Best TV Shows of 2016
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After a night of partying with a female stranger, a man wakes up to find her stabbed to death and is charged with her murder.
Genres: | Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | HBO |
Created By: | Richard Price, Steven Zaillian |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.7 / 10 (280) |
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) |
Charming, fast talking Marty Kaan and his crack team of management consultants know how to play the corporate game better than anyone, by using every dirty trick in the book to woo powerful CEOs and close huge deals. In the board rooms, barrooms, and bedr
Genres: | Comedy, Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 5 |
Network: | Showtime |
Created By: | Matthew Carnahan |
Status: | Canceled |
User Score (votes): | 6.6 / 10 (76) |
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) |
An LA family with serious boundary issues have their past and future unravel when a dramatic admission causes everyone's secrets to spill out.
Genres: | Comedy, Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 4 |
Network: | Amazon |
Created By: | Jill Soloway |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 6.7 / 10 (67) |
The story of Claire Randall, a married combat nurse from 1945 who is mysteriously swept back in time to 1743, where she is immediately thrown into an unknown world where her life is threatened. When she is forced to marry Jamie, a chivalrous and romantic
Genres: | Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 4 |
Network: | Starz |
Created By: | Ronald D. Moore |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.2 / 10 (431) |
An English teacher travels back in time to prevent the Kennedy assassination, but discovers he is attached to the life he has made in a bygone era.
Genres: | Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | Hulu |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.8 / 10 (557) |
A young E.R. doctor who, after being wrongly blamed for a patient's death, moves to the Hamptons and becomes the reluctant "doctor for hire" to the rich and famous. When the attractive administrator of the local hospital asks him to treat the town's less
Genres: | Comedy, Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 8 |
Network: | USA Network |
Created By: | Andrew Lenchewski |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 6.6 / 10 (55) |
The Good Wife is a legal drama starring Emmy Award winner Julianna Margulies as a wife and mother who boldly assumes full responsibility for her family and re-enters the workforce after her husband's very public sex and political corruption scandal lands
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 7 |
Network: | CBS |
Created By: | Michelle King, Robert King |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.4 / 10 (176) |
A diverse group of recruits has arrived at the FBI Quantico Base for training. They are the best, the brightest and the most vetted, so it seems impossible that one of them is suspected of masterminding the biggest attack on New York City since 9/11.
Genres: | Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery |
Number Of Seasons: | 3 |
Network: | ABC |
Created By: | Joshua Safran |
Status: | Canceled |
User Score (votes): | 6 / 10 (292) |
World-Renowned Dancer and Choreographer Josh Horner sashay his way through life.
Genre: | Reality |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | Freeform |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 0 / 10 (0) |
When 2% of the world's population abruptly disappears without explanation, the world struggles to understand just what they're supposed to do about it. The drama series 'The Leftovers' is the story of the people who didn't make the cut. Based on the best
Genres: | Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 3 |
Network: | HBO |
Created By: | Damon Lindelof, Tom Perrotta |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.8 / 10 (350) |
East Los High is not your typical high school. Dance, sex, romance, and mystery are at the heart of this inner city school in East LA where two teenage cousins—Jessie, a 16-year-old virgin and Maya, a troubled runaway with a violent past —fall in love wit
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 5 |
Network: | Hulu |
Created By: | Carlos Portugal, Kathleen Bedoya |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 8.5 / 10 (2) |
San Francisco-based forensic neuropsychiatrist Eldon Chance reluctantly gets sucked into a violent and dangerous world of mistaken identity, police corruption and mental illness.
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | Hulu |
Created By: | Alexandra Cunningham, Kem Nunn |
Status: | Canceled |
User Score (votes): | 7.4 / 10 (71) |
A powerful family drama about the head of a music empire whose three sons and ex-wife all battle for his throne.
Genres: | Soap, Drama, Music |
Number Of Seasons: | 5 |
Network: | FOX |
Created By: | Lee Daniels, Danny Strong |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 6.6 / 10 (320) |
In 1977 New York City, the talented and soulful youth of the South Bronx chase dreams and breakneck beats to transform music history.
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | Netflix |
Created By: | Baz Luhrmann |
Status: | Canceled |
User Score (votes): | 7.5 / 10 (61) |
Before there were parenting blogs, trophies for showing up, and peanut allergies, there was a simpler time called the '80s. For geeky 11-year old Adam these were his wonder years and he faced them armed with a video camera to capture all the crazy. The Go
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 6 |
Network: | ABC |
Created By: | Adam F. Goldberg |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.7 / 10 (107) |
In a world where superheroes have been real for decades, an accountant with zero powers comes to realize his city is owned by a super villain. As he struggles to uncover this conspiracy, he falls in league with a strange blue superhero.
Genres: | Action & Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Animation |
Number Of Seasons: | 3 |
Networks: | Amazon, FOX, Comedy Central |
Created By: | Ben Edlund, 黄向阳 |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.4 / 10 (29) |
Hickory, dickory, dock — the Dice Man's back and he's ready to rock. The semi-true stories of Andrew Dice Clay, whose unique brand of humor often gets him in trouble. Once on top, the comedian now must work to resurrect his career, pay his gambling debts,
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | Showtime |
Created By: | Scot Armstrong |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.4 / 10 (11) |
This stylish mix of documentary and historical epic chronicles the reign of Commodus, the emperor whose rule marked the beginning of Rome's fall.
Genres: | Drama, Documentary |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | Netflix |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 5.8 / 10 (15) |
An insider's look at the reckless, romantic, funny, and often poignant lives of a committed group of "roadies," who live for music and the de facto family they've formed along the way.
Genres: | Comedy, Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | Showtime |
Created By: | Cameron Crowe |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 5.7 / 10 (27) |
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Harry Houdini and Stratton are tasked with the cases that nobody else can solve. It challenges their sense of what is real and what is not. Houdini is a skeptic, while Doyle believes in the unseen. Their diverse viewpoints make sol
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Networks: | ITV, FOX, Global TV |
Created By: | David N. Titcher, David Hoselton |
Status: | Canceled |
User Score (votes): | 5.9 / 10 (14) |
This semi-autobiographical dark comedy starring Tig Notaro follows her as she returns to her hometown after the sudden death of her mother. Still reeling from her own declining health problems, Tig struggles to find her footing with the loss of the one pe
Genres: | Drama, Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | Amazon |
Created By: | Tig Notaro, Diablo Cody |
Status: | Canceled |
User Score (votes): | 7.8 / 10 (15) |
Follow the lives of two very different priests tackling one family’s case of terrifying demonic possession.
Genres: | Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | FOX |
Created By: | Jeremy Slater |
Status: | Canceled |
User Score (votes): | 7.2 / 10 (169) |
Hell on Wheels tells the epic story of post-Civil War America, focusing on Cullen Bohannon, a Confederate soldier who sets out to exact revenge on the Union soldiers who killed his wife. His journey takes him west to Hell on Wheels, a dangerous, raucous,
Genres: | Action & Adventure, Drama, Western |
Number Of Seasons: | 5 |
Network: | AMC |
Created By: | Tony Gayton, Joe Gayton |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.5 / 10 (180) |
The story of New York farmer, Abe Woodhull, who bands together with a group of childhood friends to form The Culper Ring, an unlikely group of spies who turn the tide in America’s fight for independence.
Genres: | Drama, War & Politics |
Number Of Seasons: | 4 |
Network: | AMC |
Created By: | Craig Silverstein |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.7 / 10 (73) |
The adventures of relatable and adventurous Riley Matthews, the tween daughter of Cory and Topanga Matthews, and her bold best friend Maya as they traverse the twists and turns of teenage years at Manhattan's John Quincy Adams Middle School where Riley's
Genres: | Comedy, Family |
Number Of Seasons: | 3 |
Network: | Disney Channel |
Created By: | Michael Jacobs |
Status: | Canceled |
User Score (votes): | 6 / 10 (45) |
Elena Micheals thought she left the world of supernatural behind when she left Stonehaven behind 'for good this time' she thought. Until the night she got the mysterious call from her pack leader asking her to come back. So now she is heading back, leavin
Genres: | Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 3 |
Networks: | Syfy, Space |
Created By: | Daegan Fryklind |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 5.9 / 10 (68) |
Cult Scottish comedy about the lives of two OAP's (Old Age Pensioners) Jack and Victor and their views on how it used to be in the old days and how bad it is now in the fictional town of Craiglang.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 8 |
Network: | BBC One |
Created By: | Ford Kiernan, Greg Hemphill |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 8.6 / 10 (13) |
Each week Successville's loveable detective, D.I Sleet, enlists the help of a celebrity sidekick to solve the latest high-profile murder in this improvised comedy murder mystery series.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 3 |
Network: | BBC Three |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 5.6 / 10 (7) |
A comedy about a mother at a milestone in her life. We follow her and her family through a year of new beginnings as she rebuilds her life following the death of her husband. Mum is joined by her supportive life-long friend Michael. Through a year of new
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | BBC Two |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 5.6 / 10 (7) |
A comedic talk show from an alternate reality featuring unstable hosts, a variety of celebrities—both real and fake—and unusual studio action.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 4 |
Network: | Adult Swim |
Created By: | Eric André |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.4 / 10 (25) |
The adventures of a young boy named Clarence, who is optimistic about everything, and his two best friends Jeff and Sumo.
Genres: | Animation, Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 3 |
Network: | Cartoon Network |
Created By: | Skyler Page |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.5 / 10 (19) |
A horror anthology series inspired by “Creepypasta” online tales.
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 4 |
Network: | Syfy |
Created By: | Nick Antosca |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 6.5 / 10 (64) |
Wyatt Earp's great granddaughter Wynonna battles demons and other creatures with her unique abilities and a posse of dysfunctional allies - the only thing that can bring the paranormal to justice.
Genres: | Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Western |
Number Of Seasons: | 3 |
Networks: | Syfy, Space, CHCH-DT |
Created By: | Emily Andras |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 6.2 / 10 (114) |
Take a journey into the provocative and hilariously wicked mind of Amy Schumer as she explores topics revolving around sex, relationships, and the general clusterf*ck that is life. Through a series of scripted vignettes, stand-up comedy, and man-on-the st
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 4 |
Created By: | Amy Schumer, Daniel Powell |
Network: | Comedy Central |
Status: | Returning Series |
Origin Country: | US |
User Score (votes): | 5.6 / 10 (44) |
While running from a drug deal gone bad, Mike Ross, a brilliant young college-dropout, slips into a job interview with one of New York City's best legal closers, Harvey Specter. Tired of cookie-cutter law school grads, Harvey takes a gamble by hiring Mike
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 8 |
Created By: | Aaron Korsh |
Network: | USA Network |
Status: | Returning Series |
Origin Country: | US |
User Score (votes): | 7.5 / 10 (859) |
A dark odyssey about the dawn of artificial consciousness and the evolution of sin. Set at the intersection of the near future and the reimagined past, it explores a world in which every human appetite, no matter how noble or depraved, can be indulged.
Publisher: | Warner Bros. Television, Jerry Weintraub Productions |
Genres: | Western, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | HBO |
Created By: | Jonathan Nolan, Lisa Joy |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 8.1 / 10 (1704) |
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) |
Sheriff's deputy Rick Grimes awakens from a coma to find a post-apocalyptic world dominated by flesh-eating zombies. He sets out to find his family and encounters many other survivors along the way.
Publisher: | Darkwoods Productions, American Movie Classics, Valhalla Motion Pictures, AMC Studios, Circle of Confusion |
Genres: | Drama, Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 9 |
Network: | AMC |
Created By: | Frank Darabont |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.3 / 10 (3892) |