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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) |
Thanks to his police officer father's efforts, Shawn Spencer spent his childhood developing a keen eye for detail (and a lasting dislike of his dad). Years later, Shawn's frequent tips to the police lead to him being falsely accused of a crime he solved.
Genres: | Drama, Comedy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery |
Number Of Seasons: | 8 |
Network: | USA Network |
Created By: | Steve Franks |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.7 / 10 (238) |
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) |
Experience our planet's natural beauty and examine how climate change impacts all living creatures in this ambitious documentary of spectacular scope.
Genre: | Documentary |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | Netflix |
Status: | Ended |
Origin Country: | GB |
User Score (votes): | 7.8 / 10 (8) |
The intertwined fates of the picture-perfect Richardson family and an enigmatic mother and daughter who upend their lives. Explore the weight of secrets, the nature of art and identity, the ferocious pull of motherhood – and the danger in believing that f
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | Hulu |
Status: | Returning Series |
Origin Country: | US |
User Score (votes): | 7.8 / 10 (10) |
It’s 1882 and the Gilded Age is in full swing when Marian Brook, a young orphaned daughter of a Southern general, moves in with her rigidly conventional aunts in New York City. With the help of Peggy Scott, an African-American woman masquerading as her ma
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Created By: | Julian Fellowes |
Network: | HBO |
Status: | Returning Series |
Origin Country: | US |
User Score (votes): | 7.77 / 10 (76) |
A fantasy comedy adventure series that melds live action comedians riffing on a stage in front of a live studio audience with animated forays into a fantasy adventure roleplaying game. The intrepid comedians, Dan Harmon, Jeff Davis, and Erin McGathy, alon
Genres: | Action & Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Networks: | SeeSo, VRV |
Created By: | Dan Harmon, Spencer Crittenden |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 8.5 / 10 (11) |
Adrian Monk was once a rising star with the San Francisco Police Department, legendary for using unconventional means to solve the department's most baffling cases. But after the tragic (and still unsolved) murder of his wife Trudy, he developed an extrem
Genres: | Drama, Crime, Comedy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery |
Number Of Seasons: | 8 |
Network: | USA Network |
Created By: | Andy Breckman |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.7 / 10 (254) |
Martin Moone is a young boy who relies on the help of his imaginary friend Sean to deal with the quandaries of life in a wacky small-town Irish family in the 1980's.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 3 |
Network: | Sky One |
Created By: | Chris O'Dowd |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.6 / 10 (18) |
John Doe tell the story of a man who wakes up naked on an island off the coast of Seattle, knowing everything in the world there is to know—except for who he is and how and why he ended up there.
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | FOX |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.5 / 10 (30) |
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) |
Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law features ex-superhero Harvey T. Birdman of Birdman and the Galaxy Trio as an attorney working for a law firm alongside other cartoon stars from 1960s and 1970s Hanna-Barbera cartoon series. Similarly, Harvey's clients are a
Genres: | Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Animation, Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 4 |
Network: | Adult Swim |
Created By: | Erik Richter, Michael Ouweleen |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.7 / 10 (33) |
Pinky and the Brain is an American animated television series. It was the first animated television series to be presented in Dolby Surround. The characters Pinky and the Brain first appeared in 1993 as a recurring segment on the show Animaniacs. From 19
Genres: | Animation, Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 4 |
Networks: | Nickelodeon, The WB, Toon Disney |
Created By: | Tom Ruegger, Steven Spielberg |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.7 / 10 (126) |
Return to the world of Thra, where three Gelfling discover the horrifying secret behind the Skeksis' power and set out to ignite the fires of rebellion and save their world.
Genres: | Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Kids, Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Created By: | Jim Henson |
Network: | Netflix |
Status: | Returning Series |
Origin Country: | GB, US |
User Score (votes): | 7.7 / 10 (31) |
The series is set in the fictional town of Neptune, California, and stars Kristen Bell as the title character, a student who progresses from high school to college while moonlighting as a private investigator under the tutelage of her detective father. In
Genres: | Drama, Comedy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery |
Number Of Seasons: | 3 |
Networks: | UPN, The CW |
Created By: | Rob Thomas |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.7 / 10 (196) |
Archie Bunker, a working class bigot, constantly squabbles with his family over the important issues of the day.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 9 |
Network: | CBS |
Created By: | Johnny Speight, Norman Lear |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.7 / 10 (75) |
Shortly after arriving in New York City, 22-year-old Tess lands a job at a celebrated downtown restaurant. Swiftly introduced to the world of drugs, alcohol, love, lust, dive bars, and fine dining, she learns to navigate the chaotically alluring, yet puni
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | Starz |
Created By: | Stephanie Danler |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.7 / 10 (6) |
The life of a 15 year-old high school student, whose angst-ridden journey through adolescence, friendship, parents, and life teaches her what it means to grow up.
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | ABC |
Created By: | Winnie Holzman |
Status: | Canceled |
User Score (votes): | 7.8 / 10 (56) |
Invader Zim is an American animated television series created by Jhonen Vasquez. The show premiered on Nickelodeon on March 30, 2001. The series involves an extraterrestrial named Zim who originates from a planet called Irk, and his ongoing mission to con
Genres: | Animation, Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | Nickelodeon |
Created By: | Jhonen Vasquez |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.8 / 10 (56) |
Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! is an American sketch comedy television series, created by and starring Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim, which premiered February 11, 2007 on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim comedy block and ran until May 2010. The progr
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 5 |
Network: | Adult Swim |
Created By: | Tim Heidecker, Eric Wareheim |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.7 / 10 (29) |
Narcissistic, brash, and self-destructive Jimmy thinks all relationships are doomed. Cynical, people-pleasing, and stubborn Gretchen knows that relationships aren't for her. So when they meet at a wedding, it's only natural that the two of them go home to
Genres: | Comedy, Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 5 |
Network: | FX |
Created By: | Stephen Falk |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.7 / 10 (85) |
Dr. Mary Harris, a single mother and emergency doctor by day, also moonlights as an underground angel of death - helping terminally ill patients who want to die and slip away on their own terms. So far Mary has managed to stay under the radar; but busines
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | Global TV |
Created By: | Tara Armstrong |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.6 / 10 (23) |
This high-concept action comedy follows Chuck Bartowski as the Buy More computer geek turned secret agent. When Chuck unwittingly downloads a database of government information and deadly fighting skills into his head, he becomes the CIA's most vital secr
Genres: | Action & Adventure, Comedy, Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 5 |
Network: | NBC |
Created By: | Josh Schwartz |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.6 / 10 (305) |
The Good Guys is an American action-comedy series about an old-school cop and a modern-day detective that premiered with a preview episode on Fox on May 19, 2010, and began airing regularly on June 7. The series stars Bradley Whitford as Dan Stark, a must
Genres: | Drama, Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | FOX |
Created By: | Matt Nix |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.8 / 10 (29) |
In a docuseries set at one of NCAA football's most fertile recruiting grounds, guys with red flags seek to prove their worth on the field and in class.
Genre: | Documentary |
Number Of Seasons: | 4 |
Created By: | Greg Whiteley |
Network: | Netflix |
Status: | Returning Series |
Origin Country: | US |
User Score (votes): | 7.7 / 10 (16) |
A true-crime satire that explores the aftermath of a costly high school prank that left twenty-seven faculty cars vandalized with phallic images.
Genres: | Comedy, Crime |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Created By: | Dan Perrault, Tony Yacenda |
Network: | Netflix |
Status: | Ended |
Origin Country: | US |
User Score (votes): | 7.7 / 10 (83) |
Life is hard on the Flemings' ranch in the Alberta foothills where abused or neglected horses find refuge with a kind, hard-working family. Debts abound and the bank is about to foreclose. Can they keep the ranch running?
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 12 |
Network: | CBC Television |
Created By: | Heather Conkie, Хезер Конки |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.6 / 10 (88) |
After many years spent at the “Cheers” bar, Frasier moves back home to Seattle to work as a radio psychiatrist after his policeman father gets shot in the hip on duty.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 11 |
Network: | NBC |
Created By: | David Angell, Peter Casey |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.8 / 10 (240) |
24 is an American television series produced for the Fox network and syndicated worldwide, starring Kiefer Sutherland as Counter Terrorist Unit agent Jack Bauer. Each 24-episode season covers 24 hours in the life of Bauer, using the real time method of na
Genres: | Drama, Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 9 |
Network: | FOX |
Created By: | Robert Cochran, Joel Surnow |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.7 / 10 (479) |
The Odd Couple is a television situation comedy broadcast from September 24, 1970 to March 7, 1975 on ABC. It stars Tony Randall as Felix Unger and Jack Klugman as Oscar Madison, and was the first of several developed by Garry Marshall for Paramount Telev
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 5 |
Network: | ABC |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.8 / 10 (25) |
The series initially follows Valerie Cherish (Kudrow), a veteran sitcom actress who has been out of the spotlight for more than a decade, as she attempts in 2005 to return to the industry that made her famous. Valerie lands a role on a new network sitcom,
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | HBO |
Created By: | Michael Patrick King, Lisa Kudrow |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.7 / 10 (11) |
Rocko's Modern Life is an American animated series created by Joe Murray. The show aired for four seasons between 1993 and 1996 on Nickelodeon. Rocko's Modern Life is based around the surreal, parodic adventures of an anthropomorphic, Australian-immigrant
Genres: | Animation, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 4 |
Network: | Nickelodeon |
Created By: | Joe Murray |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.7 / 10 (81) |
The crew of a Royal Naval expedition searching for the Arctic's treacherous Northwest Passage discovers instead a monstrous predator.
Genres: | Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | AMC |
Created By: | Edward Berger |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.8 / 10 (93) |
Courage the Cowardly Dog is an American comedy horror animated television series created by John R. Dilworth for Cartoon Network. Its central plot revolves around a somewhat anthropomorphic pink/purple dog named Courage who lives with his owners, Muriel a
Genres: | Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Animation, Comedy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery |
Number Of Seasons: | 4 |
Network: | Cartoon Network |
Created By: | John R. Dilworth |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.6 / 10 (117) |
The Critic is an American prime time animated series revolving around the life of New York film critic Jay Sherman, voiced by actor Jon Lovitz. It was created by writing partners Al Jean and Mike Reiss, who had previously worked as writers and showrunners
Genres: | Animation, Comedy, Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 3 |
Networks: | ABC, FOX, Comedy Central |
Created By: | Mike Reiss, Al Jean |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.7 / 10 (25) |
A young woman puts her life back together after suffering from a nervous breakdown.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Created By: | Aisling Bea |
Network: | Channel 4 |
Status: | Returning Series |
Origin Country: | GB |
User Score (votes): | 7.7 / 10 (7) |
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) |
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) |
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) |
A chilling and unflinching look at all sides of a complicated issue, focusing on an African-American Muslim who joins an Islamic sleeper terrorist cell in the United States while working undercover for the FBI.
Genres: | Crime, Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | Showtime |
Created By: | Ethan Reiff, Cyrus Voris |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.7 / 10 (26) |