Everything British Worth Streaming in March 2025

Weather-wise, March roars in like a lion, but when it comes to television, the first month of spring is traditionally a slow starter. There's a lot of reasons the TV schedule tends to shake out that way — the Academy Awards usually eats up the first or second weekend of the month; then there's spring break for schools and families, which tends to occur in March, as do the major religious holidays of Easter, Passover, and Eid. Over at PBS, the first half of March is traditionally pledge time; basketball is king for broadcast networks who depend on live sports. 

This is reflected in the March offerings arriving for 2025. However, unlike previous years, there's not really a dead zone in early March; instead, we have a lot of British TV coming from a small number of streaming services. Acorn TV and BritBox arrive heavily armed to fight for viewership in the coming month, however, the only competition they'll find outside of each other is Netflix, which only competes in the number of entries due to including "European period dramas" along with the usual British debuts.

BritBox and Acorn TV also know that their competition this month isn't really from places like Paramount+ or Hulu, at least not this month, with Wolf Hall gearing up to return to PBS after a decade's absence. Let's run down what the non-PBS streamers bring to the table for March before Henry and Cromwell's fight to the death becomes the only thing we care about outside of Severence.

Recipes for Love & Murder Season 2

Acorn TV's foray into South African cozy crime, Recipes for Love & Murder, returns for a second outing. Maria Doyle Kennedy, Kylie Fisher, and Tony Kgoroge return as the crime of the week series undergoes a semi-format change. Season 2 introduces a season-long arc involving a mysterious fire, which burns down a large swath of the town of Eden, which all the weekly mysteries will tie into. Season 2 premieres with two episodes on Monday, March 3, 2025, with one a week to follow on Mondays through the end of the month.

Starve Acre

We reviewed the 1970s set Starve Acre starring Matt Smith and Morfydd Clark when it had a limited run in theaters in the summer of 2024. Seven months later, the film finally comes to streaming on Shudder and AMC+. The film features Smith going off the deep end into the folkloric myth about the ancient oak tree on their land supposedly being imbued with phenomenal powers as his wife watches their son transform into something evil. The film debuts on both platforms Friday, March 7, 2025.

Blackshore

Acorn TV also brings the Irish-set series Blackshore to America this month. Another entry in the "Detective Returns to Hometown to Solve Crimes" department, this one stars Lisa Dwan as DI Fia Lucey, forced out of her high-profile big city position after assaulting a violent criminal. Once home, she finds herself embroiled in the disappearance of hotelier Roisin Hurley, a case everyone else seems strangely reluctant to pursue. Blackshore debuts with two episodes Monday, March 10, 2025, with one a week to follow into April.

The Last Anniversary

What happens when Nicole Kidman produces a Liane Moriarty adaptation but doesn't star? HBO and Hulu give it a pass and it winds up on Sundance. The Last Anniversary stars Teresa Palmer as Sophie, who inherits a house on Scribbly Gum Island only to get an unwelcome reception by the locals and discovering a mystery that seems to go to the very top. The Last Anniversary premieres on Sundance Now and AMC+ on Sunday, March 30, 2025 with one episode a week to follow through mid-May.

Truelove

A series on dying with dignity that looks far better than you'd think from the title, Truelove features a group of old friends making a drunken pact to help each other engineer dignified deaths if needed, only to have to happen much sooner than expected. The A-list cast stars Clarke Peters, Phil Davis, Lindsay Duncan, Fiona Button, Peter Egan, and Sue Johnston. All six episodes debut as a binge on Acorn TV on Monday, March 31, 2025.

Lost Boys & Fairies

BritBox kicks it into high gear in March, starting with Lost Boys & Fairies, the critically acclaimed adoption drama featuring Sion Daniel Young and Fra Free as an LGBTQ+ couple undergoing a coming of middle-age journey via the adoption process. Fusing queer culture with powerful family drama, this three parter looks like a can't miss for anyone who understands that found families are real families. All episodes drop Tuesday, March 4, 2025.

Douglas Is Cancelled

Another critically acclaimed BBC debut from 2024, Douglas Is Cancelled is the Steven Moffat penned drama about middle aged journalist Douglas Bellowes (Hugh Bonneville), whose life implodes after a tweet about him allegedly making a sexist joke goes viral. Karen Gillan co-stars as his thoroughly millennial cohost, Madeline, along with Ben Miles, Alex Kingston, and Simon Russell Beale. The six-episode series will follow BritBox's two episodes a week on Thursdays format starting March 6, 2025.

Travels with Agatha Christie & David Suchet

Having gotten enough distance from his quarter century playing the definitive portrayal of Hercule Poirot (accept no substitutions or Kenneth Branaghs), David Suchet goes on an epic journey in Travels with Agatha Christie & David Suchet. In it, he traces author Agatha Christie’s footsteps from her early 1920s across the world, visiting what was once the British Empire and getting to know the woman behind the writer. All five episodes of the travelogue series debut on National Women's Day, Saturday, March 8, 2025.

I Literally Just Told You Seasons 1-2

We knew this would happen: BritBox is testing comedy panel shows in America starting with I Literally Just Told You. This did not go well for BBC America 20 years ago. (BBCA also brought over Andrew Lloyd Weber’s musical anthology series three years after the last one aired and two years after Adam Lambert’s loss heralded Idol’s ratings collapse, and then wondered why no one was interested.) Maybe things will be different this time. All five episodes of I Literally Just Told You Season 1 arrive Friday, March 14; Season 2 drops two weeks later on Friday, March 28, 2025.

Ludwig Season 1

Despite I Literally Just Told You needing our thoughts and prayers, all positive energy and promotion for March should go to David Mitchell's Ludwig. The hilarious spoof/love letter to cozy crime series is BritBox's first genuine contender for a breakout mainstream hit, with Mitchell playing the introverted title character. Anna Maxwell Martin co-stars as Ludwig's sister in law, who forces him to impersonate James, his extroverted lead detective twin brother, to investigate what happened when James goes missing. The series premieres with two episodes on Thursday, March 20, 2025, with one episode a week to follow through April.

Am I Being Unreasonable? Season 2

Am I Being Unreasonable is one of the many BBC comedies Hulu has brought over in the last two years without much marketing and practically undiscoverable on the platform's horrible algorithm. However, that was then. Season 2 of the slightly deranged comedy from the team of Daisy May Cooper and Selin Hizli will now premiere on Hulu under the Disney+ tile, which is now much better organized, making the series more likely to be promoted. All episodes will arrive on Wednesday, March 12, 2025.

Big Boys Season 3

Then again, Hulu only just brought over Big Boys Seasons 1 and 2 with little fanfare, less notice, and zero marketing, which is no way to treat Derry Girls' Wee Fella after he gets his own Channel 4 series. Dylan Llewellyn and Jon Pointing star in the third and final season of the Jack Rooke penned college focused coming of age series, which has been a smash hit in the U.K., and deserves to get a viewing here in the States. All six episodes of Big Boys' final season arrive on Hulu on Tuesday, March 25, 2025.

With Love, Meghan

The lifestyle series With Love, Meghan, hosted by the one-time Suits star and former Duchess of Sussex, Meghan Markle, was initially planned for January 2025. However, the wildfires occurred, and Markle delayed the release so she and her husband, Prince Harry, could focus on helping those in need of food and shelter. The series has now been rescheduled to Tuesday, March 4, with all episodes arriving at once.

Just One Look

Technically, Just One Look is a Polish miniseries, but it's a Harlan Coben miniseries adaptation. Since the English-language adaptations of Coben's stories, reset in the U.K., are such a massive hit, we're inclined to include the European-set ones, even if they've never considered casting Richard Armitage. All episodes arrive Wednesday, March 5, 2025.

The Leopard

The Italian series The Leopard also arrives on the same day. Again, it's not technically British, but it is a big-budget, well-done period piece, which we always appreciate around these parts. Based on Il Gattopardo, the classic novel by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, and set in the 1860s amid Italy's unification, the series follows a Sicilian prince who grapples with the collision between his family's ancient privilege and revolutionary change. All episodes will arrive on Wednesday, March 5, 2025.

Formula 1: Drive to Survive Season 7

I am not a car person, but many of you are, and our resident Welcome to Wrexham fanatic loves Formula 1: Drive to Survive. The series is one of Netflix's first sports-related success stories, and I would not be surprised if the streaming service's foray into live sports will help make this long-running racing documentary series pop. All episodes of the show's newest installment, Season 7, will arrive on Friday, March 7, 2025.

Adolescence

Netflix's most high-profile U.K. release for March is Adolescence, which stars Stephen Graham and Erin Doherty, who just wowed Hulu viewers co-starring in the Stephen Knight series A Thousand Blows. However, Adolescence isn't from Knight, it's Graham reteaming with the Boiling Point director and producers to apply their one-shot format to a kid accused of murdering his classmate. All four episodes of the real-time series arrive on Netflix on Thursday, March 13, 2025.

Caught

Technically, Caught is an Argentinian miniseries, but it's a Harlan Coben miniseries adaptation. Since the English-language adaptations of Coben's stories, reset in the U.K., are such a massive hit, we're inclined to include the South American-set ones, even if they've never considered casting Richard Armitage. All episodes arrive Wednesday, March 26, 2025.

The Lady’s Companion Season 1

The Spanish series The Lady's Companion closes out March with its eight-episode first season. Again, (again!) it's not technically British, but it is a big-budget, well-done period piece, which we always appreciate around these parts. Nadia de Santiago stars as the titular chaperone Elena Bianda, drawn into the late 19th-century world of love, scandal and intrigue of Spanish high society when she's hired to procure husbands for three wealthy sisters. All episodes arrive Friday, March 28, 2025.

Nine Bodies in a Mexican Morgue

I wish so much Anthony Horowitz's newest series, Nine Bodies in a Mexican Morgue, was on any other platform but MGM+. (I am pretty sure I said the same about Rogue Heroes Season 2 in January.) However, since no one has heard of MGM+ (not even my mother!), chances of people seeing Horowitz take on the Christie "And Then There Were None" formula when it premieres on Sunday, March 2, 2025, are low. However, it'll stream episodes weekly, so it may gain traction as it airs through the end of April.

Picture This

Simone Ashley follows up her breakout role in Bridgerton with a straight-to-streaming romcom, Picture This. co-starring Amazon's newest leading man, Hero Fiennes Tiffen, the cheapest Fiennes actor officially for hire. (To be fair, uncles Ralph and Joseph have been nominated for Oscars while Fiennes Tiffen has been doing time in the awful After series.) The film arrives on Amazon's Prime Video on Thursday, March 6, 2025.

The Wheel of Time Season 3

Amazon Studios' other big-budget British-ish fantasy series that's not Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, The Wheel of Time, returns to the small screen in March, starring several British actors including Rosamund Pike, and adding Olivia Williams, fresh off her turn in HBO's other big-budget British-ish fantasy series that's not House of the Dragon, Dune: Prophecy. In other words, she'll feel right at home. The Wheel of Time Season 3 arrives on Amazon's Prime Video on Thursday, March 13, 2025, and follows a one-episode-a-week release schedule through mid-May.

Ringo & Friends at the Ryman

There's currently a Beatles revival, driven by the AI made new single and the forthcoming Sam Mendes quadrilogy of films. However, I had no idea Ringo made a country album. The Beatle who went the All-Star route from the jump, Starr will let Americans discover how he handles country music in the two-hour taped special, Ringo & Friends at the Ryman, which airs on CBS in the States and streams on Paramount+ starting Monday, March 10, 2025.

MobLand

How do you keep a TV show secret directed by Guy Ritchie starring British A-list movie actors Tom Hardy, Pierce Brosnan, and Helen Mirren? After failing at pulling off a shock announcement that MobLand premieres in March, due to not providing a single visual asset (or consider most entertainment outlets no longer have the staff or budget to handle last-minute additions), the marketing team re-released the announcement 48 hours later with images (but no trailer) in a press release many won't bother write up until the weekend.* Pity the show, which is currently praying the 1923 people stick around to check it out. MobLand debuts Sunday, March 30, 2025, and streams one episode a week through mid-May.

(*Listen, many shows fail due to the difficulty of discoverability in the modern streaming landscape, but this is failing to understand that it's no longer 2005. No wonder Paramount+ is the legacy media company that couldn't hack it and had to let Skydance buy them. Also, thank heavens Ringo Starr has a video we could use for this entry, or I'd be stuck posting Netflix's Tom Hardy trailer for Havoc again.)

The Traitors: U.K. Season 3

Peacock's brightest spot in the 2025 calendar, Season 3 of the U.S. version of The Traitors, will conclude at the beginning of March, followed by the usual Reunion special. However, Peacock will also follow the format of last year's Season 2 finale, and follow both episodes with the debut of the new season of The Traitors U.K. (also on Season 3). The original English-language version of the global hit will arrive with all episodes for Traitors fans who cannot get enough of the series on Thursday, March 6, 2025.