British television programmes with Asian leads
This is a list of scripted British television programmes featuring one or more actors of Asian ancestry as the programme's leading actor portraying the protagonist or protagonists.
List of television programmes
1980s
1990s
2000s
- The Kumars at No. 42
- My Life as a Popat
- M.I. High Planet Ajay starring Ajay ChhabraThe Sarah Jane Adventures Strike Back Skins
- ''Doctors''
2010s
- Spirit Warriors, first British television drama series to have a predominantly East Asian cast
- The Indian Doctor
- Citizen Khan
- Ackley Bridge
- Street Fighter: Assassin's Fist
- PREMature
- Indian Summers
- The Bisexual
- The A List
- Strangers
- Humans
- Informer
- Man Like Mobeen
- Zomboat
- Giri/Haji
- Killing Eve
- What We Do in the Shadows
- Almost Never (TV series) Departure (TV series)
- ''The Good Karma Hospital''
2020s
- Get Even first British show to feature a Southeast Asian lead.
- Baghdad Central first British produced show with a West Asian Arab lead.
- Intelligence
- Sandylands
- A Suitable Boy, a miniseries adapted from Vikram Seth's 1993 novel of the same name,
- The Irregulars
- Shadow and Bone
- Starstruck
- We Are Lady Parts
- This Is Going to Hurt
- Hullraisers
- DI Ray
- Count Abdulla
- Virdee
- ''Grantchester''