Best Collection Of TV Shows About Yorkshire

Jane McDonald goes on a tour of the place she calls home, Yorkshire, as she explores the history, beauty and warmth of the county she's lived all her life.

OTT Platforms for Jane McDonald: My Yorkshire are ITVX, BritBox Amazon Channel

For five years, between 1975 to 1980, the Yorkshire Ripper murders cast a dark shadow over the lives of women in the North of England. 13 women were dead and the police seemed incapable of catching the killer. No one felt safe – and every man was a suspect.

OTT Platforms for The Ripper are Netflix

The heartwarming and humorous adventures of a young country vet in the Yorkshire Dales in the 1930s. A remake of the 1978 series.

OTT Platforms for All Creatures Great & Small are ITVX, Acorn TV, and AcornTV Amazon Channel Amazon Video, Apple TV, and Google Play Movies.

The remarkable stories and characters at the heart of Leeds Bradford Airport as it attempts to reinvent itself as one of Britain’s most successful regional airports. The series reveals the behind-the-scenes characters responsible for the smooth running of all things airside.

OTT Platforms for Yorkshire Airport are ITV Amazon Channel

The case of the Yorkshire Ripper is re-examined by film-maker Liza Williams.

A new academy school in a Yorkshire mill town merges the lives and cultures of the largely divided white and Asian community

OTT Platforms for Ackley Bridge are Netflix, All 4, Sky Go, and Netflix basic with Ads Amazon Video, Apple TV, and Google Play Movies.

Set in a fictional hospital, this mockumentary follows the lives of porters, hospital radio DJs, chaplains and managers asking who exactly are all these people, and should any of them be remotely near a hospital?

A two-part drama about the search in 2008 for missing Yorkshire schoolgirl Shannon Matthews.

OTT Platforms for The Moorside are BritBox, BritBox Amazon Channel Google Play Movies, Amazon Video.

Shaun, Harvey, Gadget, Trev and Kelly hit up the nightlife of raves and ecstasy. Woody and Lol are happy, living together with their kids and Combo is still in prison. But things slowly change. This is the year 1990 and This is England.

OTT Platforms for This Is England '90 are Sky Go, All 4 Apple iTunes, Google Play Movies, and Amazon Video.

Still Open All Hours is a sitcom set in a grocer's shop. It is a sequel to the series Open All Hours, written by original series writer Roy Clarke and featuring several of the permanent cast members of the original series

OTT Platforms for Still Open All Hours are Sky Go, Now TV Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Sky Store, and Microsoft Store.

Happy Valley is a dark, funny, multi-layered thriller revolving around the personal and professional life of Catherine, a dedicated, experienced, hard-working copper. She is also a bereaved mother who looks after her orphaned grandchild.

OTT Platforms for Happy Valley are Sky Go Amazon Video, Apple iTunes, Google Play Movies, Sky Store, and Microsoft Store.

Comedy series about three young women living in Leeds who've graduated, had a year out, and are now struggling to find a job they're passionate about, a place to live that is half decent and a boyfriend they actually like. A sitcom about making terrible decisions, but having a brilliant time doing it. The show focuses on Meg, her eccentric cousin Bunny and their friend Laura as they discover that life might just be a bit tougher than they had imagined. From demeaning Promotions jobs complete with mad outfits to pursuing the men of their dreams - yet dating the men of their nightmares - the girls face '#FML-worthy' disasters in both their work and personal lives.

OTT Platforms for Drifters are All 4, BritBox Amazon Channel Amazon Video, Apple iTunes.

Celia and Alan are both widowed and in their seventies. When their respective grandsons put their details on Facebook, they rediscover a passionate relationship that started over sixty years ago.

OTT Platforms for Last Tango in Halifax are Sky Go, BritBox, Virgin TV Go, and BritBox Amazon Channel Apple iTunes, Google Play Movies, Sky Store, and Amazon Video.

Joe leaves working-class, industrial Dufton behind him and takes a job as senior audit clerk at the town hall in affluent Warley. He takes lodgings at the poshest part of the town and starts to make his mark on local society.

A drama exploring how winning the lottery transforms the lives of ordinary people.

OTT Platforms for The Syndicate are Netflix, Sky Go, ITVX, BritBox, BritBox Amazon Channel, Acorn TV, AcornTV Amazon Channel, and Netflix basic with Ads Amazon Video, Apple TV, and Google Play Movies.

Sirens is a British comedy-drama about an ambulance service team

The lives and loves of a 1930s Yorkshire town explored in a passionate tale of politics in small places. South Riding charts the story of Sarah Burton's homecoming to Yorkshire in 1934 after twenty years teaching in London and the Empire. After a fiery interview with a conservative interview panel, outspoken Sarah takes up her first headmistress-ship at Kiplington High School for Girls, determined to demonstrate to her new pupils that the future is theirs for the taking.

A chronicle of the lives of the aristocratic Crawley family and their servants in the post-Edwardian era—with great events in history having an effect on their lives and on the British social hierarchy.

OTT Platforms for Downton Abbey are Netflix, Sky Go, Now TV, BritBox, Virgin TV Go, and BritBox Amazon Channel Apple iTunes, Google Play Movies, Sky Store, Amazon Video, and Microsoft Store.

Monday Monday is an ITV, UTV comedy drama. It stars Fay Ripley, Jenny Agutter, Neil Stuke, Holly Aird, Morven Christie, Tom Ellis, and Miranda Hart. It is set in the head office of a supermarket that has fallen on hard times and had to re-locate its staff from London to Leeds. The show was initially announced as part of ITV's Winter 2007 press pack, but was "iced" until 2009 due to falling advertising in the wake of the economic downturn.

OTT Platforms for Monday Monday are Acorn TV, AcornTV Amazon Channel

The Chase is a BBC drama series that first aired on 16 July 2006. The Chase centred around a family run veterinary practice. It was co-written by Gaynor Faye, the daughter of the show's creator, Kay Mellor. Much filming for the series was carried out in and around Otley, West Yorkshire; the series is set in the fictional town of "Oxley".

See No Evil: The Moors Murders is a British two-part television serial directed by Christopher Menaul. It was produced by Granada Television and broadcast on ITV during May 2006. It tells the story of the Moors Murders, which were committed during the 1960s by Myra Hindley and Ian Brady, from the view of Hindley's sister Maureen Smith and her husband David.

OTT Platforms for See No Evil: The Moors Murders are BritBox Amazon Channel

No Angels is a critically acclaimed British television comedy drama series, produced by the independent production company World Productions for Channel 4, which ran for three series from 2004 to 2006. It was devised by Toby Whithouse.

OTT Platforms for No Angels are All 4 Amazon Video, Apple iTunes.

Follows the staff and patients of a Yorkshire cottage hospital in the 60s, embroiled in tangled love lives and bitter power struggles.

OTT Platforms for The Royal are BritBox, BritBox Amazon Channel

Clinical psychologist Dr Tony Hill's uncanny ability to see into the minds of murderers means he finds it difficult to distance himself from disturbing cases.

OTT Platforms for Wire in the Blood are Amazon Prime Video, BritBox, Virgin TV Go, and BritBox Amazon Channel Apple iTunes, Amazon Video.

North Square is an award-winning British television drama series written by Peter Moffat and broadcast by Channel 4 at the end of 2000. Starring an ensemble cast, including Phil Davis, Rupert Penry-Jones, Helen McCrory and Kevin McKidd, the programme is set around the practice of a Leeds Legal Chambers. The series was filmed in and around the real life Park Square, Leeds. This is the area near the city where the majority of legal firms are concentrated. Despite gaining considerable critical acclaim the show failed to garner a substantial audience resulting in only the one series of ten episodes being produced. In Australia the series was broadcast in 2001 on ABC and repeated in 2004 after popular and critical acclaim. The full series was released on DVD for the first time by Acorn Media UK on 5 March 2012.

OTT Platforms for North Square are All 4

Fat Friends was an ITV drama, following a group of overweight people, their laughter and pain and addresses the absurdities of dieting in our modern age. The drama looks at people and how they relate to one another and use body weight as an excuse for all sorts of failings in their relationships, or not living their lives to the full. Four of the cast, Ruth Jones, James Corden, Sheridan Smith and Alison Steadman, went on to appear in Gavin & Stacey.

At Home with the Braithwaites is a British comedy-drama television series, created and written by Sally Wainwright. The storyline follows a suburban family from Leeds, whose life is turned upside down when the mother of the family wins 38 million pounds on the lottery. It was broadcast on ITV, for 26 episodes, from 20 January 2000 to 9 April 2003. At the beginning of the first series, each member of the Braithwaite family has an issue. Alison has to decide what to do with the winnings, and when to tell her family. David is having an affair with Elaine, his secretary at work. Virginia is on the verge of flunking out of university. Sarah has a crush on her drama teacher. Charlotte suspects that her mother may be the mystery lottery winner.

OTT Platforms for At Home with the Braithwaites are BritBox, BritBox Amazon Channel

Barbara is a British sitcom starring Gwen Taylor in the title role. A pilot was broadcast in 1995, and three series were then televised from 1999 to 2003. It was made by Central Television, and filmed at their Lenton Lane studios in Nottingham in front of a live studio audience. The majority of location scenes for the series were filmed in various suburbs of Nottingham, including Mapperley and West Bridgford, with other scenes filmed around Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire. Despite winning awards and respectable viewing figures, it was axed by ITV in 2003.

The on-the-field trials and tribulations and the off-the-field lives, loves and infidelities of 'The Castlefield Blues', an under funded, badly managed ladies football team from South Yorkshire in the north of England whose loyalty to the team, the game and each other far exceeds their chances of ever winning the championship.

Where the Heart Is is a British television family drama series set in the fictional Yorkshire town of Skelthwaite. It focuses on the professional and personal lives of the district nurses who work in the town.

OTT Platforms for Where the Heart Is are Sky Go