List of television programmes broadcast by the BBC

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This is a list of television programmes broadcast by the BBC either currently or previously broadcast on the BBC in the United Kingdom.

• Children's television programmes can be found at List of BBC children's television programmes.

Current[]

Programmes in this section have been broadcast by the BBC in the last year or have a commission for further episodes.

Recommissioned shows are shown as running to the present, as are any show that is currently airing.

Only channels where an episode first aired are listed (with the exception of episodes on non-BBC Three programmes which debuted online; for these) the linear channel and the transmission date on that channel are used.

Comedy[]

Show	Station	Premiering
Not Going Out	One	6 October 2006
Mrs. Brown's Boys	One	21 February 2011[a]
Still Open All Hours	One	26 December 2013
Inside No. 9	Two	5 February 2014
Two Doors Down	One	31 December 2013
	Two	1 April 2016
Upstart Crow	Two	9 May 2016
Motherland	Two/iPlayer	6 September 2016
This Country	Three	8 February 2017 – 23 March 2020
All Round to Mrs. Brown's	One	25 March 2017
Man Like Mobeen	Three	17 December 2017
Vic and Bob's Big Night Out	Channel 4	1990 – 1991
	Two/Four	29 December 2017
The Young Offenders	Three	1 February 2018[b]
Hold the Sunset	One	18 February 2018
Defending the Guilty	Two	19 September 2018
In My Skin	Three	14 October 2018
There She Goes	Four/Two	16 October 2018
Enterprice	Three	29 November 2018
Better Things	Two	10 January 2019[c]
Jerk	Three	24 February 2019
This Time with Alan Partridge	One	25 February 2019
Don't Forget the Driver	Two	9 April 2019
Bobs Burgers	One/Three	11 April 2019
Ghosts	One	15 April 2019
Back to Life	Three/One	15 April 2019[d]
What We Do in the Shadows	Two	19 May 2019[c]
The Mind of Herbert Clunkerdunk	Two	4 August 2019
State of the Union	Two	8 September 2019[e]
Ladhood	Three	24 November 2019
Shrill	Three	15 December 2019[f]
The Goes Wrong Show	One	23 December 2019
King Gary	One	10 January 2020
Good Omens	Two	15 January 2020 – present[g]
Bumps	One	21 February 2020
Mister Winner	Two	25 March 2020
Alma's Not Normal	Two	7 April 2020 – present
Dave	Two	10 May 2020[h]
The First Team	Two	28 May 2020
The Other One	One	5 June 2020
Staged	One	10 June 2020
Semi-Detached	Two	6 August – 10 September 2020
Mandy	Two	13 – 27 August 2020
Out of Her Mind	Two	20 October – 24 November 2020
Pandemonium	One	30 December 2020
Starstruck	Three/One	25 April 2021 – present[i]
The Cleaner	One	10 September – 22 October 2021
Bump	iPlayer/One	20 October 2021[j]
The Outlaws	One	18 October 2021 – present[g]
Toast of Tinseltown	Two	4 January 2022

Drama[]

Show	Station	Shown from & to
Doctor Who	One	23 November 1963 – 6 December 1989 27 May 1996 26 March 2005 – present
Silent Witness	One	21 February 1996– present
Luther	One	4 May 2010– present
Death in Paradise	One	25 October 2011
Call the Midwife	One	15 January 2012– present
Line of Duty	Two	26 June 2012 – 28 April 2016
	One	26 March 2017– present
Father Brown	One	14 January 2013– present
Shetland	One	10 March 2013
Our Girl	One	24 March 2013 – 28 April 2020
Peaky Blinders	Two	12 September 2013 – 20 December 2017
	One	25 August 2019
Doctor Foster	One	9 September 2015
American Crime Story	Two	15 February 2016[c]
The A Word	One	22 March 2016– present
Taboo	One	7 January 2017
Strike	One	27 August 2017
Snowfall	Two	8 October 2017[c]
McMafia	One	1 January 2018[k]
Keeping Faith	Wales	13 February 2018
	One	10 July 2018
Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators	One	26 February 2018
The Split	One	24 April 2018[l]
Bodyguard	One	26 August 2018 – 23 September 2018
Trust	Two	12 September 2018[c]
Killing Eve	One/ Three	15 September 2018– present[m]
The Sinner	Four	1 December 2018[n][o]
Mayans M.C.	Two	2 February 2019[c]
Baptiste	One	17 February 2019
Pose	Two	21 March 2019[c]
Gentleman Jack	One	22 April 2019[p]
London Kills	One	24 June 2019[q]
The Capture	One	3 September 2019– present
World On Fire	One	29 September 2019
Dublin Murders	One	14 October 2019[r]
Giri/Haji	Two	17 October 2019 – 5 December 2019[s]
Guilt	Two/ Scotland	30 October 2019
His Dark Materials	One	3 November 2019 – present[p]
Vienna Blood	Two	18 November 2019[t]
The Mallorca Files	One	25 November 2019
Get Even	iPlayer	14 February 2020
My Left Nut	Three	1 March 2020
Noughts + Crosses	One	5 March 2020– present
Five Bedrooms	One	10 March 2020– present[u]
Normal People	Three	27 April 2020[v]
I May Destroy You	One	8 June 2020[p]
The Heights	One	15 June 2020[w][x]
Katy Keene	iPlayer	25 July 2020[y]
Motherland: Fort Salem	Three	26 July 2020[z]
Harlots	Two	5 August 2020[aa][ab][ac]
Good Trouble	Three	16 August 2020[z]
Life	One	29 September 2020
Industry	Two	9 November 2020 – present[p]
Bloodlands	One	21 February 2021 – present
Showtrial	One	31 October 2021 – present
You Don't Know Me	One	5 December 2021[s]
Around the World in 80 Days	One	26 December 2021 – present[ad]

Miniseries[]

Show	Station	Showing
Fosse/Verdon	Two	2 August – 13 September 2019[c]
Looking For Alaska	Three	19 October 2019[f]
Gold Digger	One	12 November – 17 December 2019
The War of the Worlds	One	17 November – 1 December 2019
A Christmas Carol	One	22–24 December 2019[ae]
Worzel Gummidge	ITV	1979–1981
	Channel 4	1984 – 1986; 1987–1989
	One	26 – 27 December 2019
The Trial of Christine Keeler	One	29 December 2019 – 26 January 2020
Dracula	One	1–3 January 2020[s]
The Pale Horse	One	9–16 February 2020
The Nest	One	22 March – 13 April 2020
Trigonometry	Two	15 March – 26 April 2020
Devs	Two	15 April – 7 May 2020[af]
The Salisbury Poisonings	One	14–16 June 2020
The Luminaries	Two	21 June – 6 July 2020[ag]
The Secrets She Keeps	One	6 July 2020[u]
Mrs. America	Two	8–30 July 2020[af]
The Last Wave	Four	25 July – 8 August 2020[ah]
A Suitable Boy	One	26 July – 30 August 2020
Us	One	20 September – 11 October 2020
Black Narcissus	One	27 December 2020[ae]
The Serpent	One	1 January – 14 February 2021[s]
The Pursuit of Love	One	9 May 2021[g]
Three Families	One	10–11 May 2021
The Pact	One	17 May – 1 June 2021
Time	One	6 June 2021[ai]
Vigil	One	29 August – 26 September 2021
The North Water	Two	10 September 2021[aj]
Ridley Road	One	3 October 2021[ak]
The Girl Before	One	19–22 December 2021[i]
The Tourist	One	1 January 2022 – Present[al]
Four Lives	One/Two Wales	3–5 January 2022

One-off Drama[]

Show	Station	Showing
Elizabeth Is Missing	One	8 December 2019
Responsible Child	Two	16 December 2019
Martin's Close	Four	25 December 2019
The Windermere Children	Two	27 January 2020
Sitting in Limbo	One	8 June 2020
Make Me Famous	Three	17 June 2020
Anthony	One	27 July 2020
Danny Boy	Two	12 May 2021
Together	Two	17 June 2021
The Trick	One	18 October 2021

Soap[]

Show	Station	Showing
EastEnders	One	19 February 1985
Casualty	One	6 September 1986
Holby City	One	12 January 1999
Doctors	One	27 March 2000 [x]
River City	One Scotland	24 September 2002

Anthology[]

• Moving On, One, 18 May 2009–
• Small Axe, One, 15 November 2020 – 13 December 2020^[g]
• The Break, Three, unknown–

Shorts[]

• The Snail and the Whale, One, 25 December 2019–

Primetime reality/unscripted[]

Show	Station	Showing
		Started	Stopped
The Sky at Night	One	1957	2013
	Four	2014	–
Blue Peter	One	1958	2012
	CBBC	2013	–
Points of View	One	2 October 1961
Songs of Praise	One	1961
Match of the Day	Two	1964	1966
	One	1966	–
Top of the Pops	One	regular: 1964 Christmas specials: 1964–	regular: 2005
	Two	2005 – 2006
Gardeners' World	Two	1968
A Question of Sport	One	2 December 1968
Mastermind	One	1972	1997
	Discovery	2001	2002
	Two	2003
Football Focus	One	1974
Top Gear	Two	1977	2001
	Two	2002	2020
	One	2020	–
	Dave (repeats)	1998	–
Antiques Roadshow	One	1979
See Hear	Two	1981
Countryfile	One	1988
MasterChef	One	1990 & 2009	2000 & –
	Two	2001 & 2005	2001 & 2008
Have I Got News for You	One/ Two	28 September 1990
Later... with Jools Holland	Two	1992
National Lottery	One	1994 & 2017 (short clip of draw results after BBC news)	2016 & –
Room 101	Two	1994	2007
	One	2012	2018
University Challenge	ITV	1962	1987
	Two	1994	–
DIY SOS	One	1999
In It to Win It	One	2002
Saturday Kitchen	Two	26 January 2002	January 2006
	One	January 2006	–
QI	Four	11 September 2003	2008
	Two	2003 & 2012	2008 & –
	One	2009	2011
Celebrity Mastermind	One	2004
Live at the Apollo	One	2004
Match of the Day 2	Two	2004	2011
	One	2012	–
Strictly Come Dancing	One	2004
Strictly Come Dancing: It Takes Two	Two	2004
Who Do You Think You Are?	Two	2004 – 2005
	One	2006	–
Dragons' Den	Two	2005
Mock the Week	Two	5 June 2005
Springwatch	Two	2005
The Apprentice	Two	2005	2006
	One	2007	–
The Apprentice: You're Fired!	Three	2006
	Two	2007
Celebrity MasterChef	One	2006	2011
	Two	2012
The One Show	One	2006 & 2007	2006 & –
The Graham Norton Show	One	February 2007
Would I Lie to You?	One	16 June 2007
The Big Questions	One	9 September 2007
Who Dares Wins	One	2007
Only Connect	Four	2008	2014
	Two	2014
The Great British Sewing Bee	Two	2013	2019
	One	2020
The Great Interior Design Challenge	Two	2014
The Great Pottery Throw Down	Two	2015
The Met: Policing London	One	2015
Michael McIntyre's Big Show	One	25 December 2015
The Big Painting Challenge	Two	22 February 2015	29 March 2016
	One	12 February 2017	–
Insert Name Here	Two	4 January 2016
The NFL Show	One	13 September 2016
NFL This Week	Two	13 September 2016
Sounds Like Friday Night	One	27 October 2017
The Greatest Dancer	One	5 January 2019
Glow Up: Britain's Next Make-Up Star	Three	6 March 2019	–
Interior Design Masters	Two	14 August 2019	–
RuPaul's Drag Race UK	Three	3 October 2019	–
Little Mix: The Search	One	26 September 2020	7 November 2020
Pooch Perfect	One	7 January 2021	4 March 2021
Celebrity Best Home Cook	One	26 January 2021	17 February 2021
This is MY House	One	24 March 2021	29 April 2021
All That Glitters	Two	13 April 2021	–
	One	11 June 2021	11 July 2021

Daytime reality/unscripted[]

Show	Station	Showing
Escape to the Country	One	2002
	Two	2002 – 2012
Homes Under the Hammer	One	2003
Helicopter Heroes	One	2007
The Sheriffs Are Coming	One	2012

Gameshows[]

Show	Station	Showing
Bargain Hunt	One	2000–
The Weakest Link	Two	2000 – 2008, 2011 – 2012
	One	2000 – 2011, 2021
Flog It!	Two	2002 – 2012
	One	2013 – 2020
Eggheads	One	2003 – 2004
	Two	2005 - 2019
Pointless	Two	2009 – 2011
	One	2011–
Decimate	One	20 April 2015 – 2016
Think Tank	One	21 March 2016 – 2016
The Code	One	18 April 2016 – 2017
Debatable	Two	22 August 2016 – 2017
Impossible	One	2 January 2017
The Boss	One	24 April 2017
Letterbox	Two	17 July 2017
Hardball	One	April 2018
Chase the Case	One	17 September 2018
I'll Get This	Two	6 November 2018
Catchpoint	One	23 March 2019
The Hit List	One	25 May 2019–
Head Hunters	One	7 October 2019
The Wall	One	12 October 2019–
Take Off with Bradley & Holly	One	24 December 2019, 24 July 2021–present
Gordon Ramsay's Bank Balance	One	24 February 2021
I Can See Your Voice	One	10 April 2021–
Unbeatable	One	10 May 2021

Documentaries[]

Show	Station	Showing
Panorama	One	1953
Horizon	Two	1964
Natural World	Two	1967
Arena	Two	1975
Child of Our Time	One	2000
Imagine...	One	2003
This World	Two & World News	2004
Great British Railway Journeys	Two & Four	2010
Nature's Weirdest Events	Two	2012
The Met: Policing London	One	2015
Civilisations	Two	2018
Once Upon a Time in Iraq	Two	2020
Leigh-Anne: Race, Pop & Power	Three	2021
Life in Colour with David Attenborough	Two	2021[s]
9/11: Inside the President's War Room	One	2021[am]

News programmes[]

Show	Station	Showing	Notes
BBC News	One	1954
	News Channel	1997
Question Time	One	1979
Newsnight	Two	1980
BBC News at Six	One	1984
This Week	News Channel	2003–2019
Daily Politics	Two, One & News Channel	2003–2018
BBC News at One	One	1986
BBC News at Nine	One	1988 & 2020; 2000
	News Channel	2013–2015
	Two	2018
BBC World News	One, Two & News Channel	1997
World Business Report	One, Two & News Channel	1997
Sportday/Sport Today	One, Two, World News & News Channel	2003	Branded as either Sportday or Sport Today depending on simulcasting
BBC Breakfast	One	2000
	Two	2000–2006
BBC News at Ten	One	2000
The Andrew Marr Show	One	11 September 2005	Titled as Sunday AM 2005–2007
BBC News at Five	News Channel	2006
World News Today	Four, News Channel and World News	2006	Titled as World News Today with George Alagiah 2006–2010 & World News Today with Zeinab Badawi 2007–2014
Newsday	One, News Channel & World News	2011
Victoria Derbyshire	Two & News Channel	7 April 2015
BBC Newsroom Live	Two and News Channel	7 April 2015
GMT with George Alagiah	Two & World News	6 September 2010 – December 2011
BBC News with Katty Kay and Christian Fraser	Four, News Channel & World News	24 January 2017	Titled as: 100 Days until May 2017; 100 Days + until July 2017 & Beyond 100 Days until March 2020
Afternoon Live	News Channel	9 October 2017
The Briefing	One, News Channel & World News	30 October 2017
Context with Christian Fraser	News Channel & World News	05 January 2022
The Catch Up	Three	1 February 2022

For programmes which only air on the BBC World News Channel, see programming on BBC World News.

Upcoming[]

Comedy[]

• And Did Those Feet (BBC, 2022)^[1]
• Cash Carraway (BBC, 2022)^[2]
• Everything I Know About Love (BBC, 2022)^[2]
• Lethal (BBC Two, 2022)^[1]
• Superhoe (BBC Three, 2022)^[3][2]
• This is Going to Hurt (BBC Two, 2022)^[k][4][5][1]
• The Witchfinder (BBC Two, 2022)^[6][1]
• Alma's Not Normal (BBC Two)^[7]
• Please Help Me (BBC Three)^[8]
• The Lebanese Outpost (BBC One)^[9]

Documentary[]

• A Tabloid Empire (BBC Two)^[10]

Drama[]

• Conversations with Friends (BBC Three, 2021)^{[an][11][12][2]}
• Life After Life (BBC One, 2021)^[2]
• My Name is Leon (BBC, 2021)^[2]
• Ralph and Katie (BBC One, 2021)^[2]
• Red Rose (BBC Three, 2021)^{[s][13][14][2]}
• The Last Days of Marilyn Monroe (BBC, 2021)^[15][2]
• The Responders (BBC Two, 2021)^[3][2]
• The Three (BBC One, 2021)^[16][2]
• When It Happens to You (BBC One, 2021)^[17][2]
• Marie Antoinette (BBC, 2022)^[ao][18]
• Wahala (BBC, 2022)^[2]
• Chloe (BBC One)^{[g][19][2][3]}
• Hope Street (BBC)^[ai][20]
• The Spy Who Came In From The Co-Op (BBC)^[21]
• The English (BBC One)^[g][22]
• The Awkward Age (BBC)^[23]

Miniseries[]

• Best Interests (BBC One, 2022)^[24][2]
• Death Comes as the End (BBC One, 2022)^[25][2]
• Englistan (BBC Two, 2022)^[26][2]
• Inside Man (BBC One, 2022)^{[s][27][28][2]}
• Rogue Heroes (BBC One, 2022)^[29][2]
• Sherwood (BBC One, 2021)^[2]
• The Elephant Man (BBC One, 2022)^[30][2]
• The Following Events are Based on a Pack of Lies (BBC One, 2022)^[2]
• The Gallows Pole (BBC One, 2022)^[31][2]
• Great Expectations (BBC One)^[ae][32]
• The Spy Who Came in From the Cold (BBC)^[k][33]

One-off Drama[]

• But When We Dance (BBC One, 2021)^[2]
• My Name is Leon (BBC One, 2021)^[3][2]
• Independence Day? How Disabled Rights Were Won (BBC Two)^[34]

0–9[]

A[]

B[]

C[]

D[]

E[]

F[]

G[]

H[]

I[]

J[]

K[]

L[]

M[]

N[]

O[]

P[]

Q[]

R[]

S[]

T[]

U[]

• Unbeatable (BBC One 10 May 2021 – present)
• Uncle (BBC Three 13 January 2014 – 12 February 2017)
• Underground Ernie (BBC Two 2006 – 2009)
• United! (BBC One 1965 – 1967)
• Up Pompeii! (BBC One 1969 – 1975, ITV 1991)
• Up the Women (BBC Four 2013, BBC Two 2015)
• Upstairs, Downstairs (ITV 1971 – 1975, BBC One 2010 – 2012)

V[]

W[]

X[]

• X Change
• The X-Files

Y[]

Z[]

• Z-Cars (BBC One 1962 – 1978)
• Zen (BBC One 2011)
• Zoo Quest (BBC TV 1952 – 1963)

Events[]

BBC Sport[]

Current coverage

• Match of the Day: BBC Two 1964 – 1966, BBC One 1966 – present (Only on air for FA Cup weekends 1988 – 1992 & 2001 – 2004)
• Match of the Day 2: BBC Two 2004 – 2012, BBC One 2012 – present
• Football Focus: BBC One 1974 – present (part of Grandstand 1974 – 2001)
• Final Score: BBC One 1958 – present (part of Grandstand 1958 – 2001)
• The Premier League Show: BBC Two 2016 – present
• FIFA World Cup: BBC One 1962 – present (shared with ITV Sport)
• UEFA European Championship: BBC One 1960 – present (shared with ITV Sport)
• FIFA Club World Cup: 2005, 2012, 2019 – present
• FA Cup: BBC One/TV 1937 – 1996, 2002 – 2008 & 2014 – present (shared with BT Sport)
• Test Match Special: BBC Radio 1957 – present
• 6 Nations Rugby: BBC One 2000 – present (shared with ITV Sport 2016 – present)
• Summer & Winter Olympic Games: BBC One & Two 1948 – present
• Ski Sunday: BBC Two 1978 – present
• Wimbledon Championships: BBC TV/BBC One 1937 – present, BBC Two 1964 – present
• Today at Wimbledon: BBC Two 1993 – 2014 & 2016 – present (replaced by Wimbledon 2Day in 2015)
• PDC Champions League of Darts: BBC One & BBC Two 2016 – present
• World Snooker Championship: BBC One & BBC Two 1977 – present
• London Marathon: BBC One 1981 – present
• Great North Run: BBC One 1981 – present
• The Open Championship: BBC One & Two 1955 – present (live coverage 1955 – 2015, highlights 2016 – present)
• Rugby League Challenge Cup: BBC One & Two 1948 – present
• Rugby League World Cup: BBC One & Two 1960 – present (live coverage 1960 – 2000 & 2013 – present, highlights only 2008)
• The Boat Race: BBC TV/One 1938 – 2004 & 2010 – present (ITV covered the Boat Race from 2005 – 2009)
• Super Bowl (BBC One Two 2007 – 2013 & 2016 – present)
• Rugby Special: BBC Two 1966 – 2005 & 2016 – present
• England Test Match, ODI & T20 International Highlights: 2020 – present
• 2 England Men's T20 Internationals & 2 England Women's T20 International: 2020 – present
• 10 matches from men's City based T20 competition & 8 matches from women's City based T20 competition: 2020 – present
• ATP World Tour Finals – BBC Two 2009 – present
• FIFA Women's World Cup – BBC One/Two 2007 – present
• UEFA Women's Championship (excludes 2017)

Past coverage

• Live England Test Cricket: BBC TV 1938 – 1998
• Football League/League Cup Show: BBC One 2009 – 2015 (rights transferred to Channel 5)
• Grandstand: BBC One 1958 – 2007, BBC Two 1981 – 2007
• Sportsnight: BBC One 1968 – 1997
• BDO World Darts Championship: BBC One & BBC Two 1978 – 2016
• The Grand National: BBC One 1960 – 2012, BBC Radio 1948 – present (rights transferred to Channel 4)
• Grand Prix: BBC One & BBC Two 1976 – 1996 (Rebroadcast between 2009 – 2015 on BBC Red Button and BBC iPlayer)
• Formula 1: BBC One & BBC Two 1976 – 1996 & 2009 – 2015 (rights transferred to Channel 4)

See also[]

• List of programs broadcast by BBC America
• List of programs broadcast by BBC Canada
• BBC television drama
• List of television programmes
  • List of animated television series
  • List of British TV shows remade for the American market
  • List of BBC children's television programmes
  • List of BBC sitcoms
  • List of comedy television series
  • List of international game shows
  • List of science fiction television programs
  • List of television spin-offs

Notes[]

References[]

External links[]

• BBC programmes