With the news that BBC Three is returning as a TV channel, we remember 12 of the best series it has given us – and you can watch them all right now on BBC iPlayer.

Hurrah! The BBC just announced it is bringing back BBC Three as a regular TV channel, six years after it was taken off air and moved online. 

It first launched on TV in 2003 with hit shows including Little Britain and Gavin & Stacey, but you can currently only watch its offerings on BBC iPlayer. The platform continues to give us groundbreaking new documentaries, comedies and dramas – you only need to look at the recent adaptation of Sally Rooney’s Normal People and Michaela Coel’s I May Destroy You as proof of this.