Crime drama Luther makes a thrilling return on New Year’s Day.
Opening with protagonist DCI John Luther tied to a chair, having been tasered and tortured, the detective must quickly recover to bring a psycho-sexual killer to justice.
A comedic dramatisation of the novel by Sue Townsend, The Queen and I is set in the early 1990s and imagines Britain as a republican state.
Newly-elected republican prime minister Jack Barker (David Walliams) dethrones The Queen (Samantha Bond) and removes the royals' titles and wealth.
Based on the novel by Richard Adams of the same name, Watership Down is a joint Netflix and BBC production.
A coming-of-age sitcom written by Lisa McGee, Derry Girls aired back in January on Channel 4.
A one-off dramatic reconstruction of the kidnapping of a young woman from the streets of London.
Ana (Anca Dumitra) is abducted by a Romanian crime gang and trafficked to Ireland to be forced to become a sex slave.
Following the departures of host Matt LeBlanc and co-presenter Rory Reid after the next series, McGuinness and Flintoff will join Chris Harris in a new all-British line-up of Top Gear.
Sabine Schmitz will remain in the Top Gear family with Reid continuing to host Top Gear spin-off Extra Gear on BBC Two.
The announcement took place near the River Thames in London as a photocall, as the new line-up was joined by the real stars of the show: a blue Porsche 911 GT2RS and a red Aston Martin DSB Superleggera.
The three-month experiment returns for a second series, with a new host of frantic pre-schoolers integrating with senior citizens at a retirement village in Nottingham.
The programme is not the first all-female special to air on television, as Celebrity Big Brother and 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown made similar tributes in 2018 featuring all-female line ups to commemorate a century of women’s suffrage.
Wildlife biologist Liz Bonnin discovers the growing dangers of plastic polluting the world’s oceans in this one-off special.
