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Most Tracked British TV Shows — SeasonTracker Data October 2026

October 19, 2026

Black Mirror is tracked by 125 SeasonTracker users this week, a figure that puts it 44 trackers clear of the next British title on the list. The Night Manager sits second with 81, and no other UK show breaks 60. Across the platform, 2,588 users are currently tracking at least one of 7,916 unique shows, which makes the concentration at the top of the British chart unusually sharp.

Here is the full top 15 by tracker count for the week of October 19, 2026:

1. Black Mirror (Channel 4) - 125 trackers 2. The Night Manager (BBC One) - 81 trackers 3. Peaky Blinders (BBC One) - 53 trackers 4. Sherlock (BBC One) - 43 trackers 5. Death in Paradise (BBC One) - 34 trackers 6. Call the Midwife (BBC One) - 32 trackers 7. The Great British Bake Off (Channel 4) - 30 trackers 8. Doctor Who (BBC One) - 29 trackers 9. Ludwig (BBC One) - 27 trackers 10. Shetland (BBC One) - 26 trackers 11. His Dark Materials (BBC One) - 22 trackers 12. Strike (BBC One) - 21 trackers 13. The Capture (BBC One) - 19 trackers 14. Luther (BBC One) - 18 trackers 15. Beyond Paradise (BBC One) - 17 trackers

BBC One supplies 12 of the 15 entries. Channel 4 accounts for the other three positions by way of Black Mirror and The Great British Bake Off, though those two sit at opposite ends of the scale: one is the single most tracked British title on SeasonTracker, the other is a reality format holding 30 trackers in seventh.

Week-over-week movement is modest almost everywhere, which is typical for a list this established. The two largest single-week gains both measure plus two: Call the Midwife, up to 32, and Shetland, up to 26. Everything else either held flat or added a single tracker.

The month-over-month column is where the more useful signal sits. The Great British Bake Off has added seven trackers over the past month, the largest 30-day gain on the list and a clear sign that SeasonTracker users add the show as its run progresses rather than in advance. Death in Paradise is up five, and Black Mirror, The Night Manager and Ludwig have each added four. Ludwig is the youngest title in the top 15 and is now at 27 trackers, which places it ahead of long-running fixtures including His Dark Materials and Luther.

Three shows have not moved at all across either window: Sherlock at 43, His Dark Materials at 22 and Beyond Paradise at 17. Sherlock and His Dark Materials have both ended, so flat tracking is expected. Beyond Paradise is listed as a returning series, which makes its static count more notable, particularly when its parent show Death in Paradise posted a plus five month.

Crime and mystery dominate the genre mix. Eleven of the 15 entries carry at least one of those tags, and the Death in Paradise, Beyond Paradise, Shetland, Strike, Luther and The Capture cluster suggests SeasonTracker users who track one British procedural tend to track several.

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