The Best TV Shows on BBC Choice

Every BBC Choice Show Ranked From Best To Worst

Showcasing over 13 shows from 1955 up until N/A, BBC Choice stands as a beacon of television excellence. Discover the best of BBC Choice with our list of over 13 series, meticulously updated for July 2025. Some of the best tv shows from BBC Choice include Life with the Lyons and Shooting Stars, airing in 1955 and 1993 respectively.

  • The Dave Gorman Collection
    The Dave Gorman Collection (2001)8.0

    Dave Gorman, a British Comedian, undertakes a challenge set by his flat mate Danny Wallace, to find 54 of his namesakes (1 for every card in the deck, including jokers). The show is presented over a series of six episodes by Dave Gorman himself in what can only be described as a lecture format. The series charts the trials and tribulations that greet Dave as he attempts to complete his task.

  • Shooting Stars
    Shooting Stars (1993)7.6

    Shooting Stars is a British television comedy panel game broadcast on BBC Two as a pilot in 1993, then as 3 full series from 1995 to 1997, then on BBC Choice from January to December 2002 with 2 series before returning to BBC Two for another 3 series from 2008 until its cancellation in 2011. Created and hosted by double-act Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer, it uses the panel show format but with the comedians' often slapstick, surreal and anarchic humour does not rely on rules in order to function, with the pair apparently ignoring existing rules or inventing new ones as and when the mood takes them.

  • Fun at the Funeral Parlour
    Fun at the Funeral Parlour (2001)7.0

    Fun at the Funeral Parlour was a comedy series broadcast on BBC Choice for two series in 2001 and 2002. It was set in a Welsh funeral directors called "Thomas, Thomas, Thomas and Thomas". The series was written by Rhys Thomas, who also starred alongside William Thomas, Alex Lowe and Tony Way. Thomas created the show at the age of 20, after contributing to The Fast Show.

  • 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.

  • Tinsel Town
    Tinsel Town (2000)4.0

    Drama set in Glasgow's high-octane club scene about the lifestyles of the people who go to Tinsel Town nightclub.

  • Life with the Lyons
    Life with the Lyons (1955)N/A

    Life with the Lyons is a British radio and television domestic sitcom dating from the 1950s.

  • EastEnders Revealed
    EastEnders Revealed (1998)N/A

  • Patrick Kielty Almost Live
    Patrick Kielty Almost Live (1999)N/A

    Patrick Kielty presents a series of comedy, chat and music with celebrity guests.

  • Japan TV
    Japan TV (2000)N/A

    A series of short documentaries exploring Japanese culture for for BBC Choice's Japan TV Weekend

  • Lum the Invader Girl
    Lum the Invader Girl (2000)N/A

    Lum the Invader Girl is a dub based on the classic 1981 anime “Urusei Yatsura” produced by the BBC in the year 2000. While the animation from the original anime has gone unchanged the jokes have largely been changed, bringing it more in line with the British comedies of the time

  • Having It Off
    Having It Off (2002)N/A

    Having it Off is a one-off TV comedy series for BBC Choice made by Red Production Company in 2002. It was set at a cheap hairdressing salon in Eccles, Greater Manchester. It was shown only once and is not available yet on DVD. Out gay bitchy stereotype Guy La Trousse, desperately tries to escape the drudge of daily wash and crop and change the fortunes of the salon - and his career. This is all thwarted by April, nymphomanic loud-mouthed wife of the hairdressers owner. The BBC website describes it as "rude, crude, strongly working-class sitcom on the lesser-seen BBC Choice, Having It Off promised much yet fell curiously short of the mark, lacking the key that would have propelled it to a higher level". However, tapes have been known to change hands on eBay for high prices.

  • Ed Stone Is Dead
    Ed Stone Is Dead (2002)N/A

    Ed Stone Is Dead was a 2002 BBC sitcom starring Richard Blackwood, Daniel Brocklebank, Bill Paterson and Claudie Blakley. It centers around Ed Stone who accidentally is killed by the grim reaper Nigel and becomes half-dead. The show ran for a single season with 13 episodes, each 30 minutes long. It was later repeated on Trouble.

  • Clive Anderson's Conspiracies
    Clive Anderson's Conspiracies (N/A)N/A

    Conspiracies is a documentary television programme produced by the BBC and broadcast on both BBC Choice and TechTV. The series was hosted by Clive Anderson. Though a small number of episodes were produced, they focused on a variety of well known conspiracy theories.