BBC Studios has announced the titles coming to BritBox in September 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 September lineup features season two of the hit bomb squad drama Trigger Point, the fifth season of The Bay, and the third season of The Tower. True crime drama Des, starring BAFTA-winner David Tenant, will also be available.
BritBox is the leading streaming destination for the best of British television and culture, offering the most comprehensive, must-see collection of British entertainment all in one place. The service provides a pipeline of exceptional storytelling and showcases the depth and breadth of British creativity from across the UK.
BritBox curates a quality selection of classic titles and original commissions across various genres, including dramas, comedies, documentaries, and lifestyle programming. Launched in 2017 and now wholly owned by BBC Studios, BritBox is available in the US, Canada, Australia, and the Nordics.
BRITBOX SEPTEMBER 2024 SCHEDULE
AVAILABLE SEPTEMBER 2
Man Down Season 1 | New to BritBox | 7 x 30’ | All at Once
Written by and starring Greg Davies (The Inbetweeners, BAFTA-nominated star of Cuckoo) as Dan, a walking disaster-area and child-trapped-in-a-man’s-body whose world is consistently staggering towards collapse. Crushing character flaws, an unwanted teaching job, uniquely dysfunctional friends, and a wilfully insane family conspire to keep this Man Down.
AVAILABLE SEPTEMBER 4
Des | New to BritBox | 3 x 60’ | All at Once
Des is a true-crime drama focusing on one of the most infamous criminal cases in UK history – Dennis Nilsen. Known as the ‘kindly killer,’ Nilsen (David Tennant, Good Omens, Broadchurch) was a local civil servant who spent five years murdering boys and young men he met on the streets of London’s Soho from 1978 to 1983. He would meet and befriend these men before offering them food or lodgings for the evening back at his North London flat.
His victims were often homeless or living off the grid, having slipped through the cracks of 1980s British society, and were therefore welcoming of this stranger’s apparent generosity. When he was finally caught on 9 February 1983, Nilsen had murdered a total of fifteen men over a period of five years, making him Britain’s most prolific serial killer of the time.
AVAILABLE SEPTEMBER 5
The Responder Season 2 | New to BritBox | 6 x 60’ | 2x Weekly – *Canada Only
The Responder season 2 sees Martin Freeman (The Office UK, Sherlock) return to his dark, gritty best. The new series picks up six months after the last one left off. Carson (Freeman) is busy trying to better himself as a police officer and as a father to his daughter, Tilly (Romi Hyland-Rylands, For Her Sins). However, the recurrent trauma of the night officer beat continues.
And, in an effort to finally free himself, he seeks a day job. Meanwhile, having been dragged into the mud by her partner, Rachel (Adelayo Adedayo, Some Girls, Timewasters) is attempting to rebuild her life. She begins the season furious with Chris but, after going on to work with a sequence of ‘normal’ coppers, finds that she has more in common with her former partner than she’s perhaps willing to admit.
Trigger Point Season 2 | US Exclusive, US Premiere | 6 x 60’ | 2x Weekly – *US Only
The second series starts a year on from the Crusader’s attacks. Lana Washington (Vicky McClure, Line of Duty, Broadchurch) has returned to EXPO after helping train bomb disposal teams in Ukraine. While she’s back and giving a corporate talk on bomb disposal, a series of devices are used to attack a power station, causing widespread chaos, signaling the start of a new and active threat.
Lana works with MI5 and Counter-Terrorism to uncover a wide but loosely connected terrorist cell led by an anonymous leader and bound by their belief in anti-state conspiracy theories. Lana is pushed to her limits as she goes undercover, attempting to unmask the figurehead of the paranoid, delusional cell before they cause total devastation.
AVAILABLE SEPTEMBER 6
Charles III: The Coronation Year | New to BritBox | 1 x 90’ | All at Once
After Elizabeth II’s longest reign in British history, King Charles III had to lead his family and his people in mourning his mother. At the same time, he had to embrace his destiny on the most famous throne in the world. With exclusive inside access, Charles III: The Coronation Year follows King Charles and Queen Camilla through landmark moments of their first year.
AVAILABLE SEPTEMBER 9
Man Down Season 2 | New to BritBox | 7 x 30’ | All at Once
Dan (Greg Davies, The Inbetweeners, Cuckoo) is still trapped in a teaching job he despises and rejected by the girl he thinks will solve everything, Miss Lipsey (Stella Gonet, The House of Eliott), so he turns his attention to self-improvement.
AVAILABLE SEPTEMBER 10
Forensics: The Real CSI S1 | New to BritBox | 3 x 60’ | All at Once
Multiple cameras follow serious crime investigations in real time, revealing the crucial role cutting-edge forensic science now plays in bringing criminals to justice. In the opening episode, the forensics team must identify an unknown gunman from evidence left at the scene of a shooting and determine the cause of death of a body found under suspicious circumstances.
AVAILABLE SEPTEMBER 16
Man Down Season 3 | New to BritBox | 6 x 30’ | All at Once
Dan’s (Greg Davies, The Inbetweeners, Cuckoo) incompetence in the classroom means he is facing a disciplinary. Should he ditch the teaching job he despises and follow his heart to a new adventure? New characters include an Eastern European caretaker and Deadalus, the boyfriend of Dan’s mum.
Meanwhile Jo (Roisin Conaty, The Cleaner) is still happily chasing harebrained projects, Brian (Mike Wozniak, The Cleaner) is coming to terms with life as a single man, and Aunt Nesta (Stephanie Cole, Gentleman Jack, Coronation Street) is on hand to offer a firm guiding hand.
AVAILABLE SEPTEMBER 18
The Bay Season 5 | BritBox Original, BritBox Exclusive, North America Premiere | 6 x 60’ | 2x Weekly
When 23-year-old university student Hannah (Sarah Eve, Death on the Nile) is found dead on the edge of the docks, Morecambe’s MIU team has another case to solve. Jenn (Marsha Thomason, White Collar, Lost), who is returning to work following the death of her father, pushes aside her own grief to support Hannah’s bitterly divided family.
With the investigation’s stakes high, Jenn and the team dig deeper into the case and uncover hidden friendships and secret liaisons as anger rises in the student community. As intensity increases and the team peels back the complicated layers of Hannah’s life and the secrets within it, Jenn must reconcile her personal and professional struggles as she grapples to solve the case, come to terms with her own loss, and build bridges with her family.
AVAILABLE SEPTEMBER 23
Man Down Season 4 | New to BritBox | 6 x 30’ | All at Once
Dan (Greg Davies, The Inbetweeners, Cuckoo) has quit his teaching job and is applying his unique work ethic to a new profession. With Aunt Nesta (Stephanie Cole, Gentleman Jack, Coronation Street) and his mum in a retirement village, Dan’s also on a hunt to find his soon-to-be family a home and embarks on a journey to rediscover a terrible truth about a misremembered friendship.
AVAILABLE SEPTEMBER 26
The Tower Season 3 | BritBox Original, BritBox Exclusive, North America Premiere | 4 x 60’ | Weekly
Two years after we last saw her, Sarah (Gemma Whelan, Game of Thrones, Gentleman Jack) is called to investigate the stabbing of a teenage boy. The case brings her into contact with Lizzie (Tahirah Sharif, The Haunting of Bly Manor), now balancing life as detective and mother, and into conflict with Kieran (Emmett J Scanlan, The Fall, Peaky Blinders), who is running Operation Perseus, targeting drug kingpin Shakiel.
Kieran is working with Steve, who has gone undercover to infiltrate Shakiel’s empire. The focus of Sarah and Kieran’s conflict is 15-year-old Ryan (Lamar Waves), who witnessed the fatal stabbing but is also a key part of Shakiel’s inner circle. As Perseus heads to its shocking climax, Ryan will have a surprising role to play.
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.