BBC Studios has announced the titles coming to BritBox in August 2024, which include everything from new BritBox Originals to classic British fare. BritBox is a digital video subscription service offering the largest collection of British TV in the U.S. and Canada.
The August lineup features season one of The Change, starring Bridge Christie, season two of Romesh Ranganthan’s family dramedy Avoidance, and seasons three and four of Killing Eve, starring Jodie Comer and Sandra Oh.
BritBox is also adding two royal programs this August: The White Princess (also starring Comer) and My King Charles, a documentary investigating the monarch’s complicated path to the throne. BritBox crime Original Granite Harbour, starring Romario Simpson and Hanna Donaldson, returns for its second season on August 15.
BritBox is a digital subscription video-on-demand service offering the largest and most comprehensive, unmissable collection of British entertainment available all in one place. BritBox delivers the UK’s favorite programs, ranging from brand new commissions to gems, across a variety of genres, including critically acclaimed drama, crime thrillers, classic comedy, and powerful documentaries, alongside reality hits and entertainment.
BritBox is available on multiple platforms, including the web, mobile, tablet, streaming devices, and connected TVs. The offering in each market showcases the depth and breadth of British creativity.
With the support of BBC providing a pipeline of exceptional content, made available as soon as it comes out of its broadcast and catch-up windows, BritBox is home to a wealth of titles from its parent companies, in addition to completely new original commissions from British production companies specifically created for BritBox.
BRITBOX AUGUST 2024 SCHEDULE
AVAILABLE AUGUST 1
The Change S1 | North America Premiere, BritBox Original, BritBox Exclusive | 6 x 30’ | All at Once
Multi-award-winning stand-up comedian Bridget Christie writes and stars in this new six-part comedy-drama that puts menopausal women center stage. Linda (Christie, Ghosts), a 50-year-old menopausal, working-class married mother of two, experiences an existential crisis and leaves her family to return to her rural roots in the wilderness of the Forest of Dean.
Setting off on her Triumph motorbike, which she hasn’t ridden in 30 years, she begins an adventure to reclaim her lost identity and seek out a tree she climbed as a child. Isolated from the outside world, she meets an unsettling and intoxicating community, including a pair of infamous eel-farming sisters and a mysterious man who lives in the woods with wild boar. Think Deliverance with pigs.
AVAILABLE AUGUST 2
My King Charles | New to BritBox | 1 x 60’ | All at Once
My King Charles, from the producers of Diana: The Truth Behind the Interview, which made headlines worldwide and led to the Dyson Inquiry into the BBC – provides an unprecedented insight into the new King from his early years in the palace to major revelations on his playboy twenties, to his troubled first marriage, dubious brushes with politics, his role in smoothing recent royal troubles, and the future he now faces.
Providing a detailed profile of the UK’s new monarch ahead of his coronation on May 6, this film includes unseen letters and photographs and new revelations from those closest to him, including former girlfriends, relatives, and former private staff, painting a uniquely intimate picture of the real man behind the crown.
AVAILABLE AUGUST 5
Good Ship Murder S1 | North America Premiere, BritBox Exclusive | 8 x 45’ | All at Once
Set aboard a luxury cruise liner touring everyone’s favorite Mediterranean holiday hotspots, bubbling with intrigue, rivalries, glamour, money, and class divides. However, new cabaret singer Jack Grayling (Shayne Ward, Coronation Street) soon discovers more sinister elements below the surface.
On a cruise out of Southampton, Jack meets newly promoted First Officer Kate Woods (Catherine Tyldesley, Coronation Street). Fierce and ambitious, she’s a woman in a man’s world with plenty to prove. After a passenger is found murdered in their first port of call, Kate’s dream of her command is thrown into jeopardy, and Jack finds himself thrust back into his former life as a detective.
AVAILABLE AUGUST 6
Killing Eve S3 | New to BritBox | 8 x 60’ | All at Once
The award-winning drama continues the story of two women with brutal pasts, addicted to each other but now trying desperately to live their lives without their drug of choice. All seems fine until a shocking and personal death sets them on a collision course yet again.
Starring Emmy winner Jodie Comer (The White Princess) and Emmy nominee Sandra Oh (Grey’s Anatomy).
AVAILABLE AUGUST 8
Dying For Revenge S1 | North America Premiere, BritBox Original, BritBox Exclusive | 8 x 45’ | All at Once
Every episode of this true crime series recounts a shocking story of a crime committed as an act of revenge. From a worker humiliated by a colleague to a woman facing ruin when an ex-partner sells their home, the trigger events are different, but the consequences are the same: being wronged leads to murder.
Illustrated with evocative drama reconstruction, location filming, and archive, each story is told through interviews with family and friends, insights from detectives who solved each case, and analysis from expert criminologists.
AVAILABLE AUGUST 13
Killing Eve S4 | New to BritBox | 8 x 60’ | All at Once
Eve (Sandra Oh, Grey’s Anatomy) is on a revenge mission whilst Villanelle (Jodie Comer, The White Princess) has embraced a new way of life in an attempt to prove she’s not a ‘monster’. Having killed Paul, Carolyn (Fiona Shaw, Mind Games) continues to chase down The Twelve.
This personal, dangerous season follows our extraordinary women in very different places, building towards a messy finale.
AVAILABLE AUGUST 15
Granite Harbour S2 | North America Premiere, BritBox Original, BritBox Exclusive | 3 x 60’ | All at Once
Granite Harbour returns to Aberdeen for a new three-part second series as Lindo (Romario Simpson, Andor), Bart (Hannah Donaldson, Irvine Welsh’s Crime), and the police team investigate two fatal cases with dark consequences at their heart, immersing the Major Investigations Team in the granite city’s criminal underworld.
When drug kingpin Grace McFadden’s (Lesley Hart, River City) notorious fixer turns up dead, the MIT have their work cut out to find the source of a new cocaine and ketamine compound flooding the streets. Fearing an impending drugs-turf war is brewing, the team fights to uncover the truth.
AVAILABLE AUGUST 16
Monty Don’s American Gardens S1 | New to BritBox | 3 x 60’ | All at Once
What is an American garden? Is there such a thing, and if so, what does it look like? In this three-part series, Monty Don (Gardeners’ World) travels across this vast continent searching for answers. He starts at a prairie in full bloom – the original American flowering wilderness.
He joins community volunteers creating productive spaces in New York and sees what the American can-do attitude coupled with limitless wealth can produce. Heading south, Monty explores the gardens of early independent America and the huge oak trees of New Orleans.
For the final leg of his journey, Monty heads to the extraordinary scenery of the West Coast, meeting cacti, redwoods, and some celebrities on the way. Following Monty on this journey is to follow a passionate, inquisitive traveler for whom visiting gardens tells him, and in turn, the viewer, so much about the country at large in a way rarely explored.
AVAILABLE AUGUST 20
The White Princess | New to BritBox | 8 x 60’ | All at Once
“The White Princess” charts one of the most tumultuous times in British history uniquely from the viewpoint of the women waging the battle for power. Starring Emmy and BAFTA winner Jodie Comer (Killing Eve).
AVAILABLE AUGUST 22
Avoidance S2 | US Exclusive, US Original | 6 x 30’ | All at Once
Life has changed since Jonathan’s (Romesh Ranganathan, The Ranganation) marriage broke down and he absconded with his son to live with his sister. Life has changed a lot. One year ago, Jonathan’s ex-partner Claire (Jessica Knappett, Drifters) asked him to leave.
Life with his sister Dan (Mandeep Dhillon, The City & The City), her wife Courtney (Lisa McGrillis, Mum), and his son Spencer could best be described as… dysfunctional. But now things are about to get a whole lot more stressful.
Dan and Courtney have a baby on the way, Claire has a hot new man, and most importantly, Jonathan is wearing lycra. He tries everything to impress Claire, from taking up cycling to practicing affirmations and even an ill-fated stage performance. But will Jonathan win her back? And will Dan and Courtney be ready when the baby comes?
AVAILABLE AUGUST 29
Informer S1 | New to BritBox, BritBox Exclusive | 6 x 60’ | All at Once
When politics turns personal. Informer is a sophisticated, character-driven thriller about Raza (Nabhaan Rizwan, Juice), a young second-generation Pakistani man from East London who is coerced by Gabe (Paddy Considine, The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher), a counter-terrorism officer, to go undercover and inform for him.
Gabe, who is unwilling to expose his past, is joined by Holly (Bel Powley, Murderland), his new and ambitious partner whose endless curiosity begins to threaten him. As the central counter-terrorism investigation heats up, the stakes for all three get higher and higher. Informer tells a story about identity in a world where lines are increasingly drawn and sides are taken.
Mirko Parlevliet has been reporting on the entertainment industry since 1998 and founded Vital Thrills to provide the latest news on streaming, movies, and TV shows. He previously created the websites ComingSoon, SuperHeroHype, and ShockTillYouDrop.