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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) |
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 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) |
Happy Endings is an American television sitcom that ran on ABC from April 13, 2011 to May 3, 2013. The show follows the dysfunctional adventures of six best friends living in Chicago.
| Genre: | Comedy |
| Number Of Seasons: | 3 |
| Network: | ABC |
| Created By: | David Caspe |
| Status: | Canceled |
| User Score (votes): | 7.3 / 10 (63) |
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) |
This award-winning drama series centers on life in Dillon, Texas, where high school football brings the community together -- and the drama of small town life threatens to tear it apart.
| Genre: | Drama |
| Number Of Seasons: | 5 |
| Networks: | NBC, Audience |
| Created By: | Brian Grazer, Peter Berg |
| Status: | Ended |
| User Score (votes): | 7.9 / 10 (86) |
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) |
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) |
The Fairly OddParents is an American animated television series created by Butch Hartman for Nickelodeon. The series revolves around Timmy Turner, a 10-year old boy who is granted two fairy godparents named Cosmo and Wanda. The series started out as carto
| 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) |
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) |
Drawn from interviews with survivors of Easy Company, as well as their journals and letters, Band of Brothers chronicles the experiences of these men from paratrooper training in Georgia through the end of the war. As an elite rifle company parachuting in
| Genres: | Drama, War & Politics, Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
| Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
| Network: | HBO |
| Created By: | Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks |
| Status: | Ended |
| User Score (votes): | 8.2 / 10 (1343) |
Moonlighting is an American television series that aired on ABC from March 3, 1985, to May 14, 1989. The network aired a total of 66 episodes. Starring Bruce Willis and Cybill Shepherd as private detectives, the show was a mixture of drama, comedy, and ro
| Genres: | Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery |
| Number Of Seasons: | 5 |
| Network: | ABC |
| Created By: | Glenn Gordon Caron |
| Status: | Ended |
| User Score (votes): | 7.4 / 10 (112) |
The Secret World of Alex Mack is an American television series that ran on Nickelodeon from October 8, 1994 to January 15, 1998, replacing Clarissa Explains It All on the SNICK line-up. It also aired on YTV in Canada and NHK in Japan, and was a popular st
| Genres: | Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Comedy, Drama |
| Number Of Seasons: | 4 |
| Network: | Nickelodeon |
| Created By: | Ken Lipman, Thomas W. Lynch |
| Status: | Ended |
| User Score (votes): | 7.9 / 10 (12) |
Stef Foster, a dedicated police officer, and her partner Lena Adams, a school vice principal, have built a close-knit, loving family with Stef's biological son from a previous marriage, Brandon, and their adopted twins, Mariana and Jesus. Their lives are
| Genre: | Drama |
| Number Of Seasons: | 5 |
| Networks: | ABC Family, Freeform |
| Created By: | Brad Bredeweg, Peter Paige |
| Status: | Ended |
| User Score (votes): | 6.2 / 10 (89) |
Somewhere in Southern California, in a drug raid run by the US government, a beachfront property was seized and turned into a residence for undercover cops. They are all top agents of the DEA, FBI, and Customs and they are living in this house unofficiall
| Genres: | Crime, Drama, Action & Adventure |
| Number Of Seasons: | 3 |
| Networks: | USA Network, TV3 |
| Created By: | Jeff Eastin |
| Status: | Canceled |
| User Score (votes): | 7.3 / 10 (49) |
Picking up one year after the events of the final broadcast episode of "The Good Wife", an enormous financial scam has destroyed the reputation of a young lawyer, Maia Rindell, while simultaneously wiping out her mentor and godmother Diane Lockhart's savi
| Genre: | Drama |
| Number Of Seasons: | 3 |
| Created By: | Phil Alden Robinson, Michelle King, Robert King |
| Network: | CBS All Access |
| Status: | Returning Series |
| Origin Country: | US |
| User Score (votes): | 7.2 / 10 (77) |
A missing child causes four families to help each other for answers. What they could not imagine is that this mystery would be connected to innumerable other secrets of the small town.
| Genres: | Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama, Crime, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery |
| Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
| Network: | Netflix |
| Created By: | Baran bo Odar |
| Status: | Returning Series |
| User Score (votes): | 7.9 / 10 (287) |
This anthology series brings to life Aaron Mahnke's “Lore” podcast and uncovers the real-life events that spawned our darkest nightmares. Blending dramatic scenes, animation, archive and narration, Lore reveals how our horror legends - such as vampires, w
| Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
| Network: | Amazon |
| Created By: | Aaron Mahnke |
| Genre: | Documentary |
| Status: | Returning Series |
| User Score (votes): | 6.3 / 10 (13) |
Set during the Cold War period in the 1980s, The Americans is the story of Elizabeth and Philip Jennings, two Soviet KGB officers posing as an American married couple in the suburbs of Washington D.C. and their neighbor, Stan Beeman, an FBI Counterintelli
| Genres: | Crime, Drama |
| Number Of Seasons: | 6 |
| Network: | FX |
| Created By: | Joseph Weisberg |
| Status: | Ended |
| User Score (votes): | 7.8 / 10 (355) |
Fauna Hodel, who was given away by her teenage birth mother, begins to investigate the secrets to her past, following a sinister trail that swirls ever closer to an infamous Hollywood gynecologist connected to the legendary Black Dahlia murder.
| Genres: | Crime, Drama |
| Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
| Network: | TNT |
| Status: | In Production |
| User Score (votes): | 0 / 10 (0) |
Diana Bishop, historian and witch, accesses Ashmole 782 and knows she must solve its mysteries. She is offered help by the enigmatic Matthew Clairmont, but he's a vampire and witches should never trust vampires.
| Genre: | Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
| Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
| Created By: | Kate Brooke |
| Network: | Sky One |
| Status: | Returning Series |
| Origin Country: | GB |
| User Score (votes): | 7.6 / 10 (47) |