TV Shows from Benedict Cumberbatch

Bodyguard

A troubled war veteran is assigned to protect a controversial politician who may be the target of a terror plot.
Benedict Cumberbatch
Actor
On his favourite TV-shows this season: Bodyguard, mentioning Keeley [Hawes] and anything Fiona Shaw is in.
TV Shows from Benedict Cumberbatch

Succession

The lives of the Roy family as they contemplate their future once their aging father begins to step back from the media and entertainment conglomerate they control.
Benedict Cumberbatch
Actor
Succession, which is fantastic and stars brilliant Brit Matthew Macfayden, and is old friend of mine.
TV Shows from Benedict Cumberbatch

Fleabag

Fleabag is thrown roughly up against the walls of contemporary London, sleeping with anyone who dares to stand too close, squeezing money from wherever she can, rejecting anyone who tries to help her, and keeping up her bravado throughout.
Benedict Cumberbatch
Actor
Are you proud of British television at the moment? - Very. Is there any programs you've seen that you're loving, any documentaries? Well, Killing Eve, Fleabag.
TV Shows from Benedict Cumberbatch

Killing Eve

A security consultant hunts for a ruthless assassin. Equally obsessed with each other, they go head to head in an epic game of cat-and-mouse.
Benedict Cumberbatch
Actor
Are you proud of British television at the moment? - Very. Is there any programs you've seen that you're loving, any documentaries? Well, Killing Eve, Fleabag.
TV Shows from Benedict Cumberbatch

The Sopranos

The story of New Jersey-based Italian-American mobster Tony Soprano and the difficulties he faces as he tries to balance the conflicting requirements of his home life and the criminal organization he heads. Those difficulties are often highlighted through his ongoing professional relationship with psychiatrist Jennifer Melfi. The show features Tony's family members and Mafia associates in prominent roles and story arcs, most notably his wife Carmela and his cousin and protégé Christopher Moltisanti.
Benedict Cumberbatch
Actor
Favourite TV programmes? The Wire, The Office, The West Wing, Mad Men and The Sopranos – the typical cliches of great American HBO box-set drama.
TV Shows from Benedict Cumberbatch

Mad Men

Mad Men is set in the 1960s, initially at the fictional Sterling Cooper advertising agency on Madison Avenue in New York City, and later at the newly created firm, Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce, located nearby in the Time-Life Building, at 1271 Avenue of the Americas. According to the show's pilot, the phrase "mad men" was a slang term coined in the 1950s by advertisers working on Madison Avenue to refer to themselves. The focal point of the series is Don Draper, creative director at Sterling Cooper and a founding partner at Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce, and the people in his life, both in and out of the office. The plot focuses on the business of the agencies as well as the personal lives of the characters, regularly depicting the changing moods and social mores of the United States in the 1960s.
Benedict Cumberbatch
Actor
The Wire, The Office, The West Wing, Mad Men and The Sopranos – the typical cliches of great American HBO box-set drama.
TV Shows from Benedict Cumberbatch

The West Wing

The West Wing provides a glimpse into presidential politics in the nation's capital as it tells the stories of the members of a fictional presidential administration. These interesting characters have humor and dedication that touches the heart while the politics that they discuss touch on everyday life.
Benedict Cumberbatch
Actor
- Favourite TV programmes? - The Wire, The Office, The West Wing.
TV Shows from Benedict Cumberbatch

The Office

The everyday lives of office employees in the Scranton, Pennsylvania branch of the fictional Dunder Mifflin Paper Company.
Benedict Cumberbatch
Actor
Favourite TV programmes? The Wire, The Office, The West Wing.
TV Shows from Benedict Cumberbatch

The Wire

Told from the points of view of both the Baltimore homicide and narcotics detectives and their targets, the series captures a universe in which the national war on drugs has become a permanent, self-sustaining bureaucracy, and distinctions between good and evil are routinely obliterated.
Benedict Cumberbatch
Actor
Favourite TV programmes? The Wire
TV Shows from Benedict Cumberbatch

The X Factor

The X Factor is a British television music competition to find new singing talent, contested by aspiring singers drawn from public auditions.
Benedict Cumberbatch
Actor
What is your guiltiest pleasure? The X Factor.