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McMafiaMcMafia
BBC One, 2018 Cancelled/Ended | Drama, Action, Crime, Thriller | ► Trailer
Rating: 4.3/5

McMafia is a drama series about organized crime. It follows a Russian family in London and explores money laundering, cyber crime, and smuggling around the world. The show depicts a world where race, religion, color, and creed are no barriers to making deals. It is based on the 2008 bestseller by Misha Glenny and promises to be a hard-hitting look at global crime.


The EnglishThe English
BBC One, 2022 Cancelled/Ended | Drama, Western | ► Trailer
Rating: 4.3/5

The English is set in the mythic mid-American landscape in the year of 1890 and follows Cornelia Locke, an Englishwoman who arrives into the new and wild landscape of the West to wreak revenge on the man she sees as responsible for the death of her son. Upon meeting Eli Whipp, an ex-cavalry scout and member of the Pawnee Nation by birth, they join together and discover a shared history which must be defeated at all costs, if either of them are to survive.


The TouristThe Tourist
BBC One, 2022 On Haitus | Drama, Mystery, Thriller | ► Trailer
Rating: 3.6/5

In the glowing red heart of the Australian outback, a British man is pursued by a vast tank truck trying to drive him off the road. An epic cat and mouse chase unfolds and The Man later wakes in hospital, hurt, but somehow alive. Except he has no idea who he is. With merciless figures from his past pursuing him, The Man's search for answers propels him through the vast and unforgiving outback.


ShetlandShetland
BBC One, 2013 Running | Drama, Family, Crime, Mystery | ► Trailer
Rating: 4.4/5

Detective Jimmy Perez investigates murder on the scenic Shetland Islands in this drama series adapted from Ann Cleeves' crime novels. The stunning backdrop of the Shetland Islands sets the stage for this murder-mystery series starring Douglas Henshall as Detective Jimmy Perez.


Inside ManInside Man
BBC One, 2022 Cancelled/Ended | Drama, Crime, Mystery, Thriller | ► Trailer
Rating: 3.9/5

A prisoner on death row in the US and a woman trapped in a cellar under an English vicarage, cross paths in the most unexpected way...


Planet Earth IIPlanet Earth II
BBC One, 2016 Cancelled/Ended | Documentary, Mini-Series | ► Trailer
Rating: 4.5/5

Planet Earth II is a 2016 British nature documentary series produced by the BBC as a sequel to the highly successful Planet Earth television series, which aired a decade earlier, in 2006. The series is presented and narrated by Sir David Attenborough with the score composed by Hans Zimmer.


Years and YearsYears and Years
BBC One, 2019 Cancelled/Ended | Drama, Sci-Fi | ► Trailer
Rating: 4.2/5

Follow the Lyons, a busy family from Manchester, as they navigate an unknown future after a crucial night in 2019. Britain withdraws from Europe, America becomes a lone wolf, and China asserts itself. Politician Vivienne Rook rises to power as an entertainer, rebel, trickster, and terror. This gripping series follows the Lyons over 15 years of their lives and loves.


The War of the WorldsThe War of the Worlds
BBC One, 2019 Cancelled/Ended | Drama, Sci-Fi | ► Trailer
Rating: 3.4/5

Set in Edwardian England, this adaptation of H.G. Wells' seminal tale - the first alien invasion story in literature - follows George and his partner Amy as they attempt to defy society and start a life together. The War of the Worlds tells their story as they face the escalating terror of an alien invasion, fighting for their lives against an enemy beyond their comprehension.


The SerpentThe Serpent
BBC One, 2021 Cancelled/Ended | Drama, Crime, Thriller | ► Trailer
Rating: 4/5

Con man, escape artist, thief, master of disguise and psychopath, Charles Sobhraj was the chief suspect in the sensational unsolved murders of up to 20 young Western travellers across India, Thailand and Nepal through 1975 and 1976. Having slipped repeatedly from the grasp of authorities worldwide, by 1976 Sobhraj was Interpol's most wanted man and had arrest warrants on three different continents. When Herman Knippenberg, a junior diplomat at the Dutch Embassy in Bangkok, unwittingly walks into Sobhraj's intricate web of crime, he sets off an extraordinary chain of events that will see these two diametrically opposed men engaged in a chase across the porous borders of the Asian Hippie Trail in its twilight years. The Serpent is based on the phenomenal true story of how one of the most elusive criminals of the 20th century was caught and brought to trial.


The ResponderThe Responder
BBC One, 2022 On Haitus | Drama, Crime | ► Trailer
Rating: 3.9/5

The Responder features cop Chris, who works night shifts with his new rookie partner, Rachel. Each episode centers on a different shift, and the series is described as "wildly funny and painfully tragic." Chris is dealing with a marriage that is breaking down while policing Liverpool's criminal underbelly, and the show deals with the realities of policing in Britain and the complexities of Freeman's character.