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Lucky Louie is an American television sitcom created by Louis C.K., which aired on HBO for one season in 2006. In addition to being the creator, writer and executive producer of the series, C.K. starred as the eponymous Louie, a part-time mechanic. The sh
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | HBO |
Created By: | Louis C.K. |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.4 / 10 (53) |

Three friends in San Francisco who explore the fun and sometimes overwhelming options available to a new generation of gay men.
Genres: | Comedy, Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | HBO |
Created By: | Michael Lannan |
Status: | Canceled |
User Score (votes): | 7.3 / 10 (51) |

Lenny Belardo, the youngest and first American Pope in the history of the Church, must establish his new papacy and navigate the power struggles of the closed, secretive Vatican.
Publisher: | Canal, Mediapro, Haut et Court, Wildside, Sky Italia |
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Networks: | HBO, Canal+, Sky Atlantic |
Created By: | Paolo Sorrentino, Jude Law, Diane Keaton, Silvio Orlando |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.4 / 10 (103) |

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) |

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) |

A look into American politics, revolving around former Senator Selina Meyer who finds being Vice President of the United States is nothing like she expected and everything everyone ever warned her about.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 6 |
Network: | HBO |
Created By: | Armando Iannucci |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.3 / 10 (156) |

A look into American politics, revolving around former Senator Selina Meyer who finds being Vice President of the United States is nothing like she expected and everything everyone ever warned her about.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 7 |
Created By: | Armando Iannucci |
Network: | HBO |
Status: | Returning Series |
Origin Country: | US |
User Score (votes): | 7.3 / 10 (163) |

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) |

Set in 1970s New York, Vinyl is a ride through the sex- and drug-addled music business at the dawn of punk, disco, and hip-hop. The show is seen through the eyes of a record label president, Richie Finestra, who is trying to save his company and his soul
Genres: | Drama, Music |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | HBO |
Created By: | Martin Scorsese, Mick Jagger, Terence Winter, Rich Cohen |
Status: | Canceled |
User Score (votes): | 7.3 / 10 (81) |

In Imperial Beach, California, the Yosts—a dysfunctional family of surfers—intersect with two new arrivals to the community: a dim-but-wealthy surfing enthusiast and man spurned by the Yosts years ago.
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | HBO |
Created By: | David Milch, Kem Nunn |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.1 / 10 (13) |

Follows the awkward experiences and racy tribulations of a modern-day African-American woman.
Genres: | Comedy, Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 3 |
Network: | HBO |
Created By: | Issa Rae, Larry Wilmore |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.1 / 10 (42) |

Three top U.S. government and military officials scramble to prevent World War 3 from happening amidst the chaos of a geopolitical crisis.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | HBO |
Created By: | Roberto Benabib, Kim Benabib |
Status: | Canceled |
User Score (votes): | 7.1 / 10 (59) |

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) |

Halifax, West Yorkshire, England, 1832. Anne Lister attempts to revitalize her inherited home, Shibden Hall. Most notably for the time period, a part of her plan is to help the fate of her own family - by taking a wife.
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Created By: | Sally Wainwright |
Network: | HBO |
Status: | Returning Series |
Origin Country: | US |
User Score (votes): | 7 / 10 (12) |

The story of a high school and the people who almost run it, the vice principals.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | HBO |
Created By: | Danny McBride, Jody Hill |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 6.8 / 10 (76) |

Set in a geriatric extended care wing of a down-at-the-heels hospital, Getting On follows put-upon nurses, anxious doctors and administrators as they struggle with the darkly comic, brutally honest and quietly compassionate realities of caring for the eld
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 3 |
Network: | HBO |
Created By: | Mark V. Olsen, Will Scheffer |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 6.8 / 10 (12) |

Stuart Pritchard is an awkward, overly-confident Englishman trying to date in Los Angeles – where he repeatedly attempts to infiltrate the world of beautiful people.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | HBO |
Created By: | Stephen Merchant, Lee Eisenberg, Gene Stupnitsky |
Status: | Canceled |
User Score (votes): | 6.7 / 10 (37) |
An alternate American history told through the eyes of a working-class Jewish family in New Jersey, as they watch the political rise of Charles Lindbergh, an aviator-hero and xenophobic populist, who becomes president and turns the nation toward fascism.
Genres: | Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Created By: | David Simon, Ed Burns |
Network: | HBO |
Status: | Ended |
Origin Country: | US |
User Score (votes): | 6.6 / 10 (41) |

Jump into the daily routines of a diverse group of New Yorkers and how they light things up. “The Guy” is a nameless pot deliveryman whose client base includes an eccentric group of characters with neuroses as diverse as the city.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 3 |
Network: | HBO |
Created By: | Katja Blichfeld, Ben Sinclair |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 6.5 / 10 (23) |

Having recently lost his job and his girlfriend, 30-year-old Tom Chadwick has a rather unsure sense of his own identity. But when he inherits a mysterious box of belongings from a great aunt he never met, Tom starts investigating his lineage and uncovers
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | HBO |
Created By: | Christopher Guest, Jim Piddock |
Status: | Canceled |
User Score (votes): | 6.2 / 10 (13) |

Desperate times call for desperate measures and Ray Drecker's situation couldn't be much tougher. The former high school sports legend turned middle-aged high school basketball coach is divorced and struggling to provide for his kids when his already run-
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 3 |
Network: | HBO |
Created By: | Dmitry Lipkin, Colette Burson |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 6.4 / 10 (54) |

The lives of the Roy family as they contemplate their future once their aging father begins to step back from the media and entertainment conglomerate they control.
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | HBO |
Created By: | Jesse Armstrong |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 6.1 / 10 (13) |

Doll & Em is a British comedy series starring real-life friends Emily Mortimer (Em) and Dolly Wells (Doll), filmed in the style of a reality TV show. After a breakup, Doll heads to Hollywood to be with her childhood best friend Em, who's now a successful
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Networks: | HBO, Sky Living |
Created By: | Emily Mortimer, Dolly Wells |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 6.6 / 10 (7) |

This four-part historical drama follows the end of Catherine the Great's reign and her affair with Russian military leader Grigory Potemkin that helped shape the future of Russian politics.
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Networks: | HBO, Sky Atlantic |
Status: | Returning Series |
Origin Country: | GB |
User Score (votes): | 6.3 / 10 (5) |

A couple goes through a long, drawn-out divorce.
Publisher: | Pretty Matches Productions |
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | HBO |
Created By: | Sharon Horgan |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 6.1 / 10 (30) |

Four adults nearing 40, living under the same roof, struggle to keep their relationships and their individual dreams alive.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | HBO |
Created By: | Jay Duplass, Mark Duplass |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 6.1 / 10 (29) |

The story of a world-famous televangelist family with a history of deviance, greed and, yes, charitable work, all in the name of Jesus.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Created By: | Danny McBride |
Network: | HBO |
Status: | Returning Series |
Origin Country: | US |
User Score (votes): | 6 / 10 (6) |

40 years in the future, space captain Ryan Clark and the crew of the luxury space cruise ship Avenue 5 navigate disgruntled passengers and unexpected events after experiencing technical difficulties onboard.
Genres: | Comedy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Created By: | Armando Iannucci |
Network: | HBO |
Status: | Returning Series |
Origin Country: | US |
User Score (votes): | 5.9 / 10 (14) |

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) |

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) |

Looking at the lives of former and current football players, the show follows former superstar Spencer Strasmore as he gets his life on track in retirement while mentoring other current and former players through the daily grind of the business of footbal
Genres: | Drama, Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 4 |
Network: | HBO |
Created By: | Stephen Levinson |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 5.7 / 10 (230) |

K Street is a 2003 HBO television series about lobbyists and politicians in Washington, D.C. It was named for a street that is home to many lobbying and legal firms.
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | HBO |
Created By: | George Clooney, Steven Soderbergh |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 5.5 / 10 (4) |

An anthology series set in a single hotel room, where every guest who comes to stay reveals a unique set of circumstances and quirks.
Genres: | Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | HBO |
Created By: | Jay Duplass, Mark Duplass |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 5.5 / 10 (39) |

A not-so-happily married couple's meticulously planned camping trip is derailed by uninvited guests and forces of nature, turning the weekend into a test of marriage and friendships.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | HBO |
Created By: | Lena Dunham, Jennifer Konner |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 6 / 10 (6) |

A group of friends turn their love for horror into a peculiar business, providing horror to those who need it, in a dreamy Latin American country where the strange and eerie are just part of daily life.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Created By: | Fred Armisen, Ana Fabrega, Julio Torres |
Network: | HBO |
Status: | Returning Series |
Origin Country: | US |
User Score (votes): | 5 / 10 (5) |

Unscripted is an American comedy-drama series that aired on HBO in early 2005. Its title referred to the fact that the series was largely improvised by its performers. The series was executive produced by Steven Soderbergh, George Clooney, and Grant Heslo
Genres: | Drama, Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | HBO |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 0 / 10 (0) |

Late-night series featuring a mix of vérité documentary, musical performances, surrealist melodrama and humorous animation as a stream-of-consciousness response to the contemporary American mediascape.
Genres: | Comedy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | HBO |
Created By: | Terence Nance |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 0 / 10 (0) |

Lifestories: Families in Crisis is an American drama television series that premiered on HBO on August 1, 1992.
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | HBO |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 0 / 10 (0) |