UK TV Premiere Dates: 2024 Calendar

You could go outside. Button up your winter coat and venture into the almost-March air to watch the first spring flowers burst through frost-rimed soil as proof of life’s continual, surprising triumph against the cold and the dark. But really, is that worth the bother? Inside is where it’s really happening. Inside is where the television lives.

Here’s a big look ahead to the new British drama coming up in 2024. ITV1 and BBC One have two original political dramas in the form of Breathtaking and The Way, while Apple TV+ has a grown-up thinky sci-fi in new series Constellation, and BBC Three has a teen comedy-drama to rival Sex Education with Boarders. There’s a murder-mystery-comedy in Prime Video’s Dead Hot, and Noel Fielding stars in historical comedy The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin, landing on Apple TV+ on March 1. It’s awards season too, and now that the Baftas have aired, fans of the Oscars will have a long and shiny ceremony to enjoy on TV soon.

And now begins the looooooooong wait until May, when Ncuti Gatwa and Millie Gibson return in the TARDIS for the new Doctor Who episodes. See the first trailer here.

We’ll update this list of TV highlights weekly with more shows, dates and times as the release announcements arrive. If you’re based in the US, here’s where to look for the relevant info.