The Best TV Shows on E4

Every E4 Show Ranked From Best To Worst

As of July 2025, our compilation of E4’s top-rated series boasts over 20 unique shows. Across the timeline from 2001 to 2017, E4 has presented audiences with over 20 captivating shows. Some of the best tv shows from E4 include As If and Big Brother's Big Mouth, airing in 2001 and 2004 respectively.

  • Tattoo Fixers Extreme
    Tattoo Fixers Extreme (2015)8.7

    A number of the UK's most talented tattoo designers help clients transform their tattoo mistakes into works of art. It is estimated that one in six British people who opt to go under the needle later regret their decision. Outrageous artwork, inappropriate quotes or the name of an ex-partner can be chosen in haste but the results are permanent. The talented inkers meet desperate customers at a pop-up studio for their consultations. After the meeting, the client chooses whose design ideas they like best and the artist gets to work. When the session is over, the new tattoos are revealed.

  • Skins
    Skins (2007)8.1

    Irreverent comedy drama which follows the messy lives, loves, delirious highs and inevitable lows of a group of raucous teenage friends in Bristol.

  • My Mad Fat Diary
    My Mad Fat Diary (2013)8.1

    Set in 1996 in Lincolnshire, the show tells the tragic and humorous story of a very troubled young girl Rae, who has just left a psychiatric hospital, where she has spent four months after attempting suicide, begins to reconnect with her best friend Chloe and her group, who are unaware of Rae's mental health and body image problems, believing she was in France for the past four months.

  • The Inbetweeners
    The Inbetweeners (2008)7.7

    Those who remember the awkward years of adolescence can relive those painful days in this British comedy series, where the cringe-inducing humor arises from the ill-fated antics of its four protagonists. Suburban teenage friends Will, Simon, Jay and Neil, students at Rudge Park Comprehensive, attempt to navigate the social scene, attract members of the gentler sex, and saunter among the cool crowd. However, despite their best efforts, the four hapless lads usually end up on the side of the nerds.

  • Misfits
    Misfits (2009)7.6

    When five young outsiders on Community Service get caught in a strange storm, they discover that they have developed superpowers.

  • As If
    As If (2001)7.5

    Jamie, Sooz, Nicki, Alex, Sasha and Rob - all friends, all around eighteen, and all stars in their own drama.

  • Big Brother's Big Mouth
    Big Brother's Big Mouth (2004)7.5

  • Dead Set
    Dead Set (2008)7.2

    Zombies are rampaging throughout Britain. Blissfully unaware of gory events outside, the Big Brother housemates are in for the ultimate eviction night...

  • Chewing Gum
    Chewing Gum (2015)7.2

    The life of Tracey, a religious, Beyoncé-obsessed 22-year-old living in an estate in Tower Hamlets, and the mishaps of her neighbourhood, friends and family. Oh, and obvs her boyfriend!

  • 8 Out of 10 Cats
    8 Out of 10 Cats (2005)7.1

    8 Out of 10 Cats is a British television comedy panel game produced by Zeppotron for Channel 4. It was first broadcast on 3 June 2005. The show is based on statistics and opinion polls, and draws on polls produced by a variety of organizations and new polls commissioned for the programme, carried out by company Harris Poll. The show's title is derived from a well-known advertising tagline for Whiskas cat food, which originally claimed that "8 out of 10 cats prefer Whiskas".

  • Don't Tell the Bride
    Don't Tell the Bride (2007)7.0

    "Don't Tell the Bride" is a British reality television series in which couples are given money to fund their wedding ceremony. However, every detail of the event must be organized by the groom, who has no contact with the bride during the planning process.

  • Noel Fielding's Luxury Comedy
    Noel Fielding's Luxury Comedy (2012)7.0

    Noel Fielding fronts this psychedelic character-based comedy show half filmed and half animated, with music provided by Kasabian's Sergio Pizzorno.

  • Virtually Famous
    Virtually Famous (2014)7.0

    Virtually Famous was a British comedy panel game show with games based upon social media posts and videos.

  • The Crystal Maze
    The Crystal Maze (2017)7.0

    A team of intrepid contestants tackle a series of ingenious games and fiendish challenges in a giant fantasy world, with the aim of collecting as many crystals as possible to win a prize in the Crystal Dome.

  • Beaver Falls
    Beaver Falls (2011)6.3

    Three British graduates blag jobs at an elite American summer camp. The guys want a summer of fun, but they have to set an example to the gorgeous teenage offspring of California's rich and powerful.

  • Celebs Go Dating
    Celebs Go Dating (2016)6.3

    Single celebrities join an exclusive dating agency in a bid to find true love. Matchmakers pair them with non-celebrity partners and the cameras capture every romantic and cringe-filled moment.

  • Gap Year
    Gap Year (2017)6.3

    It’s the story of British lads Dylan and Sean, childhood friends who have drifted apart, who initially set out to backpack through China but end up taking on the whole continent.

  • Made in Chelsea
    Made in Chelsea (2011)5.7

    Reality series following the lives, loves and awks of SW3's bright young things.

  • Married at First Sight UK
    Married at First Sight UK (2015)5.2

    Working with leading relationship experts, eight British singles are carefully match-made into four married couples, who each meet each other - for the very first time - at their wedding. We'll follow them as they marry, honeymoon, meet the in-laws and set up home, all the while getting to know one another more and more deeply, to see if the matchmakers have got it right and they will have a future together.

  • Your Face or Mine?
    Your Face or Mine? (2017)5.0

    A “Tinder-inspired” version of successful noughties game show Your Face Or Mine?, the cult-classic, couples-based comedy format in which your face can win you cash. Over a series of revelation-filled rounds, couples are forced to compare their looks with other people's - and ultimately with each other's - in this relationship-testing game.