Most-Quoted TV Shows
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The Crains, a fractured family, confront haunting memories of their old home and the terrifying events that drove them from it.
Genres: | Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | Netflix |
Created By: | Mike Flanagan |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.9 / 10 (136) |
The son of a notorious serial killer becomes an acclaimed criminal psychologist who uses his unique insight into how killers think to help the NYPD.
Genres: | Drama, Crime, Mystery |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Created By: | Chris Fedak, Sam Sklaver |
Network: | FOX |
Status: | Returning Series |
Origin Country: | US |
User Score (votes): | 8.5 / 10 (38) |
A modern-day drama about a crime-solving duo that cracks the NYPD's most impossible cases. Following his fall from grace in London and a stint in rehab, eccentric Sherlock escapes to Manhattan where his wealthy father forces him to live with his worst nig
Genres: | Drama, Crime, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery |
Number Of Seasons: | 6 |
Network: | CBS |
Created By: | Robert Doherty |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7 / 10 (573) |
Danny Rand resurfaces 15 years after being presumed dead. Now, with the power of the Iron Fist, he seeks to reclaim his past and fulfill his destiny.
Genres: | Crime, Drama, Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | Netflix |
Created By: | Scott Buck |
Status: | Canceled |
User Score (votes): | 6.1 / 10 (743) |
Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman is an American soap opera parody that aired in daily syndication from January 1976 to May 1977. The series was produced by Norman Lear, directed by Joan Darling and Jim Drake, and starred Louise Lasser. The series writers were G
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Created By: | Ann Marcus, Daniel Gregory Browne, Jerry Adelman, Gail Parent, Norman Lear |
Status: | Ended |
Genres: | Drama, Soap, Comedy |
User Score (votes): | 7 / 10 (2) |
The Bob Newhart Show is an American situation comedy produced by MTM Enterprises, which aired 142 original episodes on CBS from September 16, 1972, to April 1, 1978. Comedian Bob Newhart portrays a psychologist having to deal with his patients and fellow
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 6 |
Network: | CBS |
Created By: | Lorenzo Music |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 8.1 / 10 (26) |
The Powerpuff Girls is a animated television series about Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup, three kindergarten-aged girls with superpowers, as well as their "father", the brainy scientist Professor Utonium, who all live in the fictional city of Townsville,
Genres: | Action & Adventure, Animation, Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 6 |
Network: | Cartoon Network |
Created By: | Craig McCracken |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.1 / 10 (117) |
Set against the backdrop of the Wars of the Roses, the series is the story of the women caught up in the protracted conflict for the throne of England.
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | BBC One |
Created By: | Emma Frost |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 6.5 / 10 (55) |
A zoo owner spirals out of control amid a cast of eccentric characters in this true murder-for-hire story from the underworld of big cat breeding.
Genre: | Documentary |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | Netflix |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 6.5 / 10 (1) |
William Masters and Virginia Johnson are real-life pioneers of the science of human sexuality. Their research touched off the sexual revolution and took them from a midwestern teaching hospital to the cover of Time magazine and multiple appearances on Joh
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 4 |
Network: | Showtime |
Created By: | Michelle Ashford |
Status: | Canceled |
User Score (votes): | 6.7 / 10 (154) |
Halifax, West Yorkshire, England, 1832. Anne Lister attempts to revitalize her inherited home, Shibden Hall. Most notably for the time period, a part of her plan is to help the fate of her own family - by taking a wife.
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Created By: | Sally Wainwright |
Network: | HBO |
Status: | Returning Series |
Origin Country: | US |
User Score (votes): | 7 / 10 (12) |
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) |
Middle school as it really happened. Maya Erskine and Anna Konkle star in this adult comedy, playing versions of themselves as thirteen-year-old outcasts in the year 2000, surrounded by actual thirteen-year-olds, where the best day of your life can turn i
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Created By: | Maya Erskine, Anna Konkle, Sam Zvibleman |
Network: | Hulu |
Status: | Returning Series |
Origin Country: | US |
User Score (votes): | 4 / 10 (1) |
An aspiring actor and his sister Brooke, a former professional dancer, try to find their place in the world while wrestling with their feelings about their 13-year-old brother Chase's sudden rise to internet fame.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Created By: | Chris Kelly, Sarah Schneider |
Network: | Comedy Central |
Status: | Returning Series |
Origin Country: | US |
User Score (votes): | 6 / 10 (3) |
Steve McGarrett returns home to Oahu, in order to find his father's killer. The governor offers him the chance to run his own task force (Five-0). Steve's team is joined by Chin Ho Kelly, Danny "Danno" Williams, and Kono Kalakaua.
Genres: | Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 9 |
Network: | CBS |
Created By: | Leonard Freeman, Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 6.3 / 10 (322) |
Adventurer James Keziah Delaney returns to London from Africa in 1814 along with fourteen stolen diamonds to seek vengeance after the death of his father.
Genres: | Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Networks: | BBC One, FX |
Created By: | Steven Knight, Tom Hardy, Chips Hardy |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 8 / 10 (422) |
The zany, fast-paced adventures of a 10-year-old boy and his fairy godparents, who inadvertently create havoc as they grant wishes for their pint-sized charge.
Genres: | Animation, Comedy, Kids, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 10 |
Network: | Nickelodeon |
Created By: | Butch Hartman |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 6.8 / 10 (113) |
Nadia keeps dying and reliving her 36th birthday party. She's trapped in a surreal time loop -- and staring down the barrel of her own mortality.
Genres: | Comedy, Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Created By: | Natasha Lyonne, Amy Poehler, Leslye Headland |
Network: | Netflix |
Status: | Returning Series |
Origin Country: | US |
User Score (votes): | 7.5 / 10 (8) |
The story of the legalization and subsequent rise of the porn industry in New York’s Times Square from the early ’70s through the mid ’80s, exploring the rough-and-tumble world that existed there until the rise of HIV, the violence of the cocaine epidemic
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | HBO |
Created By: | George Pelecanos, David Simon |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.9 / 10 (92) |
Reporter Camille Preaker confronts the psychological demons from her past when she returns to her hometown to investigate the murders of two young girls.
Genres: | Drama, Crime, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | HBO |
Created By: | Marti Noxon |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 6.7 / 10 (95) |
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) |
Prairie Johnson, blind as a child, comes home to the community she grew up in with her sight restored. Some hail her a miracle, others a dangerous mystery, but Prairie won’t talk with the FBI or her parents about the seven years she went missing.
Genres: | Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | Netflix |
Created By: | Brit Marling, Zal Batmanglij |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.3 / 10 (272) |
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) |
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) |
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) |
Drake & Josh is an American television sitcom created by Dan Schneider for Nickelodeon. The series follows the lives of two teenage boys with opposing personalities, Drake Parker and Josh Nichols, who become stepbrothers. Both actors had played previous r
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 4 |
Network: | Nickelodeon |
Created By: | Dan Schneider |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.3 / 10 (72) |
Scott McCall, a high school student living in the town of Beacon Hills has his life drastically changed when he's bitten by a werewolf, becoming one himself. He must henceforth learn to balance his problematic new identity with his day-to-day teenage life
Genres: | Drama, Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery |
Number Of Seasons: | 6 |
Network: | MTV |
Created By: | Jeff Davis |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7 / 10 (342) |
The story of a wealthy family that lost everything, and the one son who had no choice but to keep them all together.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 5 |
Networks: | FOX, Netflix |
Created By: | Mitchell Hurwitz |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 8.2 / 10 (453) |
Boy Meets World is an American television sitcom that chronicles the coming of age events and everyday life-lessons of Cory Matthews, a Philadelphian who grows up from a young boy to a married man. The show aired for seven seasons from 1993 to 2000 on ABC
Genres: | Drama, Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 7 |
Network: | ABC |
Created By: | Michael Jacobs, April Kelly |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.7 / 10 (55) |
The daily lives of prisoners in Emerald City, an experimental unit of the Oswald Maximum Security Prison where ingroups - Muslims, Latinos, Italians, Aryans - stick close to their mutual friends and terrorizes their mutual enemies.
Genres: | Crime, Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 6 |
Network: | HBO |
Created By: | Tom Fontana |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 8.2 / 10 (223) |
Once a powerful lawyer, Billy McBride is now burned out and washed up, spending more time in a bar than a courtroom. When he reluctantly agrees to pursue a wrongful death lawsuit against the biggest client of Cooperman & McBride, the massive law firm
Genres: | Crime, Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | Amazon |
Created By: | Jonathan Shapiro, David E. Kelley |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.9 / 10 (98) |
Rob Delaney and Sharon Horgan write and star in a comedy that follows an American man and an Irish woman who make a bloody mess as they struggle to fall in love in London.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 3 |
Network: | Channel 4 |
Created By: | Ben Taylor |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.5 / 10 (38) |
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) |
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) |
A young CIA operative, Annie Walker, is mysteriously summoned to headquarters for duty as a field operative. While Annie believes she's been promoted for her exceptional linguistic skills, there may be something or someone from her past that her CIA bosse
Genres: | Drama, Action & Adventure |
Number Of Seasons: | 5 |
Network: | USA Network |
Created By: | Matt Corman, Chris Ord |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 6.6 / 10 (72) |
In Plain Sight is an American dramatic television series on USA Network. The series revolves around Mary Shannon, a Deputy United States Marshal attached to the Albuquerque, NM, office of the Federal Witness Security Program, more commonly known as the Fe
Genres: | Drama, Action & Adventure |
Number Of Seasons: | 5 |
Network: | USA Network |
Created By: | David Maples |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 6.8 / 10 (29) |
When everyone else mysteriously vanishes from their wealthy town, the teen residents of West Ham must forge their own society to survive.
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Created By: | Christopher Keyser |
Network: | Netflix |
Status: | Returning Series |
Origin Country: | US |
User Score (votes): | 6.6 / 10 (31) |
At a predominantly white Ivy League college, a diverse group of students navigate various forms of racial and other types of discrimination.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | Netflix |
Created By: | Justin Simien |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 6.1 / 10 (56) |
Doug is an American animated sitcom created by Jim Jinkins and co-produced by his studio, Jumbo Pictures. The show's plotline centers around the surreal and imaginative exploits of its title character, Douglas "Doug" Funnie, who experiences common predica
Genres: | Animation, Comedy, Kids |
Number Of Seasons: | 8 |
Networks: | ABC, Nickelodeon |
Created By: | Jim Jinkins |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7 / 10 (67) |
It's the late 1960s, homosexuality has only just been legalised and Jeremy Thorpe, the leader of the Liberal party, has a secret he's desperate to hide.
Genres: | Drama, Crime, Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Created By: | Russell T Davies, John Preston |
Network: | BBC One |
Status: | Ended |
Origin Country: | GB |
User Score (votes): | 8 / 10 (22) |