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A horror anthology series inspired by “Creepypasta” online tales.
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 4 |
Network: | Syfy |
Created By: | Nick Antosca |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 6.5 / 10 (64) |
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Wyatt Earp's great granddaughter Wynonna battles demons and other creatures with her unique abilities and a posse of dysfunctional allies - the only thing that can bring the paranormal to justice.
Genres: | Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Western |
Number Of Seasons: | 3 |
Networks: | Syfy, Space, CHCH-DT |
Created By: | Emily Andras |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 6.2 / 10 (114) |
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Take a journey into the provocative and hilariously wicked mind of Amy Schumer as she explores topics revolving around sex, relationships, and the general clusterf*ck that is life. Through a series of scripted vignettes, stand-up comedy, and man-on-the st
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 4 |
Created By: | Amy Schumer, Daniel Powell |
Network: | Comedy Central |
Status: | Returning Series |
Origin Country: | US |
User Score (votes): | 5.6 / 10 (44) |
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Set nearly a decade after the finale of the original series, this revival follows Lorelai, Rory and Emily Gilmore through four seasons of change.
Publisher: | Warner Bros. Television, Paragon Studios |
Genres: | Drama, Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | Netflix |
Created By: | Amy Sherman-Palladino |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.5 / 10 (57) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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Jerry takes his comedy pals out for coffee in a selection of his classic automobiles. Larry David sums it up best when he says, 'You've finally made a show about nothing.'
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 10 |
Networks: | Netflix, Crackle |
Created By: | Jerry Seinfeld |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.1 / 10 (26) |
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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) |
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Follows the misadventures of four irreverent grade-schoolers in the quiet, dysfunctional town of South Park, Colorado.
Genres: | Comedy, Animation |
Number Of Seasons: | 22 |
Network: | Comedy Central |
Created By: | Trey Parker, Matt Stone |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.8 / 10 (979) |
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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) |
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The Daily Show is an American late night satirical television program airing each Monday through Thursday on Comedy Central and, in Canada, The Comedy Network. Describing itself as a fake news program, The Daily Show draws its comedy and satire from recen
Genres: | News, Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 24 |
Network: | Comedy Central |
Created By: | Lizz Winstead, Madeleine Smithberg |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 6.7 / 10 (208) |
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The body of Laura Palmer is washed up on a beach near the small Washington state town of Twin Peaks. FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper is called in to investigate her strange demise only to uncover a web of mystery that ultimately leads him deep into the hear
Genres: | Drama, Thriller, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery |
Number Of Seasons: | 3 |
Networks: | ABC, Showtime |
Created By: | David Lynch, Mark Frost |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 8 / 10 (698) |
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Set in present day Washington, D.C., House of Cards is the story of Frank Underwood, a ruthless and cunning politician, and his wife Claire who will stop at nothing to conquer everything. This wicked political drama penetrates the shadowy world of greed,
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 6 |
Network: | Netflix |
Created By: | Beau Willimon |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 8.2 / 10 (1034) |
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Silent Witness is a British crime thriller series focusing on a team of forensic pathology experts and their investigations into various crimes.
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 21 |
Network: | BBC One |
Created By: | Nigel McCrery |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.4 / 10 (22) |
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A drama about the local field office that investigates criminal cases affecting military personnel in The Big Easy, a city known for its music, entertainment and decadence.
Genres: | Drama, Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 5 |
Network: | CBS |
Created By: | Gary Glasberg |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 6.4 / 10 (143) |
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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) |
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A family man struggles to gain a sense of cultural identity while raising his kids in a predominantly white, upper-middle-class neighborhood.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 5 |
Network: | ABC |
Created By: | Kenya Barris |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.1 / 10 (98) |
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This reality competition sees teams embark on a trek around the world to amazing destinations where they must compete in a series of challenges, some mental and some physical. Only when the tasks are completed will they learn of their next location. Teams
Genres: | Reality, Action & Adventure |
Number Of Seasons: | 30 |
Network: | CBS |
Created By: | Elise Doganieri, Jerry Bruckheimer, Bertram van Munster |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 6.6 / 10 (58) |
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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) |
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An emotional thrill ride through the day-to-day chaos of the city's most explosive hospital and the courageous team of doctors who hold it together. They will tackle unique new cases inspired by topical events, forging fiery relationships in the pulse-pou
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 4 |
Network: | NBC |
Created By: | Dick Wolf, Matt Olmstead |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 6.7 / 10 (107) |
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Life is hard on the Flemings' ranch in the Alberta foothills where abused or neglected horses find refuge with a kind, hard-working family. Debts abound and the bank is about to foreclose. Can they keep the ranch running?
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 12 |
Network: | CBC Television |
Created By: | Heather Conkie, Хезер Конки |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.6 / 10 (88) |
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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) |
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Everyone has secrets and Olivia Pope has dedicated her life to protecting and defending the public images of the elite by keeping those secrets under wraps. Pope and her team are at the top of their game when it comes to getting the job done for their cli
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 7 |
Network: | ABC |
Created By: | Shonda Rhimes |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 6.7 / 10 (222) |
Families, friends, enemies and lovers experience life-changing events in the large upstate New York city of Port Charles, which has a busy hospital, upscale hotel, cozy diner and dangerous waterfront frequented by the criminal underworld.
Genres: | Drama, Soap |
Number Of Seasons: | 11 |
Network: | ABC |
Created By: | Doris Hursley, Frank Hursley |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 4.8 / 10 (132) |
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Given superstrength and durability by a sabotaged experiment, a wrongly accused man escapes prison to become a superhero for hire.
Genres: | Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Action & Adventure |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | Netflix |
Created By: | Cheo Hodari Coker |
Status: | Canceled |
User Score (votes): | 6.9 / 10 (568) |
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Once a powerful lawyer, Billy McBride is now burned out and washed up, spending more time in a bar than a courtroom. When he reluctantly agrees to pursue a wrongful death lawsuit against the biggest client of Cooperman & McBride, the massive law firm
Genres: | Crime, Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | Amazon |
Created By: | Jonathan Shapiro, David E. Kelley |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.9 / 10 (98) |
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After a night of partying with a female stranger, a man wakes up to find her stabbed to death and is charged with her murder.
Genres: | Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | HBO |
Created By: | Richard Price, Steven Zaillian |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.7 / 10 (280) |
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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) |
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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) |
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Rob Delaney and Sharon Horgan write and star in a comedy that follows an American man and an Irish woman who make a bloody mess as they struggle to fall in love in London.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 3 |
Network: | Channel 4 |
Created By: | Ben Taylor |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.5 / 10 (38) |
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An LA family with serious boundary issues have their past and future unravel when a dramatic admission causes everyone's secrets to spill out.
Genres: | Comedy, Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 4 |
Network: | Amazon |
Created By: | Jill Soloway |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 6.7 / 10 (67) |
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The story of Claire Randall, a married combat nurse from 1945 who is mysteriously swept back in time to 1743, where she is immediately thrown into an unknown world where her life is threatened. When she is forced to marry Jamie, a chivalrous and romantic
Genres: | Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 4 |
Network: | Starz |
Created By: | Ronald D. Moore |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.2 / 10 (431) |
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An English teacher travels back in time to prevent the Kennedy assassination, but discovers he is attached to the life he has made in a bygone era.
Genres: | Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | Hulu |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.8 / 10 (557) |
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A young E.R. doctor who, after being wrongly blamed for a patient's death, moves to the Hamptons and becomes the reluctant "doctor for hire" to the rich and famous. When the attractive administrator of the local hospital asks him to treat the town's less
Genres: | Comedy, Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 8 |
Network: | USA Network |
Created By: | Andrew Lenchewski |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 6.6 / 10 (55) |
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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) |
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A diverse group of recruits has arrived at the FBI Quantico Base for training. They are the best, the brightest and the most vetted, so it seems impossible that one of them is suspected of masterminding the biggest attack on New York City since 9/11.
Genres: | Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery |
Number Of Seasons: | 3 |
Network: | ABC |
Created By: | Joshua Safran |
Status: | Canceled |
User Score (votes): | 6 / 10 (292) |
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World-Renowned Dancer and Choreographer Josh Horner sashay his way through life.
Genre: | Reality |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | Freeform |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 0 / 10 (0) |
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When 2% of the world's population abruptly disappears without explanation, the world struggles to understand just what they're supposed to do about it. The drama series 'The Leftovers' is the story of the people who didn't make the cut. Based on the best
Genres: | Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 3 |
Network: | HBO |
Created By: | Damon Lindelof, Tom Perrotta |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.8 / 10 (350) |
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East Los High is not your typical high school. Dance, sex, romance, and mystery are at the heart of this inner city school in East LA where two teenage cousins—Jessie, a 16-year-old virgin and Maya, a troubled runaway with a violent past —fall in love wit
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 5 |
Network: | Hulu |
Created By: | Carlos Portugal, Kathleen Bedoya |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 8.5 / 10 (2) |