Netflix has announced thirteen new and returning British TV series and films.
Fans of Black Mirror will be thrilled to know that a brand-new season of the hit series is headed our way, along with a dozen other shows and films that are sure to please various viewers amongst Netflix’s global streaming audience. (I’m stoked about the follow-up film to Bank of Dave!)
These titles join previously-announced ones, including drama thriller miniseries Eric, created by Abi Morgan and starring Benedict Cumberbatch; historical drama film Joy, created by Rachel Mason and Jack Thorne, and starring Thomasin McKenzie, Charlie Murphy, James Norton, and Bill Nighy; reality series Love Is Blind UK; and historical drama limited series Scoop, starring Gillian Anderson, Billie Piper, Keeley Hawes, Romola Garai, and Rufus Sewell.
Adolescence (working title)
Award winners Stephen Graham (Boiling Point, Bodies, The Irishman), Philip Barantini (Boiling Point, Malpractice, The Responder), and Jack Thorne (His Dark Materials, The Virtues, National Treasure) team up for this ambitious crime drama series told in a real-time, one-shot style, to be directed by Barantini. Casting will be announced in due course.
Bank of Dave: The Sequel
Bank of Dave is the marvelous feel-good, true-ish story of how working class Burnley businessman Dave Fishwick (Rory Kinnear, The Diplomat, Years and Years, Penny Dreadful) took on big banks to found Britain’s very first community bank. Two years after the events in the original film, Dave takes on an even more dangerous and formidable opponent — payday loan companies — in Bank of Dave: The Sequel. For this, Dave recruits American investigative reporter Jessica (Chrissy Metz, This Is Us, American Horror Story, Superstore) and local Citizen’s Advice counsellor Oliver (Amit Shah, Happy Valley, The Other One, Crashing) to his cause. Together they embark on a journey that will eventually take them to the United States and help bring down an entire industry of predatory corporations.
Rock band Def Leppard return as themselves in Bank of Dave: The Sequel, which costars Pearce Quigley (The Gentlemen, Detectorists, Lovesick), Leila Farzad (I Hate Suzie, Black Mirror, Avenue 5), Dan Fogler (Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore, The Offer, The Walking Dead), and Rob Delaney (Catastrophe, The Man Who Fell to Earth, Black Mirrror).
Bear Hunt (working title)
Popular British presenter Holly Willoughby (Dancing on Ice) hosts this new action-packed competition series that sees a group of unlikely British celebrities dropped into the Costa Rican jungle as prey for one of the world’s most fearsome predators: Bear Grylls. Bear believes there’s an action hero inside us all, even celebs, but how strong is their will to survive? As Bear puts them through their paces, those who fail to impress will face the dreaded “Bear Hunt” — a brutal game of cat and mouse where they’ll be hunted down by Bear himself and, if captured, eliminated from the show.
Black Mirror: Season 7
Woo hoo! Charlie Brooker’s dark, satirical anthology series will return in 2025 (date tba) with six brand-new episodes, including a sequel to the hugely-popular sci-fi adventure “USS Callister.” Captain Robert Daly is dead, and for the crew of the USS Callister, their problems are just beginning…
Buying London
In this new reality series, property mogul Daniel Daggers and his talented, ambitious team of agents at DDRE Global take on and challenge London’s luxury property market. Viewers follow the team as they set out to conquer the super prime high-end real estate market — from the prestigious streets of Mayfair, to the exclusive enclaves of Holland Park — navigating the intricacies of their personal lives as well as striving to make their mark in the glamorous world of luxury real estate.
The Choice
In this new drama series, when the British Prime Minister’s (Suranne Jones, Vigil, Gentleman Jack, Scott & Bailey) husband is kidnapped and the visiting French President (Julie Delpy, Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, Avengers: Age of Ultron) is blackmailed, the two political leaders face unimaginable choices. Forced into a fierce rivalry where their political futures and their lives might hang in the balance, they will have to work together if they are going to uncover the plot that threatens them both.
The Final: Attack on Wembley
This docuseries centers on the events of July 11, 2021, at London’s Wembley Stadium, the site of the Euro 2020 final. Gareth Southgate’s England team was on the brink of a historic win, with the European Championship within their reach, inspiring the country on their journey to England’s first major final since 1966. But as England supporters arrived at Wembley from all corners of the country, celebration quickly turned to chaos. Mayhem took over, with scenes of public drunkenness and drug-taking, and hordes of ticket-less fans stormed the stadium. Featuring compelling first-hand testimony and visceral user-generated content, this series tells the dramatic story of a day that began with euphoria and ended with a nation left reeling.
Grown Ups
Based on Marian Keyes’s best-selling novel Grown Ups, this family drama series revolves around the three Casey brothers and their wives: Liam and Nell, Ed and Cara, and Rory and Jessie. Like most families, the Caseys are a complicated bunch, with ever-shifting politics, old and new resentments, arguments that blow over quickly, and hurts that are nursed forever. They’re loyal, noisy, and bound together by a whole lot of love. Casting will be announced in due course.
House of Guinness (working title)
From acclaimed writer and Oscar® nominee Steven Knight (Peaky Blinders, Rogue Heroes, Dirty Pretty Things) comes this epic historical drama series about one of Europe’s most famous and enduring dynasties: the Guinness Family. Set in 19th-century Dublin and New York, the series will focus on the consequences of the death of Benjamin Guinness, the man responsible for the extraordinary success of the Guinness brewery, and the far-reaching impact his cunning will have on the fate of his four adult children — Arthur, Edward, Anne, and Ben — as well as on a group of Dublin characters who work and interact with the growing juggernaut that is Guinness.
Millennium Diamond Heist
This three-part true-crime docuseries is from executive producer Guy Ritchie (The Gentlemen, Snatch, Sherlock Holmes) and Academy Award® and Emmy® Award-winning producers Lightbox. In summer 2000, a group of South-East London criminals orchestrate what just might be the most audacious heist of all time. Their plan: use a bulldozer to ram-raid the brand new Millennium Dome in broad daylight, steal the world’s second biggest flawless diamond, worth £200 million, and escape by speedboat down the Thames. But there’s just one tiny problem: the Flying Squad are watching.
Missing You
Adapted from Harlan Coben’s best-selling novel Missing You, this new mystery drama series centers on Detective Kat Donovan, who hasn’t heard from her fiancé, Josh, since he disappeared eleven years ago. Now, swiping profiles on a dating app, she suddenly sees his face, and her world explodes all over again. Josh’s reappearance will force Kat to dive back into the mystery surrounding her father’s murder and uncover long-buried secrets from her past.
The cast includes Rosalind Eleazar (Slow Horses, The Harrowing, Harlots), Richard Armitage (Fool Me Once, The Stranger, Stay Close), Jessica Plummer (EastEnders, The Girl Before, Wizards vs. Aliens), Steve Pemberton (Inside No. 9, Happy Valley, Whitechapel), Paul Kaye (Sexy Beast, Vera, The Stranger), Samantha Spiro (Sex Education, Ridley Road, M.I.T.: Murder Investigation Team), Lisa Faulkner (Murder in Suburbia, Murdoch Mysteries, New Street Law), and Mary Malone (Vera, The Girlfriend Experience, Chivalry).
Six Nations: Full Contact: Season 2
This sports docuseries returns to bring fans closer than ever to the 2024 Guinness Six Nations Championship. It will take viewers inside the world of the oldest and greatest annual international rugby tournament, and give fans an insight into behind-the-scenes moments, as the best teams in Europe battle it out in some of the biggest matches on the rugby calendar to take home the prestigious trophy.
The Witness
Another true-crime docuseries is this one about the murder of a British woman, Rachel Nickell, on Wimbledon Common on a summer morning in 1992. It follows the homicide investigation from the point of view of Alex Hanscombe, who was just two years old when he witnessed his mum’s brutal murder, and Alex’s father, André — exploring the unexpected ways in which the tragedy transformed both of their lives.
Stay tuned for updates.
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