The Best TV Shows on BBC Three

Every BBC Three Show Ranked From Best To Worst

Dive into our updated selection of BBC Three’s finest, featuring more than 20 series as of March 2026. Premiering in 2001 and 2003, Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps and Little Britain are among BBC Three’s most celebrated shows. Showcasing over 20 shows from 2001 up until 2024, BBC Three stands as a beacon of television excellence.

  • 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)8.2

    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.

  • Ideal
    Ideal (2005)8.1

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

  • 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.

  • 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)7.4

    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.

  • 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.

  • Little Britain
    Little Britain (2003)7.0

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

  • Bad Education
    Bad Education (2012)6.9

    Young teacher Alfie Wickers is "the worst teacher ever to grace the British education system" – at Abbey Grove School, in Watford, Hertfordshire.

  • Starstruck
    Starstruck (2021)6.8

    A drunken New Year's Eve hook-up becomes far more complicated for Jessie when she discovers her one night stand is actually a film star.

  • Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps
    Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps (2001)6.7

    Sitcom about the lives and loves of five twenty-somethings in Runcorn.

  • 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.

  • Glow Up: Britain's Next Make-Up Star
    Glow Up: Britain's Next Make-Up Star (2019)6.7

    A talented cast of aspiring makeup artists live and work together as they attempt to prove their potential to industry professionals from a multitude of worlds from fashion to film. With regular eliminations, the challenges not only test their skills under pressure but also give them the opportunity to unleash their creative vision with jaw-dropping results.

  • Boarders
    Boarders (2024)6.6

    Brace yourselves - the new kids are here. Five talented black scholarship students, and an elite private school with a reputation problem. One of them will have to change...

  • 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".

  • Jerk
    Jerk (2019)6.2

    Jerk follows the life of acclaimed stand up Tim Renkow, who plays a heightened version of himself; an American art school dropout who needs to get a visa to stay in the UK. The only problem is that Tim has cerebral palsy. This means that people judge him… all the time. Although usually they judge him wrongly, because what they don’t realise is that inside that severely disabled, vulnerable body is a bit of an asshole.

  • Wreck
    Wreck (2022)5.7

    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.