The best BBC shows to watch right now

BBC iPlayer is known (and loved) for all it’s great dramas, every single David Attenborough documentary – the man is a national treasure! – Doctor Who and more. Let’s face it, there’s loadssss to watch and even more we want to talk about, but we’ve rounded up some the best shows on BBC iPlayer that you can stream right now! 

Drama 

Peaky Blinders 

One word – epic. The award-winning Peaky Blinders is forever one of our faves of all time. If you love, style, period dramas gangsters and Cillian Murphy, you’ll love this.

A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder

Love a bit of crime, drama and a sprinkle of romance? Well you're in the right place! Pip Fitz-Amobi (Emma Myres) decides to reinvestigate a missing persons case for her college project! Determined that the killer is still walking free, the big question is, how for will she go for the truth?!

Pretty Little Liars

Aria (Lucy Hale), Spencer (Troian Bellisario), Hanna (Ashley Benson) and Emily (Shay Mitchell) look picture-perfect… until their bestie vanishes and the texts start rolling in. Secrets, scandals and a mystery puppet master called A!?! We’re absolutely obsessed. 

Normal People

Based on Sally Rooney’s hit novel, this drama dives into the on-again, off-again love between Marianne (Daisy Edgar-Jones) and Connell (Paul Mescal). Honest, tender and plenty of “say something!!” moments. We recommend streaming with tissues nearby.  

Suits

This smart, sexy and stylish legal drama is allll about the life of Mike Ross (Patrick J. Adams), a college dropout with a photographic memory who despite never attending law school, becomes a lawyer at one of New York's most prestigious law firms!

Waterloo Road

School is officially back in session as one of our fave school dramas is back for another series! And it is absolute chaos. Headteacher Stella Drake (Lindsey Coulson) faces new challenges when her grandkids arrive at the school. Not to mention new media teacher Darius Donovan (Jon Richardson) being a master manipulator! New faces, big secrets, and enough drama to make detention look fun. Stream with your tie loosened!

Kin

Blood’s thicker than water, but in the Kin’s world, crime is thicker than both. When a family tragedy drags them into the criminal underworld, every decision could be their last. Family dinners have never been this intense… or this addictive. Starring: Charlie Cox, Clare Dunne and Aidan Gillen. 

Pure entertainment to add to your watchlist 

Doctor Who 

There was absolutely no way that sci-fi classic Doctor Who wouldn’t make this list. 60 years, 15 Doctors (counting David Tennant twice for being the 10th and 14th) and over 800 episodes, and we’re still just as captivated by the TARDIS as we were before. We’re true Whovians. 

Freddie Flintoff’s Field of Dreams: Ultimate Test 

Who said cricket was boring? In Freddie Flintoff’s newest documentary, he takes to the streets and schools to prove it can be a game changer – literally. The cricket legend brings the game back to community pitches and to teens who never thought it was for them.  

Celebrity Traitors

If you’ve not heard of Traitors (have you been living in a box!), then you’d better get binging because the celeb edition is juuuuust around the corner! This competition series is a game of trust and betrayal. Amongst the faithful’s are traitors aiming to sabotage the group. If you’re looking for tension, drama and Claudia Winkleman’s dry wit (and lets not forget fab eyeliner) this one’s for you! We are totally going to be watching alllll of this! 

Celebrity Race Across the World 

Do you enjoy travelling and going on new adventures? We do too! Get ready for a whole new journey with Season 3 of Celebrity Race Across the World coming soon to BBC. This year’s celebs will be traversing the Caribbean and Pacific coast of Central America. While you wait, go binge the other series and watch as they take on the challenge of travelling from Northern Brazil to the Andes with no phones, internet access or credit cards! Could you do it? 

RuPaul's Drag Race UK 

There’s something about RuPaul’s Drag Race that we can't help but loveee! Mama Ru and the the fabulous queens are back again with fresh Queeeeens aiming to be the UK’s next Drag Race superstar. It might have something to do with the iconic one-liners, but we just can’t get enough!  

Graham Norton Show

Are you wanting giggles, gossip and awkward celebrity confessions? Yep, that’s the Graham Norton Show! It doesn’t matter if you don’t have a big red chair, just grab a cuppa or a glass of bubbly and start streeeeaaaaming!! 

Comedy for Lots of Laughs 

Colin from Accounts 

This Aussie romcom sees two people brought together by fate, a car accident and a very cute dog! After a successful first season, Season 2 sees Ashley (Harriet Dyer) and Gordon (Patrick Brammall)’s story continue as they try to get Colin back whilst dealing with the difficulties in their relationship!

This Country 

Welcome to the Cotswolds – but not the postcard version. This mockumentary follows cousins Kerry (Daisy May Cooper) and Kurtan (Charlie Cooper) as they stumble through village life. This Country serves deadpan laughs and reminds you that even the quietest villages are bursting with ridiculousness.  

The Outlaws

The Outlaws follows the lives of a group of people from all walks of life brought together for community service in Bristol, their lives change for better or worse when they find a big bag of money!  

Here We Go

Think family sitcom with a mockumentary twist: weddings gone wrong, chaotic holidays and the odd kidnapped dog – all filmed on son Sam’s phone.  It’s awkward, sharp, and a little too close to home. Starring: Alison Steadman, Katherine Parkinson, Jim Howick and Tom Basden.   

Miranda

This British gem is part sitcom, part slapstick and part “oh-no-she-didn’t”. It follows the tall, clumsy, and wonderfully chaotic Miranda (played by the hilariously brilliant Miranda Hart), who owns a joke shop by day and somehow stumbles into social mayhem by night. Any day. And really, all the time. 

Gavin and Stacey 

Gavin and Stacey is like a warm cuppa with a side of giggles. Follow Essex boy Gavin (Matthew Horne) and Welsh girl Stacey (Joanna Page) as their families collide. Cue karaoke, coach trips and some of British TV’s most quotable characters. It’s cosy, chaotic, and oh my Chriiiist, it’s good. 

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