British television programmes with Asian leads
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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
- The Chinese Detective (protagonist portrayed by David Yip)
- The Jewel in the Crown (protagonist portrayed by Art Malik)
1990s
- Goodness Gracious Me (the entire cast)
2000s
- The Kumars at No. 42 (the entire cast)
- My Life as a Popat (majority of the cast)
- M.I. High (first five series starring Rachel Petladwala)
- Planet Ajay starring Ajay Chhabra
- The Sarah Jane Adventures (lead characters played by Yasmin Paige and Anjli Mohindra)
2010s
- Spirit Warriors (majority of the cast), first British television drama series to have a predominantly East Asian cast[1]
- The Indian Doctor (protagonist portrayed by Sanjeev Bhaskar)
- Citizen Khan (majority of the cast)
- Ackley Bridge (half the cast)
- Street Fighter: Assassin's Fist (majority of the cast)
- PREMature (majority of the cast)
- Indian Summers (half the cast)
- The Bisexual (protagonist portrayed by Desiree Akhavan
- The A List (protagonist portrayed by Lisa Ambalavanar)
- Strangers (half the cast)
- Humans (protagonist portrayed by Gemma Chan)
- Informer (protagonist portrayed by Nabhaan Rizwan)
- Man Like Mobeen (protagonist portrayed by Guz Khan)
- Zomboat (ITV series, protagonists portrayed by Hamza Jeetooa and Ryan McKen)[2]
- Giri/Haji (protagonist portrayed by Takehiro Hira)
- Killing Eve (protagonist portrayed by Sandra Oh)
- What We Do in the Shadows (protagonist portrayed by Kayvan Novak)
- Almost Never (TV series) (protagonist portrayed by Nathaniel Dass)
- Departure (TV series) (protagonist portrayed by Archie Panjabi)
- The Good Karma Hospital (half the cast)
2020s
- Get Even (protagonist portrayed by Kim Adis) first British show to feature a Southeast Asian lead.
- Baghdad Central (protagonist portrayed by Waleed Zuaiter) first British produced show with a West Asian Arab lead.
- Intelligence (protagonist portrayed by Nick Mohammed)
- Sandylands (protagonists portrayed by Natalie Dew, Sanjeev Bhaskar and Hamza Jeetooa)
- A Suitable Boy, a miniseries adapted from Vikram Seth's 1993 novel of the same name, (majority of the cast from South Asia)
- The Irregulars (protagonist portrayed by Thaddea Graham)
- Shadow and Bone (protagonists played by Jessie Mei Li, Archie Renaux and Amita Suman)
- Starstruck (co-leads played by Nikesh Patel and Sindhu Vee)
- We Are Lady Parts (majority of the cast)
- This Is Going to Hurt (co-lead played by Ambika Mod)
- Hullraisers (co-lead played by Taj Atwal)
- DI Ray (protagonist played by Parminder Nagra)
- PRU (co-lead played by Jaye Ersavas)
- Count Abdulla (Majority of cast)
See also
References
- ^ "Eastern Promises". Film London. Archived from the original on 25 July 2011. Retrieved 12 May 2011.
- ^ "Zomboat! – Cara Theobold and Ryan McKen cast interviews". Virgin Media. Retrieved 6 October 2019.
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