English series about the future

List of the best English TV series about the future, selected by visitors to our site: Humans, Devs, The Man in the High Castle, Black Mirror, The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance, Years and Years, Lovesick, The Pact, Any Human Heart, Upstairs Downstairs.

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

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Markimdb: 8
Genrefantastic, drama
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, Sweden
Duration01:00

In a parallel present where the latest must-have gadget for any busy family is a 'Synth' - a highly-developed robotic servant that's so similar to a real human it's transforming the way we live.

Markimdb: 7.7
Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, detective
CountryUSA, United Kingdom

Young computer engineer Lily Chan investigates the secretive development division of her employer, a cutting-edge tech company based in San Francisco, which she believes is behind the murder of her boyfriend.

Markimdb: 8
Genrefantastic, thriller, drama
CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Canada
Duration01:35

Based on Philip K. Dick's award-winning novel, The Man in the High Castle explores what it would be like if the Allied Powers had lost WWII, and Japan and Germany ruled the United States.

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: 8.4
    Genrefantasy, adventure, cartoon
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration02:37

    Return to the world of Thra, where three Gelfling discover the horrifying secret behind the Skeksis' power and set out to ignite the fires of rebellion and save their world.

    Markimdb: 8.3
    Genrefantastic, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration00:55

    As Britain is rocked by unstable political, economic and technological advances, members of the Lyons family converge on one crucial night in 2019. Over the next 15 years, the twists and turns of their everyday lives are explored as we find out if this ordinary family could change the world.

    Markimdb: 8.1
    Genrecomedy
    CountryUnited Kingdom

    After finding out he has an STI, Dylan must get back in touch with every girl he has ever had sex with to let them know the bad news.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genrethriller
    CountryUnited Kingdom

    Anna, Nancy, Louie and Cat have had enough of their tyrannical young boss Jack Evans, and make a drunken snap decision at a work function that has shocking repercussions.

    Markimdb: 7.8
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration04:40

    Jim Broadbent, Matthew Macfadyen and Sam Claflin take on the lead role of Logan Mountstuart in William Boyd's adaptation of his best-selling novel. From one man's emotional, tumultuous and unpredictable journey through the 20th century comes a funny, moving and ambitious four-part drama. Told through Logan's intimate journals, beginning with the idealism and arrogance of his youth, through the triumphs and tragedies of middle-age, to the unexpected dramas of his twilight years - his story reveals that all our lives are ultimately random, and defined by luck and seemingly inconsequential choices. Hayley Atwell, Natasha Little, Emerald Fennell, Ed Stoppard, Samuel West and Kim Cattrall star alongside Gillian Anderson and Tom Hollander as the lovers, wives, friends and infamous figures he encounters throughout his ordinary and yet utterly extraordinary life.

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genredrama
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration00:43

      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.‬

      Markimdb: 6.6
      Genrecrime
      CountryUnited Kingdom

      The adventures of Professor Wolfe Kinteh, a crime scene investigator in the north of England.

      Markimdb: 6.6
      Genrecomedy, drama, adventure, crime
      CountryUnited Kingdom

      When strange young misfit Kim Noakes was just a little girl, her father died in murky circumstances and her mother Tina whisked her away to a remote rural life of seclusion and bizarre survival techniques. Now all grown up, Kim sets out into the real world for the first time to begin a secret mission of honouring her father’s memory.

      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: 7.4
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUnited Kingdom

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

      Markimdb: 7.8
      Genrethriller, crime, detective
      CountryUnited Kingdom

      When soldier Shaun Emery's conviction for a murder in Afghanistan is overturned due to flawed video evidence, he returns to life as a free man with his young daughter. But when damning CCTV footage from a night out in London comes to light, Shaun's life takes a shocking turn and he must soon fight for his freedom once again.

      Markimdb: 7.8
      Genredocumentary
      CountryUnited Kingdom

      Fry's Planet Word sees Stephen Fry finding out more about linguistic achievements and how our skills for the spoken word have changed. He dissects language in many of its guises.

      Markimdb: 7.5
      Genremelodrama, drama
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration00:59

      Follow Sugar into the underbelly of Victorian London seething with vitality, sexuality, ambition and emotion.

      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: 6.8
      Genrefantastic, drama
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration01:41

      Coal Hill School has been a feature of Doctor Who since the first episode, but now we get to see the day-to-day adventures of the students coping with intrusions from space and time.

      Markimdb: 7.8
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryUnited Kingdom

      All Nikki and Jason want is a baby—the one thing they can’t have. So they decide to adopt. With their dysfunctional friends, screwball families, and chaotic lives, will the adoption panel agree that they’re ready to be parents?

      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
      Genrethriller, drama
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA

      Nessa Stein, the daughter of a Zionist arms procurer who as a child witnessed his assassination. Now an adult, Nessa inherits her father's company and changes course from supplying arms to laying data cabling networks between Israel and the West Bank. Her efforts to reconcile the Israelis and Palestinians lands her an appointment to the House of Lords and creates an international political maelstrom.

      Markimdb: 8.3
      Genrecomedy, drama, crime
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration00:43

      It's 1986 - the year Maradona ends England's world cup dreams in Mexico; the year Top Gun is the highest grossing film; the year over 3.4 million Brits are unemployed and the year Shaun is leaving school.

      Markimdb: 7.4
      Genredrama
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration01:00

      Powerful historical drama series, based on the lives of real people, telling the story of young 19th-century apprentices taking their lives into their own hands for the first time.

      Genrecomedy
      CountryUnited Kingdom

      After CSI have done their stuff, the cleaner mops up the grisly remains. For Wicky, a bloodbath and the pub is all in a day's work.

      Markimdb: 6.1
      Genrefantastic, thriller
      CountryUnited Kingdom

      The government cover-up of the causes behind a massive explosion in a futuristic UK metropolis spur photo journalist Jennifer Preston on to search for the truth and in the process blow open a paranormal phenomenon haunting the city.

      Markimdb: 6.7
      Genrecomedy, drama
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration00:20

      Paul Pennyfeather is an inoffensive divinity student at Oxford University in the 1920s who is wrongly dismissed for indecent exposure having been made the victim of a prank by The Bollinger Club.

      Markimdb: 6.6
      Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, crime
      CountryUnited Kingdom

      Love — and lies — spiral when a DNA researcher helps discover a way to find the perfect partner, and creates a bold new matchmaking service.

      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: 6.8
      Genrethriller, drama, crime
      CountryUnited Kingdom

      A dedicated forensic psychiatrist, Emma Robertson, is assigned to assess the sanity of Connie Mortensen, a “yummy mummy” accused of a despicable crime.

      Markimdb: 7.9
      Genrehorror, drama
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration00:43

      Thousands of dead people have risen from their graves and nearly destroyed Britain. A cure has been found - but can the treated zombies be rehabilitated back into living society?

      Markimdb: 7.4
      Genrecomedy
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration00:30

      The story of a double-glazing showroom in Essex in the 80s, led by charismatic Vincent Swan, and his unscrupulous sales team, Brian Fitzpatrick and Martin Lavender.

      Markimdb: 8.1
      Genredrama, biography, history
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration01:00

      Following the fact-based historical book of the same name, this drama follows the rise of Cromwell as he becomes Henry the VIII's closest advisor. England in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the King dies without a male heir, the country could be destroyed by civil war. Henry VIII wants to annul his marriage of twenty years and marry Anne Boleyn. The Pope and most of Europe oppose him. Into this impasse steps Thomas Cromwell: a wholly original man, a charmer, and a bully, both idealist and opportunist, astute in reading people, and implacable in his ambition. But Henry is volatile: one day tender, one day murderous. Cromwell helps him break the opposition, but what will be the price of his triumph?

      Markimdb: 6.5
      Genredrama
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration00:30

      The three-part series centres on the close and often fraught relationship between sisters Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf, and Vanessa’s sexually complicated alliance with gay artist Duncan Grant as they, and their group of like-minded friends, navigate their way through love, sex and artistic life through the first half of the 20th century.

      Markimdb: 5.9
      Genrefantasy, crime, detective
      CountryUnited Kingdom

      In Victorian London, a gang of troubled street teens are manipulated into solving crimes for the sinister Doctor Watson and his mysterious business partner, the elusive Sherlock Holmes. As the crimes take on a horrifying supernatural edge and a dark power emerges, it'll be up to the Irregulars to come together to save not only London but the entire world.

      Markimdb: 7.4
      Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration00:30

      Danny is a gregarious, hedonistic romantic who gets drawn into the dangerous world of British espionage in this contemporary, emotional thriller. He falls for the anti-social but enigmatic Alex, both from opposite worlds, and they soon realise they’re perfect for each other. But when Alex suddenly disappears, Danny is utterly ill-equipped to take on his complex and codified world. Young, innocent and adrift he needs to decide whether he’s prepared to fight for the truth?

      Markimdb: 5.6
      Genredrama
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration02:00

      Karen Clarke was an ordinary girl thrown into an extraordinary world, as she first meets the glamorous Biba and her brother Rex in one long summer of love, but quickly becomes tangled up in their tragic family history with the romantic idyll turning into a nightmare – one that haunts her to the present day. She will go to extraordinary lengths to protect her family and the secrets that she keeps from them.

      Markimdb: 7.3
      Genreaction, drama, crime
      CountryUnited Kingdom

      Cuffs is a fresh, authentic and visceral drama that will take the audience on an exhilarating ride through the challenges of front-line policing. Adrenalized and vibrant, the show is packed full of dramatic incidents and colourful characters. From a booby trapped cannabis farm in a suburban semi to an elderly farmer's wife with a shotgun, the stories are surprising and exciting. There will be more absurd altercations - such as a middle-class dog-napping or fisticuffs between pensioners - as well as the daily grind of speeding drivers, city-centre shoplifters and Saturday night drinkers.

      Markimdb: 8.6
      Genrecomedy, drama
      CountryUnited Kingdom

      The heartwarming and humorous adventures of a young country vet in the Yorkshire Dales in the 1930s. A remake of the 1978 series.

      Markimdb: 7.5
      Genremelodrama, drama
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration00:25

      Dates is a British television romantic drama series created by Bryan Elsley, who also created Skins, which first aired on Channel 4 on 10 June 2013, at 22:00, as part of its "Mating Season" programming, illustrating a series of first dates between online dating service users. The show's target audience is "ABC1".

      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: 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: 7.8
      Genremelodrama, drama
      CountryUnited Kingdom

      The spirited and impulsive Charlotte Heywood moves from her rural home to Sanditon, a fishing village attempting to reinvent itself as a seaside resort.

      Markimdb: 8.1
      Genrefantasy, comedy
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
      Duration00:60

      Aziraphale, an angel, and Crowley, a demon, join forces to find the Antichrist and stop Armageddon.

      Markimdb: 8.2
      Genreaction, thriller, drama
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration00:46

      The series follows John Porter, a former British Special Forces soldier, who is drafted back into service by Section 20, a fictional branch of the Secret Intelligence Service.

      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: 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: 6.3
      Genreaction, drama
      CountryUnited Kingdom

      As widespread power outages cause chaos and threaten lives across the country, the COBRA (Cabinet Office Briefing Room) committee comprised of the UK’s leading experts and politicians, gathers to find a way to turn the lights back on.

      Markimdb: 7.8
      Genremelodrama, drama, military, history
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, France
      Duration00:43

      Set against the backdrop of the Wars of the Roses, the series is the story of the women caught up in the protracted conflict for the throne of England.

      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.




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