The Best TV Shows on BBC Three

Every BBC Three Show Ranked From Best To Worst

From 2001 through to 2024, BBC Three has accumulated a diverse collection of over 20 television shows. For top-tier entertainment, BBC Three delivered Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps and Little Britain in 2001 and 2003. Peruse our comprehensive roster of BBC Three’s top shows, encompassing over 20 distinct series as of October 2026.

  • 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 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.

  • 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.

  • Ideal
    Ideal (2005)7.9

    Sitcom about a small-time dope dealer and his strange collection of acquaintances.

  • 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

    Essex and Wales collide when Gavin and Stacey fall in love - bringing their friends, family and baggage with them.

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

  • Little Britain
    Little Britain (2003)7.1

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

  • Being Human
    Being Human (2009)7.1

    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.

  • 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.

  • Wellington Paranormal
    Wellington Paranormal (2018)7.0

    New Zealand's capital is a hotbed of supernatural activity... so Officers Minogue and O'Leary, who featured in the vampire documentary What We Do In The Shadows, take to the streets to investigate all manner of paranormal phenomena.

  • Bad Education
    Bad Education (2012)6.9

    Welcome to Abbey Grove Secondary School, where the students are struggling to grow up and the teachers are struggling to convince everyone they already have. After all, it’s difficult to teach teenagers about becoming responsible adults when you’re still trying to become one yourself.

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

    The lives of five loveable, 20-somethings are followed in the northern town of Runcorn in Cheshire, England, where the friends meet often at a local pub to chat about life and love.

  • 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.

  • Thirteen
    Thirteen (2016)6.7

    A 26-year-old woman learns to live again after 13 years in captivity.

  • Doctor Who: Unleashed
    Doctor Who: Unleashed (2024)6.6

    Following the same format of Doctor Who: Confidential, Steffan Powell takes audiences behind the scenes of each episode of BBC's Doctor Who.

  • RuPaul's Drag Race UK vs The World
    RuPaul's Drag Race UK vs The World (2022)6.3

    Elite international queens convene in the UK to battle for the crown, cash and glory in a bid to be crowned "The Queen of the Mothertucking World".

  • The Apprentice: You're Fired!
    The Apprentice: You're Fired! (2006)6.2

    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.

  • Wreck
    Wreck (2022)5.8

    Aboard the mega cruise ship Sacramentum, 20-year-old new recruit, Jamie, infiltrates the 3000-strong crew in a desperate race to find his missing sister. She was working aboard the same vessel on a previous tour and vanished mid-charter.