Everything British Worth Streaming in February 2024

The grey days of February are here, when the snow turns to sludge, and the late blizzards arrive right when you wish everything would warm up. Somehow, the month is simultaneously too long and too short at the same time. Also, every four years, someone adds an extra day at the end of it just to cause massive confusion. In conclusion, February is the rudest month, and, amazingly, it hasn't been sacked as part of overall cost-cutting measures to bring the year down from 12 months to a more easily streamlined ten.

February is also rude because it is one of those months when very few new releases arrive either in theaters or on streaming. In films, the end-of-the-year releases that rushed to open in New York and Los Angeles to qualify for the Oscars have fully opened nationwide, and all that's left are the films being dumped because they weren't award contenders by the time they were finished, and the occasional Valentine's romance. In television, the major rush of British shows that debuted in January are all tickling to a conclusion; however, none of the award-worthy shows that want to make a splash with Emmy voters are ready to debut because the window for that doesn't start until March. Once again, there's little worth noting, save the occasional romance and Black History-oriented program.

That said, a few noteworthy programs are arriving this month that fall outside those two buckets, many of them from the U.K. that aired in January and are now legally able to air in America with the conclusion of their run across the pond. Plus, there are a couple of early award-season arrivals from networks that have so many they wound up having to back up a debut or two to the back half of February to fit everything in. Let's run down what arrivals there are to get us through this overlong, yet still too short, leap year February.