Drama That Grips

From gripping thrillers to global hits, our drama slate spans Sky’s channels and our partner networks, delivering must-watch content that keeps audiences engaged and brands front and centre.

Under Salt Marsh

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Created, written and directed by Claire Oakley (Make Up), the six-part series opens as a once-in-a-generation storm rolls in from the sea. Former detective turned teacher Jackie Ellis (Kelly Reilly) makes a shocking discovery that reopens the wounds of a three-year-old cold case which cost her both her career and her family’s trust. Forced to reunite with her estranged police partner Eric Bull (Rafe Spall), Jackie is drawn back into an investigation that will shake Morfa Halen to its core. Together, they must confront a community haunted by secrets and fractured by grief, before the incoming storm washes away the evidence forever.

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A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms

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A century before the events of “Game of Thrones,” two unlikely heroes wandered Westeros… a young, naïve but courageous knight, Ser Duncan the Tall (Peter Claffey), and his diminutive squire, Egg (Dexter Sol Ansell). Set in an age when the Targaryen line still holds the Iron Throne, and the memory of the last dragon has not yet passed from living memory, great destinies, powerful foes, and dangerous exploits all await these improbable and incomparable friends.

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Irish Blood

A six-part murder mystery, Irish Blood focuses on Fiona (Alicia Silverstone), whose path in life is earmarked by her father, Declan (Jason O’Mara), who seemingly abandoned her and her mother on her tenth birthday. After years of channeling anger toward him, to the benefit of her litigious clients, a message from her father sends her to Ireland. There she learns key truths about her father as well as a family that doesn’t know she exists, and, moreover, that the story of abandonment that has shaped her entire life – was a lie.

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Gomorrah: The Origins

Naples, 1977. The story of how it all began — how a very young Pietro Savastano will enter a criminal world, against the backdrop of a city in transformation: poor, rough-edged, marked by cigarette smuggling and on the brink of the heroin era. Gomorrah: The Origins is the highly anticipated six-part prequel produced by Sky Studios and Cattleya expanding the epic Sky Original crime saga inspired by Roberto Saviano’s bestselling novel.

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Fear The Walking Dead

All eight seasons of Fear the Walking Dead are finally coming to Sky. The first official spin-off to The Walking Dead universe, this series acts initially as a prequel to the mainline series, following a dysfunctional Los Angeles-based blended family whose lives are turned upside down when the zombie apocalypse hits. As they reinvent themselves and adapt to survive, soon events run concurrently to those experienced by Will Grimes and the other survivors, and a familiar face joins their struggle.

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Watson

Watson is a medical drama that reimagines Dr. John Watson as the head of a rare diseases clinic, six to twelve months after the death of Sherlock Holmes at the hands of Moriarty. The show centres on Dr. John Watson (played by Morris Chestnut), who has left his life as a detective’s companion behind to return to the world of medicine. He takes a leadership role at the Holmes Clinic for Diagnostic Medicine in Pittsburgh, which specialises in treating unusual and unidentifiable medical conditions.

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The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon S3

The Walking Dead universe returns to our screens for the third instalment of Daryl Dixon’s post-apocalyptic odyssey. Season three follows Daryl (Norman Reedus) and Carol (Melissa McBride) as they continue their journey to somehow return home and to the ones they love. As they struggle to find their way back, the path takes them farther astray, leading them through distant lands with ever-changing and unfamiliar conditions as they witness the various effects of the Walker apocalypse.

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Nuremberg

Based on Jack El-Hai’s acclaimed book The Nazi and the Psychiatrist, Sky Original Nuremberg is inspired by the true story of the eponymous trials held by the Allies against the defeated Nazi regime. The film explores the psychological chess match between American psychiatrist Douglas Kelley and Nazi leader Hermann Göring. Russell Crowe delivers a chilling performance as Göring, while fellow Oscar® winner Rami Malek portrays Kelley, tasked with evaluating the mental fitness of Nazi war criminals.

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The Iris Affair

When enigmatic genius Iris Nixon (Niamh Algar) cracks a string of complex online puzzles, she’s led to a piazza in Florence where she meets charismatic entrepreneur Cameron Beck (Tom Hollander). He invites her to come and work for him to unlock a powerful and top-secret piece of technology. Her curiosity piqued, she accepts. But when Iris discovers its dangerous potential, she steals the journal containing the device’s activation sequence—and vanishes. What follows is a relentless pursuit, from a remote cabin in Sardinia through the bustling streets of Rome, as Cameron races to find Iris in a high-stakes game where trust is dangerous and failure could be catastrophic.

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All Her Fault

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All Her Fault is adapted by Megan Gallagher (Wolf, Suspicion) from the best-selling novel of the same name by Andrea Mara, which opens on a plausibly terrifying situation that eventually unearths the deep secrets of a wealthy community. Marissa Irvine (Snook) arrives to collect her young son Milo from his first playdate, but the woman who answers the door isn’t a mother she recognises. She doesn’t have Milo and has never heard of him. And so, begins every parent’s worst nightmare…

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Mayor of Kingstown S2

 Mike’s control over Kingstown is threatened as new players compete to fill the power vacuum left in the Russians’ wake, compelling him to confront the resulting gang war and stop them from swallowing the town. Meanwhile, with those he loves in more danger than ever before, Mike must contend with a headstrong new Warden to protect his own while grappling with demons from his past.

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The Forsytes

The Forsytes is a six-part Victorian-era period drama following the wealthy Forsyte family across four generations, focusing on the conflict between tradition and desire as younger members, such as Soames and his cousin Jolyon, challenge family expectations and vie for control of the family stockbroking firm, with romance, duty, and scandal intertwined
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Atomic

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Atomic is a brand-new, adrenaline-charged Sky Original show. It follows two unlikely heroes, Max and JJ, on a cinematic odyssey through the medinas, metropolises and inhospitable deserts of North Africa.
On the run from a powerful cartel and the CIA, with stolen deadly Uranium in their backpacks, they face a choice: to get out and save themselves, or to do what it takes to prevent a nuclear bomb from getting into the wrong hands. With their funny and unexpected camaraderie (and secret desperation for a shot at redemption), Max and JJ wonder whether some kind of atonement is possible amidst all this madness.

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Amadeus

When twenty-five-year-old Amadeus arrives in bustling 18th Century Vienna, no longer a child prodigy and craving creative freedom, his world collides with two pivotal figures: his fiercely loyal future wife, Constanze Weber, and devoutly religious court composer, Antonio Salieri. As Amadeus’ brilliance continues to flourish in spite of his personal demons, a questionable reputation and scepticism from the conservative court, Salieri becomes increasingly tormented by this apparent divine gift. Amadeus is a threat to all that he holds dear in life: his talent, his reputation, even his faith in God, Salieri vows to bring him down. What begins as professional rivalry turns into a deeply personal obsession spanning 30 years, culminating in a murder confession and a desperate attempt to entwine himself with Mozart’s legacy forever.

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Murder Before Evensong

Adapted from the novel by the Reverend Richard Coles, Murder Before Evensong centres on Canon Daniel Clement in a 1980s English village, whose plans to modernise the church are upended by a murder discovery behind the altar. As more deaths follow, Daniel is drawn into the investigation, unearthing hidden village secrets and a conspiracy that threatens his community and sanity.

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Doc S2

Doc begins its second season following the heartbreak and victories of hard-charging, brilliant physician Dr. Amy Larsen (Emmy nominee Molly Parker, House of Cards) as she rebuilds her life after a car crash erased eight years of her memory. This season, Amy will continue to confront hard truths about her missing years, work to repair fractured relationships and seek to reconcile the person she used to be with the one everyone else has come to know. Determined to get her memory back and piece together who she really is, Amy’s goal is to become the doctor she used to be in those missing years and to eventually, once again, be Chief of Internal Medicine.

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The Death of Bunny Munro

Following his wife Libby’s suicide, sex addict, door-to-door beauty product salesman and self-professed lothario Bunny Munro finds himself saddled with a young son and only a loose concept of parenting. Together with nine-year-old Bunny Junior he embarks on an epic and increasingly out-of-control road trip across Southern England as the two struggle to contain their grief in very different ways.

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Landman S2

Landman, co-created by Taylor Sheridan and Christian Wallace, is set in the proverbial boomtowns of West Texas and is a modern-day tale of fortune-seeking in the world of oil rigs.
Based on the notable 11-part podcast Boomtown from Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly, the series is an upstairs/downstairs story of roughnecks and wildcat billionaires fuelling a boom so big; it’s reshaping our climate, our economy, and our geopolitics.

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IT: Welcome To Derry

Set in the world of Stephen King’s “IT” universe, IT: Welcome to Derry expands the vision established by filmmaker Andy Muschietti in his two-part feature film adaptation, released in 2017 and 2019.

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Matlock S2

Emmy and Academy Award winner Kathy Bates returns as Madeline “Matty” Matlock, the brilliant septuagenarian attorney who rejoins the work force at a prestigious law firm where she uses clever tactics to win cases while hiding a hidden agenda. As were open the case files on season two, Matty questions the paternity of the man claiming to be Alfie’s father, while her partner Olympia tries to protect ex-husbandJulian’s involvement in the Wellbrexa case.

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Revival

On a miraculous day in rural Wisconsin the dead rise, but are not zombies; they are fully intact with their memories and personalities. Officer Dana Cypress (Melanie Scorfano) is drawn into a complicated murder investigation where the victim is alive, and everyone, living or “revived,” is a potential suspect.

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The Rumour

This Channel 5 thriller is about a woman who moves to her childhood seaside town with her son, where she unearths a rumour about a child killer hiding there. As she shares this gossip with the local mums to make friends, a wave of paranoia, suspicion, and fear spreads through the town, leading to dangerous consequences as the truth becomes blurred with lies. The series explores how quickly a single whisper can shatter a community, and the dangerous consequences of a quest for truth when trust erodes.

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Evil

Evil is a psychological mystery drama that centres on a skeptical forensic psychologist who teams up with a Catholic priest-in-training and a technology expert to investigate the Catholic Church’s backlog of unexplained mysteries. Stars Kristen Bouchard, David Acosta, and Ben Shakir.

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Task

Set in the working-class suburbs of Philadelphia, an FBI agent (Mark Ruffalo) heads a Task Force to put an end to a string of violent robberies led by an unsuspecting family man (Tom Pelphrey).

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