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Best BBC shows: All the best dramas on BBC iPlayer
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Crime drama following a detective investigating a death on a nuclear submarine - while the vessel remains on active duty. Starring Suranne Jones and Rose Leslie.
Crime thriller based on Mo Hayder's novels about DI Jack Caffery, starring Ukweli Roach and Juliet Stevenson.
Rural Scottish drama roughly based on Compton McKenzie's Highland novels. It stars Alastair Mackenzie as Archie MacDonald, a budding restaurateur in London.
Crime drama inspired by the true story of the 1983 Brink's-Mat gold robbery, following both the police investigation and criminals involved. Starring Hugh Bonneville
An inspirational teacher is courted by a student, triggering a complex criminal case. A sinister real-life story starring Timothy Spall and Anne Reid.
A couple are driven apart over the decision whether to stop care for their daughter's deteriorating health in a poignant drama starring Sharon Horgan and Michael Sheen.
Psychological crime drama starring Idris Elba as DCI John Luther, who doesn't always stick to the letter of the law as he employs his maverick skills to hunt down twisted killers.
Epic fantasy adventure based on Phillip Pullman's acclaimed novels, with Dafne Keen as heroic protagonist Lyra.
Dory's college acquaintance Chantal goes missing and she makes it her personal mission to find her in a black comedy starring Alia Shawkat.
Student Pip Fitz-Amobi investigates a five-year-old murder-suicide case and gets more than she bargained for. Crime drama, starring Emma Myers, Zain Iqbal and Asha Banks
Max Liebermann, a medical student and protegé of Sigmund Freud, helps Detective Reinhardt in the investigation of a series of disturbing murders around 1900s Vienna.
Psychological thriller with Gillian Anderson. When a London-based female detective works on a murder case in Belfast, she becomes convinced there is a serial killer on the loose.
Shane Meadows's first period drama, about a little-known 18th Century criminal mastermind. The cast includes established and first-time actors.
Revival of the US drama centring on a new generation of teenagers at a New York private school whose lives are dominated by social media. Starring Blake Lively and Leighton Meester
Editor Susan Ryeland gets drawn into a web of intrigue and murder when she receives Alan Conway's unfinished manuscript of an Atticus Pünd mystery.
Five talented black teenagers receive scholarships to a prestigious boarding school only to discover they're only there to improve the school's image after a problematic scandal. Comedy series starring Derek Riddell and Harry Gilby
Comedy drama, starring Stephen Merchant, Rhianne Barreto, Darren Boyd and Gamba Cole
When a murder occurs in an ex-mining town, DCS Ian St Clair is called to investigate. Drama starring David Morrissey.
Anthony Bryan and his personal struggle to be accepted as a British Citizen during the Windrush immigration scandal.
Anna Torv and Sam Reid star in the Australian 1980s-set drama about the unlikely bond between a young TV reporter and a female newsreader.
Follow two childhood best friends as they dive deep into bad dates, heartaches and humiliations.
An unknown assailant begins tormenting a disparate group of teen girls. Mystery drama, starring Bailee Madison, Chandler Kinney, Zaria and Malia Pyles
Fantasy horror starring Iain De Caestecker as Paul, a teenager haunted by apocalyptic dreams that neither his therapist nor his best friend Mac (Daniel Kaluuya) can provide answers for.
Period gangster drama with Cillian Murphy and Sam Neill about a family from Birmingham running a feared crime ring, making money from illegal betting, protection and the black market.
