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An elite team of FBI profilers analyze the country's most twisted criminal minds, anticipating their next moves before they strike again. The Behavioral Analysis Unit's most experienced agent is David Rossi, a founding member of the BAU who returns to hel
Genres: | Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery |
Number Of Seasons: | 14 |
Networks: | CBS, ION Television |
Created By: | Jeff Davis |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7 / 10 (531) |
A tough, brilliant senior resident guides an idealistic young doctor through his first day, pulling back the curtain on what really happens, both good and bad, in modern-day medicine.
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | FOX |
Created By: | Amy Holden Jones, Roshan Sethi, Hayley Schore |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7 / 10 (49) |
Every day is a matter of life and death in a hectic New York City hospital, but for Nurse Jackie that's the easiest part. Between chronic back pain that won't quit, and a personal life on the constant edge of collapse, it's going to take a white lie here,
Genres: | Drama, Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 7 |
Network: | Showtime |
Created By: | Linda Wallem, Liz Brixius, Evan Dunsky |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.1 / 10 (60) |
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) |
Based on Neil Gaiman's fantasy novel about an ex-con who becomes the traveling partner of a conman who turns out to be one of the older gods trying to recruit troops to battle the upstart deities.
Genres: | Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | Starz |
Created By: | Neil Gaiman, Michael Green, Bryan Fuller |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7 / 10 (441) |
Set in 1959 Miami, Florida shortly after the Cuban Revolution, Magic City tells the story of Ike Evans, the owner of Miami's most glamorous hotel, the Miramar Playa. Evans is forced to make an ill-fated deal with Miami mob boss Ben Diamond to ensure the s
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | Starz |
Created By: | Mitch Glazer |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.1 / 10 (31) |
Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage and Iron Fist join forces to take on common enemies as a sinister conspiracy threatens New York City.
Genres: | Action & Adventure, Crime, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | Netflix |
Created By: | Douglas Petrie, Marco Ramirez |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.1 / 10 (340) |
Follow the first human mission to Mars, exploring the challenges of taking the first steps toward interplanetary colonization. The story focuses not only on the astronauts, but also on their families and loved ones, as well as the ground team on Earth.
Genres: | Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | Hulu |
Created By: | Beau Willimon |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.9 / 10 (11) |
2 Stupid Dogs is an American animated television series, created and designed by Donovan Cook and produced by Hanna-Barbera and Turner Program Services, that originally ran from September 5, 1993, to May 15, 1995, on Syndication and TBS. The main segments
Genres: | Animation, Comedy, Family |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | TBS |
Created By: | Donovan Cook |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.1 / 10 (9) |
Three adolescent boys, Ed, Edd "Double D", and Eddy, collectively known as "the Eds", constantly invent schemes to make money from their peers to purchase their favorite confectionery, jawbreakers. Their plans usually fail though, leaving them in various
Genres: | Animation, Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 6 |
Network: | Cartoon Network |
Created By: | Danny Antonucci |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.1 / 10 (82) |
My Life as a Teenage Robot is an American animated science fantasy television series, created by Rob Renzetti for Nickelodeon. It was Nickelodeon's first animated science fiction fairy tale. The series follows the adventures of XJ-9, better known as Jenny
Genres: | Animation, Comedy, Action & Adventure |
Number Of Seasons: | 4 |
Created By: | Rob Renzetti, Alex Kirwan |
Network: | Nickelodeon |
Status: | Ended |
Origin Country: | US |
User Score (votes): | 7.1 / 10 (29) |
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) |
The A-Team is an American action-adventure television series, running from 1983 to 1987, about a fictional group of ex United States Army Special Forces personnel who work as soldiers of fortune, while on the run from the Army after being branded as war c
Genre: | Action & Adventure |
Number Of Seasons: | 5 |
Network: | NBC |
Created By: | Frank Lupo, Stephen J. Cannell |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.1 / 10 (191) |
One Day at a Time is an American situation comedy. It starred Bonnie Franklin as Ann Romano, a divorced mother who moves to Indianapolis with her two teenage daughters Julie and Barbara Cooper with Dwayne Schneider as their building superintendent.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 3 |
Network: | Netflix |
Created By: | Allan Manings, Whitney Blake |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.1 / 10 (23) |
Everyone else sees Wilfred as just a dog, but Ryan sees a crude and somewhat surly, yet irrepressibly brave and honest Australian bloke in a cheap dog suit. While leading him through a series of comedic and existential adventures, Wilfred the dog shows Ry
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 4 |
Networks: | FX, FXX |
Created By: | Jason Gann, Adam Zwar |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.1 / 10 (106) |
A bullied teenager turns to beauty pageants as a way to exact her revenge, with the help of a disgraced coach who soon realizes he's in over his head.
Genres: | Drama, Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | Netflix |
Created By: | Lauren Gussis |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7 / 10 (16) |
Enlightened follows the story of Amy, a self-destructive executive, who, after a very public breakdown and a subsequent philosophical awakening in rehabilitation, tries to get her life back together.
Genres: | Comedy, Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | HBO |
Created By: | Mike White, Laura Dern |
Status: | Canceled |
User Score (votes): | 7.1 / 10 (34) |
Three's Company is an American sitcom that aired from March 15, 1977, to September 18, 1984, on ABC. It is based on the British sitcom, Man About the House. The story revolves around three single roommates: Janet Wood, Chrissy Snow and Jack Tripper who a
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 8 |
Network: | ABC |
Created By: | Johnnie Mortimer, Brian Cooke |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.1 / 10 (46) |
The Oblongs is an American animated television series aimed at teenagers and adults. It is loosely based on a series of characters introduced in creator Angus Oblong's picture book entitled Creepy Susie and 13 Other Tragic Tales for Troubled Children. The
Genres: | Animation, Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | The WB |
Created By: | Angus Oblong |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.1 / 10 (15) |
Three incoming freshmen attending Midwestern college football powerhouse Blue Mountain State must quickly adapt to college life and juggle football, girls, classes and nonstop hazing.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 3 |
Network: | Spike |
Created By: | Chris Romano, Eric Falconer |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.1 / 10 (70) |
The unlikely friendship between Merlin, a young man gifted with extraordinary magical powers, and Prince Arthur, heir to the crown of Camelot.
Genres: | Action & Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 5 |
Network: | BBC One |
Created By: | Jake Michie, Johnny Capps, Julian Murphy, Julian Jones |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.1 / 10 (184) |
The adventures of a present-day, multinational exploration team traveling on the Ancient spaceship Destiny many billions of light years distant from the Milky Way Galaxy. They evacuated there and are now trying to figure out a way to return to Earth, whil
Genres: | Action & Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | Syfy |
Created By: | Brad Wright, Robert C. Cooper |
Status: | Canceled |
User Score (votes): | 7.1 / 10 (248) |
A hotheaded widow searching for the hit-and-run driver who mowed down her husband befriends an eccentric optimist who isn't quite what she seems.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Created By: | Liz Feldman |
Network: | Netflix |
Status: | Returning Series |
Origin Country: | US |
User Score (votes): | 7.1 / 10 (15) |
Based on the stories of Stephen King, the series intertwines characters and themes from the fictional town of Castle Rock.
Genres: | Mystery, Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Created By: | Dustin Thomason, Sam Shaw |
Network: | Hulu |
Status: | Returning Series |
Origin Country: | US |
User Score (votes): | 7.1 / 10 (167) |
Fueled by multi-million-dollar businesses and brands, a hidden social circle of successful women have created their own paradise in the majestic mountains of Utah.
Genre: | Reality |
Number Of Seasons: | 3 |
Network: | Bravo |
Status: | Returning Series |
Origin Country: | US |
User Score (votes): | 7.1 / 10 (10) |
Difficult People hails from the comedic minds of Julie Klausner (Ugly Americans) and Billy Eichner (Emmy-nominated Billy on the Streets), who star as themselves. As best friends living in New York City, their typical, irreverent behavior lands them in som
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 3 |
Network: | Hulu |
Status: | Canceled |
User Score (votes): | 6.9 / 10 (14) |
Mackenzie "Mickey" Murphy is a hard-living, foul-mouthed, cigarette-smoking woman who moves to affluent Greenwich, CT to raise the spoiled kids of her wealthy sister who fled the country to avoid a federal indictment. She quickly learns what the rest of u
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | FOX |
Created By: | Dave Chernin, John Chernin |
Status: | Canceled |
User Score (votes): | 7 / 10 (99) |
A suburban couple's ordinary lives are rocked by the sudden discovery that their children possess mutant powers. Forced to go on the run from a hostile government, the family joins up with an underground network of mutants and must fight to survive.
Genres: | Drama, Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | FOX |
Created By: | Matt Nix |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.1 / 10 (214) |
Smallville is an American television series developed by writers/producers Alfred Gough and Miles Millar. It is based on the DC Comics character Superman, originally created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. The series follows the adventures of Clark Kent,
Genres: | Drama, Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery |
Number Of Seasons: | 10 |
Networks: | The WB, The CW |
Created By: | Alfred Gough, Miles Millar |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7 / 10 (408) |
Jean-Claude Van Damme is a global martial arts & film sensation, also operating under the simple alias of "Johnson" as the world's best undercover private contractor. Retired for years, a chance encounter with a lost love brings him back to the game.
Genres: | Action & Adventure, Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | Amazon |
Created By: | Peter Atencio |
Status: | Canceled |
User Score (votes): | 6.9 / 10 (32) |
Chip Baskets wants to follow his dream of being a French clown—however, reality keeps interfering. Saddled with financial difficulties and facing an impenetrable language barrier, he moves back home to Bakersfield with high hopes. There, he is forced to c
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 3 |
Network: | FX |
Created By: | Louis C.K., Zach Galifianakis, Jonathan Krisel |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.1 / 10 (57) |
Doug is an American animated sitcom created by Jim Jinkins and co-produced by his studio, Jumbo Pictures. The show's plotline centers around the surreal and imaginative exploits of its title character, Douglas "Doug" Funnie, who experiences common predica
Genres: | Animation, Comedy, Kids |
Number Of Seasons: | 8 |
Networks: | ABC, Nickelodeon |
Created By: | Jim Jinkins |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7 / 10 (67) |
Fortune Hunter is an American weekly series show on Fox Network in 1994, starring Mark Frankel as the super-spy Carlton Dial. In the US, Fortune Hunter aired on Fox from 4 Sep 1994 to 2 Oct 1994. Of the 13 episodes produced, only five were presented to t
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | FOX |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7 / 10 (1) |
Ben 10 was an American animated series created by Man of Action, and produced by Cartoon Network Studios. The series is about a 10 year old boy named Ben Tennyson who gets a watch-like alien device called the "Omnitrix". Attached to his wrist, this allows
Genres: | Animation, Action & Adventure, Comedy, Kids |
Number Of Seasons: | 4 |
Network: | Cartoon Network |
Created By: | Duncan Rouleau, Steven T. Seagle, Joe Casey, Joe Kelly |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 6.8 / 10 (50) |
In his funky California beach enclave, Chip's the go-to guy for personal insights. But he isn't quite as enlightened when it comes to his own baggage.
Genres: | Drama, Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | Netflix |
Created By: | Will Arnett, Mark Chappell |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7 / 10 (27) |
One day, Usagi Tsukino, clumsy 2nd-year middle school student (8th grader), stumbles upon a talking cat named Luna. Luna tells her that she is destined to be Sailor Moon, "champion of love and justice", and she must search for the fabled Moon Princess. Us
Genres: | Action & Adventure, Animation, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 5 |
Network: | TV Asahi |
Created By: | Naoko Takeuchi |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7 / 10 (34) |
A Chicago-based wizard works as a private investigator.
Genres: | Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama, Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | Syfy |
Created By: | Jim Butcher |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 6.9 / 10 (40) |
Television adaptation of the romantic comedy film 'Four Weddings and a Funeral'.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Created By: | Mindy Kaling, Matt Warburton |
Network: | Hulu |
Status: | Returning Series |
Origin Country: | US |
User Score (votes): | 7 / 10 (1) |
In this reality competition, craft makers from all walks of life take on a series of projects. Over the course of each episode, the contestants must tackle a different theme, hand-making items in different disciplines — the difficulty of which increases w
Genre: | Reality |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | NBC |
Status: | Returning Series |
Origin Country: | US |
User Score (votes): | 7 / 10 (5) |
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) |