BritBox October 2025 Schedule Announced

BBC Studios has announced the titles coming to BritBox in October 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 October lineup includes the return of the critically acclaimed Karen Pirie series for its sophomore season. In the series inspired by Val McDermid’s bestselling novels, Lauren Lyle (Outlander) is back in her titular role as a newly promoted DS investigating a 25-year-old cold case.

Beloved mystery Beyond Paradise returns to North America this fall with its highly anticipated third season. Fan favorites Kris Marshall (Sanditon), Sally Bretton (Not Going Out), and Dylan Llewellyn (Derry Girls) take on more head-scratching cases and idyllic coastlines in the latest installment from the Death in Paradise franchise.

BritBox also tells us that the release of Riot Women Season 1 has been pushed back from an October 22, 2025, premiere to a January 2026 debut. Riot Women is the new drama from the multi-BAFTA award-winning writer Sally Wainwright.

BRITBOX OCTOBER 2025 SCHEDULE

AVAILABLE OCTOBER 2

Karen Pirie Season 2 | BritBox Original, BritBox Exclusive, North America Premiere | 3 x 120’ | Released Weekly
In the societal turmoil of 1984, when the heiress to an oil fortune, Catriona Grant (Julia Brown, Shetland), is kidnapped at gunpoint and held to ransom with her young son, Adam, it’s assumed that the motivation is political.

The huge investigation ignited an uncontrollable press storm, but when the culprits unexpectedly fall silent, the case runs cold. Catriona and Adam are never seen again.

Forty years later, when a man’s body is discovered, Karen Pirie (Lauren Lyle, Outlander) is assigned to reopen the case in complete secrecy. With the first key piece of evidence in decades, Karen and the team delve into a history of love, deceit, political unrest, and class struggle in order to unlock one of Scotland’s most infamous mysteries, while avoiding media attention.

What happened to Catriona Grant, and why do sinister forces want the secrets of her disappearance to remain hidden?

AVAILABLE OCTOBER 10

Ripper Street Season 1 | New to BritBox | 8 x 60’ | Released All at Once
Haunted by the failure to catch London’s most evil killer, Jack the Ripper, Inspector Edmund Reid (Matthew Macfadyen, Stonehouse) now heads up the notorious H Division – the toughest police district in the East End.

Charged with keeping order in the blood-stained streets of Whitechapel, Reid and his men find themselves fighting to uphold justice and the rule of law, but always in the background lurks the fear of the Ripper – is he back for another reign of terror?

AVAILABLE OCTOBER 14

Beyond Paradise Season 3 | BritBox Original, BritBox Exclusive, North America Premiere | 6 x 60’ | Released Weekly
The hit spin-off from Death in Paradise returns as DI Humphrey Goodman (Kris Marshall, Sanditon) and fiancée Martha (Sally Bretton, Not Going Out) face more challenges in their new life by the coast.

Set against the idyllic backdrop of Devon and Cornwall, the Shipton Abbott team solves more intriguing crimes, including a body found in the river on the county border, a baffling chocolate box poisoning, a historic farming feud, and a spiking incident on the water.

Away from the police station, Martha and Humphrey try to overcome unexpected hurdles as foster parents, while the reappearance of Martha’s old flame Archie (Jamie Bamber, Law & Order: UK) presents an unexpected challenge.

Esther (Zahra Ahmadi, The Bay) navigates a surprise encounter in her private life, a health scare for Anne (Barbara Flynn, Kate & Koji) stirs up painful memories, and Kelby (Dylan Llewellyn, Derry Girls) embarks on a journey of personal growth.

AVAILABLE OCTOBER 17

Ripper Street Season 2 | New to BritBox | 8 x 60’ | Released All at Once
The compelling crime drama returns, and the job of preventing Whitechapel from descending into hell has never been harder for Inspector Reid (Matthew Macfadyen, Stonehouse) and his loyal deputies.

The memory of Jack the Ripper may have faded, but the Whitechapel streets he walked are more dangerous than ever. The men of H-Division are pushed to their limit, and they are undermined at every turn by the corrupt and amoral force in neighbouring K-Division.

Drake (Jerome Flynn, The Change) is happily married to Bella (Gillian Saker, Lynely), though the unrequited love of Rose (Charlene McKenna, Peaky Blinders) still haunts him, and Jackson (Adam Rothenberg, Rivals) and Long Susan’s (MyAnna Buring, The Responder) tempestuous relationship boils over again.

AVAILABLE OCTOBER 22

Apple Tree Yard Season 1 | New to BritBox | 4 x 60’ | Released All at Once
Dr. Yvonne Carmichael (Emily Watson, Chernobyl) has a high-flying career, a beautiful home, and a loving family. But appearances can be deceptive, and when a charismatic stranger approaches her, she soon finds herself taking risks that she had never dreamt of before.

AVAILABLE OCTOBER 24

Ripper Street Season 3 | New to BritBox | 8 x 60’ | Released All at Once
The third season of this riveting crime drama opens with a cataclysmic event that reverberates throughout the eight episodes. Fifty-five souls are lost to a terrible locomotive disaster, with the wreckage landing right in the lap of ‘H’ Division – on Leman Street itself.

From the twisted debris of the crash emerge clues that uncover long-hidden deceits. These crimes threaten not only to destroy Reid’s (Matthew Macfadyen, Stonehouse) iron grip on ‘H’ Division, but also to unravel his fragile psyche. The personal damage to Reid is profound, and there is no limit to what he will do to avenge his own, deep-seated grief.

AVAILABLE OCTOBER 29

Ten Pound Poms | BritBox Exclusive, North America Premiere | 6 x 60’ | Released 2x Upon Premiere, Then Weekly
In 1956, a group of Brits responds to an emigration advertisement that promises a prosperous new life in Australia for just ten British pounds. Expecting to exchange rationed Britain for exotic food, whitewashed houses, and sun-soaked adventures, the new migrants arrive in Sydney to find that life down under is a far cry from what they were sold.

FALL SNEAK PEEK

AVAILABLE NOVEMBER 13

Blue Lights Season 3 | BritBox Original, BritBox Exclusive, United States Premiere | 6 x 60’ | Released Weekly
Two years into their jobs as response officers, Grace (Sian Brooke, Sherlock), Annie (Katherine Devlin, The Day of the Jackal), and Tommy (Nathan Braniff) are accustomed to life under the blue lights.

But their work will take them into a sinister world hidden behind the veneer of middle-class life —the world of accountants and lawyers who facilitate organized crime. The old political and criminal order has gone, and a new global gang rule Belfast, bringing danger closer to home for our officers than ever before.