Best TV Shows of 2017
Best TV Shows of 2017
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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) |
Subversive, darkly comedic drama Big Little Lies tells the tale of three mothers of first graders whose apparently perfect lives unravel to the point of murder.
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | HBO |
Created By: | David E. Kelley |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.9 / 10 (293) |
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) |
Teenage friends find their lives upended by the wonders and horrors of puberty in this edgy comedy from real-life pals Nick Kroll and Andrew Goldberg.
Genres: | Animation, Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | Netflix |
Created By: | Jennifer Flackett, Mark Levin, Andy Goldberg, Nick Kroll |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.5 / 10 (82) |
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) |
Follow Sarah Silverman as she looks to connect with people who may not agree with her personal opinions through honesty, humor, genuine interest in others and not taking herself too seriously. She feels that now more than ever it's crucial to connect with
Genres: | Talk, Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | Hulu |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7 / 10 (5) |
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) |
Pot activist Ruth Whitefeather Feldman runs a medical marijuana dispensary while encouraging her loyal patients to chill out and enjoy the high life.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | Netflix |
Created By: | Chuck Lorre, David Javerbaum |
Status: | Canceled |
User Score (votes): | 5.2 / 10 (38) |
An anthology series set in a single hotel room, where every guest who comes to stay reveals a unique set of circumstances and quirks.
Genres: | Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | HBO |
Created By: | Jay Duplass, Mark Duplass |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 5.5 / 10 (39) |
Josh Futturman, a janitor by day/world-ranked gamer by night, is tasked with preventing the extinction of humanity after mysterious visitors from the future proclaim him the key to defeating the imminent super-race invasion.
Genres: | Comedy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | Hulu |
Created By: | Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.5 / 10 (60) |
Rebellious Mickey and good-natured Gus navigate the thrills and agonies of modern relationships.
Genres: | Comedy, Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 3 |
Network: | Netflix |
Created By: | Paul Rust, Lesley Arfin, Judd Apatow |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.5 / 10 (94) |
Sophia is a rebellious, broke anarchist who refuses to grow up. She stumbles upon her passion of selling vintage clothes online and becomes an unlikely businesswoman. As she builds her retail fashion empire, she realizes the value and the difficulty of be
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | Netflix |
Created By: | Kay Cannon |
Status: | Canceled |
User Score (votes): | 6.9 / 10 (35) |
A missing FBI agent reappears six years after being declared dead.
Genres: | Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | AXN |
Created By: | Matthew Cirulnick, Gaia Violo |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.4 / 10 (42) |
Cam Calloway is about to find out the price he'll pay for stardom, love and loyalty. A basketball star in his early 20s, Calloway's life changes after he signs a multimillion-dollar contract with a team in Atlanta. He arrives in Georgia bright-eyed and ea
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 4 |
Network: | Starz |
Created By: | Mike O'Malley |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7 / 10 (14) |
Based on Michael Connelly's best-selling novels, these are the stories of relentless LAPD homicide Detective Harry Bosch who pursues justice at all costs. But behind his tireless momentum is a man who is haunted by his past and struggles to remain loyal t
Genres: | Drama, Crime, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery |
Number Of Seasons: | 4 |
Network: | Amazon |
Created By: | Eric Overmyer |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.9 / 10 (137) |
A morally corrupt judge suffers a breakdown and believes that God is speaking directly to him, compelling him onto a path of vigilante justice.
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | Amazon |
Created By: | Ben Watkins |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 6.9 / 10 (53) |
From F. Scott Fitzgerald's last work, The Last Tycoon follows Monroe Stahr, Hollywood's Golden Boy as he battles father figure and boss Pat Brady for the soul of their studio. In a world darkened by the Depression and the growing influence of Hitler's Ger
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | Amazon |
Created By: | Billy Ray |
Status: | Canceled |
User Score (votes): | 7.6 / 10 (14) |
A British husband-and-wife comedy writing team travel to Hollywood to remake their successful British TV series, with disastrous results.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 5 |
Networks: | Showtime, BBC Two |
Created By: | David Crane, Jeffrey Klarik |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.8 / 10 (61) |
Obstetrician/gynecologist Mindy Lahiri tries to balance her personal and professional life, surrounded by quirky co-workers in a small medical practice in New York City.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 6 |
Networks: | FOX, Hulu |
Created By: | Mindy Kaling |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 5.8 / 10 (66) |
Bob Lee Swagger is an expert marksman living in exile who is coaxed back into action after learning of a plot to kill the president. Based on the best-selling Bob Lee Swagger novel by Stephen Hunter, Point of Impact, and the 2007 Paramount film starring M
Genre: | Action & Adventure |
Number Of Seasons: | 3 |
Network: | USA Network |
Created By: | John Hlavin |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 6.6 / 10 (230) |
Seth Davenport is masquerading as a small town Iowa preacher in the hopes of starting a full-blown insurrection against the status quo, unaware that an industrialist tycoon has hired a professional strikebreaker to stop the uprising by any means necessary
Genre: | Western |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | USA Network |
Created By: | Tony Tost |
Status: | Canceled |
User Score (votes): | 7.3 / 10 (26) |
The story of military hero Eric Carter’s return to the U.S. and the trouble that follows him back – compelling him to ask CTU for help in saving his life, and stopping what potentially could be one of the largest-scale terror attacks on American soil.
Genres: | Action & Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | FOX |
Created By: | Evan Katz, Manny Coto, atom100 |
Status: | Canceled |
User Score (votes): | 5.5 / 10 (86) |
After finding out he has an STI, Dylan must get back in touch with every girl he has ever had sex with to let them know the bad news.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 3 |
Networks: | Channel 4, Netflix |
Created By: | Tom Edge |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.3 / 10 (32) |
Still Open All Hours is a sitcom set in a grocer's shop. It is a sequel to the series Open All Hours, written by original series writer Roy Clarke and featuring several of the permanent cast members of the original series
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 5 |
Network: | BBC One |
Created By: | Roy Clarke |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 5.4 / 10 (16) |
The life of Gumball Watterson, a 12-year old cat who attends middle school in Elmore. Accompanied by his pet, adoptive brother, and best friend Darwin Watterson, he frequently finds himself involved in various shenanigans around the city, during which he
Genres: | Family, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Animation, Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 6 |
Network: | Cartoon Network |
Created By: | Ben Bocquelet |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.9 / 10 (61) |
A young boy takes his mother's place in a group of gemstone-based beings, and must learn to control his powers.
Genres: | Animation, Comedy, Action & Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 5 |
Network: | Cartoon Network |
Created By: | Rebecca Sugar |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.2 / 10 (111) |
Three years after the zombie virus has gutted the country, a team of everyday heroes must transport the only known survivor of the plague from New York to California, where the last functioning viral lab waits for his blood.
Genres: | Action & Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 5 |
Network: | Syfy |
Created By: | Karl Schaefer, Craig Engler |
Status: | Returning Series, Ended |
User Score (votes): | 6.4 / 10 (255) |