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 N/A. Among BBC iPlayer’s finest offerings are BBC Proms and Radio 1's Big Weekend, which debuted in 1947 and 2010, respectively. Explore our list of the top rated shows up to date from January 2026 that includes over 20 unique series.

  • 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)8.6

    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)8.5

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

  • The Chief
    The Chief (2025)8.0

    Scot Squad’s top cop dives deep into dealing with colleagues, bams and family alike. Can he still be the numero uno in a modern, progressive police force?

  • Winx Club: The Magic is Back
    Winx Club: The Magic is Back (2025)7.8

    When Bloom discovers she has magic, her life takes a wild turn. At the Alfea school for fairies and witches, she meets five girls who become her best friends — and her greatest strength. Together, they’re the Winx. As dark secrets rise and powerful enemies close in, the Winx will need to unlock their true potential to protect their world — and themselves.

  • BBC Proms
    BBC Proms (1947)7.7

    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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Titanic Sinks Tonight
    Titanic Sinks Tonight (2025)7.3

    This docuseries aims to provide a complete picture of the most famous 160 minutes in maritime history, telling the astonishing story of the sinking of the Titanic in real time. From the crucial seconds just before the ship hits the iceberg, to the moment the hull sinks beneath the waves, this boxset series pieces together the events, minute by minute, to reveal exactly what happened to the 2240 passengers and crew on 14 and 15 April, 1912.

  • 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 A List
    The A List (2018)6.5

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

  • Things You Should Have Done
    Things You Should Have Done (2024)6.5

    Get a job! Pay the bills! Clueless Chi is forced to fend for herself when her parents die. To get her inheritance, the ultimate stay-at-home daughter has to step it up.

  • Shifty
    Shifty (2025)5.8

    This series shows in a new and imaginative way how over the past 40 years in Britain extreme money and hyper-individualism came together in an unspoken alliance. Together they undermined one of the fundamental structures of mass democracy - that it could create a shared idea of what was real. And as that fell apart, with it went the language and the ideas that people had turned to for the last 150 years to make sense of the world they lived in.

  • Becoming Human
    Becoming Human (2011)5.2

    Becoming Human is a British supernatural drama webisode series and a spin-off from the TV series Being Human. Created by Toby Whithouse, it was written by Brian Dooley, Jamie Mathieson and John Jackson and stars Craig Roberts as the teenage vampire Adam, Leila Mimmack as the werewolf Christa and Josh Brown as the ghost Matt. A composition of the eight episodes was aired on BBC Three at 9:00pm on 20 March 2011.

  • 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)5.0

    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!

  • 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.