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		Chicagoan Frank Gallagher is the proud single dad of six smart, industrious, independent kids, who without him would be... perhaps better off. When Frank's not at the bar spending what little money they have, he's passed out on the floor. But the kids hav
| Publisher: | John Wells Productions, Warner Bros. Television, Showtime Networks, Bonanza Productions | 
| Genres: | Drama, Comedy | 
| Number Of Seasons: | 9 | 
| Network: | Showtime | 
| Created By: | Paul Abbott | 
| Status: | Returning Series | 
| User Score (votes): | 7.9 / 10 (758) | 
		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) | 
		Follows the lives and families of three adults living and growing up in the United States of America in present and past times. As their paths cross and their life stories intertwine in curious ways, we find that several of them share the same birthday -
| Publisher: | 20th Century Fox Television, Rhode Island Ave. Productions | 
| Genres: | Comedy, Drama | 
| Number Of Seasons: | 3 | 
| Network: | NBC | 
| Created By: | Dan Fogelman | 
| Status: | Returning Series | 
| User Score (votes): | 8.1 / 10 (300) | 
		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) | 
		What did the world look like as it was transforming into the horrifying apocalypse depicted in "The Walking Dead"? This spin-off set in Los Angeles, following new characters as they face the beginning of the end of the world, will answer that question.
| Genres: | Drama, Horror | 
| Number Of Seasons: | 4 | 
| Network: | AMC | 
| Created By: | Dave Erickson, Robert Kirkman | 
| Status: | Returning Series | 
| User Score (votes): | 6.4 / 10 (860) | 
		The everyday lives of working-class residents of Albert Square, a traditional Victorian square of terrace houses surrounding a park in the East End of London's Walford borough.
| Genres: | Soap, Drama | 
| Number Of Seasons: | 35 | 
| Network: | BBC One | 
| Created By: | Julia Smith, Tony Holland | 
| Status: | Returning Series | 
| User Score (votes): | 3.7 / 10 (142) | 
		A con man on the run from a vicious gangster takes cover from his past by assuming the identity of his prison cellmate, Pete, “reuniting” with Pete’s estranged family, a colorful, dysfunctional group that threatens to drag him into a world just as dangero
| Genres: | Drama, Crime | 
| Number Of Seasons: | 2 | 
| Network: | Amazon | 
| Created By: | David Shore, Bryan Cranston | 
| Status: | Returning Series | 
| User Score (votes): | 8 / 10 (92) | 
		A raw and honest comedic look at a single, 20-something from Southie whose desires for relationships, sex, and a career collide with the realities of young, single motherhood.
| Genres: | Comedy, Drama | 
| Number Of Seasons: | 2 | 
| Network: | Showtime | 
| Created By: | Frankie Shaw | 
| Status: | Returning Series | 
| User Score (votes): | 6.7 / 10 (16) | 
		Ordinary college student Paige gets her big break after auditioning for the starring role in a Hollywood blockbuster. She must now navigate her new star-studded life and the highs and lows that come with being the new It Girl in town as well as balancing
| Genres: | Soap, Drama | 
| Number Of Seasons: | 2 | 
| Network: | Freeform | 
| Created By: | Rebecca Serle, I. Marlene King | 
| Status: | Canceled | 
| User Score (votes): | 5.5 / 10 (28) | 
		Smart but wholesome Betty embraces her unique appearance and independent attitude in the cutthroat world of New York fashion. With the help of her proud yet far-from-glamorous family from Queens, Betty will continue to have big dreams and deal with any ob
| Genres: | Drama, Comedy | 
| Number Of Seasons: | 4 | 
| Network: | ABC | 
| Created By: | Fernando Gaitán, Silvio Horta | 
| Status: | Ended | 
| User Score (votes): | 5.7 / 10 (78) | 
		Follows the awkward experiences and racy tribulations of a modern-day African-American woman.
| Genres: | Comedy, Drama | 
| Number Of Seasons: | 3 | 
| Network: | HBO | 
| Created By: | Issa Rae, Larry Wilmore | 
| Status: | Returning Series | 
| User Score (votes): | 7.1 / 10 (42) | 
		Three "good girl" suburban wives and mothers suddenly find themselves in desperate circumstances and decide to stop playing it safe and risk everything to take their power back.
| Genres: | Comedy, Drama | 
| Number Of Seasons: | 2 | 
| Network: | NBC | 
| Created By: | Jenna Bans | 
| Status: | Returning Series | 
| User Score (votes): | 6.8 / 10 (23) | 
		This eclectic, star-studded anthology follows diverse Chicagoans fumbling through the modern maze of love, sex, technology and culture. First dates, friends with benefits, couples with kids. Whatever your relationship status is, it's always complicated.
| Genres: | Comedy, Drama | 
| Number Of Seasons: | 2 | 
| Network: | Netflix | 
| Created By: | Joe Swanberg | 
| Status: | Returning Series | 
| User Score (votes): | 5.5 / 10 (30) | 
		A darkly comedic look at the world of Los Angeles storefront psychics and the organized crime syndicate that runs them. Former magician Charlie Haverford oversees a number of fortune telling parlors on behalf of his violent and domineering Romani kingpin
| Genres: | Comedy, Drama | 
| Number Of Seasons: | 2 | 
| Network: | Hulu | 
| Created By: | Leslie Bohem | 
| Status: | Canceled | 
| User Score (votes): | 6.4 / 10 (17) | 
		Gravity is an American comedy-drama television series created by Jill Franklyn and Eric Schaeffer. It premiered on April 23, 2010 on Starz in the United States. On June 30, 2010, Starz reported that Gravity had been canceled.
| Genres: | Comedy, Drama | 
| Number Of Seasons: | 1 | 
| Network: | Starz | 
| Created By: | Eric Schaeffer | 
| Status: | Ended | 
| User Score (votes): | 7.2 / 10 (6) | 
		Jeff, aka Mr. Pickles, is an icon of children's TV. But when his family begins to implode, Jeff finds no fairy tale or fable or puppet will guide him through this crisis, which advances faster than his means to cope. The result: a kind man in a cruel worl
| Genres: | Drama, Comedy | 
| Number Of Seasons: | 1 | 
| Network: | Showtime | 
| Created By: | Dave Holstein | 
| Status: | Returning Series | 
| User Score (votes): | 5.9 / 10 (23) | 
		77 Sunset Strip is an hour-length American television private detective series created by Roy Huggins and starring Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., Roger Smith, and Edd Byrnes. The show was the subject of an ownership battle between Roy Huggins and Warner Brothers,
| Genres: | Drama, Crime | 
| Number Of Seasons: | 6 | 
| Network: | ABC | 
| Created By: | Roy Huggins | 
| Status: | Ended | 
| User Score (votes): | 7.8 / 10 (9) | 
		United States of Tara is an American television comedy-drama created by Diablo Cody, which began airing on Showtime in 2009. The series follows the life of Tara, a suburban housewife and mother coping with dissociative identity disorder.
| Genres: | Comedy, Drama | 
| Number Of Seasons: | 3 | 
| Network: | Showtime | 
| Created By: | Diablo Cody | 
| Status: | Ended | 
| User Score (votes): | 7.4 / 10 (59) | 
		Calvin Palmer is the owner of a barbershop on the Southside of Chicago. Reluctantly inheriting the neighborhood establishment and popular hangout from his father, he juggles his responsibilities to his clients, his family, and his community as a cast of u
| Genres: | Comedy, Drama | 
| Number Of Seasons: | 1 | 
| Network: | Showtime | 
| Status: | Ended | 
| User Score (votes): | 0 / 10 (0) | 
		The trials and triumphs of one of America's wealthiest and unhappiest families, the Gettys. Told over multiple seasons and spanning the twentieth century, the series begins in 1973 with the kidnapping of John Paul Getty III, an heir to the Getty oil fortu
| Genres: | Crime, Drama | 
| Number Of Seasons: | 1 | 
| Network: | FX | 
| Created By: | Simon Beaufoy | 
| Status: | Returning Series | 
| User Score (votes): | 7.5 / 10 (17) | 
		Married is a half hour comedy about being miserably in love. Russ and Lina Bowman can barely remember what life was like before kids, debt, and suburbia rained on their romance -- but every once in a while, in between the arguments about their declining s
| Genres: | Comedy, Drama | 
| Number Of Seasons: | 2 | 
| Network: | FX | 
| Created By: | Andrew Gurland | 
| Status: | Canceled | 
| User Score (votes): | 6.1 / 10 (15) | 
		Dud is a deadbeat but charming ex-surfer who joins a fraternal order hoping to reclaim the simple, happy lifestyle he lost when his father died. Through the Lodge and his newfound connection with the other members, Dud will come to find the missing sense
| Genres: | Comedy, Drama | 
| Number Of Seasons: | 1 | 
| Network: | AMC | 
| Created By: | Jim Gavin | 
| Status: | Returning Series | 
| User Score (votes): | 6.2 / 10 (7) | 
		Follow the lives and loves of a group of thirtysomethings in a heart-warming comic drama as they try to find true love - or at least keep their relationships on track. In this wry and funny look at a generation which is as confused as it is liberated by t
| Genres: | Comedy, Drama | 
| Number Of Seasons: | 7 | 
| Network: | ITV | 
| Created By: | Mike Bullen | 
| Status: | Returning Series | 
| User Score (votes): | 8.1 / 10 (9) | 
		Neal Caffrey, a con man, forger and thief, is captured after a three-year game of cat and mouse with the FBI. With only months left serving a four-year sentence, he escapes to look for Kate, his girlfriend. Peter Burke, the FBI agent who initially capture
| Genres: | Crime, Drama | 
| Number Of Seasons: | 6 | 
| Network: | USA Network | 
| Created By: | Jeff Eastin | 
| Status: | Ended | 
| User Score (votes): | 7.9 / 10 (246) | 
		The Mind of the Married Man is a television series that ran on the HBO network for two seasons consisting of twenty episodes between September 2001 and November 2002. The story attempts to focus on the challenges of modern-day married life from a male per
| Genres: | Drama, Comedy | 
| Number Of Seasons: | 2 | 
| Network: | HBO | 
| Created By: | Mike Binder | 
| Status: | Ended | 
| User Score (votes): | 10 / 10 (4) | 
		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) | 
		Detective Lieutenant Everett Backstrom is a man with no filter. After a five-year exile to the traffic division for offensive behavior, he has returned from disgrace to lead Portland's newly minted S.C.U. Tasked with navigating the city's most sensitive a
| Genres: | Crime, Drama | 
| Number Of Seasons: | 1 | 
| Network: | FOX | 
| Created By: | Hart Hanson | 
| Status: | Canceled | 
| User Score (votes): | 6.6 / 10 (31) | 
		Boston Public is an American drama television series created by David E. Kelley and broadcast on Fox. It centered on Winslow High School, a fictional public high school located in Boston, Massachusetts. The show was named for the real public school distri
| Genres: | Drama, Comedy | 
| Number Of Seasons: | 4 | 
| Network: | FOX | 
| Created By: | David E. Kelley | 
| Status: | Ended | 
| User Score (votes): | 7.6 / 10 (7) | 
		Four friends who become multi-millionaires when they sell their video game company for a clean £246 million and overnight, the four friends are transformed from "people who play games" to "serious players in the game..." - or are they?
| Genres: | Drama, Comedy | 
| Number Of Seasons: | 1 | 
| Network: | Channel 4 | 
| Status: | Returning Series | 
| User Score (votes): | 6.4 / 10 (7) | 
		An anthology series that delves into the players, the crime and the media circus, detailing the day-to-day battles of the trial and unveiling the shocking truth of what really went down when the cameras stopped rolling.
| Genres: | Crime, Drama | 
| Number Of Seasons: | 1 | 
| Network: | NBC | 
| Created By: | René Balcer | 
| Status: | Returning Series | 
| User Score (votes): | 5.9 / 10 (12) | 
		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) | 
		After a tragedy at a school sends shock waves through a wealthy Stockholm suburb, a seemingly well-adjusted teen finds herself on trial for murder.
| Genres: | Drama, Crime | 
| Number Of Seasons: | 1 | 
| Network: | Netflix | 
| Status: | Returning Series | 
| Origin Country: | SE | 
| User Score (votes): | 8 / 10 (2) | 
		Little House on the Prairie is an American Western drama television series, starring Michael Landon, Melissa Gilbert, and Karen Grassle, about a family living on a farm in Walnut Grove, Minnesota, in the 1870s and 1880s.
| Genres: | Western, Drama | 
| Number Of Seasons: | 10 | 
| Created By: | Ed Friendly | 
| Network: | NBC | 
| Status: | Ended | 
| Origin Country: | US | 
| User Score (votes): | 7.1 / 10 (105) | 
		The world's first mega-soap, and one of the most popular ever produced, Dallas had it all. Beautiful women, expensive cars, and men playing Monopoly with real buildings. Famous for one of the best cliffhangers in TV history, as the world asked "Who shot J
| Genres: | Soap, Drama | 
| Number Of Seasons: | 14 | 
| Created By: | David Jacobs | 
| Network: | CBS | 
| Status: | Ended | 
| Origin Country: | US | 
| User Score (votes): | 6.1 / 10 (58) | 
		Inexperienced Otis channels his sex therapist mom when he teams up with rebellious Maeve to set up an underground sex therapy clinic at school.
| Genres: | Comedy, Drama | 
| Number Of Seasons: | 1 | 
| Created By: | Laurie Nunn | 
| Network: | Netflix | 
| Status: | Returning Series | 
| Origin Country: | GB | 
| User Score (votes): | 8 / 10 (158) | 
		An aging actor, who long ago enjoyed a brush with fame, makes his living as an acting coach.
| Genres: | Comedy, Drama | 
| Number Of Seasons: | 2 | 
| Created By: | Chuck Lorre | 
| Network: | Netflix | 
| Status: | Returning Series | 
| Origin Country: | US | 
| User Score (votes): | 7.4 / 10 (34) | 
		A single bachelor dates multiple women over several weeks, narrowing them down to hopefully find his true love.
| Genres: | Reality, Drama | 
| Number Of Seasons: | 24 | 
| Created By: | Mike Fleiss | 
| Network: | ABC | 
| Status: | Returning Series | 
| Origin Country: | US | 
| User Score (votes): | 5.8 / 10 (29) | 
		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) | 
		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) | 
		Glee is an American teen musical comedy-drama television series that airs on the Fox network in the United States. It focuses on the reconstituted William McKinley High School glee club, New Directions, which competes on the show choir competition circuit
| Genres: | Comedy, Drama | 
| Number Of Seasons: | 6 | 
| Network: | FOX | 
| Created By: | Ryan Murphy, Ian Brennan, Brad Falchuk | 
| Status: | Ended | 
| User Score (votes): | 5.9 / 10 (204) |