25 best British shows you can watch in the U.S.
25 best British shows you can watch in the U.S.
While there is plenty of expert TV in the U.S., the best British shows have a reputation across the pond when it comes to quality. While U.S. shows tend to get on for far more seasons than is necessary (networks don't care if showrunners don't have whatever skillful ideas left), British series oftentimes avert that pitfall.
And fortunately a ton of fantastic British shows are bachelor on American streaming services. This fashion you lot don't need to use one of the best VPN services to watch them, learn well-nigh what the BBC iPlayer is, or what a Television license does.
So, whether you want a show to tide y'all over until Ted Lasso season 3, or just relish the fine art of traveling without actually traveling, our listing of the best British shows you can watch in the U.S. has you covered.
The IT Crowd (Netflix)
Information technology's hard to overestimate the nerd-culture influence of this mid-2000s sitcom. 2 socially bad-mannered losers (Richard Ayoade and Chris O'Dowd) toil in a large visitor's basement IT section, overseen by a clueless simply sympathetic boss (Katherine Parkinson) who got the task subsequently lying that she knew a lot about computers. Put them in ridiculous situations that rival the best Seinfeld episodes, and yous go an endless series of hilarious (and eventually meme-worthy) moments. — Paul Wagenseil
Stream it on Netflix
Line of Duty (Amazon Prime Video)
The opposite of the Masterpiece Mystery-style catamenia-piece "cozy," this hit series about police corruption in an unnamed British city is bleak and harsh, just worth watching for the terrific performances by the actors playing the cops under investigation, including Thandie Newton (Westworld), Lennie James (The Walking Dead) and Keeley Hawes (Babysitter, The Durrells in Corfu). The series keeps yous guessing: You can never be sure who's on the upwardly-and-upwards, and who's on the take. — Paul Wagenseil
Stream it on Amazon Prime number Video and Britbox
Doctor Who (HBO Max)
Yous can't discuss British sci-fi — or British Telly in general, really — without discussing Medico Who. On the off chance y'all've never seen an episode before, Medico Who tells the story of the eponymous Doctor, who travels through space and time in a blue police box. As the show has been going on for more fifty years, the Md occasionally "regenerates" into a new role player and picks up a new squad of sidekicks. Part fantasy take chances and office graphic symbol drama, Doc Who has endured due in role to its optimistic attitude, and in part due to the sheer telescopic of the show. When you tin can go anywhere and anytime in the universe, no story is off-limits. To start, simply option a Doctor and watch his or her first flavour. — Marshall Honorof
Stream information technology on HBO Max
Torchwood (HBO Max)
Torchwood is finer Doctor Who for adults (though fans of each show aren't e'er fans of the other). This dark spin-off series has Md Who's Helm Jack Harkness and a group of alien-hunters doing their best to relieve the planet from hidden threats while also dealing with their ain personal problems. The first two seasons (or serial, equally the British call them) employed the standard "monster of the calendar week" formula simply it was in the bear witness's third flavour where the proverbial stakes were raised exponentially. I won't spoil things, just suffice it to say that "Children of Earth" (as the flavour is named) is one of the darkest and nearly heart-wrenching TV experiences yous'll have. Though Torchwood floundered in its fourth and final flavour (Miracle Day), the first three seasons are phenomenal, fifty-fifty if you've never watched Doc Who. — Tony Polanco
Stream it on HBO Max
Britannia (Amazon Prime Video)
This fantastical recreation of the Roman conquest of Britain goes beyond "skilful" or "bad" — it'south completely bonkers and campy fun. We get imperial generals possessed past Celtic spirits, scary Druids with filed teeth and blacked-out eyes, trippy drug-fueled dream sequences (or are they?) and, of class, lots of gore, nudity and expose. Kelly Reilly (Yellowstone, True Detective) is a British princess; Ian McDiarmid (Emperor Palpatine) is her male parent; the rest of the cast should be familiar to British TV viewers. If you wondered what Game of Thrones on acid would be like, here's your run a risk. — Paul Wagenseil
Stream it on Prime Video
The Thick of It (Hulu)
Before Peter Capaldi played the title character in Doctor Who, he was Malcolm Tucker: a fierce, foul-mouthed spin physician for the Prime Minister. The Thick of Information technology is a nighttime political comedy, which doesn't sand off any rough edges of working behind-the-scenes in the British government. Tucker oversees a crew of politicians and their administration, often wrangling them into shape after they've committed some terrible printing blunder. Watching Tucker's unhinged rants is ever a joy, just the show is so entertaining due to how believable each new disaster feels. (This is, after all, the show that invented the world "omnishambles.") Be certain to also sentinel the necktie-in movie, In the Loop, and the American spinoff, Veep. — Marshall Honorof
Stream it on Hulu
Skillful Omens (Amazon Prime Video)
Technically speaking, Good Omens is a half-British show. Merely since it's adapted from a volume by two British authors, nosotros'll permit it slide. Amazon and the BBC collaborated to bring Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett's fantasy novel to life, telling a funny, weird and heartfelt story about the Biblical apocalypse. Michael Sheen and David Tennant star as Aziraphale and Crowley, respectively. The onetime is a prissy angel, the latter is a draconian demon, and neither i of them particularly wants the globe to cease. Equally they plot to avert Armageddon, they encounter psychics, witches and fifty-fifty the Antichrist: a young boy who'd rather play with his dog than launch a holy state of war. — Marshall Honorof
Stream it on Prime number Video
Starstruck (HBO Max)
One of the all-time shows of 2021 is this underrated jewel of a rom-com. In recommending it to friends, I describe it as Notting Hill-meets-Fleabag, which only sort of gestures at what makes it and then delightful. Rose Matafeo co-created the series and stars in it as Jessie, an aimless twentysomething New Zealander living in London. On New year'due south Eve, she has a one-dark stand up with Tom (Nikesh Patel), who turns out to exist a big motion picture star! While he's very famous and she'southward very, uh, not, they share a magnetic chemistry that cannot be ignored. Simply chemical science equal a relationship and Jessie and Tom notice themselves going in and out of each other'southward orbit for months. — Kelly Woo
Stream it on HBO Max
We Are Lady Parts (Peacock)
The hilarious and sugariness comedy follows the journey of the titular punk band, composed entirely of Muslim women. They're searching for a lead guitarist and decide to recruit a total novice, a microbiology Ph.D student named Amina (Anjana Vasan). Amina figured she'd simply find a hubby and settle downwards, but when Lady Parts come up calling, she finds herself dreaming of rocking out and achieving stardom. The show — which kickoff aired on Aqueduct 4 and is streaming now on Peacock — not only wonderfully depicts Muslim women as fully-fledged characters across their hijabs, but it features some truly fantastic bops. You lot may non be able to get these earworms out of your head! — Kelly Woo
Stream it on Peacock
Monty Python's Flying Circus (Netflix)
Possibly the Ur-text for all modern Telly comedies, Monty Python's Flying Circus is a uniquely British sketch show that's shaped every aspect of Anglophone pop culture. In this baroque series of non-sequiturs, you never quite know what the Pythons (the incomparable Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin) will get upwards to adjacent. Amid other things, the characters attempt to render a dead parrot to a pet store, sing almost cross-dressing lumberjacks, translate the earth's funniest joke into German language, run the Ministry of Silly Walks, and larn that nobody ever expects the Castilian Inquisition. If nothing else, you'll finally larn where "wink, wink, nudge, nudge, say no more than" originated. —Marshall Honorof
Stream it on Netflix
Great British Broil-Off/Baking Prove (Netflix)
Whoever would have thought that a competitive blistering show would exist such a huge hit? I know I didn't, but then again there had never really been a show similar the Cracking British Bake Off (or Baking Prove, as it'south known in the U.Southward.) before. What sets GBBO apart from other competitive shows is the fact that information technology's and then incredibly wholesome. The contestants may be working against each other, merely it lacks the cutting-pharynx mental attitude a lot of similar shows tend to take. It's baking outset, winning 2d. The outlandish (and occasionally hilarious) creations they come up up with is simply the icing on the proverbial cake. — Tom Pritchard
Stream it on Netflix
Life on Mars (BritBox)
Modernistic-day Manchester policeman Sam Tyler gets striking by a car and wakes upward in 1973 — with new apparel and a new ride just the same job. John Simm (the Master in Doctor Who) plays Tyler, even so the existent star is Philip Glenister as Tyler'southward rough, violent but good-hearted supervisor. There's action, violence and a fair bit of humour as Tyler deals with old-fashioned attitudes toward sex, race and gender.while trying to get back to his own time. A sequel, Ashes to Ashes (also on Britbox), pairs upwardly Glenister's character in 1980s London with some other time-traveling cop played by Keeley Hawes. — Paul Wagenseil
Stream it on Britbox via Prime Channels
MI-5 (BritBox)
MI-5 (besides known equally Spooks) is long-running spy serial about a counterterrorism unit in the United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland'due south domestic spy agency features a who's who of British TV actors, including Matthew Macfadyen (Succession), David Oyelowo (Selma), Hugh Laurie (House) and Jenny Agutter (Telephone call the Midwife). The rotating cast is reminiscent of Constabulary and Order, merely the show is a lot more than dark and violent — you lot never know who's going to be killed off in the next round of terrorist attacks, hostage crises and personal (and national) betrayals.— Paul Wagenseil
Stream it on BritBox via Prime number Channels
Black Mirror (Netflix)
Dorsum before modern life became a walking, talking, NFT-filled dystopia, Black Mirror was a revolution in the world of sci-fi horror album Television. The product of creator Charlie Brooker, Black Mirror spends nigh 45 minutes to around an hour per episode painting a wild painting of a futuristic scenario. Think Marvel'due south What If…? but if the question was based around gild'due south connection to technology getting even worse and weirder in a depressing way. While American audiences may think of Black Mirror as one of "ours" since it'southward on Netflix, it originally debuted on the British telly network Aqueduct 4.
If you lot've somehow missed Black Mirror by this indicate, I cartel not spoil whatsoever of the twists, only I can point out important episodes to watch. Hallmark episodes include Fifteen One thousand thousand Merits (where civilians toil on stationary bikes to earn points to disable ads in their cells), Exist Right Dorsum (where AI is used to revive the dead) and USS Callister (where a video game becomes far too real). — Henry T. Casey
Stream it on Netflix
Fleabag (Amazon Prime Video)
Nosotros never learn the existent proper noun of Fleabag (played by Phoebe Waller-Bridge). Merely the more we learn about the main character of this dark comedy/drama, through her ribald fourth-wall breaking monologues and shocking personal revelations, the less we actually need to know her name. Whether Fleabag is dealing with the difficulties of dating men, trying to get along with her godmother (played by Olivia Colman) who is as well her father's new girlfriend or trying to process a underground that destroyed her life, she is never low on drama. Adapted from Waller-Bridge's one-woman stage show, and produced for BBC Three in a co-product agreement with Amazon Studios. — Henry T. Casey
Stream it on Prime Video
Ghosts (HBO Max)
The smashing British sitcom used to rule the comedy world, but good examples are thin on the ground these days. So give thanks for Ghosts, an endearingly quondam-fashioned show that doesn't take a mockumentary format or mess around with comedy conventions, but instead sticks to the tried-and-tested of larger-than-life characters, awkward situations and plenty of gags. Created by the ensemble team behind the Horrible Histories kids testify (which is well worth a watch at any historic period), it follows a immature couple who motion into a country mansion haunted by some rather annoying only not particularly scary ghosts. Information technology's bang-up family viewing, likewise. — Marc McLaren
Stream it on HBO Max
The Detectorists (The Roku Channel)
You might not think there's much comedy gold to be found in a show most two metallic detecting enthusiasts ambling nearly Essex in search of buried treasures, just The Detectorists proves otherwise. Stars Toby Jones and Mackenzie Crook (who also writes and directs the show) play Lance and Andy, 2 friends with a passion for metallic detecting who seek fortune, fame and romance in the fictional village of Danebury. With help from a remarkable cast of supporting talent (many of whom play recurring roles every bit members of the Danebury Metallic Detecting Club) The Detectorists serves up a smorgasbord of dry humor, charming characters and compelling drama. And with iii series (Editor'due south Annotation: that's U.K. for 'flavor') plus a special to dig through, at that place'south hours of entertainment lying in wait for you. — Alex Wawro
Stream it for free on The Roku Channel
Downton Abbey (Netflix)
This period piece was a boom hit on PBS in us, but in example you haven't seen it, Downton Abbey is a Yorkshire manor house inhabited by the aristocratic Crawley family and their servants. Every bit the serial opens, the designated heir dies on the Titanic, forcing a search for the next in line — because the family unit patriarch has just daughters, none can inherit the estate. It sounds terribly stuffy, simply the interpersonal drama and intrigue both upstairs and downstairs, leavened with a surprising amount of humor, sucks you in. Maggie Smith steals the evidence as the sharp-tongued grandmother who gets all the best lines. — Paul Wagenseil
Stream it on Netflix
The Crown (Netflix)
All hail the exquisite casting of The Crown. The regal drama chronicles the reign of Queen Elizabeth II, who has been played to perfection by Claire Foy and Olivia Colman (they both won Emmys). Imelda Staunton is next in line, and nosotros fully expect her to rule every bit an older version of the queen dealing with personal scandals and political issues in the 1990s. At the top of the listing of her headaches is the begrudging and much-publicized divorce betwixt her son, Prince Charles (Dominic West), and his wife, Princess Diana (Elizabeth Debicki). When it comes to great British actors chewing scenery, y'all don't find much ameliorate than The Crown. — Kelly Woo
Stream it on Netflix
Luther (HBO Max)
The Brits tin practise the whole genius-cop-who-lives-life-on-the-edge thing but besides equally the Americans, and Luther is proof of that. Idris Elba is Detective John Luther, a troubled soul who causes his bosses no end of problems — but by god he gets results! So no, it's not exactly original. But don't worry about that, because Elba is fantastic in the lead role, taking on London's dark underbelly as he battles his own demons. Ruth Wilson is an able foil as the psychopathic Alice Morgan, and as 21st-century British detective dramas go it's right up there at the top. — Marc McLaren
Stream it on HBO Max
Ending (Amazon Prime number Video)
What happens when an international one-night stand results in a pregnancy? This limited series, which ran from 2015 to 2019, follows Rob (Rob Delaney) and Sharon (Sharon Horgan) as they decide to brand a life together, both literally and figuratively. It's both hilarious and tragic, and takes a hard look at the difficulties in making a relationship last. All the performances are by and large strong, and yous fifty-fifty get the bittersweet treat of seeing Carrie Fisher in ane of her last roles. — Mike Prospero
Stream it on Prime Video
All Creatures Not bad and Small (PBS)
This quaint series, which originally aired in the UK, is based on the works of James Herriot, the nom de plumage of a real-life British vet in midcentury England. If y'all similar pastoral scenes of rolling hills crisscrossed with stone walls and dotted with livestock, then you'll honey this show. It follows Herriot as he starts out on his career as a veterinarian, and learns how to bargain with people as much as their animals. — Mike Prospero
PBS is on DirecTV Stream and in select markets for YouTube Tv
Sherlock (Digital purchase)
This wildly imaginative reimagining of the Sherlock Holmes stories is a triumph from start to finish, thanks largely to the fact that it captures the spirit of the books without trying too hard to ape them. The superb cast doesn't hurt, led by Bridegroom Cumberbatch in his breakout role as the titular consulting detective and Martin Freeman as his sidekick, John Watson; yeah, that's Smaug and Bilbo Baggins in their outset on-screen pairing. The plots are dizzyingly complex at times and it has a tendency to wallow in its own cleverness, only information technology's such great fun that yous won't care 1 jot. — Marc McLaren
Purchase it from Amazon , Apple and others
Jonathan Foreign and Mr Norrell (Digital buy)
Based on Susanna Clarke's book of the same proper noun, Jonathan Foreign and Mr Norrell is, in this writer's opinion, the finest fantasy story since The Lord of the Rings. In the early 19th century, 2 sorcerous scholars collaborate to bring magic back to England. The but issue is that one of them, Mr Norrell, is a buttoned-upward academic, while the other, Jonathan Strange, is a freewheeling savant. Their tumultuous relationship forms the backbone of this affable adventure, which pits them against a malicious faerie who has designs on Strange's wife. Bertie Carvel and Eddie Marsan as Strange and Norrell, respectively, provide a solid backbone, merely information technology'due south Marc Warren as the delightfully evil Gentleman who steals the bear witness. — Marshall Honorof
Buy it from Apple TV or YouTube
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