UK TV Premiere Dates: 2023 Calendar

You could go outside. Stick your face in the sunshine, watch a seagull peck at a bin in the park, do the awkward no-after-you dance with a fellow human being on a narrow pavement. But really, is it worth the bother? Inside is where it’s really happening. Inside is where the television lives.

On that television currently in the UK, there’s new comedy to enjoy, not least the return of Guz Khan comedy Man Like Mobeen, the BBC debut of Staged series three feat. David Tennant and Michael Sheen, and Disney+’s follow-up series to The Full Monty. US-import-wise, don’t miss extremely fun Natasha Lyonne-starring detective series Poker Face, from Knives Out creator Rian Johnson, and the second series of excellent comedy-drama Somebody Somewhere.

If you missed it when it aired, you can catch up on the eighth series of Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton’s Inside No. 9 on BBC Two, and while you’re on iPlayer, run, don’t walk to Neil Forsyth’s brilliant Scottish comedy thriller Guilt, all three series of which are available to stream now. All that, plus five brand new episodes of Black Mirror arriving on Netflix on the 15th of June.

We’ll update this list of TV highlights weekly with more shows, dates and times as the release announcements arrive. If you’re based in the US, here’s where to look for the relevant info.