Top 10 Best British TV Shows

Phoebe Waller-Bridge's two-season gut-punch redefined modern comedy with its fourth-wall-breaking honesty, culminating in a second season so emotionally devastating that the hot priest became a genuine cultural obsession worldwide.

Charlie Brooker's dystopian anthology series about technology's dark side became the defining show of the smartphone era, with episodes like "White Bear" and "San Junipero" entering the lexicon as shorthand for our uneasy relationship with progress.

Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman's modern retelling turned Arthur Conan Doyle's detective into a global phenomenon, with its feature-length episodes delivering cinematic thrills that made 90-minute BBC specials feel like blockbuster events.

The longest-running science fiction show in the world has regenerated across six decades and fifteen Doctors, embedding itself so deeply into British culture that the TARDIS sound is recognized by virtually every person in the country.

Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant's mockumentary about the Slough branch of a paper company invented cringe comedy as a genre and spawned adaptations in over a dozen countries, with the American version alone generating billions in streaming revenue.

Craig Mazin's five-part HBO/Sky co-production about the 1986 nuclear disaster became the highest-rated series on IMDb upon release, with its meticulous recreation of Soviet bureaucratic horror earning universal acclaim as one of the finest miniseries ever made.

Julian Fellowes's Edwardian-era ensemble drama about the Crawley family and their servants became a global cultural event watched in over 200 territories, single-handedly reviving the period drama genre and spawning two feature films.

Jed Mercurio's police anti-corruption thriller had the entire United Kingdom obsessed with the identity of "H" across six seasons, with its interrogation scenes delivering some of the most tense and brilliantly scripted dialogue in British television history.

The nine-season first-person POV sitcom about the pathetic lives of Mark and Jez is the most uncomfortably hilarious show in British comedy history, using its unique camera perspective to trap viewers inside the minds of two deeply inadequate men.

Phoebe Waller-Bridge's two-season gut-punch redefined modern comedy with its fourth-wall-breaking honesty, culminating in a second season so emotionally devastating that the hot priest became a genuine cultural obsession worldwide.

Charlie Brooker's dystopian anthology series about technology's dark side became the defining show of the smartphone era, with episodes like "White Bear" and "San Junipero" entering the lexicon as shorthand for our uneasy relationship with progress.

Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman's modern retelling turned Arthur Conan Doyle's detective into a global phenomenon, with its feature-length episodes delivering cinematic thrills that made 90-minute BBC specials feel like blockbuster events.

The longest-running science fiction show in the world has regenerated across six decades and fifteen Doctors, embedding itself so deeply into British culture that the TARDIS sound is recognized by virtually every person in the country.

Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant's mockumentary about the Slough branch of a paper company invented cringe comedy as a genre and spawned adaptations in over a dozen countries, with the American version alone generating billions in streaming revenue.

Craig Mazin's five-part HBO/Sky co-production about the 1986 nuclear disaster became the highest-rated series on IMDb upon release, with its meticulous recreation of Soviet bureaucratic horror earning universal acclaim as one of the finest miniseries ever made.

Julian Fellowes's Edwardian-era ensemble drama about the Crawley family and their servants became a global cultural event watched in over 200 territories, single-handedly reviving the period drama genre and spawning two feature films.

Jed Mercurio's police anti-corruption thriller had the entire United Kingdom obsessed with the identity of "H" across six seasons, with its interrogation scenes delivering some of the most tense and brilliantly scripted dialogue in British television history.

The nine-season first-person POV sitcom about the pathetic lives of Mark and Jez is the most uncomfortably hilarious show in British comedy history, using its unique camera perspective to trap viewers inside the minds of two deeply inadequate men.