BritBox, the undisputed home of the largest collection of exceptional and unmissable streaming British entertainment globally, has unveiled a November slate packed with thrilling BritBox Originals and seasonal favourites. On November 15, the service will release a new BritBox Original series Crossfire, an action thriller executive produced and starring Keeley Hawes (Bodyguard, Honour). The first original series by the bestselling novelist Louise Doughty, the series tells the story of a vacation going horribly wrong when a group of revengeful gunmen take a hotel hostage and guests are forced to make monumental life-or-death decisions with enormous consequences. Closing out the month on November 28, BritBox will release season 2 of Hope Street, a BritBox Original police drama set in Northern Ireland. From acclaimed producers Paul Marquess (London Kills) and Donna Wiffen (The Bill), the series is set in the fictional town of Port Devine and focuses on Port Devine’s police department.
The service will also be releasing a plethora of cooking programs to kick off the holiday season. Featuring multiple superstar chefs, the November slate spotlights Gordon Ramsay in Ramsay’s Boiling Point, Gordon Ramsay’s Home Cookery Course, and Gordon’s Ultimate Home Cooking. Featuring recipes that are approachable for beginners, BritBox will also be releasing Nigella Lawson, taking us through her cookbook in Cook, Eat, Repeat, Rachel Allen’s Dinner Parties and more.
November 1, 2022: Autumnwatch | North American Premiere, BritBox Exclusive | 4 x 60
The world is covered in a cobbler crust of fallen leaves – it’s autumn! And the Watch team is back to document wildlife stories from across the UK amid seasonal transitions. Join Chris Packham (Springwatch, Winterwatch), Michaela Strachan (Springwatch, Winterwatch), Gillian Burke (Springwatch, Winterwatch) and Megan McCubbin (Springwatch, Winterwatch) as they live broadcast the beautiful wildlife throughout autumn.
November 4, 2022: Mock the Week | North American Premiere, BritBox Exclusive | 7 X 30
Combining the best elements of a panel show, stand-up and improvised games, this punchy panel show returns with Britain’s top comics taking a satirical swipe at the news and current events. Apart from consistently providing one of the best loved half hours of comedy on TV, from the very start Mock The Week has championed new and up-and-coming comedians. Frankie Boyle, John Oliver, Michael McIntyre, Jack Whitehall, Sara Millican, and more recently, Josh Widdicome, Romesh Ranganathan, Rob Beckett, Sara Pascoe and James Acaster are among the stars who have all appeared early in their careers and developed and honed their skills on the show.
November 7, 2022: The Curse | North American Premiere, BritBox Exclusive | 6 X 30
In 1980s East London, a gang of hopeless crooks become embroiled in one of the biggest gold heists in the world ever. The series is written by the combined multi-BAFTA winning talents of Tom Davis and director James De Frond (Murder in Successville, King Gary), and Allan Mustafa, Steve Stamp and Hugo Chegwin (People Just Do Nothing), who also star alongside Davis as the calamitous cockney clowns. The series also features Karen Pirie writer and Father Brown actress Emer Kenny. The Curse is a fictionalized tale inspired by the true events of the notorious Brinks Matt robbery of 1983, where six armed men raided a depot near Heathrow Airport expecting to find £100,000 in cash, only to stumble across gold worth £26 million.
November 15, 2022: Crossfire | North American Premiere, BritBox Exclusive | 3 X 60
A high-octane action thriller executive produced by and starring Keeley Hawes (Bodyguard, Honour); the first original series by bestselling novelist Louise Doughty (Apple Tree Yard, Black Water); and from the makers of The Salisbury Poisonings and The Responder, Crossfire is a high-stake, thrilling drama about a vacation gone wrong when a group of revengeful gunmen take a hotel hostage and guests are forced to make monumental life or death decisions with enormous consequences. An intricately woven story of trauma and resilience, guilt and betrayal, Crossfire is an edge-of-your-seat, sophisticated thriller with an emotional and relatable core.
November 18, 2022: Come Dine with Me “Best of” | New to BritBox | 9 X 30, 1 X 60
A “best of” collection of iconic Come Dine With Me episodes where five amateur chefs each host a three-course dinner party for the other contestants at their own home. Each competitor then rates the host’s food and hosting skills during the taxi journey home, with the highest-scoring chef winning £1,000 cash.
November 18, 2022: Cooking Up a Fortune | New to BritBox | 11 X 30
Hosted by food market entrepreneur Dominic Cools-Lartigue, amateur cooks who dream of starting their own food business to compete to sell homemade dishes to the British public. Whoever survives the heat and triumphs will be given the chance to launch their own food brand.
November 18, 2022: Culinary Genius | New to BritBox | 20 X 50
Nine contestants take on a variety of culinary challenges as they compete against each other to prepare the best meals and impress the judges. Hosted by Fern Britton and featuring rotating roster of chefs, including Gordon Ramsay, Rosemary Shrager and Jean-Christophe Novelli, this daytime cooking show sees nine amateur home cooks entering a culinary battle with three fun rounds of competition, eliminating contestants each round until one is crowned the day’s Culinary Genius.
November 18, 2022: Gordon Ramsay: Cookalong Live | New to BritBox | 8 X 60
Gordon Ramsay, accompanied by a celebrity guest, cooks a three-course meal live in under an hour, and encourages people to cook along at home. Gordon Ramsay invites viewers to cook along with him live to create a three-course dinner in one hour. Guests James Corden, Alan Carr, Max Beelsey, James Caan, and Mica Paris also take on Gordon Ramsay with their favorite recipes.
November 18, 2022: Gordon Ramsay’s Home Cookery Course | New to BritBox | 20 X 30
Follow professional chef Gordon Ramsay as he presents healthy, easy-to-make meals for viewers to create and enjoy. While known for his complex recipes, Ramsay opts for simpler dishes to allow people to replicate them in their own homes. The recipes may be simpler and quicker to make than in his restaurant, but they’re still the high-quality meals people have come to expect from Ramsay. Each episode’s recipes are centred around a particular theme, which includes modern versions of foods Ramsay enjoyed as a child and putting modern twists on his favourite classic recipes.
November 18, 2022: Gordon’s Ultimate Home Cooking | New to BritBox | 10 X 50
The world’s favourite chef is going to show you everything you’ve ever wanted to know about cooking but have always been afraid to ask. The series is all about giving home cooks the desire, confidence and inspiration to hit the stoves and get cooking. Stuffed full of delicious recipes, invaluable tips and lashings of Gordon’s trademark cheeky wit, it is a lifetime’s worth of expertise from the world’s finest chef distilled into ten glorious, mouth-watering half-hours.
November 18, 2022: Hell’s Kitchen (UK) S3 & S4 | New to BritBox | 27 X 60
Long before Gordon Ramsay, there was Marco Pierre White: the first and greatest infant terrible of the cookery world. On season 3 and 4, Marco returns to the kitchen and puts celebrities through rigorous and devastating challenges to determine which of them will win the restaurant of their dreams. Their dreams are quickly becoming nightmares.
November 18, 2022: Marco Pierre White’s The Chopping Block | New to BritBox | 8 X 50
In the highly competitive New York restaurant world, sometimes the stress is enough to kill your appetite, as several teams of chefs are tested in a series of challenges for a shot at the grand prize: opening their very own Manhattan restaurant. In this reality-competitions series hosted by Marco Pierre White, chefs are tested in a series of challenges for a shot at the grand prize.
November 18, 2022: Marco’s Kitchen Burnout | New to BritBox | 7 X 45
Chef Marco Pierre White presents this tough celebrity cooking challenge. The pressure is relentless as twelve celebrities cook for diners in a professional kitchen – casting teamwork aside in favour of cut-throat competition, strategy and talent.
November 18, 2022: Rachel Allen’s Dinner Parties | New to BritBox | 10 X 30
Irish chef Rachel Allen shows a dinner party host how to create the perfect evening with the most delicious meals to impress guests.
November 18, 2022: Ramsay’s Boiling Point | New to BritBox | 5 X 30
Chef Ramsay is closely followed during eight of the most intense months of his life as he opens his first, and now flagship, restaurant, Restaurant Gordon Ramsay, in September 1998. This establishment would ultimately earn him the highly prestigious (and rare) three Michelin Stars. It also covers his participation in the dinner made at the Palace of Versailles on 11 July 1998 to celebrate the closing of the 1998 World Cup and features young chefs Marcus Wareing and Marc Sargeant at the early stages of their careers, as well as mentor Marco Pierre White. This series was the first mass exposure of Ramsay to television audiences, revealing his highly driven, impatient and hot-tempered personality, which became his trademark.
November 18, 2022: Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares | New to BritBox | 36 X 60
Chef Gordon Ramsay hits the road in search of restaurants in crisis, doling out tough love and harsh truths in his inimitable fashion. Ramsay steps in and addresses some of the most stressful aspects of running a successful food business. Ramsay and his team redecorate each eatery to give it a fresh new look in hopes of attracting a larger crowd. Ramsay’s ultimate goal is to make the restaurants he visits profitable for their struggling owners.
November 23, 2022: Utopia | New to BritBox | 12 X 60
Conspiracy theory turned terrifyingly real is the subject of this ground-breaking, channel-defining drama series written by Dennis Kelly, the co-creator of the Olivier Award-winning Matilda and directed by Marc Munden (Black Sails). When an unconnected group of people find themselves in possession of the manuscript for a legendary graphic novel, Utopia, their lives are set to change forever as they are forced to run from a shadowy and murderous organization known as The Network. All they know is that The Network is all-pervasive, in government, in business and in charge, and will stop at nothing to get to Utopia.
November 28, 2022: Hope Street S2 | BritBox Original, North American Premiere, BritBox Exclusive | 10 X 60
From acclaimed producers Paul Marquess (London Kills) and Donna Wiffen (The Bill), Hope Street returns for a new season. Six months after an explosive season one finale, the police officers of Port Devine are joined by a new detective, Al Quinn, who must balance his devotion to the force with protecting his willful daughter. The town’s story continues with Nicole and Clint’s efforts to start a family and other residents’ daily struggles and triumphs in their beloved town. The warm and engaging characters who inhabit Port Devine have already won over millions of viewers. Like them, Hope Street is positive, big-hearted and life-affirming.