Best Sky TV Series to Watch in the UK

Absolutely Fabulous

Edina, a career-minded woman with chronic alcoholism, drives her daughter Saffron crazy after Patsy, her best friend and drug addict, enters their lives.

All Her Fault

When her son vanishes after a play date at the park, a mother is thrust into a desperate search to uncover the truth behind his disappearance.

Ally McBeal

Young lawyer Ally McBeal experiences emotional turmoil when she takes a job at a firm where her childhood sweetheart and first love also works.

Ashes to Ashes

DCI Hunt has left Manchester to take on the 'southern nancys' of London where he once again acquires a time-travelling sidekick - this time with DI Drake.

Avenue 5

What happens when a luxury cruise ship traveling through space gets bumped off course, delaying an eight-week journey by roughly three years?

Black Books

Bernard Black is a hard-drinking, chain-smoking bookstore owner who dislikes customers and has trouble parting with his beloved books.

Blackadder

Edmund Blackadder and his greasy sidekick Baldrick conjure up cunning plans as Edmund tries to take advantage of desperate times.

The Blacklist

A new FBI profiler has her entire life uprooted when a mysterious criminal who has eluded capture for decades, turns himself in and insists on speaking only to her.

Bones

F.B.I. Special Agent Booth teams up with the Jeffersonian's top anthropologist, Dr. Brennan, to investigate cases where all that's left of the victims are their bones.

Bottom

The lives of Richard Richard and Edward Elizabeth Hitler, two crude, perverted flatmates with no hope of fitting in with society.

Chernobyl

In April 1986, an explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics becomes one of the world's worst man-made catastrophes.

Chewing Gum

The virginal Tracey, who was raised in a strictly religious Tower Hamlets flat, is ready to realise her potential. And the first step is having sex.

Derry Girls

Amidst the political conflict of Northern Ireland in the 1990s, five spirited students contend with the universal challenges of being a teenager.

Desmond's

Desmond Ambrose runs a barber shop in Peckham, south-east London, called Desmond's - and his shop is the hub for the community's social scene.

Dexter

A forensic expert lives a double life as a vigilante-serial killer who murders wrongdoers who've escaped justice.

Extras

Andy was bitten by the acting bug late in life, but can't seem to make a name for himself, despite his best efforts to steal a line, milk a scene or schmooze with the crew.

Father Ted

Three misfit priests and their housekeeper live on Craggy Island, not the peaceful and quiet part of Ireland that it seems to be.

Fawlty Towers

Owner Basil Fawlty, his wife Sybil, a chambermaid Polly, and Spanish waiter Manuel attempt to run their hotel amidst farcical situations and an array of demanding guests.

Frasier

After many years spent at the “Cheers” bar, Frasier moves back home to Seattle to work as a radio psychiatrist after his policeman father gets shot in the hip on duty.

Friday Night Dinner

Adam and Jonny, two siblings belonging to an eccentric family, join their parents for a peaceful dinner every Friday night. However, things always turn chaotic.

Gangs of London

When crime lord Finn Wallace is shot dead under mysterious circumstances, the delicate network of alliances holding London’s underworld together threatens to shake apart.

The Good Doctor

Shaun Murphy, a young surgeon with autism and Savant syndrome, is recruited into the surgical unit of a prestigious hospital.

The Great

A young Catherine the Great comes to Russia to get married to Peter III of Russia but finds herself embroiled in a world of dogmatic beliefs and customs, which she tries to alter.

Grimm

A homicide detective discovers he is a descendant of hunters who fight supernatural forces.