Drama

Hollyoaks

22 Episodes

Compelling teenage soap based in Chester. Since 1995, a multitude of beautiful people have been learning the hard way how to deal with the ugly twists of adolescent life...

Desperate Housewives

4 Episodes

Dark comedy drama exploring the complicated reality behind the apparent domestic bliss of a group of housewives in a fictitious American suburb

One Tree Hill

4 Episodes

Love, life and basketball in Tree Hill, a small town in North Carolina that sees far more than its fair share of teen drama

90210

4 Episodes

Prepare to revisit the hottest postcode in the USA. The kids from West Beverly High might be rich and privileged, but they've always got some drama going on...

The Good Wife

5 Episodes

Drama starring Julianna Margulies as Alicia Florrick, a politician's wife who has to transform herself into a career woman when a scandal surrounding her husband turns her life upside down

The Killing

5 Episodes

The investigation into Rosie Larsen's murder continues in Series 2 of the intense US crime drama. As detective Sarah Linden gets closer to the truth, explosive secrets are revealed...

St Elsewhere

6 Series, 137 Episodes

A medical drama made by the Hill Street Blues team set in St Eligius, an understaffed and overburdened Boston teaching hospital, nicknamed St Elsewhere

Hollyoaks: Omnibus

4 Episodes

Compelling teenage soap based in Chester. Since 1995, a multitude of beautiful people have been learning the hard way how to deal with the ugly twists of adolescent life...

Shameless

10 Series, 118 Episodes

Paul Abbott's critically acclaimed, offbeat drama about the rollercoaster lives and loves of the dysfunctional Gallagher clan

Homeland

1 Episode

Compelling US thriller starring Claire Danes and Damian Lewis. An American soldier left for dead in Iraq is rescued after years in captivity - but can the returning hero's story be trusted?

Double Lesson

1 Episode

The fictional story of a secondary school teacher who, one Monday afternoon, attacks a pupil in his class

Honeymoon

1 Episode

A woman sets off on her honeymoon, but troubling events over the course of one night make her question who her new husband really is...

Skins

55 Episodes

Irreverent comedy drama from the makers of Shameless, which follows the messy lives, loves, delirious highs and inevitable lows of a group of raucous teenage friends in Bristol

Sirens

6 Episodes

A team of world-weary paramedics are forced to confront the dregs of society - not to mention their own inadequacies - in this comedy drama

Fresh Meat

8 Episodes

Comedy drama series from the creators of Peep Show about the hilarious, and often painful, truths of being a student

Beaver Falls

6 Episodes

Three British graduates have blagged a job at Beaver Falls, an elite American summer camp. The guys just want a summer of fun. But the job requires them to set an example to the gorgeous teenage offspring of California's rich and powerful. Yeah, like that's really going to happen...

Coming Up

2 Series, 14 Episodes

Coming Up is the Channel 4 talent scheme where new writers and directors have the opportunity to make an original film with a guaranteed network broadcast

Hollyoaks: Best Bits 2011

1 Episode

A cheeky look back at the sexiest, funniest, biggest and best moments from 2011 - a phenomenal year in Hollyoaks

Black Mirror

2 Episodes

Charlie Brooker, the writer of E4's Dead Set, returns with a suspenseful, satirical three-part mini-series that taps into collective unease about our modern world

Misfits

3 Series, 21 Episodes

When five young outsiders on Community Service get caught in a strange storm, they discover that they have developed superpowers

This Is England

4 Episodes

This Is England revisits the characters of Shane Meadows' multi award-winning hit film. Acclaimed director Shane Meadows' first ever television series follows the lives of Shaun, Lol, Woody and their gang of friends.

Top Boy

4 Episodes

A thrilling and raw four-part drama about young lives lived on the edge in east London - an honest and gripping rendition of inner-city drug and gang culture

Dead Set

5 Episodes

Bloody, sharp satire from Charlie Brooker. Zombies are rampaging throughout Britain. Blissfully unaware of gory events outside, the Big Brother housemates are in for the ultimate eviction night...

Hill Street Blues

4 Series, 146 Episodes

Gritty and groundbreaking US ensemble drama that chronicles the lives of the overworked staff of an inner city American police precinct. Remember, let's be careful out there...

Hollyoaks Later

3 Series, 15 Episodes

The successful late-night extension of Channel 4's flagship teen drama presents five brand new episodes on E4 exploring the lives and loves of some of the Hollyoaks regulars

Random

1 Episode

A touching and profound story that follows, over the course of a single day, an ordinary family's routine shattered by a random act

Cast Offs

6 Episodes

A darkly comic drama series telling the story of six disabled characters sent to a remote British island for a fictional reality TV show

New Love

1 Episode

A futuristic vision of relationships where men and women act out the fantasy of love instead of daring to really feel it

Dance for Eternity

1 Episode

An award-winning atmospheric drama from first time director Michael Gilroy. Two lovers make a promise to each other that will change their lives forever...

A Harlot's Progress

1 Episode

A Harlot's Progress dramatically depicts the artist William Hogarth's exploration of sex trafficking and debauchery in Georgian London - an investigation that threatens to destroy his career

The Promise

4 Episodes

Claire Foy and Christian Cooke star in Peter Kosminsky's four-part drama serial. Eighteen-year-old Erin sets out on an emotional journey when she retraces her grandfather's footsteps.

Mo

1 Episode

The story of Mo Mowlam - the Good Friday Agreement, her life away from politics and her battle with ill-health

Terra Firma

1 Episode

A North Sea ferry entertainer is adrift in his life, until an affair makes him realise what's important

Any Human Heart

4 Episodes

Jim Broadbent, Matthew Macfadyen and Sam Claflin take the lead role in William Boyd's funny, moving and ambitious adaptation of his best-selling novel, exploring one man's tumultuous and unpredictable journey through the 20th century

I Am Slave

1 Episode

Inspired by real-life events, drama I Am Slave, is the extraordinary tale of one woman's fight for freedom from modern-day slavery - a powerful story of imprisonment, cruelty and despair, but also one of hope and humanity

The Queen

5 Episodes

Five leading British actresses play the Queen at pivotal times in her life, as this ground-breaking series examines Britain's social history through key events in her reign

Poppy Shakespeare

1 Episode

This funny, original and moving drama takes a candid look at life from the perspective of a worryingly sane patient on the psychiatric ward of a north London day hospital

Teachers

4 Series, 40 Episodes

Irreverent comedy drama following the chaotic lives, loves and drinking sessions of a group of hapless secondary schoolteachers. They might be qualified to teach, but they've still got a lot to learn...

No Angels

10 Episodes

Critically acclaimed comedy drama following four young nurses struggling to cope with life, death and lunacy on the wards of St Margaret's Hospital

Trafalgar Battle Surgeon

1 Episode

This historical drama presents an alternative view of the Battle of Trafalgar, through the eyes of HMS Victory's surgeon, William Beatty, and his team

NY-LON

7 Episodes

Groundbreaking drama about a very modern long-distance love affair, set in London and New York. One chance look, one coincidence in a million - and two worlds are suddenly changed forever.

Mum's Gone Gay

1 Episode

Inspired by stories from real life, Mum's Gone Gay examines the impact on families with teenage children when a parent comes out

The Devil's Whore

4 Episodes

Colourful four-part drama about the seismic events of 17th-century England, when political disobedience turned to revolution and bloody civil war, and English history was changed forever

Nearly Famous

6 Episodes

Six-part drama from the makers of Life on Mars about the colourful lives of a bunch of talented teens at a top London stage school

11 Men Against 11

1 Episode

Comedy thriller set in the murky world of football wheeling and double dealing, starring Timothy West and James Bolan

40

3 Episodes

Provocative three-part drama focusing on seven former school friends whose lives are undergoing seismic change as they hit that landmark age

A Very British Coup

2 Episodes

Based on the novel by Chris Mullin, this political thriller stars Ray McAnally as the newly elected left-wing prime minister Harry Perkins, who soon finds himself up to his neck in conspiracy

Annie's Bar

10 Episodes

Political soap with scenes shot just hours before transmission. Set in and around Annie's Bar - the legendary watering hole and gossip shop in the House of Commons

Behaving Badly

4 Episodes

A four-part drama adapted from the novel by Catherine Heath that sees a spurned wife change from a splendidly behaved woman into one that indulges in the intoxicating delights of misbehaviour