Best Dramas on BBC iPlayer Right Now (July)
Linear TV is massively disrupted this July thanks to football tournaments and Wimbledon - a perfect chance to catch up with all the fantastic dramas currently available on BBC iPlayer.
From police procedurals and thrillers to period pieces and family melodramas, there's a show to suit every mood.
This City Is Ours
Drama | Crime | Foreign
Summary:Michael has been involved in organised crime all of his adult life, working for his friend and the gang leader Ronnie. When Ronnie begins to hint at retirement, Michael too begins to imagine another life. Because, for the first time in his life, Michael is in love. For the first time in his life, he sees beyond the day-to-day, he sees a future: something to win and something to lose - Diana.
Towards Zero
Drama | Crime
Summary:Adapting Agatha Christie's 1944 novel of the same name, Towards Zero is a mystery set in 1936 England. Nevile Strange (Oliver Jackson-Cohen) and his ex-wife Audrey (Ella Lily Hyland) spend the summer at Gull's Point following their high-profile celeb divorce. Things are predictably tense, with Nevile now devoted to his new wife Kay (Mimi Keene). Relationship drama proves to be low on the list of worries when a murder occurs, but who is responsible? Inspector Leach (Matthew Rhys) is sure to find out.
Happy Valley
Crime | Drama | Mystery
Summary:Set in a Yorkshire village, Happy Valley follows no-nonsense police officer Catherine Cawood as she tackles crime, all whilst trying to deal with her traumatic past. The divorced copper is also having to raise her troubled grandson, as well as living with her recovering addict sister. Then, Catherine’s life is nearly destroyed again by the re-emergence of a very bad man from her family’s past. Sarah Lancashire and James Norton lead in this award-winning BBC drama, of which there are three seasons.
Reunion
Drama
Summary:Recently released prisoner Daniel Brennan embodies the struggle of a man caught between two worlds, unable to fully integrate into the hearing world and shunned by his closest friends and the wider deaf community following his heinous crime. Amidst this isolation, Brennan's only meaningful relationship is with his estranged daughter Carly, who he has not had any contact with since his arrest over a decade ago.
Blue Lights
Crime | Drama
Summary:Follows rookie police officers working in Belfast, a city in which being a frontline response cop comes with unique pressures and dangers.
Time
Drama
Summary:This hard-hitting drama is a brutally honest and harrowing look inside British prisons, told through the eyes of an inmate. In season one, viewers follow Sean Bean’s character, Mark, as he struggles to adjust in a men’s prison. In season two, we’re introduced to female characters - portrayed by Jodie Whittaker, Bella Ramsey, and Tamara Lawrance - in a women’s prison. There are two seasons available of the Jimmy McGovern drama, each series is three episodes. Time has a rare 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
