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Geralt of Rivia, a mutated monster-hunter for hire, journeys toward his destiny in a turbulent world where people often prove more wicked than beasts.
Genres: | Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Created By: | Lauren Schmidt |
Network: | Netflix |
Status: | Returning Series |
Origin Country: | PL, US |
User Score (votes): | 8.1 / 10 (330) |

In the near future, people’s minds are connected to The Feed, giving them instant connectivity. When something or someone invades it, everyone is at risk.
Genres: | Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Created By: | Channing Powell |
Network: | Virgin TV |
Status: | Returning Series |
Origin Country: | GB |
User Score (votes): | 1 / 10 (1) |

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) |

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) |

Josh Futturman, a janitor by day/world-ranked gamer by night, is tasked with preventing the extinction of humanity after mysterious visitors from the future proclaim him the key to defeating the imminent super-race invasion.
Genres: | Comedy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | Hulu |
Created By: | Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.5 / 10 (60) |

One cannot quench his all-consuming thirst. The other cannot tame the beast clawing its way out. In the sleepy Pennsylvania village of Hemlock Grove, two young men struggle to accept painful truths: about family, themselves, the mystery of the White Tower
Number Of Seasons: | 3 |
Network: | Netflix |
Created By: | Brian McGreevy |
Status: | Ended |
Genres: | Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery |
User Score (votes): | 6.6 / 10 (121) |

Kindred: The Embraced is an American television series produced by John Leekley Productions and Spelling Television. Loosely based on the role-playing game Vampire: The Masquerade, the series premiered on Fox on April 2, 1996, and ran for eight episodes b
Genres: | Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | FOX |
Created By: | Mark Rein·Hagen, John Leekley |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 6.7 / 10 (10) |

After resigning, a secret agent is abducted and taken to what looks like an idyllic village, but is really a bizarre prison. His warders demand information. He gives them nothing, but only tries to escape.
Genres: | Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | ITV |
Created By: | Patrick McGoohan, George Markstein |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.6 / 10 (70) |

A police officer and a doctor face an emotionally charged mystery when seven local residents inexplicably return from the dead in peak physical form.
Genres: | Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 3 |
Created By: | Louise Fox, Tony Ayres |
Network: | ABC |
Status: | Ended |
Origin Country: | AU |
User Score (votes): | 6.6 / 10 (64) |

Transylvania, 1897. The blood-drinking Count Dracula is drawing his plans against Victorian London. And be warned: the dead travel fast.
Genres: | Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Created By: | Mark Gatiss, Steven Moffat, Claes Bang |
Network: | BBC One |
Status: | Ended |
Origin Country: | GB |
User Score (votes): | 7.3 / 10 (93) |

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) |

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) |

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) |

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) |

Carnivàle is an American television series set in the United States during the Great Depression and Dust Bowl. In tracing the lives of two disparate groups of people, its overarching story depicts the battle between good and evil and the struggle between
Genres: | Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | HBO |
Created By: | Daniel Knauf |
Status: | Canceled |
User Score (votes): | 8.1 / 10 (164) |

Newlywed Melinda Gordon tries to help the dead communicate with loved ones, 'but sometimes the messages she receives are intense and confusing.' Most of Melinda's efforts involve resolving conflicts that are preventing the spirits from passing over. The s
Genres: | Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery |
Number Of Seasons: | 5 |
Network: | CBS |
Created By: | John Gray |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 5.8 / 10 (139) |

What would you do to have everything you desire? Step inside 666 Park Avenue, New York's most seductive address. We all have some burning needs, desires and ambitions. For the residents of The Drake, the premier apartment building on Manhattan's Upper
Genres: | Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | ABC |
Created By: | David Wilcox |
Status: | Canceled |
User Score (votes): | 6.3 / 10 (45) |

Courage the Cowardly Dog is an American comedy horror animated television series created by John R. Dilworth for Cartoon Network. Its central plot revolves around a somewhat anthropomorphic pink/purple dog named Courage who lives with his owners, Muriel a
Genres: | Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Animation, Comedy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery |
Number Of Seasons: | 4 |
Network: | Cartoon Network |
Created By: | John R. Dilworth |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.6 / 10 (117) |

Three paranormal roommates, a ghost, a vampire, and a werewolf, struggle to keep their dark secrets from the world, while helping each other navigate the complexities of living double lives.
Genres: | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 4 |
Networks: | Syfy, Space |
Created By: | Toby Whithouse |
Status: | Canceled |
User Score (votes): | 6.3 / 10 (60) |

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) |

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) |

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) |

Into every generation a slayer is born: one girl in all the world, a chosen one. She alone will wield the strength and skill to fight the vampires, demons, and the forces of darkness; to stop the spread of their evil and the swell of their number. She is
Genres: | Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 7 |
Networks: | The WB, UPN |
Created By: | Joss Whedon |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 8 / 10 (461) |

In a parallel present where the latest must-have gadget for any busy family is a 'Synth' - a highly-developed robotic servant that's so similar to a real human it's transforming the way we live.
Genres: | Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery |
Number Of Seasons: | 3 |
Network: | Channel 4 |
Created By: | Jonathan Brackley, Sam Vincent |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.5 / 10 (254) |

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) |

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) |

Jefferson Pierce is a man wrestling with a secret. As the father of two daughters and principal of a charter high school that also serves as a safe haven for young people in a New Orleans neighborhood overrun by gang violence, he is a hero to his communit
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | The CW |
Genres: | Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Created By: | Salim Akil, Mara Brock Akil |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 6.2 / 10 (181) |

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) |

A thriller set two hundred years in the future following the case of a missing young woman who brings a hardened detective and a rogue ship's captain together in a race across the solar system to expose the greatest conspiracy in human history.
Genres: | Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery |
Number Of Seasons: | 4 |
Networks: | Syfy, Amazon |
Created By: | James S. A. Corey |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.5 / 10 (638) |

A high concept thriller that tells the story of Dr. Ephraim Goodweather, the head of the Center for Disease Control Canary Team in New York City. He and his team are called upon to investigate a mysterious viral outbreak with hallmarks of an ancient and e
Genres: | Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 4 |
Network: | FX |
Created By: | Guillermo del Toro, Carlton Cuse |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 6.6 / 10 (440) |

Spoiled billionaire playboy Oliver Queen is missing and presumed dead when his yacht is lost at sea. He returns five years later a changed man, determined to clean up the city as a hooded vigilante armed with a bow.
Genres: | Crime, Drama, Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery |
Number Of Seasons: | 7 |
Network: | The CW |
Created By: | Greg Berlanti, Marc Guggenheim, Andrew Kreisberg |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 6 / 10 (2122) |

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) |

The Crains, a fractured family, confront haunting memories of their old home and the terrifying events that drove them from it.
Genres: | Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | Netflix |
Created By: | Mike Flanagan |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.9 / 10 (136) |

The story of Stargate SG-1 begins about a year after the events of the feature film, when the United States government learns that an ancient alien device called the Stargate can access a network of such devices on a multitude of planets. SG-1 is an elite
Genres: | Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 10 |
Networks: | Showtime, Syfy |
Created By: | Jonathan Glassner, Brad Wright |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 8 / 10 (492) |

A young mother kills in a fit of unexplainable rage a seemingly stranger. An inquisitive detective obsesses over the case, attempting to get to the bottom of the true motive behind the act.
Genres: | Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | USA Network |
Created By: | Derek Simonds |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.3 / 10 (196) |

When FBI Agent Peter Connelly, recently stationed in Jerusalem, begins investigating the murder of a young American, he realizes that he’s uncovered an ancient international conspiracy that threatens to change the course of human history. Certain that the
Genres: | Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | USA Network |
Created By: | Gideon Raff, Tim Kring |
Status: | Canceled |
User Score (votes): | 6.7 / 10 (37) |

Harsh Realm is a science fiction television series about humans trapped inside a virtual reality simulation.
Genres: | Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Action & Adventure |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Networks: | FOX, FX |
Created By: | Chris Carter |
Status: | Canceled |
User Score (votes): | 8.7 / 10 (5) |

Rocko's Modern Life is an American animated series created by Joe Murray. The show aired for four seasons between 1993 and 1996 on Nickelodeon. Rocko's Modern Life is based around the surreal, parodic adventures of an anthropomorphic, Australian-immigrant
Genres: | Animation, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 4 |
Network: | Nickelodeon |
Created By: | Joe Murray |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.7 / 10 (81) |

Follow the lives of two very different priests tackling one family’s case of terrifying demonic possession.
Genres: | Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | FOX |
Created By: | Jeremy Slater |
Status: | Canceled |
User Score (votes): | 7.2 / 10 (169) |

The Secret World of Alex Mack is an American television series that ran on Nickelodeon from October 8, 1994 to January 15, 1998, replacing Clarissa Explains It All on the SNICK line-up. It also aired on YTV in Canada and NHK in Japan, and was a popular st
Genres: | Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Comedy, Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 4 |
Network: | Nickelodeon |
Created By: | Ken Lipman, Thomas W. Lynch |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.9 / 10 (12) |