Best Shows on BritBox
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What to watch on BritBox right now: the TV shows Australians are streaming most, out of 213 we track, updated November 2026.
Most popular TV shows on BritBox this week
Ranked by JustWatch popularity in Australia over the last 7 days.
1
The Doctor is a Time Lord: a 900 year old alien with 2 hearts, part of a gifted civilization who mastered time travel. The Doctor saves planets for a living-more of a hobby actually, and the Doctor's very, very good at it.
- Cast
- Matt Smith, David Tennant, Peter Capaldi, Nicholas Briggs
- Duration
- 45 min
2
A cash-strapped young couple inherits a grand country house, only to find it is both falling apart and teeming with the ghosts of former inhabitants.
- Cast
- Lolly Adefope, Mathew Baynton, Simon Farnaby, Martha Howe-Douglas
- Duration
- 30 min
3
The heartwarming and humorous adventures of a young country vet in the Yorkshire Dales in the 1930s. A remake of the 1978 series.
- Cast
- Nicholas Ralph, Samuel West, Anna Madeley, Callum Woodhouse, Rachel Shenton
- Duration
- 46mins
4
A drama about the investigations of AC-12, a controversial police anticorruption unit.
- Cast
- Adrian Dunbar, Martin Compston, Vicky McClure, Craig Parkinson
- Duration
- 60 min
5
Created from the novels by award winning crime writer Ann Cleeves, Shetland follows DI Jimmy Perez and his team as they investigate crime within the close knit island community. In this isolated and sometimes inhospitable environment, the team have to rely on a uniquely resourceful style of policing.
- Cast
- Douglas Henshall, Alison O'Donnell, Steven Robertson, Erin Armstrong
- Duration
- 60 min
6
The sweeping rags to riches story of the Hardacres, a working-class family in 1890s Yorkshire who strike it rich and move from a grimy fish dock to a vast estate.
- Cast
- Liam McMahon, Claire Cooper, Shannon Lavelle, Adam Little, Zak Ford-Williams
7
Nelson "Nelly" Rowe's life is turned upside down when he is arrested on suspicion of kidnapping his thirteen-year-old daughter Jody, whom he hasn't seen in ten years. After convincing the police of his innocence, and frustrated with the way the case is progressing, he decides to take matters into his own hands and track down Jody himself.
- Cast
- Lennie James, Suranne Jones, Camilla Beeput, Alice May Feetham
- Duration
- 270 min
8
Sitcom about navigating the trials and traumas of middle-class motherhood, looking at the competitive and unromantic side of parenting.
- Cast
- Anna Maxwell Martin, Lucy Punch, Diane Morgan, Paul Ready
- Duration
- 30 min
9
A comedic panel show featuring team captains Lee Mack and David Mitchell plus two guests per side, hosted by Rob Brydon (formerly Angus Deayton). Each person must reveal embarrassing facts and outrageous lies during a series of different rounds including "Home Truths", "This Is My..." and "Quickfire Lies". It is up to the opposing team to tell tall tales from fantastic facts.
- Cast
- David Mitchell, Lee Mack, Rob Brydon
- Duration
- 30 min
10
Drama following the lives of a group of midwives working in the poverty-stricken East End of London during the 1950s, based on the best-selling memoirs of Jennifer Worth.
- Cast
- Vanessa Redgrave, Laura Main, Jenny Agutter, Judy Parfitt
- Duration
- 60 min
11
Detective Chief Inspector John Barnaby is based in Midsomer, where he attempts to solve crimes involving the wealthy people who reside there.
- Cast
- John Nettles, Jane Wymark, Barry Jackson, Jason Hughes
- Duration
- 90 min
12
Comedy detective series set on the fictional Caribbean island of Saint-Marie. A brilliant but idiosyncratic British detective and his resourceful local team solve baffling murder mysteries.
- Cast
- Elizabeth Bourgine, Danny John-Jules, Don Warrington, Tobi Bakare
- Duration
- 60 min
13
London police detectives Cassie Stuart and Sunny Khan investigate historic cold cases involving missing persons, murder and long-hidden secrets.
- Cast
- Nicola Walker, Sanjeev Bhaskar, Lewis Reeves, Jordan Long
- Duration
- 45 min
14
Socially inept Miranda always gets into awkward situations; working in her joke shop with best friend Stevie, being hounded by her pushy mother, and especially when she's around her crush Gary.
- Cast
- Miranda Hart, Patricia Hodge, Tom Ellis, Sarah Hadland
- Duration
- 30 min
15
A chronicle of the lives of the aristocratic Crawley family and their servants in the post-Edwardian era-with great events in history having an effect on their lives and on the British social hierarchy.
- Cast
- Hugh Bonneville, Laura Carmichael, Jim Carter, Brendan Coyle
- Duration
- 58 min
16
Professor Jasper Tempest, a genius Cambridge University criminologist with OCD and an overbearing mother, advises the police. British version of the Belgian crime drama of the same name.
- Cast
- Ben Miller, Barney White, Emma Naomi
17
Set in England in the early 19th century, Pride and Prejudice tells the story of Mr and Mrs Bennet's five unmarried daughters after the rich and eligible Mr Bingley and his status-conscious friend, Mr Darcy, have moved into their neighbourhood. While Bingley takes an immediate liking to the eldest Bennet daughter, Jane, Darcy has difficulty adapting to local society and repeatedly clashes with the second-eldest Bennet daughter, Elizabeth.
- Cast
- Jennifer Ehle, Colin Firth, Susannah Harker, Julia Sawalha
- Duration
- 327 min
18
A dark psychological crime drama starring Idris Elba as Luther, a man struggling with his own terrible demons, who might be as dangerous as the depraved murderers he hunts.
- Cast
- Idris Elba, Dermot Crowley, Michael Smiley, Warren Brown
- Duration
- 60 min
19
Ten home potters from around the country head to Stoke-on-Trent, the home of pottery, in their quest to become Top Potter.
- Cast
- Keith Brymer Jones, Sara Cox, Kate Olivia Malone
- Duration
- 60 min
20
Amateur sewers take on challenges as they compete to be named Britain's best home sewer.
- Cast
- Patrick Grant, Claudia Winkleman, Esme Young, May Martin
21
Retired archaeologist Judith Potts lives alone in a faded mansion in the peaceful town of Marlow, filling her time by setting crosswords for the local paper. During one of her regular wild swims in the Thames, Judith hears a gunshot coming from a neighbour's garden and believes a brutal murder has taken place.
- Cast
- Dawn French, Jennifer Saunders, Ruth Wilson, David Oakes, Katherine Kelly
22
Beyond Paradise (2023)
After leaving paradise and seeking a quieter life, Humphrey has taken a job as Detective Inspector in his fiancée Martha's hometown. But with the high crime rate, maybe things will be louder than expected.
- Cast
- Kris Marshall, Sally Bretton, Dylan Llewellyn
- Duration
- 58mins
23
Silent Witness is a British crime thriller series focusing on a team of forensic pathology experts and their investigations into various crimes.
- Cast
- Emilia Fox, William Gaminara, Tom Ward, David Caves
- Duration
- 120 min
24
Through four series and a few specials, Edmund Blackadder and his greasy sidekick Baldrick conjure up cunning plans as Edmund tries to take advantage of desperate times. These situation tragedies had obvious parallels from the Dark Ages to Elizabethan times, the rule of mad George III, and The Great War.
- Cast
- Rowan Atkinson, Elspet Gray, Tim McInnerny, Patrick Allen
- Duration
- 195 min
25
Book editor Susan Ryeland is given an unfinished manuscript by best-selling mystery writer Alan Conway featuring Conway’s longtime main character, detective Atticus Pünd. When she attempts to attain the final chapters from Conway, she finds herself in the middle of a shocking mystery case of her own that will change her life in ways she never expected.
- Cast
- Lesley Manville, Tim McMullan, Matthew Goode, Conleth Hill, Alexandra Dowling
26
Happy Valley is a dark, funny, multi-layered thriller revolving around the personal and professional life of Catherine, a dedicated, experienced, hard-working copper. She is also a bereaved mother who looks after her orphaned grandchild.
- Cast
- Sarah Lancashire, Siobhan Finneran, Shane Zaza, Charlie Murphy
- Duration
- 58 min
27
Documentary-style sitcom set in the offices of a Slough paper merchant.
- Cast
- Ricky Gervais, Martin Freeman, Lucy Davis, Mackenzie Crook, Ralph Ineson
28
Comedy quiz show full of quirky facts, in which contestants are rewarded more if their answers are 'quite interesting'.
- Cast
- Alan Davies, Stephen Fry, Sandi Toksvig
- Duration
- 30 min
29
Gavin is an ordinary boy from Billericay, Essex. Stacey is an ordinary girl from Barry Island, South Wales. They’ve spoken on the phone every day at work for months but they’ve never actually met… until now.
- Cast
- Mathew Horne, Joanna Page, Alison Steadman, Ruth Jones
- Duration
- 29 min
30
A sharp detective with a messy life, DCI Vera Stanhope patrols her “patch” of northeast England, pursuing the truth in cases of murder, kidnapping, and blackmail. Vera is obsessive about her work and faces the world with caustic wit, guile and courage.
- Cast
- Brenda Blethyn, Jon Morrison, Riley Jones, Kenny Doughty
- Duration
- 90 min
31
Tense drama series about the different challenges faced by the British Security Service as they work against the clock to safeguard the nation. The title is a popular colloquialism for spies, and the series follows the work of a group of MI5 officers based at the service's Thames House headquarters, in a highly secure suite of offices known as The Grid.
- Cast
- Peter Firth, Hugh Simon, Nicola Walker
- Duration
- 60 min
32
A close-knit community is sent spinning on its axis following a series of strange and unnatural crimes.
- Director
- Lee Haven Jones
- Cast
- Daniel Kaluuya, Jodie Comer, David Oyelowo, Toby Jones, Katherine Waterston
33
A veteran beat cop and teenage girl fall to their deaths from a tower block in south-east London, leaving a five-year-old boy and rookie police officer Lizzie Griffiths on the roof, only for them to go missing. Detective Sergeant Sarah Collins is drafted in to investigate, working to find Lizzie before she comes to serious harm, but also to uncover the truth behind the grisly tower block deaths.
- Cast
- Gemma Whelan, Jimmy Akingbola, Tahirah Sharif
34
The story of the penniless Mary Thorne, who grows up with her rich aunt/cousins at Greshamsbury Park estate.
- Cast
- Harry Richardson, Tom Hollander, Stefanie Martini, Rebecca Front
- Duration
- 48 min
35
Nothing delights Emma more than meddling in the love lives of others. But when she takes protege Harriet Smith under her wing, her plans can only end in disaster...
- Cast
- Romola Garai, Michael Gambon, Jonny Lee Miller, Jodhi May
- Duration
- 240 min
36
Following the great traditions of `Inspector Morse' and the unexplored realms of Oxford life. In his early days as a detective, he takes big risks to solve mysteries and search for justice.
- Cast
- Shaun Evans, Roger Allam, James Bradshaw, Sean Rigby
- Duration
- 89 min
37
Follow the defection of notorious British intelligence officer and KGB double agent, Kim Philby, through the lens of his complex relationship with MI6 colleague and close friend, Nicholas Elliott.
- Director
- Nick Murphy
- Cast
- Guy Pearce, Damian Lewis, Anna Maxwell Martin, Adrian Edmondson, Stephen Kunken
- Duration
- 60mins
38
Inspector Robert Lewis and Sergeant James Hathaway solve the tough cases that the learned inhabitants of Oxford throw at them.
- Cast
- Kevin Whately, Laurence Fox, Clare Holman
- Duration
- 90 min
39
Britain is in the grip of a chilling recession... falling wages, rising prices, civil unrest - only the bankers are smiling. It's 1783 and Ross Poldark returns from the American War of Independence to his beloved Cornwall to find his world in ruins: his father dead, the family mine long since closed, his house wrecked and his sweetheart pledged to marry his cousin. But Ross finds that hope and love can be found when you are least expecting it in the wild but beautiful Cornish landscape.
- Cast
- Aidan Turner, Eleanor Tomlinson, Jack Farthing, Beatie Edney
- Duration
- 60 min
40
Thrown together by the murder of John's neighbour, John and Janie are an odd, yet hilarious duo with opposing instincts. Every week, they get to the bottom of gripping murders, with various stunning Welsh locations providing a backdrop to their investigations.
- Cast
- Timothy Spall, Gwyneth Keyworth, Steffan Rhodri, Alexandria Riley, Melanie Walters
41
Doc Martin is a British television comedy drama series starring Martin Clunes in the title role. It was created by Dominic Minghella after the character of Dr. Martin Bamford in the 2000 comedy film Saving Grace. The show is set in the fictional seaside village of Portwenn and filmed on location in the village of Port Isaac, Cornwall, England, with most interior scenes shot in a converted local barn. Five series aired between 2004 and 2011, together with a feature-length special that aired on Christmas Day 2006. Series 6 began airing on ITV on 2 September 2013.
- Cast
- Martin Clunes, Caroline Catz, Ian McNeice, Joe Absolom
- Duration
- 46 min
42
Brighton based Detective Superintendent Roy Grace is a hard-working police officer who has given his life to the job, but his career is currently at rock bottom. He’s fixated by the disappearance of his beloved wife, Sandy, and running enquiries into long forgotten cold cases with little prospect of success. Following another reprimand for his unorthodox police methods, Grace is walking a career tightrope and risks being moved from the job he loves most.
- Cast
- John Simm, Rakie Ayola, Richie Campbell
- Duration
- 90 min
43
From England to Egypt, accompanied by his elegant and trustworthy sidekicks, the intelligent yet eccentrically-refined Belgian detective Hercule Poirot pits his wits against a collection of first class deceptions.
- Cast
- David Suchet
44
The story of how Detective Superintendent Steve Fulcher deliberately breached police procedure and protocol to catch a killer, a decision that ultimately cost him his career and reputation.
- Cast
- Martin Freeman, Siobhan Finneran, Imelda Staunton
- Duration
- 45 min
45
Set in the small hamlet of Lark Rise and the wealthier neighbouring market town, Candleford, the series chronicles the daily lives of farm-workers, craftsmen and gentry at the end of the 19th Century. Lark Rise to Candleford is a love letter to a vanished corner of rural England and a heart-warming drama series teeming with wit, wisdom and romance.
- Cast
- Olivia Hallinan, Sarah Lancashire, Julia Sawalha, Fergus Drysdale
- Duration
- 53 min
46
Reverend Granger is assigned as the Vicar of the rural parish of Dibley, but she is not quite what the villagers expected.
- Cast
- Dawn French, James Fleet, Trevor Peacock, Gary Waldhorn
- Duration
- 60 min
47
Frank Hathaway, a hardboiled private investigator, and his rookie sidekick Lu Shakespeare form the unlikeliest of partnerships as they investigate the secrets of rural Warwickshire's residents.
- Cast
- Jo Joyner, Mark Benton, Patrick Walshe McBride
- Duration
- 44mins
48
Adaptation of PD James's bestselling homage to Pride and Prejudice. Elizabeth and Darcy, now six years married, are preparing for their annual ball when festivities are brought to an abrupt halt.
- Cast
- Matthew Rhys, Anna Maxwell Martin, Matthew Goode, Trevor Eve
- Duration
- 180 min
49
A young woman puts her life back together after suffering from a nervous breakdown.
- Cast
- Aisling Bea, Sharon Horgan, Tobias Menzies
50
Based on a true story, this four-part drama tells the story of the murder of 11-year-old Rhys Jones in Croxteth, Liverpool, in 2007. It explores Melanie’s and Steve’s ordeal, and tells of how Rhys’ murderer and associates were eventually brought to justice.
- Cast
- Sinead Keenan, Brían F. O'Byrne, Matthew Roberts, Stephen Graham
- Duration
- 60 min
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BritBox includes several popular British shows like Doctor Who, Poldark, Call the Midwife, Luther, Midsomer Murders, and Broadchurch, just to name a few. With its library that’s divided into five genres - Drama, Crime Drama, Comedy, Documentary and Lifestyle - users will be spoilt for choice.
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