The best TV shows on BBC iPlayer (19th January 2020)

We review the best TV shows and films currently available on BBC iPlayer. (Click here to see our reviews of the best movies on BBC iPlayer.)

For BBC Three recommendations, click here.

Pick of the Week: Good Omens

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Netflix UK film review: Coming to America

8

A comic fantasia

Charming and disarming, Eddie Murphy’s ambitious romcom mixes the silly with the sweet.Read More

BBC Three TV reviews: What’s new on the online channel and what’s worth watching?

In February 2016, BBC Three became the UK’s first online TV channel. The channel continues to serve up fresh new stuff every day, both long-form drama, documentary and comedy and short-form content that ranges from animations and clips to interviews … Read More

Netflix UK film review: Beverly Hills Cop

8

Rating

Director: Martin Brest Cast: Eddie Murphy, Judge Reinhold, John Ashton Certificate: 15 Watch Beverly Hills Cop online in the UK: Sky Cinema / NOW TV

After the news that Beverly Hills Cop 4 will be making its way to Netflix, … Read More

COBRA: The bleak political disaster thriller you don’t need but will watch anyway

7.3

Rating

Robert Carlyle is a compellingly human lead in this bleak but hugely entertaining political thriller.Read More

Sex Education Season 2 review: Side-splittingly funny

8

Rating

Netflix’s charmingly crude coming-of-age comedy is smart, sweet and side-splittingly funny.Read More

VOD film review: Trading Places

6.7

Rating

Director: John Landis Cast: Eddie Murphy, Dan Aykroyd, Jamie Lee Curtis, Ralph Bellamy, Don Ameche Certificate: 15 Watch Trading Places online in the UK: Sky Cinema / NOW TV / iTunes / Prime Video (Buy/Rent) / Google Play / Sky … Read More

UK TV review: Good Omens

7.7

Rating

This absurd, excellently cast adaptation of Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman’s fantasy is damn good fun.Read More

VOD film review: 48 Hrs

7.7

Rating

Eddie Murphy delivers a starmaking turn in this definitive buddy cop thriller.Read More

First look Amazon UK TV review: Treadstone

6.3

Rating

A fast pace and brutal action makes this Bourne spin-off a surprisingly arresting watch.Read More