The 10 U.K. Series That Need to Come to America in 2025

There are plenty of things to complain about in the streaming era. Too many series are canceled before they ever get the chance to find an audience. Seasons are shorter than ever, with substantial multi-year gaps in between episodes. Finding what you want to watch is challenging, and being a fan of British television generally means you have to divide your time (and money) between what often feels like an endless list of platforms and providers. But there's also never been a better time to be an Anglophile, if only because we've got access to an order of magnitude more content than we ever did before.

In Ye Olden Times, when it came to shows that crossed the pond, British TV fans were often limited to whatever prestige dramas made their way to PBS's Masterpiece and the occasional genre series scooped up by a cable network like SYFY. (Doctor Who fans, in particular, likely remember struggling through poorly edited, commercial-ridden episodes aired months after their original broadcast in the early days of the modern reboot. A time!) So, if nothing else, we owe the rise of streaming a debt simply for bringing so much more of the British content we love to American shores and putting most of it at our fingertips. (Or Apple TV remotes.)

We're positively spoiled for choice now, with popular procedurals, posh period pieces, and day-and-date broadcasts of some of the U.K.'s biggest shows. (Whovians have come a long way, is what I'm saying.) But even with more British television available to us than ever before, there are still a few egregious outliers that haven't managed to make their way to America yet and which U.S. fans (read: me) are chomping at the bit for the chance to see. These are the shows that absolutely need to find a way to cross the pond in 2025.