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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 November 2024. Premiering in 1947 and 2010, BBC Proms and Radio 1's Big Weekend are among BBC iPlayer’s most celebrated shows. A broadcaster of distinction, BBC iPlayer has aired more than 20 shows between 1947 and 2023.

  • Russia 1985-1999: TraumaZone
    Russia 1985-1999: TraumaZone (2022)9.2

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

  • Can't Get You Out of My Head
    Can't Get You Out of My Head (2021)7.8

    In six films, Adam Curtis traces the different forces across the world that have led to now. It covers a wide range—including the strange roots of modern conspiracy theories, the history of China, opium and opioids, the history of Artificial Intelligence, melancholy over the loss of empire and, love and power. And explores whether modern culture, despite its radicalism, is really just part of the new system of power.

  • 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)7.2

    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.

  • 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)6.7

    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.

  • 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.

  • Doctor Who: Video Commentaries
    Doctor Who: Video Commentaries (2023)1.0

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

  • 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.

  • Back Space
    Back Space (2011)N/A

    Spoof technology magazine show by Stuart Ashen and Karen Hayley.

  • 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!

  • Logan High
    Logan High (2018)N/A

    Catch up with the lives of the pupils of Logan High, as they navigate the highs and lows of relationship dramas, friendship fall outs, family issues, school stress and general randomness of life in a modern high school.

  • Inside Cinema
    Inside Cinema (2020)N/A

    Short films taking you to the heart of the movies.

  • The Earthshot Prize: Repairing Our Planet
    The Earthshot Prize: Repairing Our Planet (2021)N/A

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

  • Glastonbury
    Glastonbury (2021)N/A

    The Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts is the largest greenfield music and performing arts festival in the world. The festival is best known for its contemporary music, but also features dance, comedy, theatre, circus, cabaret and many other arts. For 2005, the enclosed area of the festival was over 900 acres, had over 385 live performances and was attended by around 150,000 people. While the villagers of Pilton have been complaining about the noise generated during the weekend for many years, in 2007 over 700 acts played on over 80 stages. Glastonbury was heavily influenced by hippie ethics and the free festival movement in the 1970s, especially the Isle of Wight Festival.

  • Dancing Nation
    Dancing Nation (2021)N/A

    Sadler’s Wells & BBC Arts present a three-part celebration of dance featuring many of the UK’s leading dance companies and the most exciting new emerging talent. Presented by Brenda Emmanus as part of BBC Arts’ Culture in Quarantine, this unique festival has been curated in lockdown by Sadler’s Wells, London - one of the world’s leading dance houses.