Jodie Comer and Bridget Christie showcase strong, female-led narratives in critically acclaimed Killing Eve and The Change.
BritBox Original Crime favorite Granite Harbour returns for a second season.
Comedic powerhouse Bridget Christie creates and stars in her show this August. Season one of The Change (starring Christie, follows a middle-aged woman going through menopause) launches August 1.
BAFTA and Emmy winner Killing Eve finds its home on BritBox this summer. Watch the entirety of Jodie Comer (The Last Duel) and Sandra Oh’s (Grey’s Anatomy) dangerous game unfold as seasons 3 & 4 join the service on August 6 & 13, respectively.
Continuously reigning as the best of British television, BritBox adds two royal programs this August: The White Princess (also starring Jodie Comer) and My King Charles, a documentary investigating the monarch’s complicated path to the throne.
BritBox crime Original Granite Harbour (starring Romario Simpson and Hanna Donaldson) returns for its sophomore season on August 15.
August 1, 2024: The Change S1 | North America Premiere, BritBox Original, BritBox Exclusive | 6 x 30′ | All at Once
Multi-award-winning stand-up comedian Bridget Christie writes and stars in this new six-part comedy-drama that puts menopausal women centre stage. Linda (Christie, Ghosts), a 50-year-old menopausal, working-class married mother of two, experiences an existential crisis and leaves her family to return to her rural roots in the wilderness of the Forest of Dean. Setting off on her Triumph motorbike that she hasn’t ridden in 30 years, she begins an adventure to reclaim her lost identity and seek out a tree she climbed as a child. Isolated from the outside world, she meets a community that is both unsettling and intoxicating, including a pair of infamous eel-farming sisters and a mysterious man who lives in the woods with wild boar. Think Deliverance. With pigs.
August 2, 2024: My King Charles | New to BritBox | 1 x 60′ | All at Once
My King Charles, from the producers of Diana: The Truth Behind the Interview, which made headlines worldwide and led to the Dyson Inquiry into the BBC – provides an unprecedented insight into the new King from his early years in the palace to major revelations on his playboy twenties, to his troubled first marriage, dubious brushes with politics, his role in smoothing recent royal troubles, and the future he now faces. Providing a detailed profile of the UK’s new monarch ahead of his coronation on May 6, this film includes unseen letters and photographs and new revelations from those closest to him, including former girlfriends, relatives and former private staff, painting a uniquely intimate picture of the real man behind the crown.
August 5, 2024: Good Ship Murder S1 | North America Premiere, BritBox Exclusive | 8 x 45′ | All at Once
Set aboard a luxury cruise liner touring everyone’s favourite Mediterranean holiday hotspots, bubbling with intrigue, rivalries, glamour, money and class divides – however new cabaret singer, Jack Grayling (Shayne Ward, Coronation Street), soon discovers there are also more sinister elements below the surface. On a cruise out of Southampton, Jack meets newly promoted First Officer, Kate Woods (Catherine Tyldesley, Coronation Street). Fierce and ambitious, she’s a woman in a man’s world with plenty to prove. After a passenger is found murdered in their first port of call, Kate’s dream of her own command is thrown into jeopardy and Jack finds himself thrust back into his former life as a detective.
August 6, 2024: Killing Eve S3 | New to BritBox | 8 x 60′ | All at Once
The award-winning drama continues the story of two women with brutal pasts, addicted to each other but now trying desperately to live their lives without their drug of choice. All seems fine until a shocking and personal death sets them on a collision course yet again. Starring Emmy winner Jodie Comer (The White Princess) and Emmy nominee Sandra Oh (Grey’s Anatomy).
August 8, 2024: Dying For Revenge S1 | North America Premiere, BritBox Original, BritBox Exclusive | 8 x 45′ | All at Once
Every episode of this true crime series recounts a shocking story of a crime committed as an act of revenge. From a worker humiliated by a colleague to a woman facing ruin when an ex-partner sells their home, the trigger events are different but the consequences are the same: being wronged leads to murder. Illustrated with evocative drama reconstruction, location filming and archive, each story is told through interviews with family and friends, insights from detectives who solved each case, and analysis from expert criminologists.
August 13, 2024: Killing Eve S4 | New to BritBox | 8 x 60′ | All at Once
Eve (Sandra Oh, Grey’s Anatomy) is on a revenge mission whilst Villanelle (Jodie Comer, The White Princess) has embraced a new way of life in an attempt to prove she’s not a ‘monster’. Having killed Paul, Carolyn (Fiona Shaw, Mind Games) continues to chase down The Twelve. This personal, dangerous season follows our extraordinary women in very different places, building towards a messy final.
August 15, 2024: Granite Harbour S2 | North America Premiere, BritBox Original, BritBox Exclusive | 3 x 60′ | All at Once
Granite Harbour returns to Aberdeen for a new three-part, second series as Lindo (Romario Simpson, Andor), Bart (Hannah Donaldson, Irvine Welsh’s Crime) and the police team investigate two fatal cases with dark consequences at their heart, immersing the Major Investigations Team in the granite city’s criminal underworld. When drug kingpin Grace McFadden’s (Lesley Hart, River City) notorious fixer turns up dead, the MIT have their work cut out to find the source of a new cocaine and ketamine compound flooding the streets. Fearing an impending drugs-turf war is brewing, the team fights to uncover the truth.
August 16, 2024: Monty Don’s American Gardens S1 | New to BritBox | 3 x 60′ | All at Once
What is an American garden? Is there such a thing, and if so, what does it look like? In this three-part series, Monty Don (Gardeners’ World) travels across this vast continent in search of answers. He starts at a prairie in full bloom – the original American flowering wilderness. He joins community volunteers creating their own productive spaces in New York and sees what the American can-do attitude coupled with limitless wealth can produce. Heading south, Monty explores the gardens of early independent America and the huge oak trees of New Orleans. And, for the final leg of his journey, Monty heads to the extraordinary scenery of the West Coast, convening with cacti, redwoods and some celebrities on the way. Following Monty on this journey is to follow a passionate, inquisitive traveller for whom visiting gardens tells him, and in turn the viewer, so much about the country at large in a way rarely explored.
August 20, 2024: The White Princess | New to BritBox | 8 x 60′ | All at Once
The White Princess charts one of the most tumultuous times in British history uniquely from the viewpoint of the women waging the battle for power. Starring Emmy and BAFTA winner Jodie Comer (Killing Eve).
August 29, 2024: Informer S1 | New to BritBox, BritBox Exclusive | 6 x 60′ | All at Once
When the political turns personal. Informer is a sophisticated, character driven thriller about Raza (Nabhaan Rizwan, Juice), a young second generation Pakistani man from East London who is coerced by Gabe (Paddy Considine, The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher), a counter-terrorism officer, to go undercover and inform for him. Gabe, who has a past he is unwilling to expose, is joined by Holly (Bel Powley, Murderland), his new and ambitious partner whose endless curiosity begins to threaten him. As the central counter-terrorism investigation heats up, the stakes for all three get higher and higher. Informer tells a story about identity in a world where lines are increasingly being drawn and sides are being taken.