The Best TV Shows on BBC iPlayer

Every BBC iPlayer Show Ranked From Best To Worst

Our curated list, current as of June 2025, showcases over 20 of BBC iPlayer’s highest-rated series. Some of the best tv shows from BBC iPlayer include Funny Valentines and BBC Radio 2 Piano Room, airing in 2015 and N/A respectively. Showcasing over 20 shows from 2015 up until 2025, BBC iPlayer stands as a beacon of television excellence.

  • JoJo & Gran Gran
    JoJo & Gran Gran (2020)10.0

    JoJo is almost five, and Gran Gran is her wise and loving grandmother. They live close to each other, and Gran Gran always has something fun planned to do when JoJo comes to visit.

  • Russia 1985-1999: TraumaZone
    Russia 1985-1999: TraumaZone (2022)9.1

    What it felt like to live through the collapse of communism and democracy. A series of films by Adam Curtis.

  • The Earthshot Prize: Repairing Our Planet
    The Earthshot Prize: Repairing Our Planet (2021)9.0

    Aims to discover, celebrate and scale innovative solutions to the greatest environmental challenges facing our planet.

  • Get Even
    Get Even (2020)7.7

    On the surface Kitty, Margot, Bree and Olivia appear to have nothing in common - but there’s one passion which unites them: to expose injustice. They form their own secret society, DGM - they Don’t Get Mad, they Get Even - playing anonymous pranks to expose bullies.

  • Can't Get You Out of My Head
    Can't Get You Out of My Head (2021)7.7

    In six films, Adam Curtis traces the different forces across the world that have led to now. It covers a wide range—including the strange roots of modern conspiracy theories, the history of China, opium and opioids, the history of Artificial Intelligence, melancholy over the loss of empire and, love and power. And explores whether modern culture, despite its radicalism, is really just part of the new system of power.

  • BBC Proms
    BBC Proms (1947)7.5

    The World's Greatest Classical Music Festival. The BBC Proms is a classical music festival held every summer at the Royal Albert Hall in London, and in recent years has explored an innovative series of Proms around the UK with concerts in all four nations. Its aim: to bring the best in classical music to the widest possible audience, which remains true to founder-conductor Henry Wood’s original vision in 1895. Whether you are a classical connoisseur or think classical music isn’t for you, there is something for everyone in the eight-week stretch of concerts.

  • Rebel Cheer Squad: A Get Even Series
    Rebel Cheer Squad: A Get Even Series (2022)7.4

    The old DGM might have left Bannerman School, but their spirit remains, and there is still a need to get even, wrongs must be righted and injustice has to be fought.

  • BBC Radio 2 Piano Room
    BBC 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.

  • The Amelia Gething Complex
    The Amelia Gething Complex (2019)7.0

    Amelia navigates a world of weirdness with her friends Vinny, Poppy and Wallace.

  • The A List
    The A List (2018)6.6

    Romance, rivalry and radical mystery collide as a group of teens attend a remote island sleepaway camp in this suspenseful, supernatural drama.

  • Funny Valentines
    Funny Valentines (2015)6.0

    Funny Valentines is a comedy collection of nine original short films exclusive to BBC iPlayer, written and starring many of Britain's finest comedians. Each comedian was invited to create a short Funny Valentine to bring their unique take on the international day of love.

  • Original Comedy Shorts
    Original Comedy Shorts (2014)6.0

    A series of six comedy shorts, in which each episode is 'taken over' by a different high profile comedian. The result is an exclusive, eclectic and hilarious mix of comedy genres, tastes and styles.

  • Doctor Who: Video Commentaries
    Doctor Who: Video Commentaries (2023)5.5

    Join the makers and stars of Doctor Who for fun in-vision commentary.

  • Tales of the Tardis
    Tales of the Tardis (2023)4.4

    Classic Doctor Who duos are reunited as they board a very special TARDIS on a nostalgic voyage through space and time.

  • Walking with Dinosaurs
    Walking with Dinosaurs (2025)2.4

    Each episode tells the dramatic story of an individual dinosaur whose remains are currently being unearthed by world-leading dinosaur hunters. As the dinosaurs' bones emerge from the ground, their prehistoric stories are brought to life with state-of-the-art visual effects - making each episode a gripping dinosaur drama based on the very latest evidence.

  • Radio 1's Big Weekend
    Radio 1's Big Weekend (2010)N/A

    BBC Radio 1's Big Weekend (R1BW) is a British music festival run by BBC Radio 1. It is held once a year, in a different location within the United Kingdom each time. It was the biggest free-ticketed music event in Europe, until a fee for tickets was introduced in 2018, and always includes a host of new artists.

  • 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!

  • Flatmates
    Flatmates (2019)N/A

    Two lads, three girls, one flat. Flatmates follows the lives of five teens as they take their first uncertain steps into adulthood whilst trying to fulfil the millennial dream.

  • Inside Cinema
    Inside Cinema (2020)N/A

    Short films taking you to the heart of the movies.

  • Dancing Nation
    Dancing Nation (2021)N/A

    Sadler’s Wells & BBC Arts present a three-part celebration of dance featuring many of the UK’s leading dance companies and the most exciting new emerging talent. Presented by Brenda Emmanus as part of BBC Arts’ Culture in Quarantine, this unique festival has been curated in lockdown by Sadler’s Wells, London - one of the world’s leading dance houses.