Network Profile
BBC One
Restrained, character-driven, often wry. British sensibility with strong emphasis on craft and specificity.
What BBC One Buys
What They Buy
Prestige British drama, crime series, literary adaptations, limited series. Strong sense of place and character.
Tone & Voice
Restrained, character-driven, often wry. British sensibility with strong emphasis on craft and specificity.
What to Avoid
American-style procedurals, broad genre fare without literary ambition.
Notable Pilots
Sherlock, Doctor Who, Line of Duty, The Night Manager, Fleabag (moved to BBC Three)
Full Scripted Catalog 123 scripted originals
Every scripted drama and comedy this network has produced. Gold border = pilot in our archive.
Unaired & Unproduced Pilots 2 pilots
Scripts that were bought or filmed but never made it to air. The most revealing data point about what a network actually wants.
As WWI ends, housewife Kate Galloway sets up a nightclub in Soho to support her daughters. But Kate must contend with a dangerous gangster family and the police to survive.
A Bradford cop with his personal life in chaos must hunt down a killer targeting the Asian community.