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The Best TV Shows on BBC Red Button

Every BBC Red Button Show Ranked From Best To Worst

BBC Red Button has over 7 shows broadcast from as early as 2008 and as recent as 2021. Highlighting BBC Red Button’s quality programming, Earth: The Biography and Doctor Who: Dreamland stand out, premiering in 2008 and 2009. Peruse our comprehensive roster of BBC Red Button’s top shows, encompassing over 7 distinct series as of November 2024.

  • EastEnders: E20
    EastEnders: E20 (2010)9.7

    EastEnders: E20 is a British Internet soap opera, which began airing on 8 January 2010. A spin-off from the established BBC soap EastEnders, it is set in EastEnders' regular setting of Albert Square, a Victorian square in the fictional borough of Walford, in the East End of London. Each series follows a group of teenage characters: Zsa Zsa Carter, Leon Small, Fatboy and Mercy Olubunmi in series 1; Asher Levi and his brother Sol, Naz Mehmet, and Stevie Dickinson in series 2; and Ava Bourne, Donnie Lester and Faith Olubunmi in series 3. The show's title comes from Walford's fictional London postcode district, E20. The four characters from series 1 also appear in EastEnders, as well as Faith from series 3. EastEnders: E20 originally aired as part of the main show's 25th anniversary celebrations. It was devised in a bid to develop and nurture new talent, including writers, actors, composers and remixers, and target a younger audience, as well as to attempt to drive more people onto the Internet. The series was the idea of executive producers Diederick Santer, who wanted a show where regular EastEnders characters would be in the background, and John Yorke, who wanted to improve the portrayal of teenagers in EastEnders and to get younger people writing for it.

  • 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.

  • Doctor Who: Dreamland
    Doctor Who: Dreamland (2009)5.9

    While visiting a diner in Nevada in 1958, the Doctor finds an alien artifact and ends up on a mission to save the Rivesh Mantilax from the danger of the Viperox and the U.S. Military.

  • Earth: The Biography
    Earth: The Biography (2008)N/A

    A five-part documentary series exploring the natural forces shaping our ever-changing planet.

  • 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!

  • Hogmanay Live
    Hogmanay Live (N/A)N/A

    Hogmanay Live is BBC Scotland's annual live event programme broadcast from either Edinburgh Castle's Great Hall or BBC Pacific Quay on Hogmanay. Regardless of location, the programme rings in the New Year with the firing of Edinburgh Castle's One O'Clock Gun and the subsequent fireworks and celebrations in Edinburgh. Occasionally the programme is networked across the United Kingdom on BBC One and it is also streamed live over bbc.co.uk on the internet. The programme features a mixture of Scottish contemporary and folk music, with some past programming also featuring live coverage of parts of the Princes Street concert in Edinburgh. The show was most famously presented by Jackie Bird, but has also been hosted by Susan Calman and currently Edith Bowman

  • Thrifty Cooking in the Doctor's Kitchen
    Thrifty Cooking in the Doctor's Kitchen (2021)N/A

    Dr Rupy and some special guests create simple and delicious thrifty dishes. He rustles up quick and delicious plant-based recipes, to make you feel good.