Valentine’s TV on BBC iPlayer
his Valentine’s Day, head over to BBC iPlayer for the best romantic comedies, feel-good favourites, and classic films to warm your heart.
Scroll through some of the highlights below or head to BBC iPlayer for loads more romantic TV and films for your watchlist.
TV for Valentine’s Day
With every episode available on BBC iPlayer, these are the shows you can sink into – first loves, bad dates, unrequited crushes and everything in-between.
Normal People
Marianne and Connell weave in and out of each other’s lives in this exploration of sex, power and the desire to love and be loved. Adaptation of Sally Rooney’s best-selling novel. Starring Daisy Edgar-Jones and Paul Mescal.
Conversations with Friends
Prepare to get intimate. Two students and a married couple enter a tangled web of friendship, infidelity and lies. A seductive, intense love story from the makers of Normal People.
Love, Victor
Fear less, love more. A heartfelt high school tale of finding out who you are and coming out to the world. The series focuses on a new student at Creekwood High School: Victor. The series follows his journey of self-discovery as he faces challenges at home and struggles with his sexual orientation. He reaches out to another boy, Simon, when it seems too difficult for him to navigate through high school.
Everything I Know About Love
Four friends. One story of great love. A messy, raucous stumble into bad dates and heartaches – and surviving your twenties. The bestseller from the heart of Dolly Alderton.
The Obsessed With…Everything I Know About Love companion podcast is here to dissect every moment of the TV adaptation. Join Sophie Duker and Olga Koch as they deep dive into the series with a healthy slice of nostalgia for good measure.
Love + Hate
A love story set across the racial frontline in a town in northern England. Adam has been brought up in a community that fosters racial hatred. Naseema is a second-generation Asian who abhors the way her peers have espoused violence as a way of reclaiming the lost pride of their fathers. But what they share is a privately held desire to break free from their small town, something they discover they have in common whilst working at the local DIY store.
Love in the Flesh
Zara McDermott welcomes couples who have only ever connected online to meet for the very first time. Will sparks fly in a gorgeous Greek beach house? Or will heads be turned?
Watch Love in the Flesh on BBC iPlayer
A Very British Romance with Lucy Worsley
Lucy Worsley delves into the history of romance to uncover the forces shaping our very British happily ever after and how our feelings have been affected by social, political and cultural ideas.
Just One Night
Rocky relationship? Maybe someone new will help. Couples date someone else – for just one night. Will it convince them to stay together or split forever?
Hot Property
Ultimate wingman Yung Filly helps singletons snoop around the homes of potential partners. With no idea what lies behind the bedroom door, will roomance turn into romance?
Gavin & Stacey
Comedy series about Essex boy Gavin and Welsh girl Stacey. The absolute highs and awkward lows of a long-distance love affair. Plus….Smithy.
Pride and Prejudice
The award-winning 1995 adaptation of Jane Austen’s classic Regency romance, starring Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle.
If you fancy another Austen classic, there’s also the 2008 adaptation of Sense and Sensibility on BBC iPlayer with Hattie Morahan, Charity Wakefield, David Morrissey, and Dominic Cooper.
Love, Faith and Me
Love, relationships, family life and having children. Personal stories reflecting on the biggest milestones in life, as seen from the perspectives of different faiths.
In The Highs and Lows of a Kosher Marriage, Saul and Shoshi are happily married, but like all couples, they face challenges. Can following their strict Orthodox Jewish faith, including sleeping in separate beds for 12 days of every month, and the sacred ritual of the Mikvah, help them overcome any hurdles they might face?
Love on screen: Romantic Films on BBC iPlayer
Find a new film on BBC iPlayer this February, including plenty of big-budget classics for a romantic night in.
Star-crossed lovers, hopeless romantics, or just unlucky in love. There’s plenty to choose from this Valentine’s Day…
My Summer of Love
Drama charting the unlikely friendship that develops over the course of a summer between working-class Mona (Natalie Press) and well-to-do Tamsin (Emily Blunt). In the Yorkshire countryside, working-class tomboy Mona meets the exotic, pampered Tamsin. Over the summer season, the two young women discover they have much to teach one another, and much to explore together.
P.S I Love You
Holly (Hilary Swank), a young widow, must put her life back together after losing her husband Gerry (Gerard Butler). She discovers that he has left her a list of tasks revealed in ten messages, delivered anonymously, that gradually ease her out of grief and lead her to a new life – without him.
Watch P.S I Love You on BBC iPlayer
Ali & Ava
Devoted mother and grandmother Ava, a teaching assistant with a love of country and folk music, is offered a lift home from school by the charismatic Ali, who is estranged from his wife but continuing with the charade of marital domesticity for the sake of their close-knit relatives in Bradford. On the journey, they find many things in common, including a love of music, and begin an unusual and secretive courtship. Over a lunar month, sparks fly and a deep connection begins to grow.
Classic films
Enjoy a host of famous films on BBC iPlayer, including these romance classics.
My Favourite Wife
Screwball comedy about a woman (Irene Dunne) who reappears after being shipwrecked to find that her husband (Cary Grant) has remarried. While he tries to conceal her existence from his new bride, his first wife has her own secret – namely the handsome hunk who was her companion for seven years.
Bringing Up Baby
Classic screwball comedy about a madcap heiress who makes a shambles of an absent-minded palaeontologist’s life when she arrives on the scene complete with her pet leopard. The film’s rollercoaster plot formed the basis for 1972’s What’s Up, Doc? and is notable for Katharine Hepburn’s foray into zany comedy.
Love Affair
Oscar-nominated romantic drama. Cruising to New York from Naples, a couple find love despite being engaged to others. But the pair’s plan to meet up six months later suffers a serious setback.
In World War I, an American serving as an ambulance driver in Italy falls in love with a nurse in this adaptation of Ernest Hemingway’s novel.
Discover more from It's All Entertainment
Subscribe to get the latest posts sent to your email.
RSS – Posts
Comments are closed.