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When they were boys, Sam and Dean Winchester lost their mother to a mysterious and demonic supernatural force. Subsequently, their father raised them to be soldiers. He taught them about the paranormal evil that lives in the dark corners and on the back r
Genres: | Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery |
Number Of Seasons: | 14 |
Networks: | The WB, The CW |
Created By: | Eric Kripke |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.3 / 10 (1654) |
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) |
The everyday lives of office employees in the Scranton, Pennsylvania branch of the fictional Dunder Mifflin Paper Company.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 9 |
Network: | NBC |
Created By: | Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant, Greg Daniels |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 8 / 10 (526) |
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) |
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) |
Sick, twisted, politically incorrect and Freakin' Sweet animated series featuring the adventures of the dysfunctional Griffin family. Bumbling Peter and long-suffering Lois have three kids. Stewie (a brilliant but sadistic baby bent on killing his mother
Genres: | Animation, Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 17 |
Networks: | FOX, Adult Swim |
Created By: | Seth MacFarlane |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 6.5 / 10 (1343) |
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) |
Thanks to his police officer father's efforts, Shawn Spencer spent his childhood developing a keen eye for detail (and a lasting dislike of his dad). Years later, Shawn's frequent tips to the police lead to him being falsely accused of a crime he solved.
Genres: | Drama, Comedy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery |
Number Of Seasons: | 8 |
Network: | USA Network |
Created By: | Steve Franks |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.7 / 10 (238) |
A diverse group of recruits has arrived at the FBI Quantico Base for training. They are the best, the brightest and the most vetted, so it seems impossible that one of them is suspected of masterminding the biggest attack on New York City since 9/11.
Genres: | Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery |
Number Of Seasons: | 3 |
Network: | ABC |
Created By: | Joshua Safran |
Status: | Canceled |
User Score (votes): | 6 / 10 (292) |
After breaking up with his girlfriend, Josh comes to the realization that he is homosexual. With the support of his now ex girlfriend Claire, and his best friend and house mate Tom, Josh must help his mother with her battle with depression and the rest of
Genres: | Drama, Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 4 |
Created By: | Josh Thomas |
Networks: | ABC, ABC Comedy |
Status: | Ended |
Origin Country: | AU |
User Score (votes): | 7.9 / 10 (44) |
Rick is a mentally-unbalanced but scientifically-gifted old man who has recently reconnected with his family. He spends most of his time involving his young grandson Morty in dangerous, outlandish adventures throughout space and alternate universes. Compo
Genres: | Animation, Comedy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 3 |
Network: | Adult Swim |
Created By: | Dan Harmon, Justin Roiland |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 8.6 / 10 (1060) |
Sheriff's deputy Rick Grimes awakens from a coma to find a post-apocalyptic world dominated by flesh-eating zombies. He sets out to find his family and encounters many other survivors along the way.
Publisher: | Darkwoods Productions, American Movie Classics, Valhalla Motion Pictures, AMC Studios, Circle of Confusion |
Genres: | Drama, Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 9 |
Network: | AMC |
Created By: | Frank Darabont |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.3 / 10 (3892) |
Follows the personal and professional lives of a group of doctors at Seattle’s Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital.
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 15 |
Network: | ABC |
Created By: | Shonda Rhimes |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 6.2 / 10 (837) |
Based on the bestselling book by Candace Bushnell, Sex and the City tells the story of four best friends, all single and in their late thirties, as they pursue their careers and talk about their sex lives, all while trying to survive the New York social s
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 6 |
Network: | HBO |
Created By: | Darren Star |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 5.6 / 10 (210) |
Sabrina, the Teenage Witch is an American sitcom based on the Archie comic book series of the same name. The show premiered on September 27, 1996 on ABC to over 17 million viewers in its "T.G.I.F." line-up. The show stars Melissa Joan Hart as Sabrina Spe
Genres: | Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 7 |
Networks: | ABC, The WB |
Created By: | Nell Scovell |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 6.2 / 10 (101) |
Hilarious ensemble comedy that follows Leslie Knope, a mid-level bureaucrat in the Parks and Recreation Department of Pawnee, Indiana, and her tireless efforts to make her quintessentially American town just a little bit more fun.
Publisher: | 3 Arts Entertainment, Universal Television, Deedle-Dee Productions, Fremulon |
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 7 |
Network: | NBC |
Created By: | Greg Daniels, Michael Schur |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.9 / 10 (388) |
Four egocentric friends who run a neighborhood Irish pub in Philadelphia try to find their way through the adult world of work and relationships. Unfortunately, their warped views and precarious judgments often lead them to trouble, creating a myriad of u
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 13 |
Networks: | FX, FXX |
Created By: | Rob McElhenney |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 8.2 / 10 (352) |
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) |
30 Rock is an American television comedy series that ran on NBC from October 11, 2006, to January 31, 2013, and was created by Tina Fey. The series, which is loosely based on Fey's experiences as head writer for Saturday Night Live, takes place behind the
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 7 |
Network: | NBC |
Created By: | Tina Fey |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.2 / 10 (264) |
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) |
A vast international plot explodes when a beautiful Jane Doe is discovered naked in Times Square, completely covered in mysterious, intricate tattoos with no memory of who she is or how she got there. But there's one tattoo that is impossible to miss: the
Genres: | Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 4 |
Network: | NBC |
Created By: | Martin Gero |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 6.3 / 10 (553) |
A dysfunctional family tries to help each other navigate the modern dating scene. Recent divorcee Tara and her bachelor brother coach each other through the crazy world of dating (on-line and off), while living under the same roof again for the second tim
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 4 |
Network: | Hulu |
Created By: | Jason Reitman, Zander Lehmann |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 6.5 / 10 (32) |
A dark odyssey about the dawn of artificial consciousness and the evolution of sin. Set at the intersection of the near future and the reimagined past, it explores a world in which every human appetite, no matter how noble or depraved, can be indulged.
Publisher: | Warner Bros. Television, Jerry Weintraub Productions |
Genres: | Western, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | HBO |
Created By: | Jonathan Nolan, Lisa Joy |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 8.1 / 10 (1704) |
In the unreal world of Sacred Heart Hospital, John "J.D" Dorian learns the ways of medicine, friendship and life.
Publisher: | Touchstone Television, ABC Studios, Doozer |
Genres: | Drama, Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 9 |
Networks: | ABC, NBC |
Created By: | Bill Lawrence |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.8 / 10 (559) |
A young surgeon with Savant syndrome is recruited into the surgical unit of a prestigious hospital. The question will arise: can a person who doesn't have the ability to relate to people actually save their lives?
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | ABC |
Created By: | David Shore |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.9 / 10 (229) |
The off-kilter, unscripted comic vision of Larry David, who plays himself in a parallel universe in which he can't seem to do anything right, and, by his standards, neither can anyone else.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 9 |
Network: | HBO |
Created By: | Larry David |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 8.1 / 10 (259) |
Loving parodies of some of the world's best-known documentaries. Each episode is shot in a different style of documentary filmmaking, and honors some of the most important stories that didn't actually happen.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 3 |
Created By: | Seth Meyers, Bill Hader, Fred Armisen |
Network: | IFC |
Status: | Returning Series |
Origin Country: | US |
User Score (votes): | 7.4 / 10 (16) |
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) |
Amidst the political conflict of Northern Ireland in the 1990s, five secondary school students square off with the universal challenges of being a teenager.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Created By: | Lisa McGee |
Network: | Channel 4 |
Status: | Returning Series |
Origin Country: | GB |
User Score (votes): | 8 / 10 (14) |
Space. The Final Frontier. The U.S.S. Enterprise embarks on a five year mission to explore the galaxy. The Enterprise is under the command of Captain James T. Kirk with First Officer Mr. Spock, from the planet Vulcan. With a determined crew, the Enterpris
Genres: | Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 3 |
Network: | NBC |
Created By: | Gene Roddenberry |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 8.1 / 10 (449) |
Dexter is an American television drama series. The series centers on Dexter Morgan, a blood spatter pattern analyst for 'Miami Metro Police Department' who also leads a secret life as a serial killer, hunting down criminals who have slipped through the cr
Genres: | Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery |
Number Of Seasons: | 8 |
Network: | Showtime |
Created By: | James Manos, Jr. |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 8 / 10 (1189) |
High school mathlete Lindsay Weir rebels and begins hanging out with a crowd of burnouts (the "freaks"), while her brother Sam Weir navigates a different part of the social universe with his nerdy friends (the "geeks").
Genres: | Comedy, Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | NBC |
Created By: | Paul Feig |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 8.2 / 10 (270) |
Mad Men is set in the 1960s, initially at the fictional Sterling Cooper advertising agency on Madison Avenue in New York City, and later at the newly created firm, Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce, located nearby in the Time-Life Building, at 1271 Avenue of t
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 7 |
Network: | AMC |
Created By: | Matthew Weiner |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 8.1 / 10 (401) |
The body of Laura Palmer is washed up on a beach near the small Washington state town of Twin Peaks. FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper is called in to investigate her strange demise only to uncover a web of mystery that ultimately leads him deep into the hear
Genres: | Drama, Thriller, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery |
Number Of Seasons: | 3 |
Networks: | ABC, Showtime |
Created By: | David Lynch, Mark Frost |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 8 / 10 (698) |
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) |
The exploits of FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully who investigate X-Files: marginalized, unsolved cases involving paranormal phenomena. Mulder believes in the existence of aliens and the paranormal while Scully, a skeptic, is assigned to make
Publisher: | Fox Productions |
Genres: | Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery |
Number Of Seasons: | 11 |
Network: | FOX |
Created By: | Chris Carter |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 8.1 / 10 (897) |
Payton has known since childhood that he's going to be president. First he'll have to navigate the most treacherous political landscape: high school.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Created By: | Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk, Ian Brennan |
Network: | Netflix |
Status: | Returning Series |
Origin Country: | US |
User Score (votes): | 0 / 10 (0) |
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) |
Firefly is set in the year 2517, after the arrival of humans in a new star system and follows the adventures of the renegade crew of Serenity, a "Firefly-class" spaceship. The ensemble cast portrays the nine characters who live on Serenity.
Genres: | Western, Drama, Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | FOX |
Created By: | Joss Whedon |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 8.2 / 10 (891) |
Ten master artists turn up the heat in glassblowing sculpture challenges for the chance to win $60,000 in prizes and the title of champion.
Genre: | Reality |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | Netflix |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 6 / 10 (1) |