A raft of classic ITV shows will be available on ITV.com following a new deal with producers.

The shows, including favourites like Upstairs, Downstairs, Poirot and On the Buses can now be seen up to 30 days after they’ve aired on ITV3. The ITV Catch Up section can be found at http://www.itv.com/CatchUp.

The move is part of wider efforts to showcase more classic ITV content on the broadcaster’s website.

Marc Webber, Head of Content at ITV.com said: “This is a brilliant achievement and gives fans of some of ITV’s biggest and best shows even more reason to go to ITV.com. The rapid growth in video consumption shows that the appetite for content is there. We will continue to respond with new developments in the months to come.”

Use of the ITV catch up service has surged. Since launch in August 2007, ITV.com combined with ITV Local has received over 69 million video views and there has been a 362% increase in usage for video across ITV’s portfolio of sites.

ITV.com has seen a four-fold rise in video views since August which represents an average increase of 53% month-on-month.

The programmes available to watch on Catch Up include episodes of: On the Buses, Kavanagh QC, Inspector Morse, Cadfael, Upstairs, Downstairs, Dempsey and Makepeace, Heartbeat, Robin of Sherwood, Home to Roost, Rising Damp, Taggart, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Wycliffe.