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In the unreal world of Sacred Heart Hospital, John "J.D" Dorian learns the ways of medicine, friendship and life.
Publisher: | Touchstone Television, ABC Studios, Doozer |
Genres: | Drama, Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 9 |
Networks: | ABC, NBC |
Created By: | Bill Lawrence |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.8 / 10 (559) |
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 off-kilter, unscripted comic vision of Larry David, who plays himself in a parallel universe in which he can't seem to do anything right, and, by his standards, neither can anyone else.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 9 |
Network: | HBO |
Created By: | Larry David |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 8.1 / 10 (259) |
Loving parodies of some of the world's best-known documentaries. Each episode is shot in a different style of documentary filmmaking, and honors some of the most important stories that didn't actually happen.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 3 |
Created By: | Seth Meyers, Bill Hader, Fred Armisen |
Network: | IFC |
Status: | Returning Series |
Origin Country: | US |
User Score (votes): | 7.4 / 10 (16) |
An anthology horror drama series centering on different characters and locations, including a house with a murderous past, an asylum, a witch coven, a freak show, a hotel, a farmhouse in Roanoke and a cult.
Publisher: | FX Productions |
Genres: | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery |
Number Of Seasons: | 8 |
Network: | FX |
Created By: | Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.1 / 10 (981) |
Annie is a fat young woman who wants to change her life — but not her body. Annie is trying to start her career while juggling bad boyfriends, a sick parent, and a perfectionist boss.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | Hulu |
Status: | Returning Series |
Origin Country: | US |
User Score (votes): | 4.4 / 10 (5) |
Amidst the political conflict of Northern Ireland in the 1990s, five secondary school students square off with the universal challenges of being a teenager.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Created By: | Lisa McGee |
Network: | Channel 4 |
Status: | Returning Series |
Origin Country: | GB |
User Score (votes): | 8 / 10 (14) |
Space. The Final Frontier. The U.S.S. Enterprise embarks on a five year mission to explore the galaxy. The Enterprise is under the command of Captain James T. Kirk with First Officer Mr. Spock, from the planet Vulcan. With a determined crew, the Enterpris
Genres: | Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 3 |
Network: | NBC |
Created By: | Gene Roddenberry |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 8.1 / 10 (449) |
An adrenalized drama with darkly comedic undertones that explores a notorious outlaw motorcycle club’s (MC) desire to protect its livelihood while ensuring that their simple, sheltered town of Charming, California remains exactly that, charming. The MC mu
Genres: | Crime, Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 7 |
Network: | FX |
Created By: | Kurt Sutter |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.9 / 10 (542) |
Dexter is an American television drama series. The series centers on Dexter Morgan, a blood spatter pattern analyst for 'Miami Metro Police Department' who also leads a secret life as a serial killer, hunting down criminals who have slipped through the cr
Genres: | Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery |
Number Of Seasons: | 8 |
Network: | Showtime |
Created By: | James Manos, Jr. |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 8 / 10 (1189) |
High school mathlete Lindsay Weir rebels and begins hanging out with a crowd of burnouts (the "freaks"), while her brother Sam Weir navigates a different part of the social universe with his nerdy friends (the "geeks").
Genres: | Comedy, Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | NBC |
Created By: | Paul Feig |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 8.2 / 10 (270) |
How I Met Your Mother is an American sitcom that originally aired on CBS from September 19, 2005, to March 31, 2014. The series follows the main character, Ted Mosby, and his group of friends in Manhattan. As a framing device, Ted, in the year 2030, recou
Publisher: | 20th Century Fox Television, Carter Bays, 20th Television |
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 9 |
Network: | CBS |
Created By: | Carter Bays, Craig Thomas |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.5 / 10 (978) |
The misadventures of a group of friends as they navigate the pitfalls of work, life and love in Manhattan.
Publisher: | Warner Bros. Television, Bright/Kauffman/Crane Productions |
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 10 |
Network: | NBC |
Created By: | Marta Kauffman, David Crane |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.8 / 10 (1397) |
A darkly comic look at members of a dysfunctional L.A. family that run a funeral business. When death is your business, what is your life? For the Fisher family, the world outside of their family-owned funeral home continues to be at least as challengin
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 5 |
Network: | HBO |
Created By: | Alan Ball |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 8.2 / 10 (336) |
Mad Men is set in the 1960s, initially at the fictional Sterling Cooper advertising agency on Madison Avenue in New York City, and later at the newly created firm, Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce, located nearby in the Time-Life Building, at 1271 Avenue of t
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 7 |
Network: | AMC |
Created By: | Matthew Weiner |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 8.1 / 10 (401) |
The body of Laura Palmer is washed up on a beach near the small Washington state town of Twin Peaks. FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper is called in to investigate her strange demise only to uncover a web of mystery that ultimately leads him deep into the hear
Genres: | Drama, Thriller, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery |
Number Of Seasons: | 3 |
Networks: | ABC, Showtime |
Created By: | David Lynch, Mark Frost |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 8 / 10 (698) |
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) |
The exploits of FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully who investigate X-Files: marginalized, unsolved cases involving paranormal phenomena. Mulder believes in the existence of aliens and the paranormal while Scully, a skeptic, is assigned to make
Publisher: | Fox Productions |
Genres: | Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery |
Number Of Seasons: | 11 |
Network: | FOX |
Created By: | Chris Carter |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 8.1 / 10 (897) |
Payton has known since childhood that he's going to be president. First he'll have to navigate the most treacherous political landscape: high school.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Created By: | Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk, Ian Brennan |
Network: | Netflix |
Status: | Returning Series |
Origin Country: | US |
User Score (votes): | 0 / 10 (0) |
Fleabag is thrown roughly up against the walls of contemporary London, sleeping with anyone who dares to stand too close, squeezing money from wherever she can, rejecting anyone who tries to help her, and keeping up her bravado throughout.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | BBC Three |
Created By: | Phoebe Waller-Bridge |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.1 / 10 (58) |
The assorted humiliations, disasters and rare triumphs of four very different twenty-something girls: Hannah, an aspiring writer; Marnie, an art gallery assistant and cousins Jessa and Shoshanna.
Publisher: | Apatow Productions |
Genres: | Comedy, Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 6 |
Network: | HBO |
Created By: | Lena Dunham |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 5.6 / 10 (171) |
Firefly is set in the year 2517, after the arrival of humans in a new star system and follows the adventures of the renegade crew of Serenity, a "Firefly-class" spaceship. The ensemble cast portrays the nine characters who live on Serenity.
Genres: | Western, Drama, Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | FOX |
Created By: | Joss Whedon |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 8.2 / 10 (891) |
As her 16th birthday nears, Sabrina must choose between the witch world of her family and the human world of her friends. Based on the Archie comic.
Genres: | Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | Netflix |
Created By: | Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.6 / 10 (66) |
A close-knit anthology series dealing with stories involving malice, violence and murder based in and around Minnesota.
Genres: | Crime, Drama, Thriller |
Number Of Seasons: | 3 |
Network: | FX |
Created By: | Noah Hawley |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 8.3 / 10 (919) |
Ten master artists turn up the heat in glassblowing sculpture challenges for the chance to win $60,000 in prizes and the title of champion.
Genre: | Reality |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | Netflix |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 6 / 10 (1) |
When Walter White, a New Mexico chemistry teacher, is diagnosed with Stage III cancer and given a prognosis of only two years left to live, he becomes filled with a sense of fearlessness and an unrelenting desire to secure his family's financial future at
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 5 |
Network: | AMC |
Created By: | Vince Gilligan |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 8.3 / 10 (3003) |
Crank up the 8-track and flash back to a time when platform shoes and puka shells were all the rage in this hilarious retro-sitcom. For Eric, Kelso, Jackie, Hyde, Donna and Fez, a group of high school teens who spend most of their time hanging out in Eric
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 8 |
Network: | FOX |
Created By: | Mark Brazill, Terry Turner, Bonnie Turner |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.5 / 10 (368) |
A contemporary and culturally resonant drama about a young programmer, Elliot, who suffers from a debilitating anti-social disorder and decides that he can only connect to people by hacking them. He wields his skills as a weapon to protect the people that
Publisher: | Universal Cable Productions, Anonymous Content |
Genres: | Crime, Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 3 |
Network: | USA Network |
Created By: | Sam Esmail |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.9 / 10 (1348) |
Set in the sprawling mecca of the rich and famous, Ray Donovan does the dirty work for LA's top power players, and makes their problems disappear. His father's unexpected release from prison sets off a chain of events that shakes the Donovan family to its
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 6 |
Network: | Showtime |
Created By: | Ann Biderman |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.5 / 10 (348) |
Dr. Gregory House, a drug-addicted, unconventional, misanthropic medical genius, leads a team of diagnosticians at the fictional Princeton–Plainsboro Teaching Hospital in New Jersey.
Genres: | Drama, Comedy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery |
Number Of Seasons: | 8 |
Network: | FOX |
Created By: | David Shore |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 8.2 / 10 (949) |
Based on the Pretty Little Liars series of young adult novels by Sara Shepard, the series follows the lives of four girls — Spencer, Hanna, Aria, and Emily — whose clique falls apart after the disappearance of their queen bee, Alison. One year later, they
Genres: | Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery |
Number Of Seasons: | 7 |
Networks: | ABC Family, Freeform |
Created By: | I. Marlene King |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 6.2 / 10 (438) |
Stripped of everything, the survivors of a horrific plane crash must work together to stay alive. But the island holds many secrets.
Genres: | Drama, Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery |
Number Of Seasons: | 6 |
Network: | ABC |
Created By: | J.J. Abrams, Damon Lindelof, Jeffrey Lieber |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.8 / 10 (1145) |
The series centers on Ryan Atwood, a troubled youth from a broken home who is adopted by the wealthy and philanthropic Sandy and Kirsten Cohen. Ryan and his surrogate brother Seth, a socially awkward yet quick-witted teenager, deal with life as outsiders
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 4 |
Network: | FOX |
Created By: | Josh Schwartz |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7 / 10 (143) |
Before there was Batman, there was GOTHAM. Everyone knows the name Commissioner Gordon. He is one of the crime world's greatest foes, a man whose reputation is synonymous with law and order. But what is known of Gordon's story and his rise from rookie d
Genres: | Drama, Thriller, Crime, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 5 |
Network: | FOX |
Created By: | Bruno Heller |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7 / 10 (954) |
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) |
Jessica Day is an offbeat and adorable girl in her late 20s who, after a bad breakup, moves in with three single guys. Goofy, positive, vulnerable and honest to a fault, Jess has faith in people, even when she shouldn't. Although she's dorky and awkward,
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 7 |
Created By: | Elizabeth Meriwether |
Network: | FOX |
Status: | Ended |
Origin Country: | US |
User Score (votes): | 6.7 / 10 (421) |
A look into American politics, revolving around former Senator Selina Meyer who finds being Vice President of the United States is nothing like she expected and everything everyone ever warned her about.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 6 |
Network: | HBO |
Created By: | Armando Iannucci |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.3 / 10 (156) |
A look into American politics, revolving around former Senator Selina Meyer who finds being Vice President of the United States is nothing like she expected and everything everyone ever warned her about.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 7 |
Created By: | Armando Iannucci |
Network: | HBO |
Status: | Returning Series |
Origin Country: | US |
User Score (votes): | 7.3 / 10 (163) |
Jessica Day is an offbeat and adorable girl in her late 20s who, after a bad breakup, moves in with three single guys. Goofy, positive, vulnerable and honest to a fault, Jess has faith in people, even when she shouldn't. Although she's dorky and awkward,
Publisher: | Meriwether Productions, Chernin Entertainment, Twentieth Century Fox Television, American Nitwits |
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 7 |
Network: | FOX |
Created By: | Elizabeth Meriwether |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 6.6 / 10 (397) |
Three sisters (Prue, Piper and Phoebe) reunite and unlock their powers to become the Charmed Ones, the most powerful good witches of all time, whose prophesied destiny is to protect innocent lives from evil beings such as demons and warlocks. Each sister
Genres: | Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery |
Number Of Seasons: | 8 |
Network: | The WB |
Created By: | Constance M. Burge |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 6.8 / 10 (263) |