Best British romance series
A curated collection of popular romance series from United Kingdom.
Parade's End (2012)
Parade's End (2012)
The story of a love triangle between a conservative English aristocrat, his mean socialite wife and a young suffragette in the midst of World War I and a Europe on the brink of profound change.
Truelove (2024)
Truelove (2024)
A group of old friends reunited at a funeral make a drunken pact. Rather than let each other suffer a slow and painful decline they would engineer a dignified death. But what starts out as a fanciful idea soon morphs into shocking reality.
The Bi Life (2018)
The Bi Life (2018)
A dating series that sees a group of bisexual+ (bi, pansexual, fluid, etc.) or questioning British singletons sent on the ultimate adventure to find love.
Fifteen-Love (2023)
Fifteen-Love (2023)
A former tennis prodigy makes an explosive allegation against her former coach. After the allegation, everyone is forced to reconsider what they thought they knew about their past success.
Jack and Dani: Life After Love Island (2019)
Jack and Dani: Life After Love Island (2019)
The winners of Love Island 2018 are back and this time they're in the real world. Join Jack and Dani as they move in together, get a puppy and visit the Far East. Will the pressures of having a relationship under the microscope prove too much?
Belgravia (2020)
Belgravia (2020)
A tale of secrets and scandals set in 1840s London. When the Trenchards accept an invitation to the now legendary ball hosted by the Duchess of Richmond on the fateful evening of the Battle of Waterloo, it sets in motion a series of events that will have consequences for decades to come as secrets unravel behind the porticoed doors of London’s grandest postcode.
Sense and Sensibility (2008)
Sense and Sensibility (2008)
Marianne Dashwood wears her heart on her sleeve when she falls in love with the charming but unsuitable John Willoughby, ignoring her sister Elinor's warning that her impulsive behavior leaves her open to gossip and innuendo. Elinor, sensitive to social convention, struggles to conceal her own romantic disappointment, even from those closest to her. Will the sisters learn that sense must mix with sensibility if they are to find personal happiness in a society where status and money govern the rules of love?
Last Tango in Halifax (2012)
Last Tango in Halifax (2012)
Celia and Alan are both widowed and in their seventies. When their respective grandsons put their details on Facebook, they rediscover a passionate relationship that started over sixty years ago.
The Pursuit of Love (2021)
Upstairs Downstairs (2010)
Upstairs Downstairs (2010)
Set in 1936, the show takes viewers, old and new, back to the lavish world of Belgravia, London. A new set of occupants reside at 165 Eaton Place and viewers see how external and internal influences of the tumultuous pre-war period shape and mould the lives of this wealthy family and their servants.
Casanova (2005)
Casanova (2005)
Castle Dux, Bohemia, 1798. Casanova, now a penniless librarian in his seventies, tells Edith, a young kitchen maid in the castle, his remarkable life story, and about falling in love with Henriette.
Brideshead Revisited (1981)
Brideshead Revisited (1981)
Charles Ryder, an agnostic man, becomes involved with members of the Flytes, a Catholic family of aristocrats, over the course of several years between the two world wars.
A Very British Romance with Lucy Worsley (2015)
A Very British Romance with Lucy Worsley (2015)
Lucy Worsley delves into the history of romance to uncover the forces shaping our very British happily ever after and how our feelings have been affected by social, political and cultural ideas.
Celebs Go Dating (2016)
Celebs Go Dating (2016)
Single celebrities join an exclusive dating agency in a bid to find true love. Matchmakers pair them with non-celebrity partners and the cameras capture every romantic and cringe-filled moment.
The One That Got Away (2022)
The One That Got Away (2022)
It may seem like an impossible feat to track down The One That Got Away, but in this time-traveling, experimental dating series hosted by Betty Who, six lucky Singles searching for their soulmate are given the chance to explore a lifetime of missed connections. One by one, people from our Singles’ past enter through The Portal to surprise them and take their shot at finding true love.
My Mum, Your Dad (2023)
My Mum, Your Dad (2023)
A dating show with a difference for the whole family, My Mum, Your Dad follows a group of single parents who have been nominated by their grown-up kids for a second chance at love. Across 10 hour-long episodes, audiences will be able to follow the single parents, from all over the UK, and all walks of life, as they live together at a stunning country house retreat with one objective: to find true love.
Bad World (2013)
Bad World (2013)
Based in Jacksonville, Oregon in the year 1992, life changes for the worst. People start going crazy, violent, cannibalistic, tearing the world apart. We follow Erin, a quiet young teenager through a post-apocalyptic world. Facing struggles not even your worst enemy should face. Mystery and menace have taken control of their lives. From getting ripped apart, broken down, hurt and scared. Erin and Jacob always find their way back to each other.
Celebs Go Virtual Dating (2020)
Celebs Go Virtual Dating (2020)
Single celebrities look for love with the added challenges of video vetting matches and trying to find that spark on socially-distanced dates.
Love in the Countryside (2018)
Love in the Countryside (2018)
Eight rural singles from across the UK enlist the help of farmer's daughter Sara Cox as they take the bull by the horns in a mission to find true love. Can cupid work his magic?
Eating With My Ex (2019)
Eating With My Ex (2019)
Ten-part series in which former couples meet up for dinner and have to answer three brutally honest questions about where their relationship went wrong.Is this going to be super-awkward or is there still a spark?
The Men's Room (1991)
The Men's Room (1991)
The Men's Room is a British television drama miniseries that was produced by the BBC and originally aired in 1991. The series, which comprises five 50-minute episodes, was adapted by Laura Lamson from Ann Oakley's 1989 novel of the same name and stars Bill Nighy, Harriet Walter, Amanda Redman, Charlotte Cornwell and James Aubrey.A black comedy and period piece set during the Thatcher years, it tells the story of an affair between two academics, previously devoted wife and mother Charity Walton (Walter) and serial womanizer Mark Carleton (Nighy)
Make Or Break? (2017)
Make Or Break? (2017)
Eight couples whose relationships have reached breaking point are whisked off to a tropical Mexican resort, where they will find out whether their current squeezes are really right for them. Expert-led behaviour workshops, challenges, and sex therapy sessions aim to give each participant a deeper understanding of themselves, and each other. However, on arriving at the resort, each couple's relationship is put "on a break", and they are forced to swap partners every 48 hours, meaning the temptation to play away might prove too much for some.
Sons and Lovers (2003)
Sons and Lovers (2003)
Sarah Lancashire reprises her oft-repeated role as the put-upon mother in ITV's two-part adaptation of DH Lawrence's novel.
Yesterday's Dreams (1987)
Yesterday's Dreams (1987)
Story from the late eighties about a woman (Judy Loe), trying to decide whether to stay with her current partner, or to rekindle the relationship with her ex husband (Paul Freeman). This comes about because their son is leaving school and has to decide what he's going to do with his life. His father (Freeman) thinks he should go to university, so inevitably, communication lines are opened. The mother (Loe) starts to examine her life and compare her partner, the slightly scruffy owner of a small, country garage, with her ex, a suit wearing, Porsche driving engineer in the aerospace industry.
Drovers' Gold (1997)
Drovers' Gold (1997)
This show is about a couple broken and cheated Welsh families that decide in order to live they need to drive their cattle beasts to London for the best price. Unfortunately, there's the evil landholder that wants to kick everyone out of the valley and see the good families starve and go to workhouses. His conniving treachery enables several issues to arise while the fellas and a few more travellers in their party attempt to persevere. Talk about cattle plague and cholera outbreaks, punishment for driving cattle on a Sunday, and other interesting issues are just a fraction of what six episodes will bring you. Adventure, horses, and a young Ray Stevens without a shirt on.
A Woman's Guide To Adultery (1993)
A Woman's Guide To Adultery (1993)
When Rose (Theresa Russell) signs up for a photography course taught by married lecturer Paul (Sean Bean), she finds herself beginning a relationship which goes against all of her better principles.