Good British tv shows

A team of dedicated detectives investigate gruesome murders across London.

The discovery of the mutilated body of a young woman seems to echo that of the notorious unsolved Los Angeles 'Black Dahlia' murder of the 1940s.

The daughter of a country doctor copes with an unwanted stepmother, an impetuous stepsister, burdensome secrets, the town gossips, and the tug on her own heartstrings for a man who thinks of her only as a friend.

The orphan Pip becomes a gentleman when his life is transformed by a mystery benefactor.

A behind-the-scenes drama and espionage thriller in Cold War-era England that centers on a journalist, a producer, and an anchorman for an investigative news programme.

Centers on the real-life story of the flamboyant and visionary American founder of Selfridge's, London's department store.

Chronicles the lives of a group of midwives living in East London in the late 1950s to late 1960s.

A new family and their servants live at the London townhouse at 165 Eaton Place in 1936.

18th-century England and Ireland viewed through the eyes of four beautiful high-born sisters - Caroline, Emily, Louisa, and Sarah Lennox, great-granddaughters of a king, daughters of a cabinet minister, and wives of politicians and peers.

Freddie Thornhill (Sir Ian McKellen) and Stuart Bixby (Sir Derek Jacobi) are an old gay couple who have been together for nearly fifty years. Their lives now revolve around entertaining their frequent guests and hurling insults at each other at every opportunity.

A fast-tracked inspector, a hardened detective sergeant, and an expert in historical homicides investigate modern crimes with connections to the past in the Whitechapel district of London.

A seemingly cold but very passionate policewoman goes head to head with a father, who is in fact a serial killer, in this procedural out of Belfast. The only thing they share is their common complexity.

Drama series about life at the Bar, the dilemmas and problems that modern day barristers have to face, and what it means to become a silk.

The trials and tribulations of Martin Ellingham, a brilliant but socially challenged doctor who moves from London to the picturesque village of Port Wenn in Cornwall.

In 1952, four women who worked at the wartime code-breaking centre, Bletchley Park, reunite to track down a serial killer.

The murder of a young boy in a small coastal town brings a media frenzy, which threatens to tear the community apart.

Divorced single mom Mildred Pierce decides to open a restaurant business, which tears at the already-strained relationship with her ambitious elder daughter, Veda.

Former soldier and policeman Jackson Brodie becomes a private investigator.

At a posh urban hotel, the love lives and whims of its wealthy guests are attended to by hard-working staff who have their own troubles with love.

The world's largest ship, the R.M.S. Titanic, meets with disaster when she strikes an iceberg on her maiden voyage.

Amanda, an ardent Jane Austen fan, lives in present day London with her boyfriend Michael, until she finds she's swapped places with Austen's fictional creation Elizabeth Bennet.

The story of a major road accident and a group of people who have never met, but who all share one single defining moment that will change their lives.

Tony and Emily Hughes' vacation turns into a nightmare when their 5-year-old son Oliver disappears from a large celebrating crowd in Northern France.

In an alternate history, during the time of real life Napoleonic Wars, two men of destiny, the gifted recluse Mr. Norrell and daring spellcasting novice Jonathan Strange, use magic to help England.

P.G. Wodehouse's beloved Blandings Castle stories follow the foibles of an eccentric aristocrat, his peculiar family, and the ramshackle ancestral home they share.