Are you an Anglophile and in need of some new content to watch? There are plenty of series – new and old – out there for you to savor episode-by-episode or binge in one go over an day or weekend. Check out our list of a dozen bingeworthy British television series below.
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Slow Horses
Where to Watch: Apple TV, Prime VideoStarring: Gary Oldman, Jack Lowden, Olivia Cooke, Kristin Scott ThomasNumber of Seasons: 6
This darkly funny espionage drama follows a team of British intelligence agents who serve in a dumping ground department of MI5 due to their career-ending mistakes. Led by their brilliant but irascible leader, the notorious Jackson Lamb (Oldman), they navigate the espionage world’s smoke and mirrors to defend England from sinister forces.
Happy Valley
Where to Watch: BritBox, Prime Video, The Roku ChannelStarring: Sarah Lancashire, James NortonNumber of Seasons: 3
Catherine Cawood (Lancashire) is the police sergeant in the West Yorkshire community of Calder Valley, also known as Happy Valley for its high incidence of drug-related problems. She has faced tragedy in her life, namely the death of her daughter, Becky, who took her own life after giving birth to a son. Catherine believes Tommy Lee Royce (Norton), who has been serving time in prison for drug-related crimes, is responsible for the events that led to Becky’s death. So when she learns that Tommy Lee has recently been released from prison, she makes it her mission to find him. Little does she know, however, that he is now a key figure in the kidnapping of Ann Gallagher (Charlie Murphy), the daughter of a local millionaire, who she is trying to locate as a way to avenge her own daughter’s death.
Fleabag
Where to Watch: Prime VideoStarring: Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Andrew Scott, Sian Clifford, Brett Gelman, Olivia ColmanNumber of Seasons: 2
Fleabag is a hilarious and poignant window into the mind of a dry-witted, sexual, angry, grief-riddled woman, as she hurls herself at modern living in London. Award-winning playwright Phoebe Waller-Bridge writes and stars as Fleabag, an unfiltered woman trying to heal, while rejecting anyone who tries to help her and keeping up her bravado all along. Unfettered, unfiltered, and based on the play that won the Fringe First Award at Edinburgh.
Queens of Mystery
Where to Watch: Acorn TVStarring: Olivia Vinall, Florence Hall, Julie Graham, Sarah Woodward, Siobhan Redmond, Martin TrenamanNumber of Seasons: 2
This contemporary murder-mystery series follows the adventures of a perennially single detective and her three crime-writing aunts as they solve murders in the picturesque English region of Wildemarsh. Starring Florence Hall (The Princess Switch franchise), Julie Graham (Shetland), Siobhan Redmond (Unforgotten), Sarah Woodward (Agatha Christie’s The Pale Horse) and Olivia Vinall (The Woman in White).
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All Creatures Great and SmallPBS
All Creatures Great and Small
Where to Watch: PBSStarring: Nicholas Ralph, Rachel Shenton, Samuel West, Anna Madeley, Callum WoodhouseNumber of Seasons: 6 (Renewed for Season 7)
All Creatures Great and Small tells the story of real-life veterinarian James Herriot and his experiences with animals and their owners in the fictional small town of Darrowby, England.
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Adolescence
Where to Watch: NetflixStarring: Stephen Graham, Owen CooperNumber of Seasons: 1
Adolescence tells the story of how a family’s world is turned upside down when 13-year-old Jamie Miller (Cooper) is arrested for the murder of a teenage girl who goes to his school. Graham plays Jamie’s father and ‘appropriate adult’, Eddie Miller. Ashley Walters stars as Detective Inspector Luke Bascombe, and Erin Doherty is Briony Ariston, the clinical psychologist assigned to Jamie’s case.
Luther
Where to Watch: Hulu, Britbox, Acorn TVStarring: Idris Elba, Ruth Wilson, Warren BrownNumber of Seasons: 5
Luther (Elba) is a brilliant but emotionally impulsive detective who is tormented by the dark side of humanity while hunting down murderers. Once the self-destructive detective knows the killer’s identity, it becomes a psychological duel between predator and prey. Luther must grapple with the intensity of both his job and his personal life as the two become intertwined.
Art Detectives
Where to Watch: Acorn TVStarring: Stephen Moyer, Nina SinghNumber of Seasons: 1 (Season 2 coming in 2027)
In the Metropolitan Police’s smallest department, the Heritage Crime Unit, an art-loving detective tackles cases connected to the world of art, antiques, collectibles and cultural heritage.
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Kaya Scodelario, Theo JamesNetflix
The Gentlemen
Where to Watch: NetflixStarring: Theo James, Kaya Scodelario, Daniel Ings, Giancarlo Esposito, Ray WinstoneNumber of Seasons: 2
It’s been one year since Eddie (James) and Susie (Scodelario) joined forces to work together in Bobby’s criminal empire overseas. As they drive to expand their enterprise, the decisions Bobby is making seem to be increasingly unsound. Now Eddie and Susie must decide whether to take action or risk losing it all, but unfettered ambition never ends well…
Agatha Christie’s Seven Dials / NetflixAgatha Christie’s The Seven Dials
Where to Watch: NetflixStarring: Mia McKenna-Bruce, Helena Bonham Carter, Martin FreemanNumber of Seasons: 1
England, 1925. At a lavish country house party, a practical joke appears to have gone horribly, murderously wrong. It will be up to the unlikeliest of sleuths—the fizzingly inquisitive Lady Eileen ‘Bundle’ Brent—to unravel a chilling plot that will change her life, cracking wide open the country house mystery.
Related: Inside Netflix’s ‘Agatha Christie’s Seven Dials,’ the Author’s Next Big Screen Mystery
The Larkins
Where to Watch: Acorn TVStarring: Joanna Scanlan, Bradley Walsh, Sabrina Bartlett, Joelle Bromidge, Lydia Page, Rosie Coleman, Davina L. ColemanNumber of Seasons: 2
This new adaptation of the classic novel “The Darling Buds of May” by H.E. Bates follows the warmhearted, wheeler-dealer adventures of the Larkin family in the idyllic Kent countryside of the 1950s. Joanna Scanlan (No Offence) and Bradley Walsh (Law & Order: UK) star in a “joyous, comforting” (Radio Times) show capturing the warmth, optimism, and escapism of the Larkins for a modern generation.
Sherwood
Where to Watch: BritBoxStarring: David Morrissey, Lorraine Ashbourne, Perry Fitzpatrick, Joanne FrogattNumber of Seasons: 2
Two shocking and unexpected murders shatter an already fractured community leading to one of the largest manhunts in British history. Based on real events.
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