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A spin-off from The Vampire Diaries and set in New Orleans, The Originals centers on the Mikaelson siblings, otherwise known as the world's original vampires: Klaus, Elijah, and Rebekah. Now Klaus must take down his protégé, Marcel, who is now in charge o
Publisher: | My So-Called Company |
Genres: | Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery |
Number Of Seasons: | 5 |
Network: | The CW |
Created By: | Julie Plec |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.3 / 10 (364) |
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) |
Go inside the minds of some of the world's top chefs. Narrated by Executive Producer Anthony Bourdain, The Mind of a Chef is that rare and beautiful thing: an intelligent show about cooking.
Genre: | Documentary |
Number Of Seasons: | 5 |
Network: | PBS |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 8 / 10 (3) |
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) |
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) |
NCIS is an American police procedural drama television series, revolving around a fictional team of special agents from the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, which conducts criminal investigations involving the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps.
Genres: | Crime, Drama, Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 16 |
Network: | CBS |
Created By: | Don McGill, Donald P. Bellisario |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 6.7 / 10 (678) |
A gripping anthological relationship thriller series exploring the emotional fallout of a child's abduction not only on the family but on the wider community, told over two time frames.
Genres: | Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Networks: | BBC One, Starz |
Created By: | Jack Williams, Harry Williams |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 6.8 / 10 (130) |
Lawyer-by-day Matt Murdock uses his heightened senses from being blinded as a young boy to fight crime at night on the streets of Hell’s Kitchen as Daredevil.
Genres: | Crime, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 3 |
Network: | Netflix |
Created By: | Steven S. DeKnight, Drew Goddard |
Status: | Canceled |
User Score (votes): | 7.7 / 10 (1258) |
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) |
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) |
Stef Foster, a dedicated police officer, and her partner Lena Adams, a school vice principal, have built a close-knit, loving family with Stef's biological son from a previous marriage, Brandon, and their adopted twins, Mariana and Jesus. Their lives are
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 5 |
Networks: | ABC Family, Freeform |
Created By: | Brad Bredeweg, Peter Paige |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 6.2 / 10 (89) |
A newly retired police officer looks forward to spending more quality time with his wife and three kids only to discover he faces much tougher challenges at home than he ever did on the streets.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | CBS |
Created By: | Barton Dean |
Status: | Canceled |
User Score (votes): | 5.1 / 10 (69) |
A riveting police drama about the men and women of the Chicago Police Department's District 21 who put it all on the line to serve and protect their community. District 21 is made up of two distinctly different groups: the uniformed cops who patrol the be
Genres: | Crime, Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 6 |
Network: | NBC |
Created By: | Dick Wolf |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.1 / 10 (194) |
Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May are back with a show about adventure, excitement and friendship... as long as you accept that the people you call friends are also the ones you find extremely annoying. Sometimes it's even a show about cars.
Genres: | Comedy, Documentary |
Number Of Seasons: | 3 |
Network: | Amazon |
Created By: | Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, James May, Andy Wilman |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.8 / 10 (257) |
A modern-day drama about a crime-solving duo that cracks the NYPD's most impossible cases. Following his fall from grace in London and a stint in rehab, eccentric Sherlock escapes to Manhattan where his wealthy father forces him to live with his worst nig
Genres: | Drama, Crime, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery |
Number Of Seasons: | 6 |
Network: | CBS |
Created By: | Robert Doherty |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7 / 10 (573) |
A team of teenagers with attitude are recruited to save Angel Grove from the evil witch, Rita Repulsa, and later, Lord Zedd, Emperor of all he sees, and their horde of monsters.
Genres: | Kids, Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 25 |
Networks: | Nickelodeon, ABC, FOX, ABC Family, Toon Disney |
Created By: | Haim Saban, Shuki Levy |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 4.9 / 10 (147) |
After Portland homicide detective Nick Burkhardt discovers he's descended from an elite line of criminal profilers known as "Grimms," he increasingly finds his responsibilities as a detective at odds with his new responsibilities as a Grimm.
Genres: | Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 6 |
Network: | NBC |
Created By: | David Greenwalt, Jim Kouf, Stephen Carpenter |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 6.8 / 10 (576) |
Eleanor Shellstrop, an ordinary woman who, through an extraordinary string of events, enters the afterlife where she comes to realize that she hasn't been a very good person. With the help of her wise afterlife mentor, she's determined to shed her old way
Genres: | Comedy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 3 |
Network: | NBC |
Created By: | Michael Schur |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.8 / 10 (203) |
Rayna Jaymes and Juliette Barnes face personal and professional challenges as they navigate their paths as artists and individuals. Surrounding them, and often complicating their lives, are their family, friends and, in some cases, lovers, as well as the
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 6 |
Networks: | ABC, CMT |
Created By: | Callie Khouri, Max Axall |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 6 / 10 (122) |
A comedy-drama following a chaste young woman who is accidentally impregnated via artificial insemination as she struggles to inform her devoutly religious family and make the right choices concerning the child. Based on the telenovela "Juana la virgen."
Genres: | Comedy, Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 4 |
Network: | The CW |
Created By: | Jennie Snyder Urman |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 6.5 / 10 (136) |
Dr. Temperance Brennan and her colleagues at the Jeffersonian's Medico-Legal Lab assist Special Agent Seeley Booth with murder investigations when the remains are so badly decomposed, burned or destroyed that the standard identification methods are useles
Genres: | Crime, Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 12 |
Network: | FOX |
Created By: | Hart Hanson |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7 / 10 (456) |
Adventure Time is an American animated television series created by Pendleton Ward for Cartoon Network. The series follows the adventures of Finn, a human boy, and his best friend and adoptive brother Jake, a dog with magical powers to change shape and gr
Genres: | Animation, Comedy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 10 |
Network: | Cartoon Network |
Created By: | Pendleton Ward |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.1 / 10 (165) |
An edge-of-your-seat view into the lives of everyday heroes committed to one of America's noblest professions. For the firefighters, rescue squad and paramedics of Chicago Firehouse 51, no occupation is more stressful or dangerous, yet so rewarding and ex
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 7 |
Network: | NBC |
Created By: | Derek Haas, Michael Brandt |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.2 / 10 (197) |
A reality series that follows some of the most affluent women in the country as they enjoy the lavish lifestyle that only Beverly Hills can provide.
Genre: | Reality |
Number Of Seasons: | 8 |
Network: | Bravo |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 6.5 / 10 (32) |
In the high-tech gold rush of modern Silicon Valley, the people most qualified to succeed are the least capable of handling success. Partially inspired by Mike Judge’s own experiences as a Silicon Valley engineer in the late ‘80s, Silicon Valley is an Ame
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 5 |
Network: | HBO |
Created By: | Mike Judge, Alec Berg, Dave Krinsky, John Altschuler |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 8 / 10 (529) |
Workaholics is an American sitcom that premiered on Comedy Central on April 5, 2011. The series is in its third season, and is predominantly written by its stars Blake Anderson, Adam DeVine, Anders Holm, and co-creator Kyle Newacheck who play, respectivel
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 7 |
Network: | Comedy Central |
Created By: | Adam Devine, Blake Anderson, Anders Holm, Kyle Newacheck, Connor Pritchard, Dominic Russo |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.3 / 10 (74) |
Broad City follows two women throughout their daily lives in New York City, making the smallest and mundane events hysterical and disturbing to watch all at the same time.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 5 |
Network: | Comedy Central |
Created By: | Ilana Glazer, Abbi Jacobson |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.8 / 10 (70) |
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) |
A single-camera ensemble comedy following the lives of an eclectic group of detectives in a New York precinct, including one slacker who is forced to shape up when he gets a new boss.
Genres: | Comedy, Crime |
Number Of Seasons: | 6 |
Networks: | NBC, FOX |
Created By: | Daniel J. Goor, Michael Schur |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.6 / 10 (500) |
Set in the early 1980s, and about a fictional visionary, an engineer and a prodigy whose innovations confronts the corporate behemoths of the time. Their personal and professional partnership will be challenged by greed and ego while charting the changing
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 4 |
Network: | AMC |
Created By: | Christopher Cantwell, Christopher C. Rogers |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.9 / 10 (171) |
Prairie Johnson, blind as a child, comes home to the community she grew up in with her sight restored. Some hail her a miracle, others a dangerous mystery, but Prairie won’t talk with the FBI or her parents about the seven years she went missing.
Genres: | Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | Netflix |
Created By: | Brit Marling, Zal Batmanglij |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.3 / 10 (272) |
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) |
The pirate adventures of Captain Flint and his men twenty years prior to Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic “Treasure Island.” Flint, the most brilliant and most feared pirate captain of his day, takes on a fast-talking young addition to his crew who goes b
Genres: | Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 4 |
Network: | Starz |
Created By: | Jonathan E. Steinberg, Robert Levine |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.2 / 10 (407) |
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) |
A peek inside the exploits and privileged private lives of the blended Kardashian-Jenner family, including sisters Kim, Kourtney and Khloé.
Genre: | Reality |
Number Of Seasons: | 15 |
Network: | E! |
Created By: | Ryan Seacrest, Eliot Goldberg |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 3.5 / 10 (119) |
British version of the reality competitions series that sees young entrepreneurs compete in several business tasks, attempting to survive the weekly firings in order to become the business partner of one of the most successful businessmen.
Genre: | Reality |
Number Of Seasons: | 14 |
Network: | BBC One |
Created By: | Mark Burnett |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 5.4 / 10 (11) |
Satirical sketch comedy set and filmed in Portland, Oregon that explores the eccentric misfits who embody the foibles of modern culture.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 8 |
Network: | IFC |
Created By: | Jonathan Krisel, Fred Armisen, Carrie Brownstein |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 6.5 / 10 (51) |
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) |
One Day at a Time is an American situation comedy. It starred Bonnie Franklin as Ann Romano, a divorced mother who moves to Indianapolis with her two teenage daughters Julie and Barbara Cooper with Dwayne Schneider as their building superintendent.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 3 |
Network: | Netflix |
Created By: | Allan Manings, Whitney Blake |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.1 / 10 (23) |
Delve into the oddball family life of Miranda Sings, an incredibly confident, totally untalented star on the rise, who continues to fail upward by the power of her belief that she was born famous, it's just no one knows it yet.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | Netflix |
Created By: | Colleen Ballinger, Chris Ballinger |
Status: | Canceled |
User Score (votes): | 6.1 / 10 (34) |