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Top Series to Stream from U On Demand

  • U&Yesterday Channel

    New: Series 7 Canal Boat Diaries

    Robbie Cumming embarks on his first-ever narrowboat journey through Wales and then into England’s Northwest.

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  • U&Drama Channel

    Brand New Monsieur Spade

    Clive Owen plays Detective Sam Spade, whose quiet life in France is disrupted by murder.

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  • U&Dave Channel

    The Way Out

    New: Mel Giedroyc hosts as two teams of comedians try to break out of escape rooms.

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  • U&Drama Channel

    New to U One of Us

    Psychological thriller set in Scotland.

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  • U&Yesterday Channel

    New: Series 8 Bangers & Cash: Restoring Classics

    Behind the scenes of a Yorkshire-based, family-run historic car auction business. Exclusively on U, watch each episode 7 days early.

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  • U&Drama Channel

    Series 12 Coming Monday The Brokenwood Mysteries

    Detective Mike Shepherd and the team are back to solve more murder mysteries in the quiet town of Brokenwood.

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  • U&Dave Channel

    Parks and Recreation

    Award-winning comedy series about a mid-level bureaucrat in the parks department of a town in Indiana.

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  • U&Drama Channel

    Brand New: Series 2 Bergerac

    Damien Molony returns as the complex detective grappling with life as a recovering alcoholic and widower.

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Welcome to U

  • Brand New

    The Way Out

    Description: Mel Giedroyc hosts as two teams of comedians try to make their way out of escape rooms.; Category: UK Comedy; 4 episodes available.

  • Bergerac

    Description: A modern re-imagining of the iconic Jersey-set crime drama following a troubled detective.; Category: Crime Drama; 12 episodes available.

  • Parks and Recreation

    Description: Comedy series about a mid-level bureaucrat in the parks department of a town in Indiana.; Category: Classic Comedy & Sitcom; 125 episodes available.

  • Brand New

    Monsieur Spade

    Description: Clive Owen plays Detective Sam Spade, whose quiet life in France is disrupted by murder.; Category: Crime Drama; 6 episodes available.

  • Dom Chinea's Cornish Workshop

    Description: The Repair Shop's Dom Chinea and his family swap bustling Kent for wild West Cornwall.; Category: Factual Entertainment; 5 episodes available.

  • New Episodes Weekly

    Bangers & Cash: Restoring Classics

    Description: Bangers & Cash spin-off series.; Category: Motoring; 45 episodes available.

  • Harry Wild

    Description: A retired English professor interferes with cases assigned to her police detective son.; Category: Crime Drama; 28 episodes available.

  • The Marlow Murder Club

    Description: Adaptation of Robert Thorogood's novel about a retired archaeologist investigating murder.; Category: Crime Drama; 14 episodes available.

  • Queens of Mystery

    Description: Comedy crime drama following three crime-writing sisters and their detective niece.; Category: Crime Drama; 12 episodes available.

  • Elementary

    Description: Sherlock Holmes adaptation following the sleuth as he works as a consultant for the NYPD.; Category: International Drama; 154 episodes available.

  • Guy Martin: Proper Jobs

    Description: Guy Martin attempts a variety of roles that involve hard graft and no end of skill.; Category: Factual Entertainment; 8 episodes available.

  • Will and Ralf Should Know Better

    Description: Will Mellor and Ralf Little are on a mission to understand all aspects of modern life.; Category: Factual Entertainment; 10 episodes available.

Stream Every Episode

  • NCIS: New Orleans

    Description: Spin-off crime drama series following Agent Pride of the New Orleans division of NCIS.; Category: Crime Drama; 155 episodes available.

  • Spooks

    Description: Tense drama series about the different challenges faced by the British Security Service.; Category: Crime Drama; 86 episodes available.

  • Whitstable Pearl

    Description: Crime drama about a local restaurant owner who sets up a detective agency.; Category: Crime Drama; 18 episodes available.

  • Animal Kingdom

    Description: Drama following Joshua Cody, who is drawn into a dark criminal world in California.; Category: International Drama; 75 episodes available.

  • Bangers & Cash

    Description: Behind the scenes of a Yorkshire-based, family-run historic car auction business.; Category: Motoring; 155 episodes available.

  • The Cockfields

    Description: Sitcom about a family on the Isle of Wight. Starring Joe Wilkinson.; Category: UK Comedy; 9 episodes available.

  • Prison Break

    Description: When his brother is wrongly convicted, an engineer plans to break him out of prison.; Category: International Drama; 90 episodes available.

  • The Brokenwood Mysteries

    Description: Drama series about a detective who arrives on assignment in a small town.; Category: Crime Drama; 54 episodes available.

  • Parks and Recreation

    Description: Comedy series about a mid-level bureaucrat in the parks department of a town in Indiana.; Category: Classic Comedy & Sitcom; 125 episodes available.

  • New Tricks

    Description: Drama series about a police unit made up of retired detectives looking at unsolved crimes.; Category: Crime Drama; 107 episodes available.

  • The Heart Guy

    Description: Drama series about a surgeon who is forced to work as a rural GP in his former hometown.; Category: Medical Drama; 48 episodes available.

  • Life In Pieces

    Description: Sitcom following members of the Short family across three generations.; Category: Classic Comedy & Sitcom; 79 episodes available.

Watching The Detectives

  • Bergerac

    Description: A modern re-imagining of the iconic Jersey-set crime drama following a troubled detective.; Category: Crime Drama; 12 episodes available.

  • Wallander

    Description: British version of the Swedish drama series about a maverick detective.; Category: Crime Drama; 12 episodes available.

  • The Chelsea Detective

    Description: Crime drama set in London's wealthy and beautiful Chelsea neighbourhood.; Category: Crime Drama; 24 episodes available.

  • Whitechapel

    Description: Crime thriller starring Rupert Penry-Jones, Phil Davis and Steve Pemberton.; Category: Crime Drama; 18 episodes available.

  • Sherwood

    Description: Compelling crime drama inspired by a true story, starring David Morrissey.; Category: Crime Drama; 6 episodes available.

  • Whitstable Pearl

    Description: Crime drama about a local restaurant owner who sets up a detective agency.; Category: Crime Drama; 18 episodes available.

  • Elementary

    Description: Sherlock Holmes adaptation following the sleuth as he works as a consultant for the NYPD.; Category: International Drama; 154 episodes available.

  • Miss Scarlet and the Duke

    Description: Crime drama set in Victorian London, starring Kate Phillips.; Category: Crime Drama; 24 episodes available.

  • Brand New

    Monsieur Spade

    Description: Clive Owen plays Detective Sam Spade, whose quiet life in France is disrupted by murder.; Category: Crime Drama; 6 episodes available.

  • This Is Not a Murder Mystery

    Description: Crime drama set in the 1930s about a group of Surrealist artists locked in with a killer.; Category: Crime Drama; 6 episodes available.

Star-Studded Box Sets

  • Brand New

    Monsieur Spade

    Description: Clive Owen plays Detective Sam Spade, whose quiet life in France is disrupted by murder.; Category: Crime Drama; 6 episodes available.

  • Elementary

    Description: Sherlock Holmes adaptation following the sleuth as he works as a consultant for the NYPD.; Category: International Drama; 154 episodes available.

  • The Good Fight

    Description: Spin-off of legal drama The Good Wife, following Diane Lockhart (Christine Baranski).; Category: International Drama; 60 episodes available.

  • The Count of Monte Cristo

    Description: Adaptation of Alexandre Dumas' classic novel, starring Sam Claflin.; Category: Period Drama; 8 episodes available.

  • Fatal Attraction

    Description: Adaptation of the 1987 thriller. An affair threatens the lives of a man and his wife.; Category: International Drama; 8 episodes available.

  • Harlots

    Description: Period drama about a woman struggling to reconcile her roles as mother and brothel owner.; Category: Period Drama; 24 episodes available.

  • The Hour

    Description: Cold War drama series following two reporters involved in a dangerous conspiracy.; Category: Period Drama; 12 episodes available.

  • The Miniaturist

    Description: A woman in 17th century Amsterdam asks a mysterious miniaturist to embellish a dollhouse.; Category: Period Drama; 3 episodes available.

  • The First Lady

    Description: A revelatory reframing of American leadership.; Category: International Drama; 10 episodes available.

  • Human Trafficking

    Description: Drama about the sex slave trade, with Mira Sorvino and Donald Sutherland.; Category: International Drama; 2 episodes available.

Lots of Laughs

  • Parks and Recreation

    Description: Comedy series about a mid-level bureaucrat in the parks department of a town in Indiana.; Category: Classic Comedy & Sitcom; 125 episodes available.

  • Birds of a Feather

    Description: Sitcom about sisters Sharon and Tracy, whose husbands are sent to prison.; Category: Classic Comedy & Sitcom; 93 episodes available.

  • Brand New

    The Way Out

    Description: Mel Giedroyc hosts as two teams of comedians try to make their way out of escape rooms.; Category: UK Comedy; 4 episodes available.

  • Superstore

    Description: Comedy with Ben Feldman, following the lives of employees at New Cloud 9 supermarket.; Category: Classic Comedy & Sitcom; 113 episodes available.

  • Toast of London

    Description: Comedy following the life of eccentric middle-aged actor Steven Toast (Matt Berry).; Category: Classic Comedy & Sitcom; 18 episodes available.

  • Would I Lie To You?

    Description: Comedy panel show in which contestants have to bluff about their deepest secrets.; Category: Panel Shows; 113 episodes available.

  • Citizen Smith

    Description: Sitcom starring Robert Lindsay as Wolfie Smith, the leader of the Tooting Popular Front.; Category: Classic Comedy & Sitcom; 27 episodes available.

  • The Cockfields

    Description: Sitcom about a family on the Isle of Wight. Starring Joe Wilkinson.; Category: UK Comedy; 9 episodes available.

  • Two Doors Down

    Description: Comedy centred around a couple and their insufferable neighbours.; Category: UK Comedy; 36 episodes available.

  • Mock the Week

    Description: Comedy show combining panel games, stand-up and improvisation, hosted by Dara O Briain.; Category: Panel Shows; 83 episodes available.

  • Upstart Crow

    Description: Comedy about William Shakespeare as he starts to make a name for himself in London.; Category: Classic Comedy & Sitcom; 18 episodes available.

  • Last Of The Summer Wine

    Description: Classic sitcom featuring misadventures of the elderly residents of a Yorkshire village.; Category: Classic Comedy & Sitcom; 61 episodes available.