Time

Time

2021 · 3 seasons · 9 eps · ★ 7.6 · Drama, Crime

Returning Series Next episode: Oct 18, 2026

Guilt, violence and impossible choices – what does it take to survive? Tense, gritty and heartbreaking – Jimmy McGovern's award-winning prison drama, with an all-star cast.

Created by Jimmy McGovern

Network: BBC One

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NeedleNeedle · 1990
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★ 10.01990
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Needle paints a harrowing picture of a Liverpool overrun by drugs, charting a young man's nightmarish descent into intravenous heroin use and AIDS and a police and political leadership incapable of the imagination or courage necessary to respond to the drug problem.
AccusedAccused · 2010
Accused
★ 8.22010
SeriesDramaCrime
How certain people end up being accused of a crime.
Redfern Now: Promise MeRedfern Now: Promise Me · 2015
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★ 8.02015
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Two young women are raped on their way home. The story follows the lives of both women and the different ways they deal with the crime.
UnforgivableUnforgivable · 2025
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★ 7.82025
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The Mitchell family deal with the devastating aftermath of an act of sexual abuse committed by a member of their own family who, after two years, is about to leave prison.
Hearts and MindsHearts and Minds · 1995
Hearts and Minds
★ 7.81995
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A young teacher begins work at a tough Liverpool comprehensive, where he has to deal with racism, homophobia and his students' poor backgrounds.
SundaySunday · 2002
Sunday
★ 7.72002
MovieDramaTV Movie
Sunday tells the story of an infamous day in Derry, North of Ireland and how the events of that day were subsequently covered up by the British Government of the time. On Sunday 30th January 1972 a peaceful civil rights march against internment (imprisonment without trial), organised by the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association (NICRA) ended with 13 marchers shot dead and 15 wounded. It became known throughout the world as Bloody Sunday. Told primarily from the perspective of the Derry community, juxtaposed with the British Army/state's preparations and reaction to the day, Sunday communicates the forensic and emotional truth of what happened
The StreetThe Street · 2006
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★ 7.62006
SeriesDrama
Anthology drama following the lives and passions of neighbors on a northern English street.
AccuséAccusé · 2015
Accusé
★ 7.52015
SeriesDramaCrime
Six stories about six people facing accusations in court.
Moving OnMoving On · 2009
Moving On
★ 7.32009
SeriesDrama
Moving On is a British television series set in contemporary Britain consisting of standalone dramas all sharing the theme of someone going through some kind of change in their life and moving on.
HillsboroughHillsborough · 1996
Hillsborough
★ 7.21996
MovieDramaTV Movie
Drama based on the real life events of April 1989, when ninety-six Liverpool supporters were crushed to death during an F.A. Cup Semi-Final match against Nottingham Forest at Sheffield Wednesday's Hillsborough Stadium. This movie follows three Liverpudlian families before the match, during the tragedy and at the ensuing court battles which tried to decide who was to blame and what went wrong.
CrackerCracker · 1997
Cracker
★ 7.21997
SeriesCrimeDrama
Crime drama based on the UK TV series about Gerry "Fitz" Fitzgerald, a brilliant but troubled criminal psychologist working alongside the Los Angeles police department.
BanishedBanished · 2015
Banished
★ 7.22015
SeriesDrama
Banished is a British period drama television serial created by Jimmy McGovern. The seven-part serial first aired on BBC Two from 5 March to 16 April 2015. It received mixed reviews, with most of the criticism for its perceived inaccuracies to the depicted events. Though set in the stark historical reality of the founding of the penal colony in Australia in 1788 after the arrival of the First Fleet, it is not the story of Australia and how it came to be. Rather, it is a tale of love, faith, justice and morality played out on an epic scale in a confined community where the stakes are literally life and death.
Screen TwoScreen Two · 1985
Screen Two
★ 7.11985
SeriesDrama
Series of single made-for-television dramas.
Cracker: White GhostCracker: White Ghost · 1996
Cracker: White Ghost
★ 7.01996
MovieTV MovieCrime
A British businessman operating in Hong Kong has feelings of inferiority and turns to murder when he faces bankruptcy.
TraitorsTraitors · 1990
Traitors
★ 7.01990
MovieDramaTV Movie
A play about the gunpowder plot written from a new angle by Jimmy McGovern.
World in ActionWorld in Action · 1963
World in Action
★ 7.01963
SeriesNewsDocumentary
World in Action was Granada Television’s flagship ITV current affairs series, running from 7 Jan 1963 to 7 Dec 1998, and built a reputation for film-led investigative reporting and a forceful editorial stance. Its journalism produced major public and political repercussions—including investigations associated with miscarriages of justice such as the Birmingham Six—and it also served as a platform for landmark documentary projects, including the first broadcast of “Seven Up!” as part of the strand in 1964.

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