Best TV Shows of 2017
Best TV Shows of 2017
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It’s 1958 Manhattan and Miriam “Midge” Maisel has everything she’s ever wanted - the perfect husband, kids, and Upper West Side apartment. But when her life suddenly takes a turn and Midge must start over, she discovers a previously unknown talent - one t
Genres: | Comedy, Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | Amazon |
Created By: | Amy Sherman-Palladino |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.9 / 10 (45) |
A missing child causes four families to help each other for answers. What they could not imagine is that this mystery would be connected to innumerable other secrets of the small town.
Genres: | Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama, Crime, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | Netflix |
Created By: | Baran bo Odar |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.9 / 10 (287) |
This anthology series brings to life Aaron Mahnke's “Lore” podcast and uncovers the real-life events that spawned our darkest nightmares. Blending dramatic scenes, animation, archive and narration, Lore reveals how our horror legends - such as vampires, w
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | Amazon |
Created By: | Aaron Mahnke |
Genre: | Documentary |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 6.3 / 10 (13) |
Adventurer James Keziah Delaney returns to London from Africa in 1814 along with fourteen stolen diamonds to seek vengeance after the death of his father.
Genres: | Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Networks: | BBC One, FX |
Created By: | Steven Knight, Tom Hardy, Chips Hardy |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 8 / 10 (422) |
A young woman is recruited into a secret government agency to be “stitched” into the minds of the recently deceased, using their memories to investigate murders.
Genres: | Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery |
Number Of Seasons: | 3 |
Networks: | ABC Family, Freeform |
Created By: | Jeff Schechter |
Status: | Canceled |
User Score (votes): | 6.4 / 10 (88) |
A married father of three tries to maintain his manliness in a world increasingly dominated by women.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 7 |
Networks: | ABC, FOX |
Created By: | Jack Burditt |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7 / 10 (100) |
In 1980s LA, a crew of misfits reinvent themselves as the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling.
Genres: | Comedy, Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | Netflix |
Created By: | Liz Flahive, Carly Mensch |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.5 / 10 (73) |
Set during the Cold War period in the 1980s, The Americans is the story of Elizabeth and Philip Jennings, two Soviet KGB officers posing as an American married couple in the suburbs of Washington D.C. and their neighbor, Stan Beeman, an FBI Counterintelli
Genres: | Crime, Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 6 |
Network: | FX |
Created By: | Joseph Weisberg |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.8 / 10 (355) |
A hilarious workplace comedy about a unique family of employees at a super-sized mega store. From the bright-eyed newbies and the seen-it-all veterans to the clueless summer hires and the in-it-for-life managers, together they hilariously tackle the day-t
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 4 |
Network: | NBC |
Created By: | Justin Spitzer |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 6.6 / 10 (92) |
This hilarious fish-out-of-water comedy/reality show follows cultural icons Henry Winkler, William Shatner, Terry Bradshaw and George Foreman on their greatest adventure yet. Deciding it's Better Late Than Never, these four national treasures embark on th
Genres: | Comedy, Reality |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Networks: | NBC, Nine Network |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 6.4 / 10 (5) |
Follow the Murphy family back to the 1970s, when kids roamed wild, beer flowed freely and nothing came between a man and his TV.
Genres: | Comedy, Animation |
Number Of Seasons: | 3 |
Network: | Netflix |
Created By: | Bill Burr, Michael Price |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 6.8 / 10 (74) |
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) |
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) |
30-year-old New York actor Dev takes on such pillars of maturity as the first big job, a serious relationship, and busting sex offenders on the subway.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | Netflix |
Created By: | Aziz Ansari, Alan Yang |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.9 / 10 (147) |
A coming-of-age comedy set in the "go-go" 80s that is equal parts hijinks and heartfelt about a college student enjoying a last hurrah before summer comes to an end--and the future begins. David Myers, an assistant tennis pro at the Red Oaks Country Cl
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 3 |
Network: | Amazon |
Created By: | David Gordon Green |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.6 / 10 (25) |
To prevent Iran from going nuclear, intelligence officer John Tavner must forgo all safety nets and assume a perilous "non-official cover" -- that of a mid-level employee at a Midwestern industrial piping firm.
Genres: | Comedy, Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | Amazon |
Created By: | Steve Conrad |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.8 / 10 (30) |
Adapted from the lauded feminist novel and set in a colorful academic community in Marfa, Texas, this is the story of a struggling married couple, Chris and Sylvere, and their obsession with a charismatic professor named Dick. Told in Rashomon-style shift
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | Amazon |
Created By: | Sarah Gubbins |
Status: | Canceled |
User Score (votes): | 5.1 / 10 (14) |
In the 1980s, millions of Romanians tuned in to Comrade Detective, a gritty, sexy, communist buddy cop show that has now been digitally remastered and dubbed into English for the first time.
Genres: | Action & Adventure, Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | Amazon |
Created By: | Brian Gatewood, Alessandro Tanaka |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.4 / 10 (15) |
A tech innovator creates a cutting-edge crowd-sourcing hub to solve his own daughter's murder, as well as revolutionizing crime solving in San Francisco.
Genres: | Crime, Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | CBS |
Created By: | Ted Humphrey |
Status: | Canceled |
User Score (votes): | 6.8 / 10 (28) |
A single-camera buddy comedy about what happens when two best friends come back together, just when they need each other most. Inspired by the ultra-close friendship between the series' creators and stars, "Playing House" centers on mother to-be Maggie wh
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 3 |
Network: | USA Network |
Created By: | Jessica St. Clair, Lennon Parham |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.8 / 10 (8) |
After a billionaire engineer witnesses his best friend’s murder, he takes charge of Chicago’s troubled 13th District and reboots it as a technically innovative police force, challenging the district to rethink everything about the way they fight crime.
Genres: | Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Crime, Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | FOX |
Created By: | Matt Nix, David Slack |
Status: | Canceled |
User Score (votes): | 5.9 / 10 (79) |
A show of heroic deeds and epic battles with a thematic depth that embraces politics, religion, warfare, courage, love, loyalty and our universal search for identity. Combining real historical figures and events with fictional characters, it is the story
Genres: | Action & Adventure, Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 3 |
Networks: | Netflix, BBC Two |
Created By: | Stephen Butchard |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.7 / 10 (204) |
A woman suspects her husband of having an affair. After following several lines of enquiries far more unravels including a streak of violence below the surface.
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | BBC One |
Created By: | Mike Bartlett |
Status: | In Production |
User Score (votes): | 7.1 / 10 (0) |
Having lost her job for whistle-blowing, a skilled, hardworking nurse assumes her best friend's identity as a senior doctor to start a new life in Edinburgh.
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | BBC One |
Created By: | Dan Sefton |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 6.5 / 10 (5) |
The various generations of the Hughes family, who all love, work and fight like any other clan, find they must learn to communicate all over again when the youngest member is diagnosed with autism.
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | BBC One |
Created By: | Keren Margalit |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.5 / 10 (11) |
The story of a double-glazing showroom in Essex in the 80s, led by charismatic Vincent Swan, and his unscrupulous sales team, Brian Fitzpatrick and Martin Lavender.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | BBC Two |
Created By: | Damon Beesley |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 6.8 / 10 (19) |
Lee is a childish northerner who lives in a fancy penthouse apartment in London who goes through a variety of jobs such as a janitor and ice cream man as well as attempting relationships with female flatmates. His best mate, Daily Mail reading, middle cla
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 9 |
Network: | BBC One |
Created By: | Lee Mack |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.8 / 10 (21) |
Cuckoo is every parent's worst nightmare - a slacker full of outlandish, New Age ideas. Ken is the over-protective father of a girl who's impulsively married an American hippie on her gap year.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 5 |
Network: | BBC Three |
Created By: | Kieron Quirke |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 6.7 / 10 (19) |
An anthology of darkly comic twisted tales, each one taking place behind a door marked 'number 9'.
Genres: | Comedy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery |
Number Of Seasons: | 4 |
Network: | BBC Two |
Created By: | Reece Shearsmith, Steve Pemberton |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 8.2 / 10 (40) |
Comedy centred around a couple and their insufferable neighbours.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 3 |
Network: | BBC Two |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 0 / 10 (0) |
The lives of cousins Kerry and Kurtan in the rural village of Cotswolds.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | BBC Three |
Created By: | Charlie Cooper, Daisy May Cooper |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 0 / 10 (0) |
Made by Genndy Tartakovsky, this animated series tells the story of a great warrior displaced to the distant future by the evil shape-shifting wizard Aku. The world has become a bleak place under the rule of Aku, segregated into fantastic tribes and ruled
Genres: | Action & Adventure, Animation, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 5 |
Networks: | Cartoon Network, Adult Swim |
Created By: | Genndy Tartakovsky |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.8 / 10 (103) |
A New Jersey mom puts her relationship with her daughter to the test when she lands an internship at the same TV station where her daughter works.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | NBC |
Created By: | Tracey Wigfield |
Status: | Canceled |
User Score (votes): | 6.6 / 10 (18) |
Centers around comedian Rob Schneider's real life while living in Hollywood.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | Netflix |
Created By: | Rob Schneider |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 5.4 / 10 (9) |
The six-person crew of a derelict spaceship awakens from stasis in the farthest reaches of space. Their memories wiped clean, they have no recollection of who they are or how they got on board. The only clue to their identities is a cargo bay full of weap
Genres: | Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 3 |
Networks: | Syfy, Space |
Created By: | Paul Mullie, Joseph Mallozzi |
Status: | Canceled |
User Score (votes): | 6.4 / 10 (436) |
An action-packed adventure series following a fun-loving, hard living trio of interplanetary bounty hunters (a.k.a. Killjoys) sworn to remain impartial as they chase deadly warrants around the Quad, a system of planets on the brink of revolution.
Genres: | Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 5 |
Networks: | Syfy, Space |
Created By: | M. A. Lovretta |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 6.6 / 10 (206) |
Set in a near future where corporations have unlimited power, a young executive conceals his true identity to infiltrate a dangerous corporate world to save the woman he loves.
Genres: | Action & Adventure, Crime, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | Syfy |
Created By: | Àlex Pastor, David Pastor |
Status: | Canceled |
User Score (votes): | 6.1 / 10 (69) |
These stunning young mums-to-be have model good looks, glamorous lives and are never seen without their high heels, designer wear and latest accessory: their baby bump! The Yummy Mummies make elaborate plans for motherhood and have outrageous opinions of
Genre: | Reality |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | Seven Network |
Status: | Returning Series |
Origin Country: | AU |
User Score (votes): | 3 / 10 (1) |
Dark comedy about the eccentric members of the Flowers family. Maurice and Deborah are barely together but yet to divorce. They live with Maurice's batty mother and their maladjusted twin children.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Created By: | Will Sharpe |
Network: | Channel 4 |
Status: | Ended |
Origin Country: | GB |
User Score (votes): | 7.4 / 10 (24) |
When a young boy vanishes, a small town uncovers a mystery involving secret experiments, terrifying supernatural forces, and one strange little girl.
Publisher: | 21 Laps Entertainment |
Genres: | Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery |
Number Of Seasons: | 3 |
Network: | Netflix |
Created By: | Ross Duffer, Matt Duffer |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 8.4 / 10 (2017) |