March 2025 on BritBox – highlights include Silent Witness, The Hardacres, Doc Martin and Special Ops: Crime Squad UK.
March is a big month for BritBox with more new and exclusive content dropping. A fresh set of tough cases are in store for Dr Nikki when a brand new and exclusive season of Silent Witness premieres on the home of British telly. Heartwarming, rags-to-riches period drama The Hardacres will be available to stream and asks the question ‘can money truly buy happiness?’.
The final season of the hugely successful drama Doc Martin is here, so you can binge the entire boxset on BritBox. And round out the month with Special Ops: Crime Squad UK, a never-before-seen series that looks at the work of the super-specialist, elite police teams across the UK that are called into investigations where regular police work has failed.
SILENT WITNESS – SEASON 28
NEW AND EXCLUSIVE TO BRITBOX
GENRE: CRIME DRAMA
BritBox is now the only place to watch the latest new season of this thrilling crime drama.
Emilia Fox returns for her 20th season as pathologist Dr Nikki Alexander.
Joined by forensic expert Jack Hodgson, and two new recruits – veteran pathologist Professor Harriet Maven and razor-sharp crime analyst Kit Brooks – the Lyell team find themselves challenged like never before.
Their investigations include the elderly being preyed upon, the return of a hammer-wielding attacker, a dismembered hand found in a canal and the mysterious death of a passenger on a plane. The team uses all their knowledge and expertise to help officers find the truth and ensure justice is truly served.
Starring Emilia Fox (Signora Volpe, The Pianist), David Caves (Widow’s Walk, Ironclad), Maggie Steed (Rivals, Ten Percent), Francesca Mills (The Witcher: Blood Origin, Sneakerhead).
Streaming 2 episodes weekly only on BritBox from March 20, 2025
THE HARDACRES
NEW AND EXCLUSIVE TO BRITBOX
GENRE: PERIOD DRAMA
New period drama from the makers of All Creatures Great and Small, following the ambitious Hardacres family as they adapt from living on a grimy fish dock to a sprawling country Yorkshire estate.
The Hardacres chronicles the sweeping rags to riches story of a working class family in 1890s Yorkshire. A sprawling family saga, the series follows the lives, loves and fortunes of the Hardacre family as they move from a grimy fish dock to a vast country estate.
When an accident at work on the docks lands Sam and Mary Hardacre – along with their three kids Joe, Liza and Harry, and Mary’s inimitable mother Ma – unemployed and destitute, they have to think fast. They embark on a radical business venture which pays off enormously. With their newfound wealth, the Hardacres must make a new life in their new home, and navigate the world of aristocrats and high society.
A bold, gutsy ensemble family drama full of heart, The Hardacres places an ordinary family in an extraordinary position and explores the age-old question – can money ever buy true happiness?
Starring: Claire Cooper (Hollyoaks, London Kills), Julie Graham (Taggart, The Fruit Machine), Liam McMamahon (Hunger, The Secret), Adam Little (Coronation Street).
Streaming weekly only on BritBox from March 5, 2025
DOC MARTIN – SEASON 10
NEW TO BRITBOX
GENRE: DRAMA
Martin Clunes returns to Cornwall to play everybody’s favourite grumpy medic for the last time.
At the end of the last series the Doc decided, after having his medical career scrutinised by the General Medical Council because of his blood phobia, that he would resign from being Portwenn’s GP.
This final series sees the Doc making efforts to overcome his phobia, and beginning to question whether he made the right decision about resigning. He and Louisa have also welcomed a baby daughter, Mary Elizabeth, a sister for four-year-old James Henry.
With Louisa pursuing her new career as a child counsellor in his old surgery, the Doc is left literally holding the baby, and indulging his hobby of repairing clocks on the kitchen table. But does he really want his old job back?
Starring Doc Martin (Out Here, Manhunt, Saving Grace), Caroline Catz (DCI Banks, Murder in Suburnia), Eileen Atkins (Cranford, Nothing Like Dame, Gosford Park), Ian McNeice (A Christmas Carol, Ace Venture: When A Nature Calls, White Noise).
Streaming on BritBox from March 13, 2025
SPECIAL OPS: CRIME SQUAD UK
NEW TO BRITBOX
GENRE: DOCUMENTARY
A never-before seen look into the real-life criminal investigations of the UK’s most talented sleuths.
A high-octane crime drama that follows an elite team of undercover agents from the UK’s Special Operations Division as they tackle the country’s most dangerous and complex criminal cases, using cutting-edge tactics and facing life-or-death decisions to bring justice to those who they are above the law.
Streaming on BritBox from March 24, 2025
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March 2025 on BritBox
