2000s TV Shows
List of 2000s TV Shows
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The series initially follows Valerie Cherish (Kudrow), a veteran sitcom actress who has been out of the spotlight for more than a decade, as she attempts in 2005 to return to the industry that made her famous. Valerie lands a role on a new network sitcom,
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | HBO |
Created By: | Michael Patrick King, Lisa Kudrow |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.7 / 10 (11) |
A chilling and unflinching look at all sides of a complicated issue, focusing on an African-American Muslim who joins an Islamic sleeper terrorist cell in the United States while working undercover for the FBI.
Genres: | Crime, Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | Showtime |
Created By: | Ethan Reiff, Cyrus Voris |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.7 / 10 (26) |
Rescue Me revolves around the lives of the men in a New York City firehouse, the crew of 62 Truck. Examining the fraternal nature and relationships of firefighters, the series tackles the daily drama of the life-and-death situations associated with being
Genres: | Action & Adventure, Drama, Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 7 |
Network: | FX |
Created By: | Denis Leary, Peter Tolan |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.7 / 10 (67) |
Set in the charming town of Stars Hollow, Connecticut, the series follows the captivating lives of Lorelai and Rory Gilmore, a mother/daughter pair who have a relationship most people only dream of.
Genres: | Comedy, Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 7 |
Networks: | The WB, The CW |
Created By: | Amy Sherman-Palladino |
Status: | Canceled |
User Score (votes): | 7.5 / 10 (192) |
Join RuPaul, the world's most famous drag queen, as the host, mentor and judge for the ultimate in drag queen competitions. The top drag queens in the U.S. will vie for drag stardom as RuPaul, in full glamazon drag, will reign supreme in all judging and e
Genre: | Reality |
Number Of Seasons: | 10 |
Networks: | Logo, VH1 |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.7 / 10 (68) |
The Tudors is a history-based drama series following the young, vibrant King Henry VIII, a competitive and lustful monarch who navigates the intrigues of the English court and the human heart with equal vigor and justifiable suspicion.
Genres: | Drama, History, Romance |
Number Of Seasons: | 4 |
Network: | Showtime |
Created By: | Michael Hirst |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.7 / 10 (135) |
Party Down is an American comedy television series that follows a Los Angeles, California, catering team for the titular company. The sextet of aspiring Hollywood actors and writers, as well as drifting lost souls, work small-time catering gigs while hopi
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | Starz |
Created By: | Paul Rudd, John Enbom, Dan Etheridge, Rob Thomas |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.6 / 10 (72) |
After saving the life of the President, two secret service agents - Myka Bering and Pete Lattimer - find themselves assigned to the top secret Warehouse 13. The Warehouse is a massive, top secret facility that houses dangerous and fantastical objects. Tog
Genres: | Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Comedy, Action & Adventure |
Number Of Seasons: | 5 |
Network: | Syfy |
Created By: | Jane Espenson, D. Brent Mote |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.4 / 10 (222) |
The sleep Pacific Northwest town of Eureka is hiding a mysterious secret. The government has been relocating the world's geniuses and their families to this rustic town for years where innovation and chaos have lived hand in hand. U.S. Marshal Jack Carter
Genres: | Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Comedy, Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 5 |
Network: | Syfy |
Created By: | Andrew Cosby, Jaime Paglia |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.5 / 10 (231) |
Number Of Seasons: | 9 |
Network: | CBS |
Genre: | Comedy |
Created By: | Carter Bays, Craig Thomas |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.5 / 10 (978) |
Patrick Jane, a former celebrity psychic medium, uses his razor sharp skills of observation and expertise at "reading" people to solve serious crimes with the California Bureau of Investigation.
Genres: | Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery |
Number Of Seasons: | 7 |
Network: | CBS |
Created By: | Bruno Heller |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.5 / 10 (393) |
A gifted young teen tries to survive life with his dimwitted, dysfunctional family.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 7 |
Network: | FOX |
Created By: | Linwood Boomer |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.6 / 10 (323) |
The hosts talk about the latest cars and its specifications. They review the performance of the car and also find out if it is as good as the manufacturers claim. The current hosts are Chris Evans and Matt LeBlanc with The Stig.
Genres: | Documentary, Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 25 |
Network: | BBC Two |
Created By: | Derek Smith |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.5 / 10 (292) |
The Good Wife is a legal drama starring Emmy Award winner Julianna Margulies as a wife and mother who boldly assumes full responsibility for her family and re-enters the workforce after her husband's very public sex and political corruption scandal lands
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 7 |
Network: | CBS |
Created By: | Michelle King, Robert King |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.4 / 10 (176) |
Jonathan Ames, a young Brooklyn writer, is feeling lost. He's just gone through a painful break-up, thanks in part to his drinking, can't write his second novel, and carouses too much with his magazine editor. Rather than face reality, Jonathan turns inst
Genres: | Comedy, Crime, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery |
Number Of Seasons: | 3 |
Network: | HBO |
Created By: | Jonathan Ames |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.4 / 10 (92) |
Aqua Teen Hunger Force is an American animated television series on Cartoon Network's late night programming block, Adult Swim. The series made its official debut on September 9, 2001 on Adult swim; after the pilot episode was aired as a special sneak pee
Genres: | Animation, Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 11 |
Network: | Adult Swim |
Created By: | Matt Maiellaro, Dave Willis |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.4 / 10 (72) |
Years after he turned his back on his hometown, a burned-out major league ballplayer returns to teach phys ed at his old middle school.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 4 |
Network: | HBO |
Created By: | Danny McBride, Jody Hill, Ben Best |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.4 / 10 (108) |
Film star Vince Chase navigates the vapid terrain of Los Angeles with a close circle of friends and his trusty agent.
Genres: | Comedy, Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 8 |
Network: | HBO |
Created By: | Doug Ellin |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.3 / 10 (205) |
Tom Goes to the Mayor is an American animated television series created by Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim for Cartoon Network's late night programming block, Adult Swim. It premiered on November 14, 2004 and ended on September 25, 2006, with a total of t
Genres: | Animation, Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | Adult Swim |
Created By: | Eric Wareheim, Tim Heidecker |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.4 / 10 (15) |
Drake & Josh is an American television sitcom created by Dan Schneider for Nickelodeon. The series follows the lives of two teenage boys with opposing personalities, Drake Parker and Josh Nichols, who become stepbrothers. Both actors had played previous r
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 4 |
Network: | Nickelodeon |
Created By: | Dan Schneider |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.3 / 10 (72) |
The exploits of the Grim Reaper, who has been forced into being the best friend of two children. A spin-off of the show Grim & Evil.
Genres: | Animation, Comedy, Family |
Number Of Seasons: | 7 |
Network: | Cartoon Network |
Created By: | Maxwell Atoms |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.2 / 10 (65) |
Ghost Hunters International was a spin-off series of Ghost Hunters that aired on Syfy. The series premiered on January 9, 2008. Like its parent series, GHI was a reality series that followed a team of paranormal investigators; whereas, the original series
Genre: | Documentary |
Number Of Seasons: | 3 |
Network: | Syfy |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.3 / 10 (7) |
Weeds is an American dark comedy-drama series created by Jenji Kohan. The central character is Nancy Botwin, a widowed mother of two boys who begins selling cannabis to support her family after her husband dies suddenly of a heart attack. Over the course
Genres: | Drama, Comedy, Crime |
Number Of Seasons: | 8 |
Network: | Showtime |
Created By: | Jenji Kohan |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.2 / 10 (301) |
Dollhouse is an American science fiction television series that revolves around a corporation running numerous underground establishments across the globe which program individuals referred to as "Actives" with temporary personalities and skills. Wealthy
Genres: | Action & Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | FOX |
Created By: | Joss Whedon |
Status: | Canceled |
User Score (votes): | 7.2 / 10 (185) |
Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends is an animated television series that aired from August 2004 to May 2009 for a total of 79 episodes in six seasons. The premise is based on a simple question: In a world... where imaginary friends are living, tangible b
Genres: | Family, Animation, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 6 |
Network: | Cartoon Network |
Created By: | Craig McCracken |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.1 / 10 (54) |
True Blood is an American television drama series created and produced by Alan Ball. It is based on The Southern Vampire Mysteries series of novels by Charlaine Harris, detailing the co-existence of vampires and humans in Bon Temps, a fictional, small tow
Genres: | Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery |
Number Of Seasons: | 7 |
Network: | HBO |
Created By: | Alan Ball |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.2 / 10 (531) |
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) |
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) |
Metalocalypse is an American animated television series, created by Brendon Small and Tommy Blacha, which premiered on August 6, 2006 on Adult Swim. The television program centers around the larger than life death metal band Dethklok, and often portrays d
Genres: | Animation, Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 4 |
Network: | Adult Swim |
Created By: | Brendon Small |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.1 / 10 (50) |
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) |
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) |
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) |
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) |
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) |
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) |
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) |
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) |
Common people discover that they have super powers. Their lives intertwine as a devastating event must be prevented.
Genres: | Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 4 |
Network: | NBC |
Created By: | Tim Kring |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7 / 10 (644) |
Jeremiah is an American television series starring Luke Perry and Malcolm-Jamal Warner that ran on the Showtime network from 2002 to 2004. The series takes place in a post-apocalyptic future where most of the adult population has been wiped out by a deadl
Genres: | Drama, Action & Adventure |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | Showtime |
Created By: | J. Michael Straczynski |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7 / 10 (24) |