Best Showtime TV Shows
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Huff is an American television comedy-drama series produced by Sony Pictures Television for Showtime. The series was created by Bob Lowry and features Hank Azaria as Dr. Craig "Huff" Huffstodt, a psychiatrist whose life changes abruptly when a 15-year-old
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | Showtime |
Created By: | Bob Lowry |
Status: | Canceled |
User Score (votes): | 8.8 / 10 (7) |
Critically lauded drama about the life and pressures of a group of students at a prestigious Eastern law school, with a strict and domineering contract-law professor named Charles Kingsfield, who alternately inspires and terrifies the students.
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 4 |
Network: | Showtime |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 8.7 / 10 (3) |
A critical and often humorous look at the upper class, tracking the protagonist’s harrowing odyssey from a deeply traumatic childhood through adult substance abuse and, ultimately, toward recovery.
Genres: | Comedy, Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Networks: | Showtime, Sky Atlantic |
Created By: | David Nicholls |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 8.1 / 10 (34) |
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) |
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) |
Dead Like Me follows a group of undead grim reapers tasked with shepherding the recently departed into the afterlife.
Genres: | Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama, Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | Showtime |
Created By: | Bryan Fuller |
Status: | Canceled |
User Score (votes): | 7.8 / 10 (143) |
A British husband-and-wife comedy writing team travel to Hollywood to remake their successful British TV series, with disastrous results.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 5 |
Networks: | Showtime, BBC Two |
Created By: | David Crane, Jeffrey Klarik |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.8 / 10 (61) |
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) |
The stranger-than-fiction account of a prison break in upstate New York in the summer of 2015, which spawned a massive manhunt for two convicted murderers who were aided in their escape by a married female prison employee with whom they both became sexual
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | Showtime |
Created By: | Brett Johnson, Michael Tolkin |
Status: | Returning Series, Ended |
User Score (votes): | 0 / 10 (13) |
Set in 15th century Italy at the height of the Renaissance, The Borgias chronicles the corrupt rise of patriarch Rodrigo Borgia to the papacy, where he proceeds to commit every sin in the book to amass and retain power, influence and enormous wealth for h
Genres: | Action & Adventure, Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 3 |
Network: | Showtime |
Created By: | Neil Jordan |
Status: | Canceled |
User Score (votes): | 7.6 / 10 (117) |
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) |
Hickory, dickory, dock — the Dice Man's back and he's ready to rock. The semi-true stories of Andrew Dice Clay, whose unique brand of humor often gets him in trouble. Once on top, the comedian now must work to resurrect his career, pay his gambling debts,
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | Showtime |
Created By: | Scot Armstrong |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.4 / 10 (11) |
CIA officer Carrie Mathison is tops in her field despite being bipolar, which makes her volatile and unpredictable. With the help of her long-time mentor Saul Berenson, Carrie fearlessly risks everything, including her personal well-being and even sanity,
Genres: | Drama, Action & Adventure, Crime, War & Politics |
Number Of Seasons: | 7 |
Network: | Showtime |
Created By: | Howard Gordon, Alex Gansa, Gideon Raff |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.4 / 10 (945) |
A relevant, timely and distinctive coming-of-age story following a half dozen interrelated characters in the South Side of Chicago. The story centers on Brandon, an ambitious and confident young man who dreams about opening a restaurant of his own someday
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | Showtime |
Created By: | Lena Waithe |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.3 / 10 (27) |
Fiona Wallice is a therapist with little patience for her patients. Tired of hearing about people's problems for fifty long minutes, she devises a new treatment, the three-minute video chat. And still, the sessions end up being largely about her. If she's
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 4 |
Network: | Showtime |
Created By: | Lisa Kudrow, Dan Bucatinsky |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.3 / 10 (4) |
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) |
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) |
A suburban mother faces her cancer diagnosis while trying to find humor and happiness as well.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 4 |
Network: | Showtime |
Created By: | Darlene Hunt |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7 / 10 (36) |
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) |
William Masters and Virginia Johnson are real-life pioneers of the science of human sexuality. Their research touched off the sexual revolution and took them from a midwestern teaching hospital to the cover of Time magazine and multiple appearances on Joh
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 4 |
Network: | Showtime |
Created By: | Michelle Ashford |
Status: | Canceled |
User Score (votes): | 6.7 / 10 (154) |
Charming, fast talking Marty Kaan and his crack team of management consultants know how to play the corporate game better than anyone, by using every dirty trick in the book to woo powerful CEOs and close huge deals. In the board rooms, barrooms, and bedr
Genres: | Comedy, Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 5 |
Network: | Showtime |
Created By: | Matthew Carnahan |
Status: | Canceled |
User Score (votes): | 6.6 / 10 (76) |
Set against the backdrop of one of the most explosive times in U.K. history, Guerrilla tells the story of a politically active couple whose relationship and values are tested when they liberate a political prisoner and form a radical underground cell in 1
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Networks: | Showtime, Sky One |
Created By: | John Ridley |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 6.3 / 10 (5) |
Fat Actress is an American sitcom television series starring Kirstie Alley. It aired on Showtime in the United States in the spring of 2005, on Movie Central in Western Canada, The Movie Network in Eastern Canada, FX in the UK, Network Ten in Australia an
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | Showtime |
Created By: | Kirstie Alley, Brenda Hampton |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 6 / 10 (1) |
A distinctive look at a modern, troubled marriage—told from the point of view of the husband who is torn between his love of a clinically depressed wife and their young son, and his attraction for another woman.
Genres: | Drama, Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | Showtime |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 6 / 10 (2) |
An insider's look at the reckless, romantic, funny, and often poignant lives of a committed group of "roadies," who live for music and the de facto family they've formed along the way.
Genres: | Comedy, Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | Showtime |
Created By: | Cameron Crowe |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 5.7 / 10 (27) |
Floyd Mooney is a young African-American comedian whose star is on the rise. But the path to stardom is a minefield that Floyd must navigate to maintain his credibility while attempting to become “white famous.”
Publisher: | Lionsgate Television, Showtime Entertainment |
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | Showtime |
Created By: | Chris Spencer, Buddy Lewis, Tom Kapinos |
Status: | Canceled |
User Score (votes): | 5.4 / 10 (12) |
Soul Food: The Series is a television drama that aired Wednesday nights on Showtime from June 28, 2000 to May 26, 2004. Created by filmmaker George Tillman, Jr. and developed for television by Felicia D. Henderson, Soul Food is based upon Tillman's childh
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 5 |
Network: | Showtime |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 5.3 / 10 (2) |
The Brogan family enters a witness protection program and are moved to a bucolic neighborhood to begin a new life, but they soon realize that it's not so easy to escape the past.
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | Showtime |
Created By: | Robert Murphy, Matthew Arlidge |
Status: | Canceled |
User Score (votes): | 4.9 / 10 (5) |
Follows a fair parole officer and his parolee who wants to go straight but his former business associates are after him.
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | Showtime |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 2.5 / 10 (1) |
The Santiagos are a proud East Los Angeles Latino family whose hopes and dreams are rooted in the world of professional boxing.
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 3 |
Network: | Showtime |
Created By: | Dennis E. Leoni |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 0 / 10 (0) |
Linc's is an American comedy-drama based in a bar in Washington D.C.. The series starred Steven Williams, Pam Grier and Golden Brooks, and aired on Showtime for two seasons from 1998 to 2000 before being cancelled. After cancellation, it was briefly synd
Genres: | Drama, Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | Showtime |
Created By: | Tim Reid |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 0 / 10 (0) |
In early 90s Boston, an African-American District Attorney comes in from Brooklyn advocating change and forms an unlikely alliance with a corrupt yet venerated FBI veteran invested in maintaining the status quo. Together they take on a family of armored c
Genres: | Crime, Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Created By: | Chuck MacLean |
Network: | Showtime |
Status: | In Production |
Origin Country: | US |
User Score (votes): | 0 / 10 (0) |