Best British romance series

Teens Charlie and Nick discover their unlikely friendship might be something more as they navigate school and young love in this coming-of-age series.

Marianne and Connell weave in and out of each other's lives in this exploration of sex, power and the desire to love and be loved.

Closet witch Diana Bishop and centuries-old vampire Matthew Clairmont are drawn into a deadly mystery and forbidden romance when a magical book shows up in an Oxford library.

After spending graduation night together, Emma and Dexter go their separate ways — but their lives remain intertwined.

The story of Queen Victoria, who came to the throne at a time of great economic turbulence and resurgent republicanism – and died 64 years later the head of the largest empire the world had ever seen, having revitalised the throne’s public image and become “grandmother of Europe”.

Britain is in the grip of a chilling recession... falling wages, rising prices, civil unrest - only the bankers are smiling. It's 1783 and Ross Poldark returns from the American War of Independence to his beloved Cornwall to find his world in ruins: his father dead, the family mine long since closed, his house wrecked and his sweetheart pledged to marry his cousin. But Ross finds that hope and love can be found when you are least expecting it in the wild but beautiful Cornish landscape.

Recovering addict and comedian Mae tries to control the addictive behaviors and intense romanticism that permeate every facet of their life. Life is further complicated by a new and all-consuming relationship with their new girlfriend George.

Margaret Hale is a southerner from a country vicarage newly settled in the industrial northern town of Milton. In the shock of her move, she misjudges charismatic cotton mill-owner John Thornton, whose strength of purpose and passion are a match for her own pride and willfulness. When the workers of Milton call a strike, Margaret takes their side, and the two are brought into deeper conflict. As events spiral out of control, Margaret - to her surprise - begins to fall in love with Thornton...

In 1935, financially strapped widow Louisa Durrell, whose life has fallen apart, decides to move from England, with her four children (three sons, one daughter), to the island of Corfu, Greece. Once there, the family moves into a dilapidated old house that has no electricity and that is crumbling apart. But life on Corfu is cheap, it's an earthly paradise, and the Durrells proceed to forge their new existence, with all its challenges, adventures, and forming relationships.

Emma Woodhouse is a congenial young lady who delights in meddling in other people’s affairs. She is perpetually trying to unite men and women who are utterly wrong for each other. Despite her interest in romance, Emma is clueless about her own feelings, and her relationship with gentle Mr. Knightley.

A drunken New Year's Eve hook-up becomes far more complicated for Jessie when she discovers her one night stand is actually a film star.

A tale of secrets and scandals set in 1840s London. When the Trenchards accept an invitation to the now legendary ball hosted by the Duchess of Richmond on the fateful evening of the Battle of Waterloo, it sets in motion a series of events that will have consequences for decades to come as secrets unravel behind the porticoed doors of London’s grandest postcode.

Sitcom about 20-something Don, a man with bad luck and even worse instincts. Don's overactive imagination is always in full flow in the form of quick-fire fantasy sequences as he imagines what he would really like to say.

The story of a love triangle between a conservative English aristocrat, his mean socialite wife and a young suffragette in the midst of World War I and a Europe on the brink of profound change.

Adaptation of PD James's bestselling homage to Pride and Prejudice. Elizabeth and Darcy, now six years married, are preparing for their annual ball when festivities are brought to an abrupt halt.

Marianne Dashwood wears her heart on her sleeve when she falls in love with the charming but unsuitable John Willoughby, ignoring her sister Elinor's warning that her impulsive behavior leaves her open to gossip and innuendo. Elinor, sensitive to social convention, struggles to conceal her own romantic disappointment, even from those closest to her. Will the sisters learn that sense must mix with sensibility if they are to find personal happiness in a society where status and money govern the rules of love?

When a heartbroken New Yorker moves to London hoping for a love story, she falls for an indie musician who's anything but the typical romantic hero.

Celia and Alan are both widowed and in their seventies. When their respective grandsons put their details on Facebook, they rediscover a passionate relationship that started over sixty years ago.

Sex, lies and true love in modern Scotland. Following the lives and loves of a group of twenty-something lesbians living in Glasgow.

Longing for love, obsessed with sex, Linda is on the hunt for the perfect lover. But finding Mr. Right is much harder than she thought.

Set in 1936, the show takes viewers, old and new, back to the lavish world of Belgravia, London. A new set of occupants reside at 165 Eaton Place and viewers see how external and internal influences of the tumultuous pre-war period shape and mould the lives of this wealthy family and their servants.‬

Castle Dux, Bohemia, 1798. Casanova, now a penniless librarian in his seventies, tells Edith, a young kitchen maid in the castle, his remarkable life story, and about falling in love with Henriette.

Charles Ryder, an agnostic man, becomes involved with members of the Flytes, a Catholic family of aristocrats, over the course of several years between the two world wars.

The story of Tess Durbeyfield, a low-born country girl whose family find they have noble connections.

Interactive dating experiment in which real dates are filmed, and then viewers get the chance to apply to date the unsuccessful participants the following week.

A group of old friends reunited at a funeral make a drunken pact. Rather than let each other suffer a slow and painful decline they would engineer a dignified death. But what starts out as a fanciful idea soon morphs into shocking reality.

Gemma Jones balances her love life and motherhood.

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is a 1996 British television serial adaptation of Anne Brontë's novel of the same name, produced by BBC and directed by Mike Barker. The serial stars Tara FitzGerald as Helen Graham, Rupert Graves as her abusive husband Arthur Huntington and Toby Stephens as Gilbert Markham.

A former tennis prodigy makes an explosive allegation against her former coach. After the allegation, everyone is forced to reconsider what they thought they knew about their past success.

Be sure to catch this brilliant comedy show starring the brilliant pop group S Club, one of the most successful pop groups around. The show is all about the normal and ab-normal goings on with talented group of friends trying to be famous.

Lucy Worsley delves into the history of romance to uncover the forces shaping our very British happily ever after and how our feelings have been affected by social, political and cultural ideas.

Friday night. 7pm. Film Club Week 198. Evie hasn't left the house in six months after a 'wobble', and Film Club is her escape. A weekly chance to create a world of wonder, deck the garage out in whatever the movie calls for and spend a few uninterrupted hours with Noa - her best friend and one of the few mates who still shows up. But tonight, things are different. Noa's got big news. A dream job is taking him across the other side of the country, which means that all of this is ending.

Single celebrities join an exclusive dating agency in a bid to find true love. Matchmakers pair them with non-celebrity partners and the cameras capture every romantic and cringe-filled moment.

It may seem like an impossible feat to track down The One That Got Away, but in this time-traveling, experimental dating series hosted by Betty Who, six lucky Singles searching for their soulmate are given the chance to explore a lifetime of missed connections. One by one, people from our Singles’ past enter through The Portal to surprise them and take their shot at finding true love.

Former Special Forces soldier Ant Middleton invites pop star Liam Payne to take part in the journey - and interview - of a lifetime in Namibia.

A dating show with a difference for the whole family, My Mum, Your Dad follows a group of single parents who have been nominated by their grown-up kids for a second chance at love. Across 10 hour-long episodes, audiences will be able to follow the single parents, from all over the UK, and all walks of life, as they live together at a stunning country house retreat with one objective: to find true love.

Based in Jacksonville, Oregon in the year 1992, life changes for the worst. People start going crazy, violent, cannibalistic, tearing the world apart. We follow Erin, a quiet young teenager through a post-apocalyptic world. Facing struggles not even your worst enemy should face. Mystery and menace have taken control of their lives. From getting ripped apart, broken down, hurt and scared. Erin and Jacob always find their way back to each other.

The reality game show that throws down the ultimate gaydar gauntlet, with money at stake for the man who can 'play it straight'.

The winners of Love Island 2018 are back and this time they're in the real world. Join Jack and Dani as they move in together, get a puppy and visit the Far East. Will the pressures of having a relationship under the microscope prove too much?

Can you find the perfect match by only meeting their parents? Meet the Parents is brand new dating show for ITV. Single guys and girls are paired up with the help of the people who know them best - their parents. From love lives and ex'es to school reports and awkward teenage antics, nothing is off limits. Presented by Holly Willoughby, Meet the Parents is dating like you've never seen it before!

A British children's musical television comedy programme aimed at and mostly about teenagers, which aired in 2004. It was set at an esteemed performing arts college near Barcelona, Spain, and focuses on 13 teenagers who are invited to enrol at the college, Avalon Heights, over the summer. All eight members of the pop group S Club 8 star in the show alongside five other young actors and actresses and Hollywood film actor Christopher Lloyd. The show has the members of S Club 8 playing supposedly exaggerated versions of themselves, albeit with identical names to their real life counterparts. Each episode of the show includes several songs and dance numbers involving both members and non-members of the band. Cast member George Wood called the show "a modern day Fame".

Eight rural singles from across the UK enlist the help of farmer's daughter Sara Cox as they take the bull by the horns in a mission to find true love. Can cupid work his magic?

Ten-part series in which former couples meet up for dinner and have to answer three brutally honest questions about where their relationship went wrong. Is this going to be super-awkward or is there still a spark?

A dating series that sees a group of bisexual+ (bi, pansexual, fluid, etc.) or questioning British singletons sent on the ultimate adventure to find love.

The Men's Room is a British television drama miniseries that was produced by the BBC and originally aired in 1991. The series, which comprises five 50-minute episodes, was adapted by Laura Lamson from Ann Oakley's 1989 novel of the same name and stars Bill Nighy, Harriet Walter, Amanda Redman, Charlotte Cornwell and James Aubrey. A black comedy and period piece set during the Thatcher years, it tells the story of an affair between two academics, previously devoted wife and mother Charity Walton (Walter) and serial womanizer Mark Carleton (Nighy)

Eight couples whose relationships have reached breaking point are whisked off to a tropical Mexican resort, where they will find out whether their current squeezes are really right for them. Expert-led behaviour workshops, challenges, and sex therapy sessions aim to give each participant a deeper understanding of themselves, and each other. However, on arriving at the resort, each couple's relationship is put "on a break", and they are forced to swap partners every 48 hours, meaning the temptation to play away might prove too much for some.

Story from the late eighties about a woman (Judy Loe), trying to decide whether to stay with her current partner, or to rekindle the relationship with her ex husband (Paul Freeman). This comes about because their son is leaving school and has to decide what he's going to do with his life. His father (Freeman) thinks he should go to university, so inevitably, communication lines are opened. The mother (Loe) starts to examine her life and compare her partner, the slightly scruffy owner of a small, country garage, with her ex, a suit wearing, Porsche driving engineer in the aerospace industry.

Sarah Lancashire reprises her oft-repeated role as the put-upon mother in ITV's two-part adaptation of DH Lawrence's novel.

This show is about a couple broken and cheated Welsh families that decide in order to live they need to drive their cattle beasts to London for the best price. Unfortunately, there's the evil landholder that wants to kick everyone out of the valley and see the good families starve and go to workhouses. His conniving treachery enables several issues to arise while the fellas and a few more travellers in their party attempt to persevere. Talk about cattle plague and cholera outbreaks, punishment for driving cattle on a Sunday, and other interesting issues are just a fraction of what six episodes will bring you. Adventure, horses, and a young Ray Stevens without a shirt on.

When Rose (Theresa Russell) signs up for a photography course taught by married lecturer Paul (Sean Bean), she finds herself beginning a relationship which goes against all of her better principles.

Strangers pair up for a first dinner date as the show visits Australia, Ireland and Canada.

They are the kings and queens of the party. They rule the resort. Everyone wants to hang-out with them and everyone wants to be them. But what makes a truly successful club rep? In a bid to find out, this raucous but intimate series pits two teams of club reps against each other – but are they ready to take over a party destination for the summer of their lives? Packed with outrageous characters, hilarious nights out, explosive moments and sizzling summer flings, Club Rep Wars is a sun-kissed popularity contest between two tribes.

Love Song is a dating show in which singletons take to the stage and belt out a couple of numbers in the hope that the power of song will help them find their singing soulmate.

Greg and Marie have been married for nineteen years, when, seemingly out of the blue, Marie walks out on him and her three children - the last taboo of parenting.

They say home is where the heart is but what does yours reveal about you? And can it open the door to true love? Back to Mine is a dating show which dares to let intrepid singletons hunt for a potential partner by rifling through their home before they've even met. One single hopeful gets the chance to snoop around three homes, detecting clues about the owners' habits, personality and interests in order to choose one to invite on a date. But then the tables turn when their chosen match gets to look around their home to decide whether to accept the date or stand them up. Does the home hold the key to true love?

Rhys Ifans and Sophie Kennedy Clark star in Turner Prize-nominated visual artist Jake Chapman's hypnotic drama, which offers a playful twist on the paperback romance novel.

Didi and Ren are two ex-child prodigies who have been together since they were children. Now in their early 30s, they are starting to question whether their very ordinary existence is living up to the extraordinary promise of their childhood. Inevitably, they find themselves asking the same questions of their relationship. As individual hopes and needs feed into and conflict with their shared lives, the series challenges the fallacy at the heart of romantic storytelling — that the tale is over when the heroes get together. In life, surely, that is just the beginning?

Single celebrities look for love with the added challenges of video vetting matches and trying to find that spark on socially-distanced dates.