| Restoration | British Broadcasting Corporation | — | — |
| Rich, Famous and in the Slums | BBC One | 1 | 2 |
| Richard Hammond Meets Evel Knievel | BBC Two | — | — |
| Richard Hammond's Engineering Connections | National Geographic | 3 | 16 |
| Richard Hammond's Invisible Worlds | BBC One | 1 | 3 |
| Right to the Edge: Sydney to Tokyo by Any Means | BBC Two | 1 | 6 |
| Ring of Fire: An Indonesian Odyssey | — | 1 | 7 |
| Rocket Science | — | 1 | 3 |
| Romans | Channel 4 | 1 | 4 |
| Ross Kemp in Search of Pirates | — | 1 | 3 |
| Ross Kemp on Gangs | Sky One | 4 | 19 |
| Ross Kemp: Battle for the Amazon | — | 1 | 2 |
| Ross Kemp: Extreme World | — | 6 | 36 |
| Rough Justice | BBC One | — | — |
| Rough Science | — | — | 34 |
| Sacred Weeds | Channel 4 | — | 4 |
| Sahara with Michael Palin | British Broadcasting Corporation | 1 | 4 |
| Sailor | BBC One | — | 10 |
| Saints and Scroungers | BBC One | 8 | 155 |
| Sea Monsters | British Broadcasting Corporation | — | 3 |
| Sea of Faith | — | — | — |
| Secret Britain | BBC One | 3 | 7 |
| Secrets of the Imperial War Museum | Channel 5 | — | — |
| See You in Court | BBC One | 1 | 6 |
| Seven Ages of Britain | BBC One | 1 | 7 |
| Seven Wonders of the Industrial World | BBC Two | — | 7 |
| Sex, Death and the Meaning of Life | — | — | 3 |
| Shooting Joe Exotic | BBC Two | — | — |
| Should I Worry About...? | BBC One | 2 | 14 |
| Simon Schama's Power of Art | BBC Four | — | 8 |
| Sky Cops | BBC One | 2 | 17 |
| Small Teen, Bigger World | — | — | — |
| Soldiers: A History of Men in Battle | British Broadcasting Corporation | 1 | 13 |
| Son of God | BBC One | 1 | 3 |
| Space Race | BBC Two | 1 | 4 |
| Sri Lanka's Killing Fields: War Crimes Unpunished | Channel 4 | — | 1 |
| Sri Lanka: The Search for Justice | — | — | — |
| Stephen Fry in America | BBC One, BBC Two | 1 | 6 |
| Storyville | — | — | — |
| Style Queen | — | — | 3 |
| Supercar Megabuild | National Geographic | 2 | 18 |
| Supernatural Science | British Broadcasting Corporation | 2 | 17 |
| Supernatural: The Unseen Powers of Animals | — | — | — |
| Survival in the Sky | — | — | — |
| Surviving America's Most Hated Family | — | — | — |
| Surviving Disaster | — | 1 | 7 |
| Tales from the Green Valley | BBC Two | 1 | 12 |
| Tales from the Palaces | BBC Four | — | — |
| Taylor Swift vs Scooter Braun: Bad Blood | HBO Max | — | 2 |
| Ten Deadliest Snakes with Nigel Marven | — | — | — |
| Terry Jones' Barbarians | BBC Two | 1 | 4 |
| The 70s | BBC Two | 1 | 4 |
| The Age of the Automobile | British Broadcasting Corporation | — | — |
| The Age of Uncertainty | — | — | 15 |
| The Armstrongs | British Broadcasting Corporation | — | 8 |
| The Art of Eternity | — | 1 | 3 |
| The Ascent of Man | BBC Two | — | 13 |
| The Bear Family & Me | BBC Two | 1 | 3 |
| The Beginning and End of the Universe | BBC Four | 1 | 2 |
| The Big Time | BBC One | 3 | 15 |