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After an au pair’s tragic death, Henry Wingrave hires a young American nanny to care for his orphaned niece and nephew who reside at Bly Manor with the estate’s chef Owen, groundskeeper Jamie and housekeeper, Mrs. Grose. But all is not as it seems at the
Genres: | Mystery, Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Created By: | Mike Flanagan |
Network: | Netflix |
Status: | Returning Series |
Origin Country: | US |
User Score (votes): | 7.6 / 10 (51) |
Follow four college roommates as they arrive at New England’s prestigious Essex College. A bundle of contradictions and hormones, these girls are equal parts lovable and infuriating as they live out their new, free lives on campus.
Genres: | Comedy, Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Created By: | Mindy Kaling, Justin Noble |
Network: | HBO Max |
Status: | Returning Series |
Origin Country: | US |
User Score (votes): | 7.6 / 10 (39) |
A young surgeon with Savant syndrome is recruited into the surgical unit of a prestigious hospital. The question will arise: can a person who doesn't have the ability to relate to people actually save their lives?
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | ABC |
Created By: | David Shore |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.9 / 10 (229) |
The Andy Griffith Show is an American sitcom first televised on CBS between October 3, 1960 and April 1, 1968. Andy Griffith portrays the widowed sheriff of the fictional small community of Mayberry, North Carolina. His life is complicated by an inept, bu
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 8 |
Network: | CBS |
Created By: | Sheldon Leonard, Aaron Ruben |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.6 / 10 (50) |
The Pink Panther Show is a showcase of cartoon shorts produced by David H. DePatie and Friz Freleng between 1969 and 1979, starring the animated Pink Panther character from the opening credits of the live-action films. The series was produced by Mirisch F
Genres: | Animation, Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 4 |
Networks: | ABC, NBC |
Created By: | David DePatie, Friz Freleng |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.4 / 10 (73) |
In a parallel present where the latest must-have gadget for any busy family is a 'Synth' - a highly-developed robotic servant that's so similar to a real human it's transforming the way we live.
Genres: | Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery |
Number Of Seasons: | 3 |
Network: | Channel 4 |
Created By: | Jonathan Brackley, Sam Vincent |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.5 / 10 (254) |
A drama set in the world of horse racing focusing on lives of owners, jockeys, trainers and gamblers who are all tied to the same horse track.
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | HBO |
Created By: | David Milch |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.4 / 10 (20) |
Los Angeles. 1983. A storm is coming and it's name is crack. Set against the infancy of the crack cocaine epidemic and its ultimate radical impact on the culture as we know it, the story follows numerous characters on a violent collision course.
Genres: | Crime, Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | FX |
Created By: | John Singleton, Eric Amadio, Dave Andron |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.5 / 10 (54) |
After saving the life of the President, two secret service agents - Myka Bering and Pete Lattimer - find themselves assigned to the top secret Warehouse 13. The Warehouse is a massive, top secret facility that houses dangerous and fantastical objects. Tog
Genres: | Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Comedy, Action & Adventure |
Number Of Seasons: | 5 |
Network: | Syfy |
Created By: | Jane Espenson, D. Brent Mote |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.4 / 10 (222) |
A behind-the-scenes look at the lives of the people who help America wake up in the morning, exploring the unique challenges faced by the men and women who carry out this daily televised ritual.
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Created By: | Kerry Ehrin, Jay Carson |
Network: | Apple TV+ |
Status: | Returning Series |
Origin Country: | US |
User Score (votes): | 7.5 / 10 (23) |
A New York City grad student moonlighting as a dominatrix enlists her gay BFF from high school to be her assistant.
Genres: | Drama, Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Created By: | Rightor Doyle |
Network: | Netflix |
Status: | Returning Series |
Origin Country: | US |
User Score (votes): | 7.5 / 10 (153) |
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) |
Married... with Children is an American sitcom that aired for 11 seasons. It featured a dysfunctional family living in a fictional Chicago, Illinois, suburb. The show, notable for being the first prime-time television series to air on Fox, ran from April
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 11 |
Network: | FOX |
Created By: | Michael G. Moye, Ron Leavitt |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.5 / 10 (325) |
In 1977 New York City, the talented and soulful youth of the South Bronx chase dreams and breakneck beats to transform music history.
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | Netflix |
Created By: | Baz Luhrmann |
Status: | Canceled |
User Score (votes): | 7.5 / 10 (61) |
A group of heroic firefighters at Seattle Fire Station 19—from captain to newest recruit—risk their lives and hearts both in the line of duty and off the clock. These brave men and women are like family, literally and figuratively, and together they put t
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | ABC |
Created By: | Stacy McKee |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.3 / 10 (21) |
Salute Your Shorts is an American comedy television series that aired on Nickelodeon from 1991 to 1992 and in reruns until early 1999. It was based on the 1986 book, Salute Your Shorts: Life at Summer Camp by Steve Slavkin. The series, filmed at Franklin
Genres: | Comedy, Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | Nickelodeon |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.5 / 10 (6) |
Hell on Wheels tells the epic story of post-Civil War America, focusing on Cullen Bohannon, a Confederate soldier who sets out to exact revenge on the Union soldiers who killed his wife. His journey takes him west to Hell on Wheels, a dangerous, raucous,
Genres: | Action & Adventure, Drama, Western |
Number Of Seasons: | 5 |
Network: | AMC |
Created By: | Tony Gayton, Joe Gayton |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.5 / 10 (180) |
A comedic talk show from an alternate reality featuring unstable hosts, a variety of celebrities—both real and fake—and unusual studio action.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 4 |
Network: | Adult Swim |
Created By: | Eric André |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.4 / 10 (25) |
The sleep Pacific Northwest town of Eureka is hiding a mysterious secret. The government has been relocating the world's geniuses and their families to this rustic town for years where innovation and chaos have lived hand in hand. U.S. Marshal Jack Carter
Genres: | Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Comedy, Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 5 |
Network: | Syfy |
Created By: | Andrew Cosby, Jaime Paglia |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.5 / 10 (231) |
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) |
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) |
Number Of Seasons: | 9 |
Network: | CBS |
Genre: | Comedy |
Created By: | Carter Bays, Craig Thomas |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.5 / 10 (978) |
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) |
Law & Order is an American police procedural and legal drama television series, created by Dick Wolf and part of the Law & Order franchise. It originally aired on NBC and, in syndication, on various cable networks. Law & Order premiered on September 13, 1
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 20 |
Network: | NBC |
Created By: | Dick Wolf |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.4 / 10 (167) |
Patrick Jane, a former celebrity psychic medium, uses his razor sharp skills of observation and expertise at "reading" people to solve serious crimes with the California Bureau of Investigation.
Genres: | Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery |
Number Of Seasons: | 7 |
Network: | CBS |
Created By: | Bruno Heller |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.5 / 10 (393) |
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 gifted young teen tries to survive life with his dimwitted, dysfunctional family.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 7 |
Network: | FOX |
Created By: | Linwood Boomer |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.6 / 10 (323) |
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) |
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) |
Kenan & Kel is an American teen comedy sitcom produced by Kevin Kopelow and Heath Seifert that originally aired on Nickelodeon from July 1996 to July 2000. The show starred friends and then-All That cast members Kenan Thompson and Kel Mitchell. Sixty-five
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 4 |
Network: | Nickelodeon |
Created By: | Kim Bass |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.6 / 10 (28) |
Welcome Back, Kotter is an American television sitcom starring Gabe Kaplan and featuring a young John Travolta. Videotaped in front of a live studio audience, it originally aired on the ABC network from September 9, 1975, to June 8, 1979.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 4 |
Created By: | Alan Sacks, Gabe Kaplan |
Network: | ABC |
Status: | Ended |
Origin Country: | US |
User Score (votes): | 7.5 / 10 (19) |
In a world where everyone develops a power on their 18th birthday, Jen didn't. She's turning 25 and is still waiting to get hers. Adrift in a big, confusing world and armed with nothing but a bit of hope and a lot of desperation, Jen begins her journey to
Genres: | Comedy, Action & Adventure |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Created By: | Emma Moran |
Network: | Disney+ |
Status: | Returning Series |
Origin Country: | GB |
User Score (votes): | 7.418 / 10 (49) |
A sexy, suspense-driven legal thriller about a group of ambitious law students and their brilliant, mysterious criminal defense professor. They become entangled in a murder plot and will shake the entire university and change the course of their lives.
Genres: | Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery |
Number Of Seasons: | 5 |
Network: | ABC |
Created By: | Peter Nowalk |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.4 / 10 (368) |
Bored and unhappy as the Lord of Hell, Lucifer Morningstar abandoned his throne and retired to Los Angeles, where he has teamed up with LAPD detective Chloe Decker to take down criminals. But the longer he's away from the underworld, the greater the threa
Genres: | Crime, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 3 |
Networks: | FOX, Netflix |
Created By: | Tom Kapinos |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.3 / 10 (860) |
A slightly unhinged former Navy SEAL lands a job as a police officer in Los Angeles where he's partnered with a veteran detective trying to keep maintain a low stress level in his life.
Genres: | Crime, Drama, Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 3 |
Network: | FOX |
Created By: | Matthew Miller |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.3 / 10 (308) |
Happy Days is an American television sitcom that aired first-run from January 15, 1974 to September 24, 1984 on ABC. Created by Garry Marshall, the series presents an idealized vision of life in the mid-1950s to mid-1960s United States. The series was pr
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 11 |
Network: | ABC |
Created By: | Garry Marshall |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.4 / 10 (69) |
A dramatic thriller that explores the demons lurking beneath the surface of a contemporary American family. The Rayburns are hard-working pillars of their Florida Keys community. But when the black sheep son comes home for the 45th anniversary of his pare
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 3 |
Network: | Netflix |
Created By: | Glenn Kessler, Todd A. Kessler, Daniel Zelman |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.5 / 10 (127) |
A biography series based on the life of Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald, the brilliant, beautiful and talented Southern Belle who becomes the original flapper and icon of the wild, flamboyant Jazz Age in the 20s. Z starts before Zelda Fitzgerald meets the unpublis
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | Amazon |
Created By: | Dawn Prestwich, Nicole Yorkin |
Status: | Canceled |
User Score (votes): | 7.5 / 10 (9) |
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) |
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) |