5 UK TV Shows Netflix Should Make Next
2. Quality Documentaries
Amongst the bottom-of-the-barrel reality TV and tired talent shows that fills British TV schedules, one thing’s for certain - we’re pretty good at documentaries. Indeed, 2016 alone has seen a variety of engaging and challenging documentaries, from Hillsborough, which gave a definitive telling of events on that tragic day in 1989 to the latest series of Planet Earth, which has got that beautiful ability to make the most jaded old bastard feel a smidgen of child-like wonder.
Thus, Netflix and UK documentary film-makers seem like a marriage made in heaven. Netflix has a solid track record on this front, with the likes of 13th and Making A Murderer amongst the most must-see content the service has to offer. Admittedly, Netflix would face a mammoth task trying to go toe-to-toe with the likes of Attenborough, but it doesn’t have to. Instead, what about something akin to the Beeb’s Wonderland series, which, with a good deal of warm humour, explores aspects of Britain that rarely gets televised? The scope here is huge.
It’s often documentaries that can say the most about the issues we face as a society, through it’s personal examination of real people and events. Shows like The Crown give outside audiences a decidedly rose-tinted ideal of the UK, but quality documentaries have the ability to show what contemporary British life is really like - the good, bad and the ugly.