BBC Studios has announced the titles coming to BritBox in October 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 October lineup features the genre-bending thriller Passenger, starring Wunmi Mosaku; Suspect Season 2, starring BAFTA-winner Anne-Marie Duff; Paul Abbott’s original Shameless, also starring Duff and David Threlfall; and the ninth and final season of the anthology series Inside No. 9.
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BRITBOX OCTOBER 2024 SCHEDULE
AVAILABLE OCTOBER 1
Shameless Season 1 | New to BritBox | 7 x 60’ | All at Once
Meet the Gallaghers as they experience life on the edge in a blur of sexual adventures, triumphs, love, scams, and petty crime on a Manchester estate. And be thankful they’re not your neighbors…
AVAILABLE OCTOBER 3
Suspect Season 2 | North America Premiere, North America Exclusive, BritBox Original | 8 x 30’ | 2x Daily
The second season picks up where the first left off, with Dr Susannah Newman (Anne-Marie Duff; Bad Sisters, The Salisbury Poisonings) on a quest to find the truth about her daughter’s tragic death. When a mysterious new client Jon (Dominic Cooper; Preacher, Mamma Mia!) makes a disturbing confession under hypnosis, Susannah is forced to embark on her own deadly mission to save a life, the way she couldn’t do with her own daughter…
Also joining the cast for the second series are Ben Miller (Professor T, Paddington 2) as Detective Superintendent Richard Groves, Tamsin Greig (Friday Night Dinner, Belgravia) as Natasha Groves, Vinette Robinson (Boiling Point, The Lazarus Project) as Louisa McAdams, Eddie Marsan (The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe, Ray Donovan) as Alistair Underwood, Celine Buckens (Showtrial, The Ex-Wife) as Sapphire, Nicholas Pinnock (Top Boy, For Life) as Joseph Buckley, and Gina McKee (Bodyguard, Our Friends in the North) as Kate.
AVAILABLE OCTOBER 8
Shameless Season 2 | New to BritBox | 11 x 60’ | All at Once
Frank (David Threlfall, Passenger) is expecting his seventh kid, but there’s a shock in store. And on the back of a fiddled insurance claim, the Gallagher clan has extended into next door. One big happy family! Well, big, anyway.
AVAILABLE OCTOBER 9
The Inheritance Season 1 | North America Exclusive, North America Premiere | 4 x 60’ | All at Once
The Inheritance follows siblings Daniel (Robert James-Collier, Coronation Street), Sian (Gaynor Faye, Emmerdale Farm), and Chloe (Jemima Rooper, Silent Witness), who are part of a seemingly close and loving family. The trio are left reeling after the sudden death of their father, Dennis (Larry Lamb, EastEnders), and are later devastated to discover they have not been left their expected inheritance in his will.
This leads them to question whether he really did die in an accident, as they were told, or if he was murdered. Their investigation takes them down a dangerous path and sees secrets unravel, relationships ripped apart and lives lost.
AVAILABLE OCTOBER 11
Race Across the World Season 3 | North America Premiere | 9 x 60’ | All at Once
The third installment of the BAFTA-winning series is set to be the most extreme to date, with five pairs of intrepid travelers racing across an entire continent – ocean to ocean. Starting out at the very edge of the Pacific in Vancouver, the teams travel over 16,000 kilometers across six time zones, all at ground level, to the finish line perched on the rugged Atlantic coast: North America’s most easterly city, St John’s in Newfoundland.
Without the use of air travel or any of the trappings of modern-day life, the pairs must navigate their way through the very edges of civilization, taking in vast prairies, untouched wilderness, and great lakes with only the cash equivalent of the airfare to their final destination.
AVAILABLE OCTOBER 14
Prison Seasons 1 & 2 | New to BritBox | 3 x 60’ & 3 x 60’ | All at Once
Filmed over seven months inside HMP Durham, Prison offers unprecedented access to life behind bars. With a rare opportunity to film inside an English prison, the three-part series produced and directed by Paddy Wivell (Wonderland) tells the human story on both sides of the door: staff and prisoners and the real issues facing them.
AVAILABLE OCTOBER 15
Shameless Season 3 | New to BritBox | 8 x 60’ | All at Once
Debbie’s (Rebecca Ryan, Coronation Street) plan gets well out of hand, Mandy (Samantha Siddall, Jane Eyre) gives birth to Lip’s (Jody Latham, EastEnders) baby, Kev (Dean Lennox Kelly, Jamestown) suffers a tragic loss, and Frank (David Threlfall, Passenger) and Sheila’s (Maggie O’Neill, EastEnders) wedding day arrives – but will he go through with it?
AVAILABLE OCTOBER 17
Passenger Season 1 | North America Premiere, North America Exclusive, BritBox Original | 6 x 60’ | 2x Weekly
Everyone’s afraid of something; it’s how we deal with it that defines us. Katie (Rowan Robinson, A Haunting in Venice) is driving Oskar home through the eerily silent, snow-covered forest outside their village Chadder Vale. Something scary crashes into Katie’s car, and she stops and follows it. Whatever it is, it abducts her.
DS Riya (Wunmi Mosaku, Loki), a local policewoman, is called to investigate the disappearance. She’s always searched for that ‘one big crime,’ that one challenge that will make her feel completely alive again. But after some worry from her mother and a few friends, Katie returns the next day.
None of this sits right with Riya. Where did Katie go? Why does she seem changed now she’s back and why won’t she open up about what happened? Katie’s disappearance is the first of a series of strange happenings that start unfolding within the village.
The other villagers ignore these or start resorting to short-sighted theories and blaming outside influences for what’s going on. Riya investigates as stranger things keep happening, her discoveries adding up to something bigger and weirder – leading her – to her surprise – to a mind-blowing secret that’s been hidden beneath the village bread factory for years…
AVAILABLE OCTOBER 18
Race Across the World Season 4 | North America Premiere | 9 x 60’ | All at Once
Race Across the World, the epic, hugely successful, and much-loved BAFTA-award-winning series returns. Eastern Asia is this year’s route, and the five intrepid duos will battle it out in a breathtaking 15,000-kilometer race across several countries.
From northernmost Japan, they will cross six seas and eight borders, skirting the path of the volcanic ring of fire – the most geologically unstable region on the planet to reach the finish line in Lombok, an idyllic Indonesian island paradise. Leaving behind their smartphones, internet access, and bank cards, the race will test the five teams like never before, pushing them to both their physical and emotional limits.
But with their feet on the ground and their eyes wide open, the rewards will be great, and the memories will be everlasting. Only one team can emerge victorious as they all vie to be first and claim the cash prize of £20,000.
AVAILABLE OCTOBER 20
Shameless Season 4 | New to BritBox | 8 x 60’ | All at Once
Lip (Jody Latham, EastEnders) is juggling with parenting, and Ian (Gerard Kearns, The Essex Serpent) is looking for love, while Debbie (Rebecca Ryan, Coronation Street) decides to interview potential boyfriends. And what’s the connection between Kev (Dean Lennox Kelly, Jamestown), Veronica (Maxine Peake, Silk), Marty (Jack Deam, Father Brown), Sue (Gillian Kearney, Casualty) and a Romanian baby?
AVAILABLE OCTOBER 25
Not Going Out Season 2 | New to BritBox | 8 x 30’ | All at Once
Kate (Megan Dodds, MI-5) has moved back to America, so Tim’s (Time Vine, The Sketch Show) sister Lucy (Sally Bretton, Beyond Paradise) takes over paying the rent… but she is only allowed to purchase the flat if Lee (Lee Mack, Murder, They Hope) was allowed to continue living there. This begins the will-they-won’t-they situation between Lee and Lucy. However, there is an obstacle in Lee’s way – Lucy’s older boyfriend Guy (Simon Dutton, EastEnders).
Not Going Out Season 3 | New to BritBox | 8 x 30’ | All at Once
Pregnancies, insurance scams, and lesbian neighbors, not to mention a well-meaning but utterly useless cleaner and Tim’s (Time Vine, The Sketch Show) ditzy girlfriend Daisy (Katy Wix, Ghosts), all help keep Lee’s (Lee Mack, Murder, They Hope) mind off the bigger picture in Series 3.
Not Going Out Season 4 | New to BritBox | 6 x 30’ | All at Once
Series 4 saw Lee (Lee Mack, Murder, They Hope) still desperate to win the affection of Lucy (Sally Bretton, Beyond Paradise). But it’s still not plain sailing, and it’s not just Lee’s complete lack of drive that gets in the way. Trouble seems to find Lee at every turn. Not only are Tim (Time Vine, The Sketch Show) and Daisy (Katy Wix, Ghosts) on hand to cause problems, but Lee also has to cope with stolen drugs, missing OAPs, long-lost daughters, a coma, and more.
AVAILABLE OCTOBER 28
Murder in the Village: Who Killed the Doctor’s Wife? S1 | North America Exclusive | 2 x 60’ | All at Once
Murder in the Village: Who Killed the Doctor’s Wife? investigates one of Britain’s most baffling cold cases. Dr. Robert Jones was the beloved local GP in the picture-perfect town of Coggeshall in Essex. Married to the beautiful Diane Jones, the couple lived in a stunning 16th-century farmhouse. Their lives appeared idyllic.
But in July 1983, Diane suddenly vanished, and tragically, her body was later discovered with clear signs that she had been murdered. Despite an extensive police investigation, no culprit was ever found.
Forty years later, we explore new evidence to investigate who killed her. With first-person testimony from police detectives, friends, and neighbors, this series peels back the shocking layers to reveal that truth is stranger than fiction and that the reality of Diane’s secret life was far from what anyone imagined.
AVAILABLE OCTOBER 29
Shameless Season 5 | New to BritBox Original | 16 x 60’ | All at Once
Frank (David Threlfall, Passenger) gets some bad news, Lip (Jody Latham, EastEnders) returns home from university, Ian (Gerard Kearns, The Essex Serpent) very nearly finds love, Carl (Elliott Tittensor, Silent Witness) continues with his sexploits, and the quiet outsider Debbie (Rebecca Ryan, Coronation Street) surprises everyone by falling head over heels.
AVAILABLE OCTOBER 30
Inside No. 9 Season 9 | North America Exclusive | 6 x 30’ | All at Once
The highly anticipated ninth and final series of Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton’s critically acclaimed and BAFTA Award-winning anthology series returns. From the elegance of an Edwardian country house to the grim reality of the last train home, from nosy neighbors to grave robbers, from illicit visits to the toilet to a ticking clock in a sinister escape room, this ninth collection is sure to send the series off with a bang.
A deadly mixture of classical music, dubious morals, and murders at midnight, Shearsmith and Pemberton present six more films to delight and disturb their many fans around the world as they open the door marked No.9 for the final time.
Once again there are exceptional guest stars to look forward to including Dorothy Atkinson (Pennyworth, Mum), Mark Bonnar (Guilt, Napoleon), Charlie Cooper (This Country, See How They Run), Natalie Dormer (Game of Thrones, The Tudors), Philippa Dunne (Derry Girls, Motherland), Siobhan Finneran (Happy Valley, Benidorm), and Joel Fry (Plebs, Game of Thrones).
Katherine Kelly (Coronation Street, The Long Shadow), Matthew Kelly (Stars In Their Eyes, Cold Blood), Eddie Marsan (Vera Drake, Happy-Go-Lucky), Vinette Robinson (Boiling Point, The A Word), Adrian Scarborough (Gavin and Stacey, The Chelsea Detectives), Hayley Squires (I, Daniel Blake, Adult Material), and Susan Wokoma (Cheaters, Chewing Gum) also guest star.
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.