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Set in the charming town of Stars Hollow, Connecticut, the series follows the captivating lives of Lorelai and Rory Gilmore, a mother/daughter pair who have a relationship most people only dream of.
Genres: | Comedy, Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 7 |
Networks: | The WB, The CW |
Created By: | Amy Sherman-Palladino |
Status: | Canceled |
User Score (votes): | 7.5 / 10 (192) |
Based on the novel by Pamela Redmond Satran, "Younger" follows 40-year old Liza, a suddenly single mother who tries to get back into the working world, only to find it’s nearly impossible to start at the bottom at her age. When a chance encounter with a y
Genres: | Drama, Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 5 |
Networks: | TV Land, Paramount Network |
Created By: | Darren Star |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 5.7 / 10 (58) |
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 the tradition of Anthony Bourdain's "Kitchen Confidential" and Gelsey Kirkland's "Dancing on my Grave" comes an insider’s look into the secret world of classical musicians. From her debut recital at Carnegie Recital Hall to the Broadway pits of "Les M
Genres: | Comedy, Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 4 |
Network: | Amazon |
Created By: | Roman Coppola, Jason Schwartzman, Alex Timbers |
Status: | Canceled |
User Score (votes): | 7.9 / 10 (78) |
The Facts of Life is an American sitcom that originally ran on the NBC television network from August 24, 1979, to May 7, 1988, making it the longest running sitcom of the 1980s. A spin-off of the sitcom Diff'rent Strokes, the series' premise focuses on E
Genres: | Drama, Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 9 |
Network: | NBC |
Created By: | Norman Lear, Dick Clair, Jenna McMahon |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 5.7 / 10 (24) |
Sam, an 18-year-old on the autism spectrum, takes a funny, yet painful, journey of self-discovery for love and independence and upends his family.
Genres: | Drama, Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | Netflix |
Created By: | Robia Rashid |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.8 / 10 (87) |
Axe Cop is an animated series based on the webcomic of the same name. It premiered on Fox on July 21, 2013, as a part of the channel's Animation Domination HD programming block. The series aired 6 11-minute episodes in its first season, which will later e
Genres: | Animation, Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 3 |
Created By: | Malachai Nicolle, Ethan Nicolle |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 5.5 / 10 (16) |
The Cleveland Show is an American adult animated sitcom created by Seth MacFarlane, Mike Henry, and Richard Appel for the Fox Broadcasting Company as a spin-off of Family Guy. The series centers on the Browns and Tubbs, two dysfunctional families consisti
Genres: | Animation, Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 4 |
Network: | FOX |
Created By: | Seth MacFarlane, Richard Appel, Mike Henry |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 5.2 / 10 (113) |
The story of a middle-class family coping with the sudden passing of their beloved patriarch Patrick, a whimsical inventor who touched the lives of all who knew him. Devastated, his family finds hope in a guide book he created for his sons.
Genres: | Comedy, Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | Amazon |
Created By: | Greg Mottola, Todd Biermann |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 0.5 / 10 (1) |
Every day is a matter of life and death in a hectic New York City hospital, but for Nurse Jackie that's the easiest part. Between chronic back pain that won't quit, and a personal life on the constant edge of collapse, it's going to take a white lie here,
Genres: | Drama, Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 7 |
Network: | Showtime |
Created By: | Linda Wallem, Liz Brixius, Evan Dunsky |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.1 / 10 (60) |
Plum Kettle, ghost-writer for the editor of one of New York’s hottest fashion magazines, struggles with self-image and sets out on a wildly complicated road to self-acceptance. At the same time, everyone is buzzing over news reports about men, accused of
Genres: | Comedy, Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | AMC |
Created By: | Marti Noxon |
Status: | Canceled |
User Score (votes): | 6.4 / 10 (5) |
The events of one woman's life following her divorce after years of marriage to a Hollywood studio executive. Based on the best-selling novel by Gigi Levangie Grazer.
Genres: | Comedy, Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | USA Network |
Created By: | Sara Parriott, Josann McGibbon |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 4 / 10 (2) |
Trying to make a name for themselves in New York's competitive fashion scene, Ben Epstein and his friend and business partner Cam Calderon use their street knowledge and connections to bring their ambitions to fruition. With the help of Cam's cousin Rene,
Genres: | Drama, Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | HBO |
Created By: | Ian Edelman |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.6 / 10 (24) |
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) |
Squidbillies is an animated television series about the Cuylers, an impoverished family of anthropomorphic hillbilly mud squids living in the Appalachian region of Georgia's mountains. The show is produced by Williams Street Studios for the Adult Swim pro
Genres: | Animation, Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 11 |
Network: | Adult Swim |
Created By: | Dave Willis, Matt Maiellaro, Jim Fortier |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 6.6 / 10 (27) |
The year is 2021. Deep below the ocean's surface, looms a vast, magnificently high-tech compound: Sealab. A multi-national scientific station with an annual budget in the trillions, manned by a motley collection of malcontents and screw-ups who were unfit
Genres: | Animation, Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 5 |
Network: | Adult Swim |
Created By: | Adam Reed, Matt Thompson |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.9 / 10 (30) |
The Brak Show is an animated television series that aired on Cartoon Network's late night programming block, Adult Swim. The Brak Show is a spin-off of the animated television series, Space Ghost Coast to Coast, and featured recurring characters from Spac
Genres: | Animation, Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 3 |
Network: | Adult Swim |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.8 / 10 (10) |
In his funky California beach enclave, Chip's the go-to guy for personal insights. But he isn't quite as enlightened when it comes to his own baggage.
Genres: | Drama, Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | Netflix |
Created By: | Will Arnett, Mark Chappell |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7 / 10 (27) |
Leila takes a break from her decade long relationship with partner Sadie, and begins to explore her own bisexuality.
Genres: | Comedy, Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | Channel 4 |
Created By: | Desiree Akhavan, Rowan Riley |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 0 / 10 (0) |
After breaking up with his girlfriend, Josh comes to the realization that he is homosexual. With the support of his now ex girlfriend Claire, and his best friend and house mate Tom, Josh must help his mother with her battle with depression and the rest of
Genres: | Drama, Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 4 |
Created By: | Josh Thomas |
Networks: | ABC, ABC Comedy |
Status: | Ended |
Origin Country: | AU |
User Score (votes): | 7.9 / 10 (44) |
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) |
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) |
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) |
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 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) |
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) |
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) |
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) |
When Stella finds out her terminal cancer is cured, she's going to have to learn to live with all the choices she's made when she decided to "live like she was dying".
Genres: | Drama, Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | The CW |
Created By: | Erin Cardillo, Richard Keith |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 5.8 / 10 (14) |
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) |
Allen Gregory is a short-lived American animated television series that aired on Fox from October 30 to December 18, 2011. The series was created by Jonah Hill, Andrew Mogel and Jarrad Paul. The series was officially cancelled by Fox on January 8, 2012.
Genres: | Animation, Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | FOX |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 4.2 / 10 (6) |
A bullied teenager turns to beauty pageants as a way to exact her revenge, with the help of a disgraced coach who soon realizes he's in over his head.
Genres: | Drama, Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | Netflix |
Created By: | Lauren Gussis |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7 / 10 (16) |
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) |
Enlightened follows the story of Amy, a self-destructive executive, who, after a very public breakdown and a subsequent philosophical awakening in rehabilitation, tries to get her life back together.
Genres: | Comedy, Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | HBO |
Created By: | Mike White, Laura Dern |
Status: | Canceled |
User Score (votes): | 7.1 / 10 (34) |
Linc's is an American comedy-drama based in a bar in Washington D.C.. The series starred Steven Williams, Pam Grier and Golden Brooks, and aired on Showtime for two seasons from 1998 to 2000 before being cancelled. After cancellation, it was briefly synd
Genres: | Drama, Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | Showtime |
Created By: | Tim Reid |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 0 / 10 (0) |
Film star Vince Chase navigates the vapid terrain of Los Angeles with a close circle of friends and his trusty agent.
Genres: | Comedy, Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 8 |
Network: | HBO |
Created By: | Doug Ellin |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.3 / 10 (205) |
Keen Eddie is an American action, comedy-drama television series that aired in 2003 on the Fox Network. The series follows a brash NYPD detective who goes to London when one of his cases goes sour and remains to work with New Scotland Yard. The basic prem
Genres: | Drama, Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | FOX |
Created By: | J.H. Wyman |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 9.1 / 10 (9) |
Key West was a short-lived 1993 hour long comedy-drama television series set in Key West, Florida. Thirteen episodes aired on Fox between January and June 1993. It was created by David Beaird and Allan Marcil. The show was produced by Viacom Productions.
Genres: | Drama, Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | FOX |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 0 / 10 (0) |
Ally McBeal is an American legal comedy-drama television series, originally aired on Fox from September 8, 1997 to May 20, 2002. Created by David E. Kelley, the series stars Calista Flockhart in the title role as a young lawyer working in the fictional Bo
Genres: | Drama, Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 5 |
Network: | FOX |
Created By: | David E. Kelley |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 6.2 / 10 (100) |
Space Ghost: Coast to Coast is an American animated parody talk show, hosted by the 1960s Hanna-Barbera cartoon character Space Ghost. The show premiered on April 15, 1994, on Cartoon Network. Though the original 1960s series aired as a standard Hanna-Bar
Genres: | Animation, Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 10 |
Network: | Adult Swim |
Created By: | Mike Lazzo, Alex Toth |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 8.3 / 10 (29) |