Best TV Shows of 2017
Best TV Shows of 2017
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A war veteran turned private detective operates out of a tiny office in London’s Denmark Street. Although wounded both physically and psychologically, his unique insight and background as a military police investigator prove crucial in solving complex cri
Genres: | Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery |
Number Of Seasons: | 3 |
Network: | BBC One |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 6.4 / 10 (42) |
Reserved history teacher Fran has long had a strained relationship with her eccentric, free-spirit mother Mim. When Mim announces that she is dying Fran feels obliged to accompany her on a road trip ticking off items on her bucket list.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | BBC Four |
Created By: | Frog Stone |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 0 / 10 (0) |
Cult Scottish comedy about the lives of two OAP's (Old Age Pensioners) Jack and Victor and their views on how it used to be in the old days and how bad it is now in the fictional town of Craiglang.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 8 |
Network: | BBC One |
Created By: | Ford Kiernan, Greg Hemphill |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 8.6 / 10 (13) |
Each week Successville's loveable detective, D.I Sleet, enlists the help of a celebrity sidekick to solve the latest high-profile murder in this improvised comedy murder mystery series.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 3 |
Network: | BBC Three |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 5.6 / 10 (7) |
A comedy about a mother at a milestone in her life. We follow her and her family through a year of new beginnings as she rebuilds her life following the death of her husband. Mum is joined by her supportive life-long friend Michael. Through a year of new
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | BBC Two |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 5.6 / 10 (7) |
Mrs Brown opens the doors to her house for a Saturday night entertainment show in which she and the family are joined by celebrity guests.
Genres: | Comedy, Talk |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | BBC One |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 6.5 / 10 (2) |
The adventures of a young boy named Clarence, who is optimistic about everything, and his two best friends Jeff and Sumo.
Genres: | Animation, Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 3 |
Network: | Cartoon Network |
Created By: | Skyler Page |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.5 / 10 (19) |
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) |
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) |
Welcome to a place where being normal is really quite strange. In a remote Texas town no one is who they seem. From vampires and witches to psychics and hit men, Midnight is a mysterious safe haven for those who are different. As the town members fight of
Genres: | Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | NBC |
Created By: | Monica Breen |
Status: | Returning Series, Canceled |
User Score (votes): | 6.7 / 10 (88) |
Based on the true story of Grace Marks, a housemaid and immigrant from Ireland who was imprisoned in 1843, perhaps wrongly, for the murder of her employer Thomas Kinnear. Grace claims to have no memory of the murder yet the facts are irrefutable. A decade
Genres: | Crime, Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Created By: | Margaret Atwood |
Network: | CBC Television |
Status: | Ended |
Origin Country: | CA |
User Score (votes): | 7.5 / 10 (66) |
Step inside the minds of the most innovative designers in a variety of disciplines and learn how design impacts every aspect of life.
Genre: | Documentary |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | Netflix |
Status: | Returning Series |
Origin Country: | US |
User Score (votes): | 8.3 / 10 (21) |
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 |
Created By: | Aaron Korsh |
Network: | USA Network |
Status: | Returning Series |
Origin Country: | US |
User Score (votes): | 7.5 / 10 (859) |
A dark odyssey about the dawn of artificial consciousness and the evolution of sin. Set at the intersection of the near future and the reimagined past, it explores a world in which every human appetite, no matter how noble or depraved, can be indulged.
Publisher: | Warner Bros. Television, Jerry Weintraub Productions |
Genres: | Western, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | HBO |
Created By: | Jonathan Nolan, Lisa Joy |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 8.1 / 10 (1704) |
One gunshot, one death, one moment out of time that irrevocably links eight minds in disparate parts of the world, putting them in each other's lives, each other's secrets, and in terrible danger. Ordinary people suddenly reborn as "Sensates."
Publisher: | Anarchos Productions, Georgeville Television, Studio JMS, Unpronounceable Productions |
Genres: | Drama, Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | Netflix |
Created By: | Lilly Wachowski, Lana Wachowski, J. Michael Straczynski |
Status: | Canceled |
User Score (votes): | 7.7 / 10 (463) |
Sheriff's deputy Rick Grimes awakens from a coma to find a post-apocalyptic world dominated by flesh-eating zombies. He sets out to find his family and encounters many other survivors along the way.
Publisher: | Darkwoods Productions, American Movie Classics, Valhalla Motion Pictures, AMC Studios, Circle of Confusion |
Genres: | Drama, Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 9 |
Network: | AMC |
Created By: | Frank Darabont |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.3 / 10 (3892) |
Set in a dystopian future, a woman is forced to live as a concubine under a fundamentalist theocratic dictatorship. A TV adaptation of Margaret Atwood's novel.
Publisher: | MGM Television |
Genres: | Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | Hulu |
Created By: | Bruce Miller |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.8 / 10 (383) |
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) |
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) |
An agent in the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit develops profiling techniques as he pursues notorious serial killers and rapists.
Publisher: | Denver and Delilah Productions |
Genres: | Drama, Crime |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | Netflix |
Created By: | Joe Penhall |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.4 / 10 (497) |
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) |
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) |
Holden wakes up from a coma after 12 years and discovers new abilities that propel him into the middle of a dangerous conspiracy.
Genres: | Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | Freeform |
Created By: | Adam Nussdorf |
Status: | Canceled |
User Score (votes): | 5.6 / 10 (73) |
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) |