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1. Skins (2007–2013)
TV-MA | 46 min | Drama
The story of a group of British teens who are trying to grow up and find love and happiness despite questionable parenting and teachers who would rather be friends (and lovers) than authority figures.
Stars: Kaya Scodelario, Nicholas Hoult, Joe Dempsie, Hannah Murray
Votes: 93,198
2. Inspector Lewis (2006–2015)
TV-PG | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
DI Robert Lewis and DS James Hathaway solve the tough cases that the learned inhabitants of Oxford throw at them.
Stars: Kevin Whately, Laurence Fox, Clare Holman, Rebecca Front
Votes: 15,926
3. Casualty (1986– )
TV-PG | 50 min | Drama
The everyday lives of the people frequenting the frenetic Accident and Emergency department of Holby City Hospital.
Stars: Derek Thompson, Tony Marshall, Suzanne Packer, Ian Bleasdale
Votes: 3,698
4. The Bill (1984–2010)
TV-14 | Crime, Drama
Police drama series following officers and detectives from Sun Hill Police Station in East London.
Stars: Graham Cole, Jeff Stewart, Trudie Goodwin, Simon Rouse
Votes: 4,118
5. Holby City (1999–2022)
TV-PG | 60 min | Drama
The everyday lives, professional and personal, of the doctors, nurses and patients who find themselves, for various reasons, in the wards of the frenetic cardiac unit of Holby City General Hospital.
Stars: Hugh Quarshie, Rosie Marcel, Jaye Jacobs, Bob Barrett
Votes: 2,652
6. Robin Hood (2006–2009)
TV-PG | 60 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
After 5 years of fighting in the crusades, Robin returns to England and leads a band of outlaws to outwit the Sheriff of Nottingham.
Stars: Jonas Armstrong, Gordon Kennedy, Sam Troughton, Joe Armstrong
Votes: 17,310
7. Cutthroat Island (1995)
PG-13 | 124 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
A female pirate and her companion race against their rivals to find a hidden island that contains a fabulous treasure.
Director: Renny Harlin | Stars: Geena Davis, Matthew Modine, Frank Langella, Maury Chaykin
Votes: 30,594 | Gross: $10.02M
8. The Queen (2006)
PG-13 | 103 min | Biography, Drama
After the death of Princess Diana, Queen Elizabeth II struggles with her reaction to a sequence of events nobody could have predicted.
Director: Stephen Frears | Stars: Helen Mirren, Michael Sheen, James Cromwell, Alex Jennings
Votes: 116,046 | Gross: $56.44M
9. Breaking (2022)
PG-13 | 103 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A Marine war veteran faces mental and emotional challenges when he tries to reintegrate into civilian life.
Director: Abi Damaris Corbin | Stars: John Boyega, Nicole Beharie, Selenis Leyva, Michael Kenneth Williams
Votes: 7,880
10. Hotel Babylon (2006–2009)
TV-MA | 60 min | Comedy, Drama
At a posh urban hotel, the love lives and whims of its wealthy guests are attended to by hard-working staff who have their own troubles with love.
Stars: Dexter Fletcher, Martin Marquez, Michael Obiora, Raymond Coulthard
Votes: 4,686
11. The Collaboration
Biography, Drama | Post-production
A look into the unique and rich friendship between two of the worlds most interesting artists, Pop Art legend Andy Warhol, and the King of Neo Expressionism, Jean-Michel Basquiat.
Director: Kwame Kwei-Armah | Stars: Melissa Barrera, Paul Bettany, Daniel Brühl, Jeremy Pope
12. Portrait Artist of the Year (2013– )
Family, Reality-TV
Artists around the UK come together to compete for who has the best original celebrity portrait.
Stars: Kate Bryan, Tai Shan Schierenberg, Kathleen Soriano, Joan Bakewell
Votes: 401
13. Never Mind the Buzzcocks (1996–2023)
30 min | Comedy, Game-Show, Music
Music-based comedy quiz show.
Stars: Phill Jupitus, Mark Lamarr, Noel Fielding, Bill Bailey
Votes: 6,065
14. Arena (1975– )
60 min | Documentary
Wide-ranging arts program.
Stars: Gavin Millar, Kenneth Tynan, John Walters, Jonathan Miller
Votes: 320
15. Between the Lines (1992–1994)
50 min | Crime, Drama
British police drama following the team at the Complaints Investigation Bureau - the unit that polices the police.
Stars: Neil Pearson, Tom Georgeson, Siobhan Redmond, Tony Doyle
Votes: 636
16. Cold Blood (2005–2008)
TV-14 | 90 min | Crime
Brian Wicklow is jailed after a killing spree so macabre that he has become one of Britain's most notorious murderers. Vilified by the popular press and despised by fellow inmates, his ... See full summary »
Stars: Jemma Redgrave, John Hannah, Ace Bhatti, Matthew Kelly
Votes: 304
17. The One Show (2006– )
30 min | Documentary, News, Talk-Show
A live magazine programme featuring topical stories and big name studio guests.
Stars: Alex Jones, Matt Baker, Christine Lampard, Adrian Chiles
Votes: 621
18. The Saint (I)
Action, Drama | Announced
Simon Templar creates false identities named after saints in order to steal money from various criminal organizations and redistribute the wealth to others.
Director: Doug Liman | Star: Regé-Jean Page
19. Marked Man (II)
Drama | Pre-production
Follows a young black man who joins J. Edgar Hoover's Federal Bureau of Investigation and then infiltrates Garvey's UNIA organization, testing his loyalty to both race and country as he grows weary of both men's actions.
Director: Andrew Dosunmu | Stars: Winston Duke, Jesse Williams
20. Mission Hill
Crime | Announced
Based on the Charles Stuart case that brought Boston to its knees in 1989. It follows an up-and-coming police officer and a seasoned detective racing against time to bring a suspect in before the city implodes over racial tensions.
Director: Kwame Kwei-Armah
22. Imagine (2003– )
TV-14 | 60 min | Biography, History
Wide-ranging BBC arts programme.
Stars: Alan Yentob, Tracey Emin, Chuck Close, Richard Rogers
Votes: 147
23. An Unsuitable Job for a Woman (1997–1999)
105 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Cordelia Gray is the reluctant owner of a ramshackle investigation agency following the suicide of her boss. Watching over her as she hunts down clues in the murky and sinister world of ... See full summary »
Stars: Helen Baxendale, Annette Crosbie, Struan Rodger, Jeff Nuttall
Votes: 326
24. The Afternoon Play (2003– )
60 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery
A series of individual dramas, each with a different story and cast.
Stars: Rob Swinton, Robert Stone, Daniela Denby-Ashe, Tracie Bennett
Votes: 66
25. Question Time (1979– )
60 min | News, Talk-Show
Politicians, public office-holders and celebrities face questions on topical issues from a studio audience.
Stars: David Dimbleby, Robin Day, Peter Sissons, Fiona Bruce
Votes: 412
26. Der Clown (1998–2001)
45 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Max Zander, top agent for the international police agency WIPA, battles the forces of crime and stands up for the rights of the little people.
Stars: Sven Martinek, Diana Frank, Thomas Anzenhofer, Volkmar Kleinert
Votes: 692
27. The Knock (1994–2000)
Crime, Action, Drama
The Knock follows Her Majesty's Customs and Excise officers' lives and their efforts to hunt down the criminals trying to smuggle all sorts of contraband to the UK.
Stars: Steve Toussaint, Caroline Lee-Johnson, Enzo Squillino Jr., Andrew Dunn
Votes: 139
28. GMTV (1993–2010)
205 min | News, Talk-Show
Morning news, interviews and entertainment features.
Stars: Andrew Castle, Kate Garraway, Ben Shephard, Lorraine Kelly
Votes: 303
29. Breakfast (2000– )
180 min | News, Talk-Show
The BBC's flagship morning news programme covering current affairs, business and sports, plus guest interviews and weather reports.
Stars: Charlie Stayt, Carol Kirkwood, Bill Turnbull, Sian Williams
Votes: 419
30. Fade to Black (2006)
R | 99 min | Mystery, Thriller
Attempting to recover from his failed marriage to Rita Hayworth and restart his career, Orson Welles travels to Italy only to be drawn into a dangerous web of intrigue, murder and politics when an actor is murdered on his set.
Director: Oliver Parker | Stars: Danny Huston, Diego Luna, Paz Vega, Christopher Walken
Votes: 915
31. Fifty Years on Stage (2013 TV Movie)
151 min | Comedy, Drama
The Royal National Theatre celebrates 50 years of excellent theatre, with extracts of some of the best plays of the last five decades, peformed by the countries best performers.
Directors: Nicholas Hytner, Tim Van Someren, Howard Davies, Rufus Norris, Alex Sims | Stars: Roger Allam, Samuel Anderson, Alan Ayckbourn, Jonathan Bailey
Votes: 280
32. Il mio West (1998)
PG-13 | 87 min | Comedy, Drama, Western
A cold-blooded killer provokes a legendary gunslinger into coming out of retirement to see who's really the fastest gun in the West.
Director: Giovanni Veronesi | Stars: Leonardo Pieraccioni, Harvey Keitel, David Bowie, Alessia Marcuzzi
Votes: 961
33. Horne & Corden (2009)
Comedy
Horne and cordon is a TVs series including short comedy sketches
Stars: James Corden, Mathew Horne, Mathew Baynton, Nick Mohammed
Votes: 649
34. Night Fever (1997– )
50 min | Game-Show, Music
Karaoke game show.
Stars: Suggs, Kevin Hudson, Sarah Cawood, Will Mellor
Votes: 31
35. Pride (2004 TV Movie)
90 min | Family, Comedy, Drama
The story of Suki (Kate Winslet), a lioness cub, who rebels against her mother and her pride to mate with an unsuitable lion from the other side of the river. Her journey to less than a ... See full summary »
Director: John Downer | Stars: Kate Winslet, Helen Mirren, Rupert Graves, Sean Bean
Votes: 830
36. Storyboard (1983–1989)
50 min | Drama
Series of one-off dramas intended to serve as possible pilots.
Stars: Alec McCowen, Carol Royle, Liz Crowther, Penny Brownjohn
Votes: 11
37. The Wright Stuff (2000–2018)
50 min | News, Talk-Show
Topical discussions, a daily newspaper review and a weekly television review on Fridays.
Stars: Matthew Wright, Eric Johnson, Kirsty Duffy, Anne Diamond
Votes: 337
38. Birth of a Nation (1983 TV Movie)
79 min | Drama
A new teacher at a highly problematic comprehensive school feels that corporal punishment may just be inflaming the problems, and so begins to campaign against it.
Director: Mike Newell | Stars: Jim Broadbent, Robert Stephens, Bruce Myers, Richard Butler
Votes: 87
39. The British (2012–2014)
Documentary
Series about the 2000 years tumultuous history of Britain. Seven part series with a Journey from the Roman invasion to the coronation of Elizabeth II in 1953.
Stars: Ioan Gruffudd, Michael Portillo, Helen Mirren, Jeremy Irons
Votes: 196
40. Sus (I) (2010)
91 min | Drama
1979: Election Night - A police interview room. Delroy's pregnant wife has been found dead in a pool of blood and he is brought in as the chief suspect. He is interrogated by D.S. Karn, a ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Heath | Stars: Ralph Brown, Clint Dyer, Rafe Spall, Anjela Lauren Smith
Votes: 436
41. The Latchkey Children (1980– )
25 min | Family
Children's series putting an unusual comical slant on the problem of children left to fend for themselves after school as their parents are at work.
Stars: Indra Ové, Nigel Hayward, Peter Harrison, Kwame Kwei-Armah
42. Walter's War (2008 TV Movie)
60 min | Biography, Drama, War
The substantially true story of Walter Tull, a black man whose grandfather was a slave but who was born in Folkestone, Kent, in England, and who, in the years prior to the First World War, ... See full summary »
Director: Alrick Riley | Stars: O-T Fagbenle, Paul Westwood, Zac Fox, Kwame Kwei-Armah
Votes: 121
43. Here (I) (2020)
Short, Drama
HERE presents an immersive virtual reality (VR) adaptation of Richard McGuire's ground-breaking graphic novel. This unique experience is a grand biopic - where the main character is place ... See full summary »
Directors: Lysander Ashton, Scott Faris | Stars: Roger Davies, Mina Son, Shiah Luna, Patricia Lentz
44. Comic Relief 2003: The Big Hair Do (2003 TV Special)
400 min | Comedy
Stars: Lenny Henry, Jonathan Ross, Anthony McPartlin, Declan Donnelly
Votes: 177
45. This Week (2003–2019)
45 min | News, Talk-Show
Political journalist and comic Andrew Neil is joined by guests to take a light-hearted look back at the week in politics.
Stars: Andrew Neil, Michael Portillo, Diane Abbott, Miranda Green
Votes: 173
46. Oscar Micheaux: The Superhero of Black Filmmaking (2021)
80 min | Documentary, Biography, History
A look at the life and work of Oscar Micheaux, a pioneer of the African-American film industry.
Director: Francesco Zippel | Stars: Gian Luca Farinelli, Chuck D, Amma Asante, Kwame Kwei-Armah
Votes: 204
47. Soon Gone: A Windrush Chronicle (2019)
Drama
Speeches from a Caribbean family over the course of four generations. They reveal the hopes and dreams throughout time from the arrived Windrush generation to their descendants.
Stars: Vinette Robinson, Montserrat Lombard, Lenny Henry, Olivia-Mai Barrett
Votes: 35
48. The Culture Show (2004–2015)
57 min | Documentary, News, Talk-Show
The best of the week's arts and culture news, covering books, art, film, architecture and more
Stars: Mark Kermode, Lauren Laverne, Andrew Graham-Dixon, Alastair Sooke
Votes: 103
49. BBC London News (2001– )
Documentary, News
Stars: Riz Lateef, Tom Edwards, Asad Ahmad, Peter Cockroft
Votes: 25
50. This Cultural Life (2021– )
29 min | Talk-Show
John Wilson speaks to leading names in art and culture about their formative influences and inspirations.
Stars: John Wilson, Kenneth Branagh, Mike Leigh, Tracey Emin