Premiering in 1962 and 1964, University Challenge and Horizon are among BBC Two’s most celebrated shows. A broadcaster of distinction, BBC Two has aired more than 20 shows between 1962 and 2015. Dive into our updated selection of BBC Two’s finest, featuring more than 20 series as of July 2025.
A gangster family epic set in 1919 Birmingham, England and centered on a gang who sew razor blades in the peaks of their caps, and their fierce boss Tommy Shelby, who means to move up in the world.
A show of heroic deeds and epic battles with a thematic depth that embraces politics, religion, warfare, courage, love, loyalty and our universal search for identity. Combining real historical figures and events with fictional characters, it is the story of how a people combined their strength under one of the most iconic kings of history in order to reclaim their land for themselves and build a place they call home.
The adventures of the last human alive and his friends, stranded three million years into deep space on the mining ship Red Dwarf.
Motoring programme featuring reviews of and reports about cars of all types.
Comedy quiz show full of quirky facts, in which contestants are rewarded more if their answers are 'quite interesting'.
Horizon tells amazing science stories, unravels mysteries and reveals worlds you've never seen before.
BBC's football highlights and analysis. "The longest-running football television programme in the world" as recognised by Guinness World Records in 2015.
This fast-paced and stunt-filled motor show tests whether cars, both mundane and extraordinary, live up to their manufacturers' claims. The long-running show travels to locations around the world, performing extreme stunts and challenges to see what the featured cars are capable of doing. The current hosts are Paddy Mcguinness, Chris Harris and Andrew "Freddie" Flintoff.
Each week celebrity guests join Irish comedian Graham Norton to discuss what's being going on around the world that week. The guests poke fun and share their opinions on the main news stories. Graham is often joined by a band or artist to play the show out.
A one-hour anthology television series of one-off contemporary and classic dramas produced by the BBC.
A light-hearted look at the United Kingdom's Premier League action, rounding-up the weekend's football action.
Ghostwriter is an American television program created by Liz Nealon and produced by the Children's Television Workshop and BBC One. It began airing on PBS on October 4, 1992, and the final episode aired on February 13, 1995. The series revolves around a close knit circle of friends from Brooklyn who solve neighborhood crimes and mysteries as a team of young detectives with the help of an invisible ghost named Ghostwriter. Ghostwriter can communicate with the kids only by manipulating whatever text and letters he can find and using them to form words and sentences. The series was filmed on location in Fort Greene, Brooklyn.
Arena is a British television documentary series, made and broadcast by the BBC. Voted by leading TV executives in Broadcast as one of the top 50 most influential programmes of all time, it has run since 1 October 1975 with over five hundred episodes made, directed by the likes of Martin Scorsese, Alan Yentob, Roly Keating, Frederick Baker, Volker Schlondorff and Vikram Jayanti. Arena's subjects are a roll-call of the world's best known cultural figures from the 20th and 21st centuries, from singers Bob Dylan and Amy Winehouse to academics Edward Said and Eric Hobsbawm, from writers Jean Genet and V S Naipaul to artists Francis Bacon and Louise Bourgeois. The current series editor is Anthony Wall.
A British genealogy documentary series in which celebrities trace their ancestry, discovering secrets and surprises from their past.
Britain's top chefs compete for the chance to cook a four-course banquet for a high-profile figure.
A daily BBC Television current affairs programme which specialises in analysis and often robust cross-examination of senior politicians.
Academic quiz show where teams of students from UK universities answer questions on all manner of subjects.
The property show that helps prospective buyers find their dream home in the country.
Antiques experts travel across the country, competing to make a profit at auction.
An anthology of short plays shown on BBC Television between 1965 and 1973, used in part at least as a training ground for new writers, on account of its short length, and which therefore attracted many writers who later became well known.