The Best TV Shows on Sky One

Every Sky One Show Ranked From Best To Worst

As of June 2025, our compilation of Sky One’s top-rated series boasts over 20 unique shows. Premiering in 1987 and 1997, Through the Keyhole and Dream Team are among Sky One’s most celebrated shows. Sky One has over 20 shows broadcast from as early as 1987 and as recent as 2019.

  • Brassic
    Brassic (2019)8.5

    A group of working-class friends finding unconventional ways to win at life in suburban northern England. These lads have dealt, scammed, bribed and conned their way through adolescence, but now, their dealing and stealing is catching up with them and a whole load of trouble is heading their way.

  • Harry Enfield's Brand Spanking New Show
    Harry Enfield's Brand Spanking New Show (2000)8.0

    British sketch show starring Harry Enfield.

  • A Discovery of Witches
    A Discovery of Witches (2018)7.8

    Closet witch Diana Bishop and centuries-old vampire Matthew Clairmont are drawn into a deadly mystery and forbidden romance when a magical book shows up in an Oxford library.

  • An Idiot Abroad
    An Idiot Abroad (2010)7.7

    An Idiot Abroad is a British travel documentary television series broadcast on Sky1 and Science, as well as spin-off books published by Canongate Books, created by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant and starring Karl Pilkington. The ongoing theme of both the television series and the books is that Pilkington has no interest in global travel, so Merchant and Gervais make him travel while they stay in the United Kingdom and monitor his progress.

  • Yonderland
    Yonderland (2013)7.6

    A bored young mum steps through a portal and discovers a world of incompetent knights, monks who are incapable of lying, and a race of people intent on firing the cleverest amongst them into the sun.

  • Living the Dream
    Living the Dream (2017)7.6

    A British family, the Pembertons, decide it’s time to leave rainy England and move to the sunshine state of Florida. They've bought an RV Park with plans for a booming family-run business, but it soon turns out that they are not going to be living the dream they hoped.

  • Monkey Business
    Monkey Business (1997)7.5

    Monkey Business is a long-running TV series about the exploits of various primates who reside at Monkey World, a rescue centre and sanctuary for primates in Dorset, United Kingdom. The series features Jim and Dr. Alison Cronin, directors of Monkey World, as they travel around the world rescuing primates from lives of abuse, and returning them to Monkey World. Their goal is to rehabilitate the rescued primates and allow them to live in as natural a habitat as possible, being part of a group and living with friends of their own kind.

  • Strike Back
    Strike Back (2010)7.4

    The series follows John Porter, a former British Special Forces soldier, who is drafted back into service by Section 20, a fictional branch of the Secret Intelligence Service.

  • Jamestown
    Jamestown (2017)7.3

    The early 17th Century story of three courageous, dynamic women who leave their dark pasts behind in England, and make the journey of a lifetime across the ocean for a new life in America.

  • Time Gentlemen Please
    Time Gentlemen Please (2000)7.1

    The Pub Landlord’s rules are a pint for the fella and a glass of white wine or fruit based drink for the lady. It might be the 21st century but the landlord’s gaff is the last bastion of all things normal. He ain’t interested in change. It’s just the way things are, and don’t you or anybody else go questioning it.

  • Stella
    Stella (2012)7.1

    Ruth Jones stars as a 40-something mum juggling the ups and downs of family life amid the chaos of her eccentric friends, relatives and children's fathers.

  • Dream Team
    Dream Team (1997)7.0

    On and off pitch battles of of the fictional Harchester United Football Club.

  • A League of Their Own
    A League of Their Own (2010)7.0

    Two teams comprised of comedians, celebrities and sports stars compete against each other in a test of their sporting knowledge, taking place over three rounds.

  • The Colour of Magic
    The Colour of Magic (2008)6.7

    As Rincewind involuntarily becomes a guide to the naive tourist Twoflower, they find themselves forced to flee the city of Ankh-Morpork to escape a terrible fire, and begin on a journey across the Disc. Unknown to them, their journey and fate is being decided by the Gods playing a board game the whole time.

  • Trollied
    Trollied (2011)6.3

    Set in Valco, a fictional budget supermarket in the north west of England, Trollied finds the funny in one of our most familiar surroundings and focuses on the types of characters we all recognise: bored checkout staff, ineffectual managers and a range of customers, from the irate to the downright bizarre.

  • Monkey Life
    Monkey Life (2007)6.2

    Monkey Life was created in 2006 and has continuously documented the work of Dr. Alison Cronin, MBE and her team at Monkey World; Ape Rescue Centre. Filmed at Monkey World in Dorset, Monkey Life follows the rescue and rehabilitation of abused and neglected primates. Many have mental as well as physical problems so the Primate Care Staff treat their individual needs until they can be reintegrated with primates of their own kind. The primates at the park range from apes, who were taken from the wild as babies and used as photographers props on Spanish beaches to monkeys, many of which were rescued from the UK pet trade. With unparalleled access Monkey World's dedicated team are filmed dealing with medical emergencies, primate moves, births and sometimes heart-breaking decisions. We follow Dr. Alison Cronin, MBE around the globe as she continues the park's mission to rescue abused primates. Monkey Life documents the daily life and drama of the world’s largest primate rescue centre.

  • Through the Keyhole
    Through the Keyhole (1987)6.0

    David Frost wanders into celebrities' houses and a panel of celebrities has to guess who the famous homeowner is.

  • Duck Quacks Don't Echo
    Duck Quacks Don't Echo (2014)5.7

    Lee Mack wrangles a team of scientists and celebrity guests to find the truth behind the trivia on this bizarrely educational panel show.

  • Are You Smarter Than a Ten Year Old?
    Are You Smarter Than a Ten Year Old? (2007)5.5

    Contestants attempt to answer ten questions taken from primary school textbooks.

  • Angela and Friends
    Angela and Friends (2009)5.0

    Daily chat show, hosted by Angela Griffin, that combines topical debate with five lifestyle clubs: Diet and Health, Beauty, Books and Travel, Entertainment and Fashion.