Everything British Worth Streaming in April 2025

April showers bring May flowers, but April TV brings out the May Emmy contenders. While "sweeps" may no longer be a thing in the broadcast world, April and May are still two of the most significant months in the TV season in the U.S. This is primarily due to the Primetime Awards staying steadfast to the June-May eligibility calendar, one of the last holdouts against changing to a calendar year. That makes the next eight weeks the televisual equivalent of production studios releasing their biggest films the week between Christmas and New Year in hopes of being the last thing Golden Globe and Oscar voters see before the polls close. 

Many Emmy contenders heading this way will be American-focused. Still, everyone knows British Accents get more respect on television, which is why February's A Thousand Blows and March's Adolescence are considered in the hunt for 2025. That's why BritBox continues to stand tall this month, offering some of the best offerings the niche service has had since it first launched in 2017. Three of its debuts for April are shows that have either been nominated or won BAFTAs (or are considered to be shoo-ins for next year), and the timing of these releases suggests there's hope some Emmy love can also be found for them.

Here's the list of April 2025 British premieres on the major American streaming services.

The Chelsea Detective Season 3

After launching its first holiday-timed episode in December 2024, the rest of The Chelsea Detective Season 3 finds its way to Acorn. Like Madame Blanc, The Chelsea Detective's Christmas-themed mystery is technically the first episode of the new season, which means that "Season 3" proper will launch with Episode 2, which may not sound like it matters much, but each season is only four installments. That leaves three feature-length episodes to stream on Mondays, starting April 7, 2025, and running through the end of the month.

The Brokenwood Mysteries Season 11

After a landmark tenth season, the New Zealand set The Brokenwood Mysteries is back with Season 11. Neill Rea stars as the wily, experienced cop, DSS Mike Shepherd; Fern Sutherland is his reluctant partner, DS Kristin Sims. The six-episode mystery-of-the-week format series has started porting over to PBS Passport (select stations have the first three or four seasons, depending), so there's no excuse not to at least check the show out. Season 11 arrives on Monday, April 21, 2025, and airs one episode a week through May.

Black Snow Season 2

American networks aren't the only ones greenlighting Season 2s for hit close-ended miniseries; Australia does too! Black Snow was supposed to be a limited series that dug into the crimes committed then and now against the Aboriginal people. Now lead Travis Fimmel is back as Det James Cormack and a new cold case that will uncover other uncomfortable parts of the country's history. Two episodes premiere on Sundance Now and AMC+ (but not Acorn) on Thursday, April 24, 2025, with one a week to follow through the end of May.

The One That Got Away/Cleddau

The competition to bring over Welsh language shows is heating up, with Acorn TV responding to BritBox's debuting Tree On a Hill/Pren ar y Bryn by bringing over The One That Got Away/Cleddau. Described as a "dark psychological drama," Elen Rhys stars as DI Ffion Lloyd, forced to partner with her ex-lover to find out who is responsible for murdering a nurse in a coastal town in west Wales. Two episodes premiere on Monday, April 28, 2025, with one a week on Mondays to follow.

Careme

Technically a French-set period piece, the upcoming eight-part drama Careme tells the story of the world’s first celebrity chef, Antonin Carême, who rose to culinary stardom in Napoleon's Europe only to be recruited as a spy since his bakes got him in with the powerful. Benjamin Voisin and Lyna Khoudri star in a series that's chock full of sex, espionage, and a lot of really amazing-looking pastry. Two episodes premiere on Wednesday, April 30, 2025, with one a week to follow on Wednesdays through mid-June.

Would I Lie to You? Season 17

The attempt to make comedy panel shows a thing in the U.S. continues a pace as BritBox brings over the current season of the long-running series, Would I Lie To You, which is just finishing up its 17th season across the pond before being delivered wholesale to BritBox. Comedians like David Mitchell guest star in a show where celebrities team up to fool each other by playing "Two Truths and a Lie." All 12 episodes of Season 17 arrive on Tuesday, April 1, 2025. (No fooling.)

Agatha Christie's Towards Zero

The third installment of the new Agatha Christie adaptations made as co-productions by BritBox and the BBC, Towards Zero, arrives mid-month, one of the series absolutely sure to get some BAFTA love at the TV awards and maybe a little bit of Emmy attention, considering the series stars two Americans (Anjelica Huston and Clarke Peters) and a Welsh actor well loved by the Emmys, Matthew Rhys. The series will premiere on Wednesday, April 16, 2025, and stream one episode a day through Friday, April 18, as it did on the BBC.

The Cleaner Season 3

BritBox's second major premiere is the critically acclaimed comedy series The Cleaner. A spoof on the cozy crime stereotype where someone unqualified solves mysteries, Greg Davies stars as the titular scrubber, Wicky, whose job is to clean up murder scenes after the bodies are removed. Each episode has a famous A-list BBC guest star Wicky meets, who may or may not be the murderer he'll uncover. Two episodes premiere Wednesday, April 23, 2025, with one a week on Wednesdays to follow through the end of May.

I, Jack Wright

Last (but very certainly not least), there's I, Jack Wright, a mystery thriller with an all-star cast from Chris Lang, best known for his PBS hit Unforgotten. The stellar cast features Trevor Eve, Gemma Jones, Nikki Amuka-Bird, John Simm, Harry Lloyd, Ruby Ashbourne Serkis, Zoë Tapper, James Fleet, and Sabrina Bartlett. Two episodes premiere Thursday, April 24, 2025, with one a week on Thursdays to follow through the end of May.

Sherlock & Daughter

CW is back after its sad handling of Joan (now streaming on BritBox) and even sadder handling of Everything Else Burns, which never aired here. This time, it's gotten ahold of Sherlock & Daughter, starring David Thewlis (Harry Potter) as Sherlock, Dougray Scott as Moriarty, and Blu Hunt as Sherlock's random American daughter. The series will supposedly debut on Wednesday, April 16, 2025, on CW, with one a week to follow... if the brass doesn't pull it last minute, still possible as the show doesn't even have a trailer yet.

Doctor Who Season 2/15/41

Doctor Who returns to Disney+ with Season 2 (Season 15 of the reboot, or Season 41 if you never restarted counting in the first place). Ncuti Gatwa is back as The Doctor, with Belinda Chandra as his new companion, Varada. Unlike most recent companions, she is horrified to find herself no longer where she's supposed to be in time and space, and the Doctor struggles to return her home. Millie Gibson will also return for the new season, which premieres Saturday, April 12, 2025, and streams one episode a week through May.

The Stolen Girl

Doctor Who isn't Disney+'s to schedule; it merely airs the show when the BBC does; its placement vis a vis awards season is coincidental. That's not the case with The Stolen Girl, one of the first dramas Disney+ greenlit when it launched a U.K. arm, and technically airing on Freeform, which suggests Disney+ people think this will hit with mainstream America. Adapted by Code of Silence's Catherine Moulton from Alex Dahl's Playdate, the child kidnapping thriller debuts with all episodes streaming on Hulu (or on Disney+ under the Hulu tile) on Wednesday, April 16, 2025.

Andor Season 2

Disney+'s real contender is Andor. The Star Wars franchise is about as British-ish as it gets, filming in London and casting U.K. actors as Empire generals since the 1970s. But Andor, which co-stars BBC royalty Anton Lesser, Andy Serkis, Fiona Shaw, Ben Miles, and Richard Dillane, also has a wholly original, non-Skywalker story about the experience of becoming radicalized to the point of rebellion in a fascist society. The show debuts in four batches of three episodes over consecutive Tuesdays starting April 22, 2025.

The Last of Us Season 2

More British-ish fare arriving purely for the Emmy status: The Last of Us, HBO's breakout hit based on the zombie apocalypse video game, will debut Season 2 in the exact same spot Game of Thrones did for seven of its eight seasons. HBO knows it's got a chance to turn this into a drama sweep, especially with future OBE Bella Ramsay starring as the "only human immune to zombie bites" character everyone's chasing. Season 2 arrives on HBO and Max on Sunday, April 13, 2025, and airs/streams one episode a week through the end of May.

Black Mirror Season 7

It's hard to remember that a dozen years ago, Black Mirror was a Channel 4 show that Netflix scooped up in second run, and then grabbed the right to and turned into a hit when the U.K. network canceled it. It was the first show that Netflix did that with; it would become famous for taking shows that failed elsewhere and turning them into hits. Now Black Mirror returns for Season 7 and serves up new fresh horrors from the new fresh horror machine. All episodes arrive on Thursday, April 10, 2025.

The Diamond Heist

Netflix went through a phase in the late 2010s of picking up every janky U.K.-produced documentary, no matter how terrible, and streaming them one a week as part of its British content offerings. Thankfully, that era seems to be ending, as Netflix has gotten pickier about which documentaries it agrees to pay for. The Diamond Heist is a docu-series, and it's worth a watch, covering the failed attempt at stealing the diamonds on display at the Millenium Dome in 2000. All episodes arrive on Wednesday, April 16, 2025.

Havoc

While Paramount+ is wasting the talents of Pierce Brosnan, Helen Mirren, and Tom Hardy in MobLand, Netflix is making better use of them. We'll have to wait to see Brosnan and Mirren in The Thursday Murder Club in the fall, but Tom Hardy stars in the action thriller Havoc now. This is a film that, we should note, is straight to streaming, so take it with a grain of salt and maybe watch with phone in hand. The film streams on Friday, April 25, 2025.

Étoile

The last British-ish show heading this way in hopes of Emmy attention, Amazon's Prime Video will debut Étoile from The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel team of Amy Sherman-Palladino and Daniel Palladino. Set in Paris and NYC with an international cast (including several up-and-coming UKers), this ballet-set drama is the second time the team has done a dance show since the cancellation of the late, lamented, critical darling Bunheads, so the expectations for this are super high. All eight episodes arrive on Thursday, April 24, 2025.