THE TEN HOTTEST SHOWS TO WATCH RIGHT NOW

ON BBC iPLAYER

1. LINE OF DUTY

Can the hugely popular drama about police corruption really be over? Here’s your chance to recap all the previous series to remind you of the story so far.

2. JONATHAN CREEK

Cosy, comic ‘howdunnit’ mystery series with Alan Davies in the title role as a designer of illusions for a stage magician who uses his skill to solve seemingly impossible crimes.

3. LAST TANGO IN HALIFAX

Charming and warm-hearted show in which Anne Reid and Derek Jacobi are teenage sweethearts reunited in old age.

4. SPIRAL

Gritty Paris-set French show about the police and the legal system. Captain Laure Berthaud and her team have to tackle gruesome murders, political corruption, drug crime and terrorism.

5. HIS DARK MATERIALS

This fine-looking adaptation of the Philip Pullman fantasy novels is a jewel in the BBC crown, with Dafne Keen a superstar in the making as young Lyra Belacqua and Ruth Wilson (above) as the villainous Mrs Coulter.

6. LIFE ON MARS

Cult hit in which detective Sam Tyler (John Simm) wakes up in 1973 and has to work with DCI Gene Hunt (Philip Glenister), an old-school copper.

7. LUTHER

Idris Elba as an obsessive, unorthodox detective; Ruth Wilson as a genius-level murderer – what more do you want?

8. CALL THE MIDWIFE

Writer Heidi Thomas’s drama about East End midwives is one of the BBC’s best-loved shows and has numbered Miranda Hart, Emerald Fennell and Jessica Raine among its cast.

9. MRS AMERICA

Cate Blanchett, Rose Byrne and Uzo Aduba star in this gripping political drama about American feminists in the 1970s and their battle for equal rights and clash with conservative activists.

1 0. DEVS

In a laboratory suspended in a vacuum, a Silicon Valley tech giant’s most gifted coders are working on a disturbing secret project. Alex Garland’s dark sci-fi thriller grapples with a mindbending philosophical problem.