The Best TV Shows on BritBox

Every BritBox Show Ranked From Best To Worst

From 2020 through to 2025, BritBox has accumulated a diverse collection of over 15 television shows. Highlighting BritBox’s quality programming, Staged and Spitting Image stand out, premiering in 2020 and 2020. Discover the best of BritBox with our list of over 15 series, meticulously updated for October 2025.

  • Reel Britannia
    Reel Britannia (2022)8.7

    Comedian Nick Helm narrates this bold new documentary series exploring the dramatic history of British cinema. Discover how cinema held a mirror up to society from 1960 through to the 00s.

  • Staged
    Staged (2020)7.9

    David Tennant and Michael Sheen (playing themselves) were due to star in a production of 'Six Characters in Search of an Author' in the West End. The pandemic has put an end to that, but their director (Simon Evans) is determined not to let the opportunity pass them by.

  • Professor T
    Professor T (2021)7.2

    Professor Jasper Tempest, a genius Cambridge University criminologist with OCD and an overbearing mother, advises the police. British version of the Belgian crime drama of the same name.

  • Magpie Murders
    Magpie Murders (2022)7.1

    An editor gets drawn into a web of intrigue and murder when she receives an unfinished manuscript.

  • Thunderbirds: The Anniversary Episodes
    Thunderbirds: The Anniversary Episodes (2020)7.0

    Gerry and Sylvia Anderson’s hit series is stunningly re-imagined for its 50th anniversary, combining the original voice tracks with classic filmmaking techniques.

  • Hotel Portofino
    Hotel Portofino (2022)7.0

    A classic whodunit mystery, as the characters go about their lives in 1920s Italy, when Benito Mussolini's brand of fascism was on the rise.

  • Spitting Image
    Spitting Image (2020)6.9

    The weekly puppet-based sketch show that skewers the politicians and celebrities who need it the most. With a cast of characters from Britain, America, and around the world, no one is safe from a satirical roasting.

  • Murder in Provence
    Murder in Provence (2022)6.9

    Antoine Verlaque, Investigating Judge in Aix-en-Provence, and romantic partner Marine Bonnet as they investigate the murders, mysteries and dark underbelly of their idyllic home.

  • The Tower
    The Tower (2021)6.8

    A veteran beat cop and teenage girl fall to their deaths from a tower block in south-east London, leaving a five-year-old boy and rookie police officer Lizzie Griffiths on the roof, only for them to go missing. Detective Sergeant Sarah Collins is drafted in to investigate, working to find Lizzie before she comes to serious harm, but also to uncover the truth behind the grisly tower block deaths.

  • Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
    Why Didn't They Ask Evans? (2022)6.6

    A dying man's enigmatic last words send vicar's son, Bobby Jones, and his socialite friend, Lady Frankie Derwent, on a crime-solving adventure.

  • Crime
    Crime (2021)6.5

    Detective Inspector Ray Lennox investigates the disappearance of a schoolgirl while battling cocaine addiction and a mental breakdown.

  • The Beast Must Die
    The Beast Must Die (2021)6.5

    Following the death of her son in a hit and run, all Frances Cairnes wants is to hunt down and kill the man she believes is responsible. When she finally tracks him down, she tricks her way into his house and plots his murder from within.

  • Secrets of the Krays
    Secrets of the Krays (2021)6.0

    The incredible story of the Krays. Packed with revelations & fresh insights from their friends, relatives & fellow gangsters, it's the definitive account of their brutal reign over 60s London.

  • Lynley
    Lynley (2025)5.7

    Tommy Lynley is a brilliant police detective but an outsider in the force – simply by virtue of his aristocratic upbringing. He is paired with Barbara Havers, a sergeant with a maverick attitude and a working-class background. With seemingly nothing in common and against all odds, the mismatched duo of Lynley and Havers become a formidable team, bonded by their desire to see justice done.

  • Secrets of the Spies
    Secrets of the Spies (2022)N/A

    Secrets of the Spies is a brand new docuseries coming to BritBox UK that's set to expose the covert world of espionage, and we've got an exclusive first look at the new series! In our exclusive preview, we learn more about what the life of a spy is like from former MI6 officer, Matthew Dunn