music isn’t for you, there is something for everyone in the eight-week stretch of concerts.

  • Rebel Cheer Squad: A Get Even Series
    Rebel Cheer Squad: A Get Even Series (2022)7.4

    The old DGM might have left Bannerman School, but their spirit remains, and there is still a need to get even, wrongs must be righted and injustice has to be fought.

  • The Amelia Gething Complex
    The Amelia Gething Complex (2019)7.0

    Amelia navigates a world of weirdness with her friends Vinny, Poppy and Wallace.

  • Radio 2 Piano Room
    Radio 2 Piano Room (N/A)7.0

    Live performances from much-loved music stars, alongside the BBC Concert Orchestra, at the BBC's Maida Vale Studios.

  • The A List
    The A List (2018)6.6

    Romance, rivalry and radical mystery collide as a group of teens attend a remote island sleepaway camp in this suspenseful, supernatural drama.

  • Original Comedy Shorts
    Original Comedy Shorts (2014)6.0

    A series of six comedy shorts, in which each episode is 'taken over' by a different high profile comedian. The result is an exclusive, eclectic and hilarious mix of comedy genres, tastes and styles.

  • Funny Valentines
    Funny Valentines (2015)6.0

    Funny Valentines is a comedy collection of nine original short films exclusive to BBC iPlayer, written and starring many of Britain's finest comedians. Each comedian was invited to create a short Funny Valentine to bring their unique take on the international day of love.

  • Doctor Who: Video Commentaries
    Doctor Who: Video Commentaries (2023)5.5

    Join the makers and stars of Doctor Who for fun in-vision commentary.

  • Ashen's Tech Dump
    Ashen's Tech Dump (2010)5.0

    Internet legend Stuart Ashen welcomes you to the fabulous palace of electronic misinformation known as the Tech Dump.

  • Extra Gear
    Extra Gear (2016)4.6

    Extra Gear is the brand new companion show to Top Gear, bringing tons of behind-the-scenes content to audiences for the first time. Hosted by Rory Reid and Chris Harris, the half hour after show presents exclusive new footage, interviews, and specially recorded films. Rory and Chris will also be joined by a celebrity guest or renowned figure from the motoring world to reflect on that week’s episode of Top Gear.

  • Tales of the Tardis
    Tales of the Tardis (2023)4.4

    Classic Doctor Who duos are reunited as they board a very special TARDIS on a nostalgic voyage through space and time.

  • Radio 1's Big Weekend
    Radio 1's Big Weekend (2010)N/A

    BBC Radio 1's Big Weekend (R1BW) is a British music festival run by BBC Radio 1. It is held once a year, in a different location within the United Kingdom each time. It was the biggest free-ticketed music event in Europe, until a fee for tickets was introduced in 2018, and always includes a host of new artists.

  • Doctor Who Extra
    Doctor Who Extra (2014)N/A

    Doctor Who Extra brings you unprecedented access to the making of Doctor Who... Featuring interviews with Peter Capaldi and Jenna Coleman, it's the ultimate backstage pass!

  • Original Drama Shorts
    Original Drama Shorts (2014)N/A

    The iPlayer Shorts strand is a bold and exciting venture between BBC iPlayer, BBC Three and BBC Drama Production to commission six original short films over two years, written and directed by the best up-and-coming writing and directing talent from across the UK.

  • The World's Most Extreme Festivals
    The World's Most Extreme Festivals (2016)N/A

    Chris Stark explores The World’s Most Extreme Festivals

  • Flatmates
    Flatmates (2019)N/A

    Two lads, three girls, one flat. Flatmates follows the lives of five teens as they take their first uncertain steps into adulthood whilst trying to fulfil the millennial dream.

  • Inside Cinema
    Inside Cinema (2020)N/A

    Short films taking you to the heart of the movies.