Broadchurch
Small-town murder grief — Colman and Tennant against a coastline of secrets.
broadcast network
ITV
ITV is commercial British broadcast, not the BBC's public workshop: Downton Abbey selling the country house as a serial, The Avengers and The Prisoner turning spy craft into pop art, Prime Suspect putting Helen Mirren in a boys'-club murder room. Upstairs, Downstairs, The Saint, Mr. Bean, and Broadchurch prove the same commercial network could do servants, chrome cool, silent farce, and a coastal grief procedural.
On TV Flash, ITV is the British broadcast network that always had ads in its bloodstream and still exported monuments. Downton Abbey is the later country-house event; Upstairs, Downstairs is the earlier downstairs argument; The Avengers and The Prisoner make spy television look like design; Prime Suspect treats authority as something a woman has to seize. This is not PBS as a classroom. It is commercial craft with a manor and a bowler hat.
The catalog keeps the adventure hours. Danger Man and The Saint are professional chill; Space: 1999 is the moon-base swing; The Adventures of Robin Hood is the greenwood serial; Mr. Bean travels without a translator; Broadchurch makes a town the suspect. Start with Downton Abbey if you want the highlight sheen. Stay for The Prisoner when you want commercial British broadcast to become a riddle.
FAQ
What did ITV mean as a British broadcast network?
ITV is commercial broadcast from Britain: Downton Abbey and Upstairs, Downstairs as class serials, The Avengers and The Prisoner as spy pop, Prime Suspect as prestige crime. It is not the BBC's public-service myth in this catalog. It is the other UK living room — ads, manors, and chrome.
Where should I start with ITV on TV Flash?
Start with Downton Abbey for the highlight, Prime Suspect for the detective who does not ask permission, The Prisoner or The Avengers for spy television as style. Then the catalog: Broadchurch for communal grief, Mr. Bean for silent export, Upstairs, Downstairs if you want the downstairs argument before the later manor gloss.
How does ITV differ from the BBC here?
The BBC's TV Flash spine is Doctor Who, Fleabag, and Monty Python's Flying Circus. ITV's is Downton Abbey, The Avengers, and Prime Suspect. Public broadcast versus commercial British broadcast: both export to American living rooms, different house keys — police box and confession cam versus manor and chrome spy.
Catalog
Shows on ITV
Danger Man
Patrick McGoohan's John Drake — spy craft without the cartoon gadgets (mostly).
Mr. Bean
Near-silent physical comedy that traveled without subtitles.
Prime Suspect
Jane Tennison breaks the boys’ club — prestige British crime as event import.
Space: 1999
Moonbase Alpha torn from Earth — British design porn in deep space.
The Adventures of Robin Hood
Richard Greene's Robin — British export that American kids treated like native folklore.
The Avengers
Bowler hats, catsuits, and mod spy cool — Steed and Peel redefine TV style.
The Prisoner
I am not a number — spy surrealism in a pastel prison village.
The Saint
Roger Moore's haloed rogue — charming thief-hero before Bond made him official.
Upstairs, Downstairs
Edwardian townhouse split by class — servants and masters as dual protagonists.