Best TV Shows of 2017
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A horror anthology series inspired by “Creepypasta” online tales.
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 4 |
Network: | Syfy |
Created By: | Nick Antosca |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 6.5 / 10 (64) |
Wyatt Earp's great granddaughter Wynonna battles demons and other creatures with her unique abilities and a posse of dysfunctional allies - the only thing that can bring the paranormal to justice.
Genres: | Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Western |
Number Of Seasons: | 3 |
Networks: | Syfy, Space, CHCH-DT |
Created By: | Emily Andras |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 6.2 / 10 (114) |
Welcome to a place where being normal is really quite strange. In a remote Texas town no one is who they seem. From vampires and witches to psychics and hit men, Midnight is a mysterious safe haven for those who are different. As the town members fight of
Genres: | Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | NBC |
Created By: | Monica Breen |
Status: | Returning Series, Canceled |
User Score (votes): | 6.7 / 10 (88) |
Based on the true story of Grace Marks, a housemaid and immigrant from Ireland who was imprisoned in 1843, perhaps wrongly, for the murder of her employer Thomas Kinnear. Grace claims to have no memory of the murder yet the facts are irrefutable. A decade
Genres: | Crime, Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Created By: | Margaret Atwood |
Network: | CBC Television |
Status: | Ended |
Origin Country: | CA |
User Score (votes): | 7.5 / 10 (66) |
Step inside the minds of the most innovative designers in a variety of disciplines and learn how design impacts every aspect of life.
Genre: | Documentary |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | Netflix |
Status: | Returning Series |
Origin Country: | US |
User Score (votes): | 8.3 / 10 (21) |
An anthology horror drama series centering on different characters and locations, including a house with a murderous past, an asylum, a witch coven, a freak show, a hotel, a farmhouse in Roanoke and a cult.
Publisher: | FX Productions |
Genres: | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery |
Number Of Seasons: | 8 |
Network: | FX |
Created By: | Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.1 / 10 (981) |
The assorted humiliations, disasters and rare triumphs of four very different twenty-something girls: Hannah, an aspiring writer; Marnie, an art gallery assistant and cousins Jessa and Shoshanna.
Publisher: | Apatow Productions |
Genres: | Comedy, Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 6 |
Network: | HBO |
Created By: | Lena Dunham |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 5.6 / 10 (171) |
Jerry takes his comedy pals out for coffee in a selection of his classic automobiles. Larry David sums it up best when he says, 'You've finally made a show about nothing.'
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 10 |
Networks: | Netflix, Crackle |
Created By: | Jerry Seinfeld |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.1 / 10 (26) |
The Path explores the unknown and mysterious world of the cult-like Meyerist Movement in upstate New York. At the center of the movement lies Eddie, a conflicted husband; Sarah, his devoted wife; and Cal, an ambitious leader. We follow each as they conten
Genres: | Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery |
Number Of Seasons: | 3 |
Network: | Hulu |
Created By: | Jessica Goldberg |
Status: | Canceled |
User Score (votes): | 6.6 / 10 (84) |
Follows the misadventures of four irreverent grade-schoolers in the quiet, dysfunctional town of South Park, Colorado.
Genres: | Comedy, Animation |
Number Of Seasons: | 22 |
Network: | Comedy Central |
Created By: | Trey Parker, Matt Stone |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.8 / 10 (979) |
Before there was Batman, there was GOTHAM. Everyone knows the name Commissioner Gordon. He is one of the crime world's greatest foes, a man whose reputation is synonymous with law and order. But what is known of Gordon's story and his rise from rookie d
Genres: | Drama, Thriller, Crime, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 5 |
Network: | FOX |
Created By: | Bruno Heller |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7 / 10 (954) |
The Daily Show is an American late night satirical television program airing each Monday through Thursday on Comedy Central and, in Canada, The Comedy Network. Describing itself as a fake news program, The Daily Show draws its comedy and satire from recen
Genres: | News, Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 24 |
Network: | Comedy Central |
Created By: | Lizz Winstead, Madeleine Smithberg |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 6.7 / 10 (208) |
The series focuses on an eccentric motley crew that is the Smith family and their three housemates: Father, husband, and breadwinner Stan Smith; his better half housewife, Francine Smith; their college-aged daughter, Hayley Smith; and their high-school-ag
Genres: | Animation, Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 15 |
Networks: | FOX, TBS, Seven Network, Fox8, 7mate |
Created By: | Mike Barker, Matt Weitzman, Seth MacFarlane |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 6.2 / 10 (562) |
Stef Foster, a dedicated police officer, and her partner Lena Adams, a school vice principal, have built a close-knit, loving family with Stef's biological son from a previous marriage, Brandon, and their adopted twins, Mariana and Jesus. Their lives are
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 5 |
Networks: | ABC Family, Freeform |
Created By: | Brad Bredeweg, Peter Paige |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 6.2 / 10 (89) |
A newly retired police officer looks forward to spending more quality time with his wife and three kids only to discover he faces much tougher challenges at home than he ever did on the streets.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | CBS |
Created By: | Barton Dean |
Status: | Canceled |
User Score (votes): | 5.1 / 10 (69) |
A riveting police drama about the men and women of the Chicago Police Department's District 21 who put it all on the line to serve and protect their community. District 21 is made up of two distinctly different groups: the uniformed cops who patrol the be
Genres: | Crime, Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 6 |
Network: | NBC |
Created By: | Dick Wolf |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.1 / 10 (194) |
Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May are back with a show about adventure, excitement and friendship... as long as you accept that the people you call friends are also the ones you find extremely annoying. Sometimes it's even a show about cars.
Genres: | Comedy, Documentary |
Number Of Seasons: | 3 |
Network: | Amazon |
Created By: | Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, James May, Andy Wilman |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.8 / 10 (257) |
A modern-day drama about a crime-solving duo that cracks the NYPD's most impossible cases. Following his fall from grace in London and a stint in rehab, eccentric Sherlock escapes to Manhattan where his wealthy father forces him to live with his worst nig
Genres: | Drama, Crime, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery |
Number Of Seasons: | 6 |
Network: | CBS |
Created By: | Robert Doherty |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7 / 10 (573) |
A team of teenagers with attitude are recruited to save Angel Grove from the evil witch, Rita Repulsa, and later, Lord Zedd, Emperor of all he sees, and their horde of monsters.
Genres: | Kids, Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 25 |
Networks: | Nickelodeon, ABC, FOX, ABC Family, Toon Disney |
Created By: | Haim Saban, Shuki Levy |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 4.9 / 10 (147) |
After Portland homicide detective Nick Burkhardt discovers he's descended from an elite line of criminal profilers known as "Grimms," he increasingly finds his responsibilities as a detective at odds with his new responsibilities as a Grimm.
Genres: | Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 6 |
Network: | NBC |
Created By: | David Greenwalt, Jim Kouf, Stephen Carpenter |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 6.8 / 10 (576) |
Eleanor Shellstrop, an ordinary woman who, through an extraordinary string of events, enters the afterlife where she comes to realize that she hasn't been a very good person. With the help of her wise afterlife mentor, she's determined to shed her old way
Genres: | Comedy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 3 |
Network: | NBC |
Created By: | Michael Schur |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.8 / 10 (203) |
Rayna Jaymes and Juliette Barnes face personal and professional challenges as they navigate their paths as artists and individuals. Surrounding them, and often complicating their lives, are their family, friends and, in some cases, lovers, as well as the
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 6 |
Networks: | ABC, CMT |
Created By: | Callie Khouri, Max Axall |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 6 / 10 (122) |
Holden wakes up from a coma after 12 years and discovers new abilities that propel him into the middle of a dangerous conspiracy.
Genres: | Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | Freeform |
Created By: | Adam Nussdorf |
Status: | Canceled |
User Score (votes): | 5.6 / 10 (73) |
A comedy-drama following a chaste young woman who is accidentally impregnated via artificial insemination as she struggles to inform her devoutly religious family and make the right choices concerning the child. Based on the telenovela "Juana la virgen."
Genres: | Comedy, Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 4 |
Network: | The CW |
Created By: | Jennie Snyder Urman |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 6.5 / 10 (136) |
Dr. Temperance Brennan and her colleagues at the Jeffersonian's Medico-Legal Lab assist Special Agent Seeley Booth with murder investigations when the remains are so badly decomposed, burned or destroyed that the standard identification methods are useles
Genres: | Crime, Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 12 |
Network: | FOX |
Created By: | Hart Hanson |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7 / 10 (456) |
Adventure Time is an American animated television series created by Pendleton Ward for Cartoon Network. The series follows the adventures of Finn, a human boy, and his best friend and adoptive brother Jake, a dog with magical powers to change shape and gr
Genres: | Animation, Comedy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 10 |
Network: | Cartoon Network |
Created By: | Pendleton Ward |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.1 / 10 (165) |
An edge-of-your-seat view into the lives of everyday heroes committed to one of America's noblest professions. For the firefighters, rescue squad and paramedics of Chicago Firehouse 51, no occupation is more stressful or dangerous, yet so rewarding and ex
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 7 |
Network: | NBC |
Created By: | Derek Haas, Michael Brandt |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.2 / 10 (197) |
A reality series that follows some of the most affluent women in the country as they enjoy the lavish lifestyle that only Beverly Hills can provide.
Genre: | Reality |
Number Of Seasons: | 8 |
Network: | Bravo |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 6.5 / 10 (32) |
In the high-tech gold rush of modern Silicon Valley, the people most qualified to succeed are the least capable of handling success. Partially inspired by Mike Judge’s own experiences as a Silicon Valley engineer in the late ‘80s, Silicon Valley is an Ame
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 5 |
Network: | HBO |
Created By: | Mike Judge, Alec Berg, Dave Krinsky, John Altschuler |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 8 / 10 (529) |
Subversive, darkly comedic drama Big Little Lies tells the tale of three mothers of first graders whose apparently perfect lives unravel to the point of murder.
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | HBO |
Created By: | David E. Kelley |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.9 / 10 (293) |
Workaholics is an American sitcom that premiered on Comedy Central on April 5, 2011. The series is in its third season, and is predominantly written by its stars Blake Anderson, Adam DeVine, Anders Holm, and co-creator Kyle Newacheck who play, respectivel
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 7 |
Network: | Comedy Central |
Created By: | Adam Devine, Blake Anderson, Anders Holm, Kyle Newacheck, Connor Pritchard, Dominic Russo |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.3 / 10 (74) |
Broad City follows two women throughout their daily lives in New York City, making the smallest and mundane events hysterical and disturbing to watch all at the same time.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 5 |
Network: | Comedy Central |
Created By: | Ilana Glazer, Abbi Jacobson |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.8 / 10 (70) |
Teenage friends find their lives upended by the wonders and horrors of puberty in this edgy comedy from real-life pals Nick Kroll and Andrew Goldberg.
Genres: | Animation, Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | Netflix |
Created By: | Jennifer Flackett, Mark Levin, Andy Goldberg, Nick Kroll |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.5 / 10 (82) |
James “Ghost” St. Patrick has it all: a beautiful wife, a gorgeous Manhattan penthouse, and the hottest, up-and-coming new nightclub in New York. His club, Truth, caters to the elite: the famous and infamous boldface names that run the city that never sle
Genres: | Crime, Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 5 |
Network: | Starz |
Created By: | Courtney Kemp Agboh, Vladimir Cvetko |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.5 / 10 (586) |
A single-camera ensemble comedy following the lives of an eclectic group of detectives in a New York precinct, including one slacker who is forced to shape up when he gets a new boss.
Genres: | Comedy, Crime |
Number Of Seasons: | 6 |
Networks: | NBC, FOX |
Created By: | Daniel J. Goor, Michael Schur |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.6 / 10 (500) |
Set in the early 1980s, and about a fictional visionary, an engineer and a prodigy whose innovations confronts the corporate behemoths of the time. Their personal and professional partnership will be challenged by greed and ego while charting the changing
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 4 |
Network: | AMC |
Created By: | Christopher Cantwell, Christopher C. Rogers |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.9 / 10 (171) |
Follow Sarah Silverman as she looks to connect with people who may not agree with her personal opinions through honesty, humor, genuine interest in others and not taking herself too seriously. She feels that now more than ever it's crucial to connect with
Genres: | Talk, Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | Hulu |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7 / 10 (5) |
A gangster family epic set in 1919 Birmingham, England and centered on a gang who sew razor blades in the peaks of their caps, and their fierce boss Tommy Shelby, who means to move up in the world.
Genres: | Drama, Crime |
Number Of Seasons: | 4 |
Networks: | BBC Two, BBC One |
Created By: | Steven Knight |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 8.2 / 10 (409) |
The pirate adventures of Captain Flint and his men twenty years prior to Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic “Treasure Island.” Flint, the most brilliant and most feared pirate captain of his day, takes on a fast-talking young addition to his crew who goes b
Genres: | Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 4 |
Network: | Starz |
Created By: | Jonathan E. Steinberg, Robert Levine |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.2 / 10 (407) |
Mary, Queen of Scots, faces political and sexual intrigue in the treacherous world of the French court.
Genres: | Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 4 |
Network: | The CW |
Created By: | Laurie McCarthy, Stephanie Sengupta |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 6.3 / 10 (122) |