Best TV Shows of 2017
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Seven noble families fight for control of the mythical land of Westeros. Friction between the houses leads to full-scale war. All while a very ancient evil awakens in the farthest north. Amidst the war, a neglected military order of misfits, the Night's W
Publisher: | Home Box Office, Generator Entertainment, Television 360, Bighead Littlehead, Revolution Sun Studios |
Genres: | Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 8 |
Network: | HBO |
Created By: | David Benioff, D. B. Weiss |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 8.2 / 10 (5147) |
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Chicagoan Frank Gallagher is the proud single dad of six smart, industrious, independent kids, who without him would be... perhaps better off. When Frank's not at the bar spending what little money they have, he's passed out on the floor. But the kids hav
Publisher: | John Wells Productions, Warner Bros. Television, Showtime Networks, Bonanza Productions |
Genres: | Drama, Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 9 |
Network: | Showtime |
Created By: | Paul Abbott |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.9 / 10 (758) |
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The Affair explores the emotional effects of an extramarital relationship between Noah Solloway and Alison Lockhart after the two meet in the resort town of Montauk in Long Island. Noah is a New York City schoolteacher with one novel published (book entit
Publisher: | ShowTime |
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 4 |
Network: | Showtime |
Created By: | Dominic West, Ruth Wilson, Joshua Jackson, Maura Tierney, Julia Goldani Telles |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 6.1 / 10 (151) |
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Follows the lives and families of three adults living and growing up in the United States of America in present and past times. As their paths cross and their life stories intertwine in curious ways, we find that several of them share the same birthday -
Publisher: | 20th Century Fox Television, Rhode Island Ave. Productions |
Genres: | Comedy, Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 3 |
Network: | NBC |
Created By: | Dan Fogelman |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 8.1 / 10 (300) |
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After a teenage girl's perplexing suicide, a classmate receives a series of tapes that unravel the mystery of her tragic choice.
Publisher: | Paramount Television, Anonymous Content |
Genres: | Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | Netflix |
Created By: | Brian Yorkey, Diana Son |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.2 / 10 (682) |
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Sterling Archer is the world's most daunting spy. He works for ISIS, a spy agency run by his mother. In between dealing with his boss and his co-workers - one of whom is his ex-girlfriend - Archer manages to annoy or seduce everyone that crosses his path.
Publisher: | Radical Axis, FX Productions, Floyd County Productions |
Genres: | Animation, Drama, Comedy, Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 9 |
Networks: | FX, FXX |
Created By: | Adam Reed |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.8 / 10 (474) |
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Will Truman and Grace Adler are best friends living in New York, and when Grace's engagement falls apart, she moves in with Will. Together, along with their friends, they go through the trials of dating, sex, relationships and their careers, butting heads
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 10 |
Network: | NBC |
Created By: | Max Mutchnick, David Kohan |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 6.7 / 10 (141) |
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Vikings follows the adventures of Ragnar Lothbrok, the greatest hero of his age. The series tells the sagas of Ragnar's band of Viking brothers and his family, as he rises to become King of the Viking tribes. As well as being a fearless warrior, Ragnar em
Genres: | Drama, Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 5 |
Network: | History |
Created By: | Michael Hirst |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.5 / 10 (1460) |
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The story of two vampire brothers obsessed with the same girl, who bears a striking resemblance to the beautiful but ruthless vampire they knew and loved in 1864.
Genres: | Drama, Horror, Romance, Thriller, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 8 |
Network: | The CW |
Created By: | Kevin Williamson, Julie Plec |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 6.9 / 10 (627) |
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The Pritchett-Dunphy-Tucker clan is a wonderfully large and blended family. They give us an honest and often hilarious look into the sometimes warm, sometimes twisted, embrace of the modern family.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 10 |
Network: | ABC |
Created By: | Steven Levitan, Christopher Lloyd |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.3 / 10 (750) |
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Raymond "Red" Reddington, one of the FBI's most wanted fugitives, surrenders in person at FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C. He claims that he and the FBI have the same interests: bringing down dangerous criminals and terrorists. In the last two decades
Genres: | Drama, Crime, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery |
Number Of Seasons: | 6 |
Network: | NBC |
Created By: | Jon Bokenkamp |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.1 / 10 (836) |
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A contemporary British re-working of The Twilight Zone with stories that tap into the collective unease about our modern world. Over the last ten years, technology has transformed almost every aspect of our lives before we've had time to stop and questi
Genres: | Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 4 |
Networks: | Channel 4, Netflix |
Created By: | Charlie Brooker |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 8.2 / 10 (1109) |
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Due to a political conspiracy, an innocent man is sent to death row and his only hope is his brother, who makes it his mission to deliberately get himself sent to the same prison in order to break the both of them out, from the inside out.
Genres: | Crime, Drama, Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 5 |
Network: | FOX |
Created By: | Paul Scheuring |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.5 / 10 (1031) |
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While running from a drug deal gone bad, Mike Ross, a brilliant young college-dropout, slips into a job interview with one of New York City's best legal closers, Harvey Specter. Tired of cookie-cutter law school grads, Harvey takes a gamble by hiring Mike
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 8 |
Network: | USA Network |
Created By: | Aaron Korsh |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.5 / 10 (806) |
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A close-knit anthology series dealing with stories involving malice, violence and murder based in and around Minnesota.
Genres: | Crime, Drama, Thriller |
Number Of Seasons: | 3 |
Network: | FX |
Created By: | Noah Hawley |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 8.3 / 10 (919) |
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A what-in-the-living-hell-is-wrong-with-this-family comedy created by comic super-couple Jason Jones & Samantha Bee and inspired by their own experiences with family trips. Unfiltered dad Nate hits the road with wife Robin and kids Delilah and Jared.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 3 |
Network: | TBS |
Created By: | Samantha Bee, Jason Jones |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.5 / 10 (47) |
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Aan irreverent and outrageous take on true family love‐and dysfunction. Newly sober single mom Christy struggles to raise two children in a world full of temptations and pitfalls. Testing her sobriety is her formerly estranged mother, now back in Christy'
Genres: | Comedy, Family, Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 6 |
Network: | CBS |
Created By: | Eddie Gorodetsky, Gemma Baker, Chuck Lorre |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 6.1 / 10 (163) |
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Hosted by rock legend Dave Navarro and judged by icons of the tattoo world, Chris Núñez and Oliver Peck, a group of the country's most creative and skilled tattoo artists compete for a hundred thousand dollars and the title of Ink Master. The stakes could
Genre: | Reality |
Number Of Seasons: | 11 |
Networks: | Spike, Paramount Network |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.2 / 10 (21) |
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What did the world look like as it was transforming into the horrifying apocalypse depicted in "The Walking Dead"? This spin-off set in Los Angeles, following new characters as they face the beginning of the end of the world, will answer that question.
Genres: | Drama, Horror |
Number Of Seasons: | 4 |
Network: | AMC |
Created By: | Dave Erickson, Robert Kirkman |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 6.4 / 10 (860) |
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The everyday lives of working-class residents of Albert Square, a traditional Victorian square of terrace houses surrounding a park in the East End of London's Walford borough.
Genres: | Soap, Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 35 |
Network: | BBC One |
Created By: | Julia Smith, Tony Holland |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 3.7 / 10 (142) |
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Deep down in the Pacific Ocean in the subterranean city of Bikini Bottom lives a square yellow sponge named SpongeBob SquarePants. SpongeBob lives in a pineapple with his pet snail, Gary, loves his job as a fry cook at the Krusty Krab, and has a knack for
Genres: | Animation, Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 12 |
Networks: | Nickelodeon, TV2, RTL+ (HU) |
Created By: | Stephen Hillenburg |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 6.9 / 10 (255) |
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A con man on the run from a vicious gangster takes cover from his past by assuming the identity of his prison cellmate, Pete, “reuniting” with Pete’s estranged family, a colorful, dysfunctional group that threatens to drag him into a world just as dangero
Genres: | Drama, Crime |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | Amazon |
Created By: | David Shore, Bryan Cranston |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 8 / 10 (92) |
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In a land controlled by feudal barons, a great warrior and a young boy embark on a journey across a dangerous land to find enlightenment. A genre-bending martial arts series very loosely based on the classic Chinese tale Journey to the West.
Genre: | Action & Adventure |
Number Of Seasons: | 3 |
Network: | AMC |
Created By: | Miles Millar, Alfred Gough |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.4 / 10 (192) |
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A raw and honest comedic look at a single, 20-something from Southie whose desires for relationships, sex, and a career collide with the realities of young, single motherhood.
Genres: | Comedy, Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | Showtime |
Created By: | Frankie Shaw |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 6.7 / 10 (16) |
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Bourdain travels across the globe to uncover little-known areas of the world and celebrate diverse cultures by exploring food and dining rituals. Known for his curiosity, candor, and acerbic wit, Bourdain takes viewers off the beaten path of tourist desti
Genre: | Documentary |
Number Of Seasons: | 12 |
Network: | CNN |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.1 / 10 (32) |
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When a woman is rescued from a doomsday cult and lands in New York City, she must navigate a world she didn’t think even existed anymore.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 4 |
Network: | Netflix |
Created By: | Tina Fey, Robert Carlock |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.2 / 10 (189) |
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A preacher sets out on a mission to make the almighty himself confess his sin of abandoning the world. With his best friend Cassidy, an alcoholic Irish vampire, his love Tulip, a red blooded gun towing Texan, and the power of genesis, an unholy child born
Genres: | Comedy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 3 |
Network: | AMC |
Created By: | Sam Catlin, Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.3 / 10 (410) |
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A former Marine out to punish the criminals responsible for his family's murder finds himself ensnared in a military conspiracy.
Genres: | Action & Adventure, Crime, Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | Netflix |
Created By: | Steve Lightfoot |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 8 / 10 (352) |
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Bruce Campbell reprises his role as Ash Williams, an aging lothario and chainsaw-handed monster hunter who’s spent the last three decades avoiding maturity, and the terrors of the Evil Dead. But when a Deadite plague threatens to destroy all of mankind, h
Genres: | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 3 |
Network: | Starz |
Created By: | Sam Raimi |
Status: | Canceled |
User Score (votes): | 7.8 / 10 (356) |
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The story of two teenage girls who discover they were accidentally switched as newborns in the hospital. Bay Kennish grew up in a wealthy family with two parents and a brother, while Daphne Vasquez, who lost her hearing at an early age due to a case of me
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 5 |
Networks: | ABC Family, Freeform |
Created By: | Lizzy Weiss |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 6.2 / 10 (58) |
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When Clary Fray's mother has disappeared, Clary joins a band of Shadowhunters; demon killing hunters, and gets caught up in a plan to save the world.
Genres: | Action & Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 3 |
Network: | Freeform |
Created By: | Ed Decter |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 6.4 / 10 (254) |
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Baby Daddy follows Ben, a young man in his early 20s living the life of a bachelor in New York City with his buddy, Tucker, and his brother, Danny. Their lives are turned upside down when they come home one day to find a baby girl left on the doorstep by
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 6 |
Networks: | ABC Family, Freeform |
Created By: | Dan Berendsen |
Status: | Canceled |
User Score (votes): | 6 / 10 (69) |
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Ordinary college student Paige gets her big break after auditioning for the starring role in a Hollywood blockbuster. She must now navigate her new star-studded life and the highs and lows that come with being the new It Girl in town as well as balancing
Genres: | Soap, Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | Freeform |
Created By: | Rebecca Serle, I. Marlene King |
Status: | Canceled |
User Score (votes): | 5.5 / 10 (28) |
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Based on Philip K. Dick's award-winning novel, The Man in the High Castle explores what it would be like if the Allied Powers had lost WWII, and Japan and Germany ruled the United States.
Genres: | Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 3 |
Network: | Amazon |
Created By: | Ridley Scott |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.6 / 10 (326) |
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A look into American politics, revolving around former Senator Selina Meyer who finds being Vice President of the United States is nothing like she expected and everything everyone ever warned her about.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 6 |
Network: | HBO |
Created By: | Armando Iannucci |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.3 / 10 (156) |
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Follows the awkward experiences and racy tribulations of a modern-day African-American woman.
Genres: | Comedy, Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 3 |
Network: | HBO |
Created By: | Issa Rae, Larry Wilmore |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.1 / 10 (42) |
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The early life of child genius Sheldon Cooper, later seen in The Big Bang Theory.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | CBS |
Created By: | Chuck Lorre, Steven Molaro |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 6.8 / 10 (128) |
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Nola Darling struggles to define herself and divide her time among her friends, job and three lovers. A new take on Spike Lee's film, in 10 episodes.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | Netflix |
Created By: | Spike Lee |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 6.9 / 10 (11) |
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A comedy-variety series showcasing young musicians, singers, dancers and every form of wunderkind in the country. Harvey goes toe-to-toe with them in conversations and interviews, with hilarious results.
Number Of Seasons: | 3 |
Network: | NBC |
Genre: | Reality |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 8.1 / 10 (9) |
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A single-camera half-hour comedy based on what Maria Bamford has accepted to be "her life." It's the sometimes surreal story of a woman who loses — and then finds — her s**t.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | Netflix |
Created By: | Pam Brady, Mitchell Hurwitz |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 5.8 / 10 (18) |