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Launching on BBC Three and BBC iPlayer, classic shows are being brought back as popular soap EastEnders has production halted, resulting in only two episodes being shown a week.
The re-releases aim to provide some much-needed distraction from the doom and gloom of the outbreak.
The series announced so far include comedy classic French and Saunders, Spooks, The Missing, Wallander, Waking the Dead and The Honourable Woman.
French and Saunders cemented Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders as comedy icons.
The series sees them perform sketches that make fun of current TV and modern life in Britain.
The show ran for seven seasons and even now, 33 years later, it is remembered as one of the UK’s most popular comedies.
Fan favourites include their Titanic masterpiece, the Red Nose Day Spice Girls video and their recent return has been a hit with the Gogglebox favourites.
Spooks is also being made available if you prefer thrillers to comedies. The story follows a team of MI-5 agents who attempt to capture terrorists threatening UK security.
Spooks has 10 series and a film, more than enough content to keep oneself busy.
Another thriller with a different story includes The Missing – an anthology series that follows a detective looking into the cases of missing children years after the cases have gone cold.
The cast includes Tcheky Karyo, Keeley Hawes, James Nesbitt, David Morrissey and Frances O’Connor,
Waking the Dead is similar to The Missing in premise and examines the London police officers who are trying to crack seemingly impossible cases
It sees a police inspector suffering existential crises as he goes about his day job.
The series is set in Ystad in Sweden and has been adapted for numerous languages around the world.
The Honourable Woman also follows the thriller theme with Maggie Gyllanhaal playing a business owner wanting to bring peace to the Middle East.
When her business partner gets assassinated she has to figure out why, leading her into a dark underworld she hadn’t previously known.
All the above titles are due to be released on BBC iPlayer.
