The Best TV Shows on BBC iPlayer

Every BBC iPlayer Show Ranked From Best To Worst

BBC iPlayer has delivered an expansive roster of over 20 shows, dating from 1947 all the way to 2023. For top-tier entertainment, BBC iPlayer delivered BBC Proms and Radio 1's Big Weekend in 1947 and 2010. Dive into our updated selection of BBC iPlayer’s finest, featuring more than 20 series as of June 2025.

  • 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)9.2

    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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • My Jihad
    My Jihad (2015)6.0

    One of BBC iPlayer's first Original Drama Shorts, My Jihad, returns as a series. This tender and funny love story, set in contemporary Britain, explores the unfolding relationship between a young Muslim couple across three further episodes. Can a chance meeting on a bus turn into something more meaningful? Can they put aside their prejudices and persuade themselves and their families that they could have a future? Or are there just too many obstacles to overcome?

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

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

  • Ashen's Tech Dump
    Ashen's Tech Dump (2010)5.0

    Internet legend Stuart Ashen welcomes you to the fabulous palace of electronic misinformation known as the Tech Dump.

  • 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.

  • 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!

  • Original Drama Shorts
    Original Drama Shorts (2014)N/A

    The iPlayer Shorts strand is a bold and exciting venture between BBC iPlayer, BBC Three and BBC Drama Production to commission six original short films over two years, written and directed by the best up-and-coming writing and directing talent from across the UK.

  • 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.