The BEST ITVX shows of all time
Every ITVX show, ranked
We've compiled the average episode rating for every ITVX show to compile this list of best shows!
#1 - Riches
The exploits of the brash, super-successful, and wealthy Richards family. When Stephen Richards suffers a sudden medical emergency, the family’s world comes crashing down. As his life hangs in the balance, his different sets of children are about to collide.
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#2 - The Dry
Shiv Sheridan returns to Dublin after years of partying in London and tries to navigate a new phase of her life. Trying to stay sober and being back with her family is not going to be easy.
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#3 - The Winter King
Portraying a revisionist take on the well-loved Arthurian legends, the series follows Arthur Pendragon as he evolves from outcast son to legendary warrior and leader. The Winter King is set in the 5th century, long before Britain was united, in a land of warring factions and tribes when the world was brutal and lives were often fleeting. Based on Bernard Cornwell’s Warlord Chronicles.
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#4 - Irvine Welsh's Crime
Prepare to enter the dangerous world and troubled mind of Detective Inspector Ray Lennox, a man engaged in a disturbing battle with his own demons, through the demanding and very public medium of serious crime investigations.
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#5 - A Spy Among Friends
The series follows the defection of notorious British intelligence officer and KGB double agent, Kim Philby, through the lens of his complex relationship with MI6 colleague and close friend, Nicholas Elliott. The show examines espionage through their friendship, the fallout of which affects East-West relations to this day.
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#6 - Changing Ends
A semi-autobiographical sitcom about stand-up and presenter Alan Carr's life growing up in Northampton in the 1980s as the son of a fourth division football manager.
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#7 - The Confessions of Frannie Langton
It follows the title character, born on a Jamaican slave plantation and transported as a ‘gift’ by the man who enslaved her to the home of a wealthy London couple who meet a grim fate. Was Frannie really responsible? Or is she being used?
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#8 - Without Sin
A four-part psychological thriller exploring the relationship which develops between Stella Tomlinson, a grieving mother, and the man she believes murdered her 14-year-old daughter Maisy. The Nottingham-based drama focuses upon Stella’s life three years on from the death of her teenage daughter and how she is still hostage to her grief. The loss of her beloved only child has created deep divisions in her life, as she struggles on a daily basis to come to terms with this.
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#9 - Platform 7
The drama is a haunting thriller following central character Lisa who, after witnessing a cataclysmic event on platform 7 of a railway station, finds her own fragmented memory jogged to reveal a connection between her own life and that of the event she has just witnessed. Supernatural elements combine with contemporary realism in this chilling drama.
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#10 - Six Four
Inspired by the best-selling novel by Hideo Yokoyama, this drama series, set primarily in Glasgow, is a dark and compelling story of kidnap, corruption, betrayal and an uncompromising search for the truth, when Chris and Michelle O’Neill’s teenage daughter goes missing.
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#11 - Archie
A four-part drama depicting the life of Hollywood’s greatest leading man, Cary Grant, who touched the world with his charm, his grace and enduring vivacity. The series narrates the story of a young Archibald Alexander Leach’s troubled childhood and how extreme poverty, his father’s adultery and the loss of his older brother, John, tore the family apart and sent his loving mother into a downward spiral of grief and depression.
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