BritBox August 2025 Schedule Announced
BBC Studios has announced the titles coming to BritBox in August 2025, which include a range of new BritBox Originals and 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 continues to spotlight the work of BAFTA-winning writer Sally Wainwright with the debut of Last Tango in Halifax and Happy Valley. They join a growing lineup of her acclaimed works – Scott & Bailey and At Home with the Braithwaites – all streaming now. Explore the full lineup before her next release, Riot Women, coming soon to BritBox.
From August 26 through September 4, BritBox’s “Crime Spree” will debut a curated mix of full season and single-episode drops from some of the UK’s most gripping crime series. Fans can look forward to Sister Boniface Mysteries, Second Sight, Dublin Murders and more, offering a blend of cozy mystery and British grit. This binge-worthy slate sets the stage for Lynley – a fresh take on the well-to-do detective – coming soon to BritBox.
Starring and executive produced by James Norton (Happy Valley, Little Women), Playing Nice explores two families’ entanglement upon a shocking realization: their young sons were switched at birth. Kicking off BritBox’s “Crime Spree” and featuring a stellar cast – Niamh Algar, James McArdle, and Jessica Brown Findlay – the critically acclaimed miniseries premieres exclusively in the United States on August 26.
BRITBOX AUGUST 2025 SCHEDULE
AVAILABLE AUGUST 8
In the Footsteps of Killers Season 3 | BritBox Exclusive, North America Premiere | 6 x 60’ | Released All at Once
Silent Witness star Emilia Fox (The Trial of Christine Keeler) and Britain’s top criminologist Professor David Wilson attempt to solve Britain’s most heinous murders in this unique true-crime series.
AVAILABLE AUGUST 15
Celebrity Escape to the Country Season 1 | New to BritBox | 5 x 60’ | Released Weekly
Fancy swapping the hustle and bustle of city life for an idyllic rural retreat? The team help a host of well-known faces find their dream homes in the glorious British countryside.
AVAILABLE AUGUST 19
Sister Boniface Mysteries Season 4 | BritBox Original, BritBox Exclusive, North America Premiere | 8 x 60’ | Released Weekly
The nun who is the police’s secret weapon is back. Crime solving is her habit! The wine-making, moped-riding nun investigates more ugly deeds in beautiful surroundings. It’s the mid-1960s in the quaint Cotswold village of Great Slaughter, but strange things are afoot.
A killer scarecrow stalks the streets, all the women call a general strike and the police embark on something called “team building.” Sister Boniface (Lorna Watson, Father Brown) is looking forward to a wholesome weekend away with the sisters, only to be confronted with yet another murder.
AVAILABLE AUGUST 26
Playing Nice Season 1 | BritBox Exclusive, USA Premiere | 4 x 60’ | Released 2x Upon Premiere, Then Weekly
Set against a sweeping Cornish landscape, two couples discover that their toddlers were switched at birth in a hospital mix-up, and face a horrifying dilemma: do they keep the sons they have raised and loved, or reclaim their biological child?
Living a waking nightmare, Pete (James Norton, Little Women, Happy Valley) and Maddie (Niamh Algar, Mary & George, Suspect) are jettisoned into the world of the other couple; Miles (James McArdle, Andor, Mare of Easttown) and Lucy (Jessica Brown Findlay, The Flatshare, The Outcast).
At first it seems all four are agreed on a solution, but it soon becomes clear that hidden motives are at play. How far can each couple trust the parents of the other child – or even each other? As Pete and Maddie are stretched to breaking point, they realise they will stop at nothing to keep their family together.
Last Tango in Halifax Season 1 | BritBox Exclusive | 6 x 60’ | Released All at Once
Childhood sweethearts Alan (Derek Jacobi, Good Omens) and Celia (Anne Reid, The Sixth Commandment), both widowed and in their 70s, fall for each other all over again when they are reunited on the internet after nearly 60 years. Their relationship is a celebratory tale of the power of love at any age. But this is also a story about family, and with family comes baggage.
Celia’s respectable, head teacher daughter Caroline (Sarah Lancashire, Happy Valley) is juggling bringing up two boys and dealing with her husband’s infidelity, while Alan’s rebellious, complicated middle-aged daughter Gillian (Nicola Walker, Annika) struggles to make a living on a beautiful but bleak farm. How will these two very different women cope with their parents’ announcement that they’ve decided to get married?
Last Tango in Halifax Season 2 | BritBox Exclusive | 6 x 60’ | Released All at Once
The Bafta-winning comedy drama about romance and second chances returns as the reunited childhood sweethearts negotiate family baggage to plan a life together. Having come so close to losing each other forever thanks to Alan’s (Derek Jacobi, Good Omens) near fatal heart attack, he and Celia (Anne Reid, The Sixth Commandment) decide to have a romantic secret wedding as soon as possible. But how will their respective daughters react?
The uptight Caroline (Sarah Lancashire, Happy Valley) and rebellious Gillian (Nicola Walker, Annika) are discovering they actually quite like each other, however Gillian’s need to own up to her night with Caroline’s ex-husband John could jeopardise the soon to be stepsisters fledgling friendship. As secrets from the past come tumbling out and family members adjust to changing relationships, can Alan and Celia find the long-awaited happiness they deserve?
Last Tango in Halifax Season 3 | BritBox Exclusive | 6 x 60’ | Released All at Once
The latest series of this acclaimed ensemble drama sees Celia (Anne Reid, The Sixth Commandment) and Alan’s (Derek Jacobi, Good Omens) marriage tested by revelations about an incident in his past.
As his daughter Gillian (Nicola Walker, Annika) tries to deal with the dramas of her own complicated love life, Caroline (Sarah Lancashire, Happy Valley) has settled into happy domesticity with pregnant partner Kate. But her life is thrown into turmoil by sudden and tragic events and, despite feeling angry about her mother’s absence from her wedding, Caroline needs Celia and stepdad Alan more than ever.
Last Tango in Halifax Season 4 | BritBox Exclusive | 2 x 60’ | Released All at Once
Catch up with the lives and relationships of reunited childhood sweethearts Alan (Derek Jacobi, Good Omens) and Celia (Anne Reid, The Sixth Commandment) and their family members in this warm and witty two-part special. To Celia’s dismay, Caroline (Sarah Lancashire, Happy Valley) takes on a challenging new headship role at a troubled state school and buys a rundown farmhouse nearby.
Is there more to this big upheaval than she’s letting on – and will her move prompt her mother and Alan to finally find a place of their own? Meanwhile Gillian (Nicola Walker, Annika) is struggling to adjust to new husband Robbie being around all day since he retired from the police.
With Celia trying to rope a reluctant Alan into her new amateur dramatics hobby, Caroline negotiating a tricky new relationship and Gillian fighting a compulsion to confess to Robbie how his brother really died, life for these much-loved characters is as complicated as ever.
Last Tango in Halifax Season 5 | BritBox Exclusive | 4 x 60’ | Released All at Once
Alan (Derek Jacobi, Good Omens) and Celia (Anne Reid, The Sixth Commandment) are seven years into their marriage and having moved into a desirable bungalow, they aren’t seeing eye to eye. Alan’s new supermarket job brings an unexpected challenge when a wild local lad takes a shine to him and, at Far Slack Farm, Gillian (Nicola Walker, Annika) faces trouble with a giraffe.
John’s back on the scene, and Caroline (Sarah Lancashire, Happy Valley) finds herself caught in an emotional tangle with someone at work. Into all this jets Alan’s brother, Ted, on holiday from New Zealand… but it turns out he only bought a one-way ticket.
Happy Valley Season 1 | New to BritBox | 6 x 60’ | Released All at Once
Sarah Lancashire (Black Doves, Last Tango in Halifax) stars in this compelling crime thriller as a police sergeant in a small town where drunkards, drug addicts and teenage pregnancies are a way of life. Her world is shaken when the man she thinks is responsible for her daughter’s death – Tommy Lee Royce (James Norton, Playing Nice) – is released from prison.
Meanwhile, accountant Kevin Weatherill (Steve Pemberton, Inside No. 9) desperate to send his daughters to private school, asks his boss for a pay rise. When he refuses, a plan to hold his daughter to ransom quickly spirals out of control when Tommy Lee gets involved. How far will any of them go to get what they really want?
AVAILABLE AUGUST 27
Happy Valley Season 2 | New to BritBox | 6 x 60’ | Released All at Once
Sarah Lancashire (Black Doves, Last Tango in Halifax) returns in the acclaimed thriller written by Sally Wainwright (Riot Women, Last Tango in Halifax). No-nonsense police sergeant Catherine Cawood (Lancashire) is back heading up her team of dedicated police officers in West Yorkshire. While on duty, she makes a gruesome discovery – a body.
The victim’s injuries bear a striking similarity to a string of other murders, suggesting a serial killer is on the loose. But the case becomes even more shocking when it emerges that Catherine knows the victim – something that could have serious repercussions for both herself and her family.
AVAILABLE AUGUST 28
Happy Valley Season 3 | New to BritBox | 6 x 60’ | Released All at Once
When Sergeant Catherine Cawood (Sarah Lancashire, Black Doves, Last Tango in Halifax) discovers the remains of a gangland murder victim it sparks a chain of events that unwittingly leads her straight back to murderer and rapist Tommy Lee Royce (James Norton, Playing Nice).
Meanwhile, Catherine’s grandson Ryan (Rhys Connah, The White Princess) is now sixteen and has ideas of his own about what kind of relationship he wants to have with Tommy, the man Catherine refuses to acknowledge as his father.
AVAILABLE AUGUST 29
Dublin Murders Season 1 | New to BritBox | 8 x 60’ | Released All at Once
In the summer of 2006, Rob Reilly (Killian Scott, The Capture, Kaos), a smart-suited homicide detective, and his partner Cassie (Sarah Greene, Bad Sisters, Normal People) are dispatched to investigate a child’s murder, and they find a community caught between old and new Ireland.
SEPTEMBER SNEAK PEEKS
AVAILABLE SEPTEMBER 1
Second Sight Season 1 | New to BritBox | 4 x 60’ | Released All at Once
Ross Tanner (Clive Owen, Monsieur Spade, A Murder at the End of the World), a maverick ambitious Detective Chief Inspector who gets results by always going that extra mile is a man with a terrible secret. Detective Inspector Catherine Tully (Claire Skinner, Outnumbered, McDonald & Dodds), a competitive graduate officer, is drafted into Tanner’s serious crime unit to help investigate the apparently motiveless, brutal murder of a nineteen year-old boy.
As the investigation develops Catherine realizes the nature of Tanner’s dreadful secret: he is losing his sight. His obsession with the case is fuelled by his private terror. An uneasy alliance is formed between them. She will be his eyes, on certain conditions – terms which will enhance her career prospects.
But Tanner’s relationship to the world is becoming increasingly fragile. Instinct tells him that if he is to survive he must reinvent himself and use the alchemy of all his senses. He must relinquish his old reliance on the hi-tech, forensic approach to detective work and seek a more radical, intuitive way of seeing.
Second Sight Season 2 | New to BritBox | 6 x 60’ | Released All at Once
Tanner (Clive Owen, Monsieur Spade, A Murder at the End of the World) must gather evidence against his prime suspect in a murder case under difficult circumstances – but as he struggles to conceal his failing eyesight, DI Tully (Claire Skinner, Outnumbered, McDonald & Dodds) oversteps her authority, leaving him professionally exposed.
AVAILABLE SEPTEMBER 2
Return to Paradise Season 1 | BritBox Exclusive, North America Premiere | 6 x 60’ | Released Weekly
Set in the idyllic, beachside hamlet of Dolphin Cove, Return to Paradise is six gripping, twisting and fiendishly clever murder mysteries – all set against the spectacular backdrop of the Australian coastal landscape.
Australian ex-pat Mackenzie Clarke (Anna Samson, Home and Away, Dead Lucky) is the seemingly golden girl of the London Metropolitan police force – with an intuitive approach to detective work, she has built a reputation for being able to crack the most impossible of cases.
However, she has found herself being forced to up-sticks and move back to her childhood home of Dolphin Cove, a beautiful, surfers paradise and Mackenzie’s worst nightmare. Having escaped her home town at the earliest opportunity six years ago, Mackenzie vowed she’d never return, leaving a lot of unfinished business and unanswered questions.
On her return, she’s still no fan of the town, and the people of Dolphin Cove are certainly no fans of hers; everyone would prefer her not to be there, including Mackenzie herself. But when a murder takes place in Dolphin Cove, Mack can’t help but put her inspired detective brilliance to good use and determines, despite her reservations, that she needs to make the best of it, including tying up the loose ends with the ex-fiancé she left behind.
AVAILABLE SEPTEMBER 3
Wire in the Blood Season 1 | New to BritBox | 3 x 120’ | Released All at Once
With a serial killer on the loose, DI Carol Jordan (Hermione Norris, Silent Witness, Luther) calls in clinical psychologist Dr. Tony Hill (Robson Green, Grantchester, Age Before Beauty) for help with the investigation, despite objections from her superiors. When a cop becomes the next victim, the case turns personal.
Wire in the Blood Season 2 | New to BritBox | 4 x 90’ | Released All at Once
While Tony (Robson Green, Grantchester, Age Before Beauty) and Carol (Hermione Norris, Silent Witness, Luther) search for the killer of a young Dutch nurse, the best friend of one of Tony’s students goes missing. Meanwhile, Tony gets closer to discovering where his child-killer patient, Maggie (Elaine Claxton, Black Mirror, Emmerdale Farm) buried her victims.
SEPTEMBER TBA
Lynley Season 1 | BritBox Original, BritBox Exclusive, North America Premiere | 4 x 90’ | Released Weekly
Tommy Lynley (Leo Suter, Vikings: Valhalla, Sanditon) is a brilliant police detective but an outsider in the force – simply by virtue of his aristocratic upbringing. He is paired with Barbara Havers (Sofia Barclay, Prime Target, Ted Lasso), a sergeant with a maverick attitude and a working-class background.
With seemingly nothing in common and against all odds, the mismatched duo of Lynley and Havers become a formidable team, bonded by their desire to see justice done. His brain and her spirit – his knowledge and her instincts. Only by working side by side will they find where they truly belong.
