Articles about BBC iPlayer
Strike six
Tom Burke and Holliday Grainger return as private detective duo Cormoran Strike and Robin Ellacott for Strike – The Ink Black Heart, the sixth edition of the BBC drama based on the crime novels by JK Rowling. The stars come together to reveal why this story could be their toughest case yet.
BBC books Barcelona break with The Split
TRAILER: Take a trip with The Split: Barcelona, the eagerly anticipated follow-up to the BBC One series, which will launch on December 29.
BBC books trip to The Island
FIRST LOOK: Sorcha Groundsell leads the cast of An t-Eilean (The Island), the first ever high-end Gaelic drama series, coming to the BBC in early 2025.
BBC crowns King & Conqueror in 2025
FIRST LOOK: James Norton and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau star in King & Conqueror, a historical epic retelling the relationships and conflicts that led to the Battle of Hastings, coming to BBC One and BBC iPlayer in 2025.
Virdee on the case for BBC One
FIRST LOOK: Staz Nair is Harry Virdee, the detective at the heart of the BBC’s latest crime drama Virdee, based on the novels by AA Dhand.
BBC, Masterpiece meet Miss Austen
FIRST LOOK: Keeley Hawes and Rose Leslie star in Miss Austen, a four-part drama that will air on the BBC and Masterpiece in the US in 2025 to mark 250 years since Jane Austen’s birth.
BBC reveals new Wolf Hall opening scenes
FIRST LOOK: Watch the opening scenes from Wolf Hall: The Mirror & The Light now ahead of the show’s debut on BBC One and BBC iPlayer this Sunday.
Don Gilet finds Death in Paradise
FIRST LOOK: Sherwood and EastEnders star Don Gilet takes the lead in Death in Paradise, and will make his debut in a feature-length Christmas special later this year.
BBC preps Call the Midwife Xmas double
FIRST LOOK: Call the Midwife will return to the BBC this Christmas with, for the first time, a two-part festive story.
Wolf Hall sequel sets launch date
TRAILER: Mark Rylance and Damian Lewis reunite for Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light, which will debut on the BBC on November 10 before launching next year in the US on Masterpiece PBS.
BBC, TG4 partner for crime drama Crá
TRAILER: Dónall Ó Héalai, Alex Murphy and Hannah Brady lead the cast of Irish-language drama Crá, which will launch on the BBC and TG4 this November.
The Split to reappear on BBC One
FIRST LOOK: Legal drama The Split returns to the BBC for a two-part special titled The Split: Barcelona, picking up the story two years after the series originally ended in 2022.
BBC One sets a date with Mr Loverman
TRAILER: Lennie James stars in Mr Loverman, an eight-part adaptation of Bernardine Evaristo’s novel launching on BBC One and iPlayer on Monday, October 14.
BBC reunites SAS Rogue Heroes
FIRST LOOK: Jack O’Connell, Connor Swindells, Sofia Boutella and Dominic West reunite for the second season SAS Rogue Heroes, coming soon to BBC One and BBC iPlayer.
BBC, Virgin partner for Dead & Buried
FIRST LOOK: Annabel Scholey and Colin Morgan star in psychological drama Dead & Buried, coming soon to the BBC and Virgin Media Television in Ireland.
BBC heads to The Jetty
FIRST LOOK: Here are new photos of Jenna Coleman in four-part mystery thriller The Jetty, coming soon to BBC One and BBC iPlayer.
BBC heads back to Sherwood
FIRST LOOK: David Morrissey, Monica Dolan, David Harewood, Lorraine Ashbourne and Robert Lindsay star in season two of BBC drama Sherwood, continuing James Graham’s series about community and modern-day Britain.
BBC, Britbox head Towards Zero
Anjelica Houston, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Ella Lily Hyland and Mimi Keene head an ensemble cast for Towards Zero, the BBC’s latest Agatha Christie adaptation made in partnership with Britbox International.
BBC looks up A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder
TRAILER: Here’s the trailer for A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder, a six-part series based on Holly Jackson’s novel of the same name. It debuts in the UK on BBC Three and BBC iPlayer in July.
Dope Girls head to BBC One
FIRST LOOK: Julianne Nicholson and Eliza Scanlen travel back to 1918 Soho for Dope Girls, a BBC series set in the world of illicit underground nightclubs.