Everything British Worth Streaming in February 2025

T.S. Elliot claimed April was the cruelest month, but by my watch, that honor should go to February, which is grey, cold, and dreary. The only thing this month has in its favor is that if it's going to be nasty and brutish, at least it's short. On American televisions, it's also event-heavy as awards season heats up ahead of the Academy Awards (this year held March 2), with the various bellwether Guild Awards, including the SAGs, the Brits having their say at the BAFTAs, The Spirit Awards for the good stuff everyone ignored, the Grammys, and this year, the Critics Choice Awards as well, postponed due to the wildfires. All that and sports crams in the Super Bowl on top of everything else; it's a wonder anything debuts this month.

However, for those of us who will need counterprogramming to whatever else is on TV, we do have quite a few titles heading this way, and we should note that they are across a nice variety of platforms. Moreover, although Prime/MGM+ and Starz don't appear on this list due to a lack of new debuts, both still have a couple more episodes of Rogue Heroes Season 2 and The Couple Next Door to go, respectively. That means no matter which major streaming services you subscribe to right now, there are new episodes of British television to be found.

Let's run down everything British arriving on American streaming services for February 2025 and when they premiere.

Fallen

Three of the four entries under the AMC Networks umbrella are Acorn TV exclusives, but Sundance has one new show, and it's a doozy: Fallen, an adaptation of the best-selling paranormal Lauren Kate novels. Like Netflix's Harlan Corben titles, the series takes American author Kate's U.S.-set stories and moves them, bag and baggage, to the U.K. If it were on a different platform, I'd give it better odds of succeeding. The eight-episode series debuts Thursday, February 6, 2025, and streams weekly on Sundance Now & AMC+.

Murdoch Mysteries Season 18

Despite the CBC finally giving Ovation day-and-date rights starting with this season, and Ovation streaming the episodes (for free!) via its website since the new season started airing in October 2024, Acorn TV insists it is still the exclusive streaming home of Murdoch Mysteries and will carry on as if it were not four months late in debuting Season 18. For those who haven't figured out how to stream Ovation, Murdoch Mysteries will start streaming weekly on Acorn on Monday, February 10, 2025, and run through July 2025.

A Remarkable Place to Die

In keeping with defining itself as the home of English language programming from Oceania and the U.K., Acorn TV's big new title is the New Zealand-Australian crime drama A Remarkable Place to Die. The series stars Chelsie Preston Crayford as DI Anais Mallory, who leaves her successful big-city career to return to her hometown in Queensland near the Remarkables mountain range, to solve her sister's murder. The four-episode series debuts Monday, February 17, 2025, and streams weekly through mid-March.

Best Interests

Arriving the same day, Acorn TV has a second major get, the U.K. series Best Interests, starring Sharon Horgan (Bad Sisters) and Michael Sheen (Good Omens) who play husband and wife of a terminally ill child in what promises to be a weepfest of a family drama. Unlike Remarkable Place to Die, this four-episode series will arrive as a binge on Monday, February 17, 2025.

Surface Season 2

We are riding the Apple TV+ train until it derails or Tim Apple gets smart and buys up all the little AMC niche streamers. For February, Apple debuts Season 2 of Surface, starring Gugu Mbatha-Raw as "Sophie," a suicide attempt survivor with amnesia. Having discovered her identity in Season 1, Season 2 will help her find what she was doing that caused her memory loss. Surface Season 2 debuts Friday, February 21, 2025, with two episodes, followed by one a week through the end of March.

Tree on a Hill (Pren ar y Bryn)

BritBox kicks off February with a surprise: Tree on a Hill/Pren ar y Bryn, the first dual-language English-Welsh TV series the International streaming service has brought to American shores. A small-town mystery series, Tree on a Hill may be filled with the usual cliches, but showing them through a Welsh perspective gives the genre a different spin. The six-episode series arrives as a binge on Tuesday, February 4, 2025.

EE BAFTA Film Awards 2025

Before the Oscars in Los Angeles, there will be the EE BAFTA Film Awards in London, the first of two live television events by The British Academy Film and Television Awards. (The TV BAFTAs are in May.) The 2025 edition will see the return of David Tennant as host, and BritBox will once again stream the award show live in America because 3 p.m. ET is a totally reasonable hour to watch people in evening gowns cry because they won (or they lost). The event will stream live on Sunday, February 16, 2025.

A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story

As BritBox revs up for its biggest year of titles to date, things start kicking off with its co-production with ITV, A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story. Starring Lucy Boynton as the titular Ellis, the four-episode series is a historical retelling of the last woman to be hanged in the U.K., whose death sparked the movement in Western countries to abolish the death penalty in the 1970s. The series debuts with two episodes on Monday, February 17, 2025, followed by one a week through mid-March.

Death in Paradise Season 14

BritBox's move to invest in high-quality programming feels like it might succeed because it also has popular library titles with double digits worth of seasons, like Death In Paradise. Now introducing its fifth lead detective in less than 15 years, Death in Paradise returns for Season 14 with lead actor Don Gilet taking over the detective role in St. Marie after his introduction in the 2024 Christmas episode. Season 14 officially kicks off on Wednesday, February 19, 2025, and will stream one episode a week into April.

A Thousand Blows

Hulu only has one British title debuting for February in the U.S., but it's one of the year's most anticipated shows: A Thousand Blows. Technically, Steven Knight's latest limited series is about Victorian boxing; however, British crime syndicates are Knight's specialty. A Thousand Blows heavily features history's most notorious, least-covered London gangs, known as "The Forty Elephants." All six episodes will debut as a binge on Friday, February 21, 202, on Hulu or Disney+ under the Hulu tile.

The White Lotus Season 3

The White Lotus falls (at best) into the British-ish category; Mike White's globe-trotting anthology hit about the drama at the Lotus chain of hotels is American-centric, but the casts have included several high-profile U.K. and Down Under stars, including Murray Bartlett, Tom Hollander, Theo James, Will Sharpe, and Leo Woodall. Season 3 will check in: Jason Isaacs, Aimee Lou Wood, Charlotte Le Bon, and Morgana O'Reilly. The series premieres on HBO and Max on Sunday, February 16, 2025, and airs/streams one episode a week.

Celebrity Bear Hunt Season 1

No one does reality TV like the British. Don't believe me? Check out the above trailer for Netflix's newest addition to their British-made reality show, Celebrity Bear Hunt, and then come back. I'll wait. All episodes of this hilariously nonsensical rubbish will be available on Netflix on Wednesday, February 5, 2025. You're welcome.

Surviving Black Hawk Down

I only highlight the endless British documentaries on Netflix when they are worth watching, and Surviving Black Hawk Down is one of those times. The British filmmakers sat down with both US soldiers and Somali fighters to recount, in detail, the 1993 Battle of Mogadishu and the now-famous downing of three Black Hawk helicopters. A good and necessary watch in these times. Surviving Black Hawk Down debuts on Monday, February 10, 2025.

Toxic Town 

Netflix's newest British drama is Toxic Town, starring Jodie Whittaker, Brendan Coyle, and Robert Carlyle. The four-episode series dramatizes the events surrounding the Corby toxic waste case. For those who don't know, the U.K. papers called it "the British Erin Brockovich," in which 18 mothers brought a class action suit against Corby Steelworks, claiming it caused their kids to be born with birth defects. The landmark case established a link between birth defects and air pollution. All episodes arrive on Thursday, February 27, 2025.

1923 Season 2

Much like The White Lotus, Paramount+'s Yellowstone series and endless spinoffs are super American. However, the current prequel, 1923, adds several U.K. ex-pat characters to this particular Old West, with Helen Mirren starring as the shotgun-toting Cara Dutton, Jerome Flynn as the family arch-enemy Banner Creighton, Timothy Dalton as Donald Whitfield, the rich man funding Creighton's vendetta, and Joseph Mawle as the British Captain Shipley. The series premieres on Paramount+ on Sunday, February 23, 2025, and streams weekly.

Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy

American Renee Zellweger is back in yet another Bridget Jones sequel, Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy. Zellweger returns as the clumsy, lovelorn Bridget, now a widowed single 50-something mother to Billy and Mabel. Of course, everyone wants Bridget to get back out there, but not too far out there, since this film is going straight to streaming on Peacock for Valentine's Day—the film debuts Friday, February 14, 2025.