English series about journalists

List of the best English series about journalists selected by visitors to our site: Press, The Hour, Appropriate Adult, Southcliffe, House of Cards, Secret State, Taboo, River, Stag, It's a Sin.

In the top there are new series of 2021, a plot description and trailers for series that have already been released.

Country
Markimdb: 7.5
Genredrama
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
Duration00:57

The lives of the editors and journalists working at a left-leaning broadsheet and a populist tabloid.

Markimdb: 8
Genredrama
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration00:58

A behind-the-scenes drama and espionage thriller in Cold War-era England that centers on a journalist, a producer, and an anchorman for an investigative news programme.

Markimdb: 7.4
Genredrama, crime, detective
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration03:00

The extraordinary story of Gloucester housewife Janet Leach who played a key role in the uncovering of the crimes of Fred and Rosemary West.

Markimdb: 6.9
Genrethriller, drama
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration01:00

Following a raft of shootings in an English market town, the crimes are retold in a nonlinear narrative structure through the eyes of a journalist and the tragedies' victims.

Markimdb: 8.5
Genredrama
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration03:46

Charming chief whip Frances Urquhart plots revenge against his colleagues.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genrethriller, drama, detective
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration00:42

Secret State explores the relationship between a democratically elected government, big business and the banks.

Markimdb: 8.4
Genrethriller, drama, detective
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration00:43

Adventurer James Keziah Delaney returns to London from Africa in 1814 along with fourteen stolen diamonds to seek vengeance after the death of his father.

Markimdb: 8
Genredrama, crime, detective
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration00:40

Respected police officer John River, a gifted cop with a troubled mind, struggles to come to terms with the recent loss of a close colleague, and chases a potential suspect across London - with tragic consequences. Now at odds with authorities both within and outside of the police service, River finds himself in a precarious position as he seeks to bring closure to the mother of murdered teenager Erin Fielding, who blames him for failing to keep his promise to bring her daughter back alive.

Markimdb: 7
Genrecomedy, detective
CountryUnited Kingdom

Dark comedy about a group of obnoxious friends who struggle to survive the Stag Weekend from hell, as a deer-stalking expedition in the Scottish Highlands quickly turns messier than expected.

Markimdb: 8.7
Genrecomedy, drama, history
CountryUnited Kingdom

A chronicle of four friends during a decade in which everything changed, including the rise of AIDS.

Markimdb: 8.4
Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, detective
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration00:50

The Utopia Experiments is a legendary graphic novel shrouded in mystery. When a group of strangers find themselves in possession of an original manuscript, their lives suddenly and brutally implode.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genredrama, crime, biography
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration03:00

8 August 1963: Britain wakes up to news of the biggest robbery in the country’s history. A train has been hijacked and robbed, 35 miles from its arrival in central London. The country is stunned. Who could be behind it? How did they pull off such an audacious raid?

Markimdb: 8.6
Genreaction, comedy
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration00:25

Spaced: the anti-Friends, in that it examines the lives of common 20 somethings, but in a way that is more down to earth and realistic. Here we have Daisy and Tim; two 'young' adults with big dreams just trying to get by in this crazy world. They are thrown together in a common pursuit of tenancy, which they find by posing as a couple. The house has a landlady and an oddball artist living there. The series explores the ins and outs of London living.

Markimdb: 8.7
Genredrama, biography, history
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration02:35

The gripping, decades-spanning inside story of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and the Prime Ministers who shaped Britain's post-war destiny. The Crown tells the inside story of two of the most famous addresses in the world – Buckingham Palace and 10 Downing Street – and the intrigues, love lives and machinations behind the great events that shaped the second half of the 20th century. Two houses, two courts, one Crown.

Markimdb: 6.9
Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
CountryUnited Kingdom

Three-part contemporary ghost story set in Yorkshire. Tom Parfitt's arrival at a local retirement home leads to an eerie unexpected death.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genredrama, crime, detective
CountryUnited Kingdom

When a seemingly perfect and happy family is murdered by someone they knew and trusted, cracks appear on the surface of a supposedly idyllic community.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genrecomedy
CountryUnited Kingdom

Hebburn is a warm and affectionate tale of north east family life. It tells the tale of the Pearson family and their impetuous and ambitious son, Jack, who has left Tyneside for the bright lights and glamour of Manchester. He has secretly married a middle class Jewish girl, Sarah, and realises that it is about time he introduced her to his family.

Markimdb: 7.4
Genreaction, drama
CountryUnited Kingdom

Samantha Hunter suspects someone within the private intelligence agency she works at tried to kill her and she seeks to uncover the person behind it.

Markimdb: 5.1
Genrefantastic, action, drama
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration00:40

In Edwardian England, George and his partner Amy attempt to defy society and start a life together as they face the escalating terror of an alien invasion, fighting for their lives against an enemy beyond their comprehension.

Markimdb: 8.8
Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, detective
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
Duration00:43

    A contemporary British re-working of The Twilight Zone with stories that tap into the collective unease about our modern world.  Over the last ten years, technology has transformed almost every aspect of our lives before we've had time to stop and question it. In every home; on every desk; in every palm - a plasma screen; a monitor; a smartphone - a black mirror of our 21st Century existence.

    Markimdb: 8.3
    Genrecomedy, drama, crime
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration00:47

    Set during Christmas 1988, Lol is haunted by the devastating events that took place two and a half years before. She and Woody both find themselves struggling to cope with their lives without each other after he leaves the gang. Lol is carrying the burden of her guilt, whilst Woody is trying to build a domestic life with a new girlfriend and a potential promotion at work. Shaun has started drama college and, although still in a relationship with Smell, he has grown close to a girl performing in his Christmas play.

    Markimdb: 7.6
    Genrecrime, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom, France, Germany, Spain
    Duration01:00

    Within the walls of an interrogation room and with time running out, London investigators go after three suspects, each accused of a grievous crime.

    Markimdb: 8
    Genredrama
    CountryUnited Kingdom

    A young girl with a learning disability makes her way through life.

    Markimdb: 7.6
    Genreaction, melodrama, drama, military
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration00:59

    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.

    Markimdb: 8.2
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, biography, history
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration00:56

    Halifax, West Yorkshire, England, 1832. Anne Lister attempts to revitalize her inherited home, Shibden Hall. Most notably for the time period, a part of her plan is to help the fate of her own family - by taking a wife.

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genredrama
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration00:59

    Witty, heartfelt and unique interlinked stories covering different aspects of LGBT life, featuring the most exciting emerging talent.

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genredrama, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration04:00

    When the decomposed body of Melissa Young is found by a couple in their new flat, Detective Len Harper is determined to discover what happened to her and why nobody noticed she was missing.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genrecomedy
    CountryUnited Kingdom

    A black comedy about three ordinary guys who find themselves, forced by an extraordinary set of circumstances, into setting up an assisted-suicide business.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genrecomedy
    CountryUnited Kingdom

    The daily troubles of the people who work in a busy West Midlands Job Centre, and the people who don’t work there, or anywhere else for that matter.

    Markimdb: 8.1
    Genredrama
    CountryUnited Kingdom

    Father Michael, a Catholic priest presiding over a Northern urban parish who is Modern, maverick, and reassuringly flawed; must be confidante, counselor and confessor to a congregation struggling to reconcile its beliefs with the challenges of daily life.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genrefantastic, drama
    CountryUSA, Canada, United Kingdom, Germany
    Duration00:43

    Defying Gravity is a multi-nationally produced space travel television science fiction drama series which first aired on August 2, 2009 on ABC and CTV and was canceled in the autumn of 2009. Set in the year 2052, the series follows eight astronauts from four countries on a six-year space mission through the Solar System, during which they are monitored from Earth via a real-time communication system. The series was pitched to networks as "Grey's Anatomy in space". Thirteen episodes of the series were produced before it was cancelled, only eight of which were shown on ABC, though the full run was shown in other countries or online.

    Markimdb: 8.2
    Genrecomedy, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom

    Jonathan Creek follows the story of Madeline Magellan, an investigative journalist. Like most journalists, she sticks her nose in where it isn't wanted, but this is what makes her such a great journalist! While writing a piece about the death of a prominent artist, she happens across a man named Jonathan Creek. Jonathan makes a living inventing magical tricks for magician Adam Klaus, and has a brilliantly lateral mind.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genrecomedy, melodrama
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration00:32

    Sally4Ever follows the life of Sally, a soon-to-be promoted marketer who, for 10 years, has lived a comfortable and dull suburban life with David. But on the night he asks her to marry him, Sally has a crisis and embarks on a wild affair with Emma, a seductive, charismatic, boho actress, singer, musician, poet and author. Before Sally knows it, Emma has moved in, rearranged the furniture and her life. Is this really what Sally wants, or has she made a mistake?

    Markimdb: 8.6
    Genredrama, crime, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration01:30

    The early days of a young Endeavour Morse, whose experiences as a detective constable with the Oxford City Police will ultimately shape his future.

    Markimdb: 8.3
    Genrefantasy, comedy
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration00:40

    A cash-strapped young couple inherit a grand country house, only to find it is both falling apart and teeming with the ghosts of former inhabitants.

    Markimdb: 8
    Genrecomedy
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Republic of Ireland

    Coming-of-age drama about lovable rogues Conor and Jock as they navigate their awkward teenage years, hatching plans and adventures to help distract from their tough home lives and their inability to stay out of trouble at school.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genrehorror, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration00:53

    A three part dramatization of the terrifying and bizarre real events that took place at an ordinary house in Enfield during the autumn of 1977. Adapted from Guy Lyon Playfair's book This House is Haunted.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genrethriller, fantasy, drama, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom

    It's Mayday in a small town steeped in pagan traditions where the crowning of the May Queen is the highlight of the day until suddenly she goes missing.

    Markimdb: 8.4
    Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration00:57

    The murder of Sonia Baker, a young political researcher, leads journalist Cal McCaffrey to uncover complex links between government and big business.

    Markimdb: 7.7
    Genredrama
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration00:59

      An intoxicating love story set in England's first department store in the 1870s. The Paradise revolves around the lives of the people who live and work in the store, each bound in their own way by the power of the world they live in, and the pasts that follow them there. A love story, mystery, and social comedy all in one.

      Markimdb: 7.4
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUnited Kingdom

      Chasing Shadows' follows a team of special operatives who are tracking down serial killers.

      Markimdb: 6.7
      Genrethriller, drama, detective
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration00:30

      The lives of two half-sisters and their drawing master get caught up in a deadly conspiracy revolving around a mentally ill woman dressed all in white.

      Markimdb: 7.6
      Genredrama
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA

      Drama about a fictional British Royal family set in modern day London, who inhabit a world of opulence and regal tradition that caters to any and every desire, but one that also comes with a price tag of duty, destiny and intense public scrutiny.

      Markimdb: 7.6
      Genrefantastic, comedy, drama
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
      Duration00:53

      When the news is announced that a comet is on an unavoidable collision course with Earth, the most hilarious and unexpected chain of events imaginable is set in motion.

      Markimdb: 7.8
      Genredrama, history
      CountryUnited Kingdom

      An anthology series of five stories looking at the lives of a group of friends and their families in London’s West Indian community from the late 1960s to the early 80s.

      Markimdb: 6.9
      Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, military, history
      CountryGermany, Canada, United Kingdom, Hungary

      Two hundred years after the construction of the great cathedral, the medieval town of Kingsbridge is taken under siege by Queen Isabella. Caris, a visionary young woman, inspires her people to stand up for their rights and revolt against to the most powerful forces of her time, the Church and the Crown.

      Markimdb: 6.3
      Genrecomedy
      CountryUnited Kingdom

      When tough-acting loner paramedic Maleek is paired with over-friendly divorcee Wendy, their partnership looks dead on arrival. But pretty soon they're giving each other life support.

      Markimdb: 7.3
      Genrethriller, drama, crime
      CountryUnited Kingdom

      Julien Baptiste delves into the criminal underworld of Amsterdam's red light district and uncovers a complex web of deceit and lies.

      Markimdb: 6.2
      Genrefantastic, action, thriller, comedy, crime
      CountryUnited Kingdom

      In the near future, an undercover Detective Inspector gunned down and killed during a botched sting is brought back via an experimental Artificial Intelligence project. Full of glitches, he’s got to track down the person who shot him, prove himself as a cop so as not to get shut down, and save his marriage and his friendship, all with his partner Carver to boot.

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genrethriller, drama, crime
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration01:00

      Three-part crime thriller. When detective Marcus Farrow looks into a seemingly forgotten case, he has no idea of the chaos and heartache that will soon follow. He is found at the scene of a murder, and with all the evidence pointing towards him, he is arrested and charged.




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