Amazon's annual Prime Day sales are this week, and as usual, that means a number of streaming channels have been heavily discounted. For us, this is always a great time to subscribe to services we want to try, or to catch up on shows we want to see on services we don't use enough to keep year-round.

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Amazon makes it easy to cancel when you're ready (no calls or customer service necessary, just a few clicks on the "Memberships and Subscriptions" section of the account), and if you use something like Google Calendar or Any.do (free for personal use), you can schedule a reminder so you cancel before the price goes back up to normal.

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Below, we take a look at the channels most likely to be of interest to British TV fans - including some recommendations for what to watch on the services with less obvious British TV appeal.

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What we're...

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• Watching: QI (the new season, V) - If you've never watched QI, I highly recommend giving it a try - ideally, for at least 2-3 episodes so you get a good feel for what's going on. The long-running comedy quiz show poses strange trivia questions, only asking that participants make the answers interesting. As you watch, you learn a lot of strange things - usually accompanied by a few laugh-out-loud moments.
• Reading: How to Get Away with Murder by Tam Barnett - I spotted this one on sale for 99 cents (still on sale at time of writing), and so far, it's been great fun. If you enjoy darkly hilarious murder mysteries, it's well worth the gamble.

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Amazon Prime Channels on Sale for Prime Day: A Look at the Best Ones for British TV Fans

Acorn TV: Get it HERE ($.99/mo for 2 months, $8.99/mo after)

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BritBox: Get it HERE ($.99/mo for 2 months, $8.99/mo after)

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PBS Masterpiece: Get it HERE ($.99/mo for 2 months, $5.99/mo after)

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Apple TV+: Get it HERE ($4.99/mo for 2 months, $9.99/mo after)

After years of only being available directly from Apple, it's great to have the option to subscribe outside the Apple ecosystem. They've been steadily building a nice stable of British TV shows, including...

• ​Slow Horses (about screwups at MI5, based on Mick Herron's novels)
• ​Ted Lasso (an upbeat American football coach meets British culture)
• ​Trying (about a young British couple trying to build a family)
• ​Bad Sisters (a dark Irish comedy about sisters being investigated for the death of their brother-in-law)

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Paramount+ Premium: Get it HERE ($.99/mo for 2 months, $12.99/mo after)

Paramount doesn't have a lot of purely British shows, but they do have...

• ​MobLand (with Pierce Brosnan, Dame Helen Mirren, and Tom Hardy)
• ​Watson (a Sherlock Holmes spinoff about a modern Watson after the Reichenbach Falls incident)
• ​Ghosts (a must-watch for British sitcom fans)

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AMC+: Get it HERE ($.99/mo for 2 months, $9.99/mo after)

This one has a ton of overlap with Acorn TV, but it does have the entire Sundance Now catalog plus some others, like...

• ​McMafia (James Norton gets sucked into involvement with the Russian mafia)
• ​Gangs of London (self-explanatory)

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Hallmark+: Get it HERE ($.99/mo for 2 months, $7.99/mo after)

You won't find a huge number of British shows here, but they do have...

• ​Shakespeare & Hathaway (a cozy crime series set in Stratford-upon-Avon)
• ​Rosemary & Thyme (two gardeners solve murders)
• ​The Presence of Love (a Hallmark film set on a family farm in England)
• ​A Scottish Love Scheme (a Hallmark film about finding love in Scotland)

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MGM+: Get it HERE ($.99/mo for 2 months, $6.99/mo after)

In addition to a number of Bond films, MGM+ also has...

• ​A Spy Among Friends (based on the true story of Nicholas Elliott and Kim Philby)
• ​Rogue Heroes (a WW2 period action-drama)
• ​Belgravia (Julian Fellowes' period drama about affluent residents of Belgravia in the 19th century)

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PBS Documentaries: Get it HERE ($.99/mo for 2 months, $8.99/mo after)

While this one has mostly American content, there are a handful of British titles like...

• ​The Queen & the Coup​
• ​Lucy Worsley Investigates​
• ​Lucy Worsley's Royal Myths & Secrets​

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Starz: Get it HERE ($.99/mo for 2 months, $10.99/mo after)

Some of the best British TV shows on Starz include...

• ​Outlander (a woman falls through time and ends up in 1743 Scotland)
• ​Men in Kilts (Outlander stars tour Scotland)
• ​Mary & George (a mother and son scheme to control King James I)

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New This Month...

​BritBox July 2025 Premiere Schedule​

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"Listen, little drop, give yourself up without regret and in return you will gain the ocean. Give yourself away and in the great sea you will be secure."

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Abdul Karim, Victoria & Abdul​

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