Best TV Shows of 2017
Best TV Shows of 2017
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A drama about the local field office that investigates criminal cases affecting military personnel in The Big Easy, a city known for its music, entertainment and decadence.
Genres: | Drama, Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 5 |
Network: | CBS |
Created By: | Gary Glasberg |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 6.4 / 10 (143) |
Rick is a mentally-unbalanced but scientifically-gifted old man who has recently reconnected with his family. He spends most of his time involving his young grandson Morty in dangerous, outlandish adventures throughout space and alternate universes. Compo
Genres: | Animation, Comedy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 3 |
Network: | Adult Swim |
Created By: | Dan Harmon, Justin Roiland |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 8.6 / 10 (1060) |
A family man struggles to gain a sense of cultural identity while raising his kids in a predominantly white, upper-middle-class neighborhood.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 5 |
Network: | ABC |
Created By: | Kenya Barris |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.1 / 10 (98) |
This reality competition sees teams embark on a trek around the world to amazing destinations where they must compete in a series of challenges, some mental and some physical. Only when the tasks are completed will they learn of their next location. Teams
Genres: | Reality, Action & Adventure |
Number Of Seasons: | 30 |
Network: | CBS |
Created By: | Elise Doganieri, Jerry Bruckheimer, Bertram van Munster |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 6.6 / 10 (58) |
A vast international plot explodes when a beautiful Jane Doe is discovered naked in Times Square, completely covered in mysterious, intricate tattoos with no memory of who she is or how she got there. But there's one tattoo that is impossible to miss: the
Genres: | Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 4 |
Network: | NBC |
Created By: | Martin Gero |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 6.3 / 10 (553) |
An emotional thrill ride through the day-to-day chaos of the city's most explosive hospital and the courageous team of doctors who hold it together. They will tackle unique new cases inspired by topical events, forging fiery relationships in the pulse-pou
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 4 |
Network: | NBC |
Created By: | Dick Wolf, Matt Olmstead |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 6.7 / 10 (107) |
Life is hard on the Flemings' ranch in the Alberta foothills where abused or neglected horses find refuge with a kind, hard-working family. Debts abound and the bank is about to foreclose. Can they keep the ranch running?
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 12 |
Network: | CBC Television |
Created By: | Heather Conkie, Хезер Конки |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.6 / 10 (88) |
The hosts talk about the latest cars and its specifications. They review the performance of the car and also find out if it is as good as the manufacturers claim. The current hosts are Chris Evans and Matt LeBlanc with The Stig.
Genres: | Documentary, Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 25 |
Network: | BBC Two |
Created By: | Derek Smith |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.5 / 10 (292) |
Everyone has secrets and Olivia Pope has dedicated her life to protecting and defending the public images of the elite by keeping those secrets under wraps. Pope and her team are at the top of their game when it comes to getting the job done for their cli
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 7 |
Network: | ABC |
Created By: | Shonda Rhimes |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 6.7 / 10 (222) |
Families, friends, enemies and lovers experience life-changing events in the large upstate New York city of Port Charles, which has a busy hospital, upscale hotel, cozy diner and dangerous waterfront frequented by the criminal underworld.
Genres: | Drama, Soap |
Number Of Seasons: | 11 |
Network: | ABC |
Created By: | Doris Hursley, Frank Hursley |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 4.8 / 10 (132) |
A glimpse into the outrageous lives and loves of those responsible for a global women's magazine. Their struggles are about finding your identity, managing friendships and getting your heart broken, all while wearing the perfect jeans to flatter any body
Genres: | Comedy, Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | Freeform |
Created By: | Sarah Watson |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 5.3 / 10 (30) |
Given superstrength and durability by a sabotaged experiment, a wrongly accused man escapes prison to become a superhero for hire.
Genres: | Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Action & Adventure |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | Netflix |
Created By: | Cheo Hodari Coker |
Status: | Canceled |
User Score (votes): | 6.9 / 10 (568) |
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) |
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) |
Based on Neil Gaiman's fantasy novel about an ex-con who becomes the traveling partner of a conman who turns out to be one of the older gods trying to recruit troops to battle the upstart deities.
Genres: | Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | Starz |
Created By: | Neil Gaiman, Michael Green, Bryan Fuller |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7 / 10 (441) |
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) |
The orphaned Baudelaire children face trials, tribulations and the evil Count Olaf, all in their quest to uncover the secret of their parents' death.
Genres: | Drama, Family, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery |
Number Of Seasons: | 3 |
Network: | Netflix |
Created By: | Daniel Handler, Barry Sonnenfeld, Lemony Snicket |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.1 / 10 (202) |
Joined by his faithful mecha-butler, Kaz Kaan pursues love, fashion and supernatural forces amid Neo Yokio's sinister high society.
Genre: | Animation |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | Netflix |
Created By: | Ezra Koenig |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 5.7 / 10 (7) |
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) |
Ride along as part of the crew and witness the campers’ journey across Washington State as these inspired teenagers experience raw nature for the first time, learn to work together like a family and discover the art of filmmaking while exploring the depth
Genre: | Documentary |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | Freeform |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 0 / 10 (0) |
Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage and Iron Fist join forces to take on common enemies as a sinister conspiracy threatens New York City.
Genres: | Action & Adventure, Crime, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | Netflix |
Created By: | Douglas Petrie, Marco Ramirez |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.1 / 10 (340) |
The boys are back on the loose as Bubbles, Julian and Ricky head south of the Canadian border for some outrageous American adventures.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | Netflix |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 0 / 10 (1) |
They're ordinary husband and wife realtors until she undergoes a dramatic change that sends them down a road of death and destruction. In a good way.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | Netflix |
Created By: | Victor Fresco |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.4 / 10 (159) |
An MIT grad student and a tech superstar bring a low-level Pentagon official a staggering discovery that an asteroid is just six months away from colliding with Earth.
Genres: | Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | CBS |
Created By: | Matt JL Wheeler, Elizabeth Kruger, Craig Shapiro |
Status: | Canceled |
User Score (votes): | 6.3 / 10 (161) |
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) |
Set against the backdrop of one of the most explosive times in U.K. history, Guerrilla tells the story of a politically active couple whose relationship and values are tested when they liberate a political prisoner and form a radical underground cell in 1
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Networks: | Showtime, Sky One |
Created By: | John Ridley |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 6.3 / 10 (5) |
A young mother kills in a fit of unexplainable rage a seemingly stranger. An inquisitive detective obsesses over the case, attempting to get to the bottom of the true motive behind the act.
Genres: | Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | USA Network |
Created By: | Derek Simonds |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.3 / 10 (196) |
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) |
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 multigenerational epic follows two concurrent time periods: One, the story of young Eli McCullough after he is kidnapped and indoctrinated into a tribe of Comanches in 1849. The other, 60 years later, when we see a grown Eli struggle to maintain his f
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | AMC |
Created By: | Philippe Meyer, Lee Shipman, Brian McGreevy |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 6.8 / 10 (44) |
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) |