What to Watch: UK Characters That Became International Icons

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From Sherlock Holmes to James Bond to Peppa Pig, here’s how UK characters are conquering the globe...

A young white girl and two young white boys sitting in a grand banquet hall with Christmas trees and flame lanterns playing table top chess

Film

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

A white man with a snake-like face gripping the face of a young white teen with round glasses

Film

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part II

A young white man stares at a tiny bright orange man with green hair trapped under a glass dome on a desk

Film

Wonka

Film

Casino Royale

Film

Quantum of Solace

Film

Skyfall

No Time To Die

Stop motion animation of a white man with wide mouth putting his hand in a rabbit hutch gingerly towards a shaking brown rabbit; a light brown dog stands upright looking through the wire hutch window

Film

Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit

Seated man with his fingers to his temple and a man stands behind him, in the wreckage of a destroyed house.

TV

Sherlock

A seemingly middle aged white man with pale skin in a dark gothic setting wearing a black and red cape

TV

Dracula

Two women and one man stand in a dark, haunting room

Film

A Haunting In Venice

TV

Doctor Who

A red headed white woman and a dark haired white man in long blue coat, run away from cosmic galaxy activity with the TARDIS, a blue police box, in the background

TV

Doctor Who (60th Anniversary Specials)

Film

Paddington 2

Young girl in school uniform, a red tie and grey blazer, stands with her hands on her hips looking defiantly at the camera, surrounded by other people.

Film

Matilda The Musical

CGI white male giant with large ears in a magical rural landscape with a small girl on his shoulder

Film

The BFG

TV

Around the World in 80 Days

A white blonde woman in red Christmassy penguin pyjamas sits crossed legged on a messy sofa strewn with books and papers

Film

Bridget Jones's Diary

A middle aged white man in a suit pulling a smug face at the camera with a posed hand up to his mouth and eyebrow arched

TV

This Time with Alan Partridge

Film

Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa

Bright animation of a family of pastel pink pigs, Daddy, Mummy, Peppa and George, standing on green field with a house in the background

TV

Peppa Pig

Stop motion animation of two chickens in a hen coop pointing at flip paper with diagrams on plotting their escape

Film

Chicken Run

Stop motion animation of a male chicken and a female chicken looking surprised at a small chick's leg, kicking and breaking free of it's egg shell in the hen coop

Film

Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget

Detailed gameplay of a white woman with brown ponytail bandaging her arm with a crossbow over her shoulder in a chaotic sea setting

Tomb Raider

Old style game play of a white woman and white man in a suit holding a gun

Goldeneye 007

Colourful animation of a large brown dog in scout's leader uniform, surrounded by various small smiling animals in front of a rainbow

TV

Hey Duggee

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