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Set in New York City, the series brings the viewer into the jury room to watch the deliberators try to answer the many questions posed during a trial. As facts are exposed through flashbacks of testimony and crime footage, viewers will form their own opin
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | FOX |
Created By: | James Yoshimura, Tom Fontana, Barry Levinson |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7 / 10 (1) |
Keen Eddie is an American action, comedy-drama television series that aired in 2003 on the Fox Network. The series follows a brash NYPD detective who goes to London when one of his cases goes sour and remains to work with New Scotland Yard. The basic prem
Genres: | Drama, Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | FOX |
Created By: | J.H. Wyman |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 9.1 / 10 (9) |
Key West was a short-lived 1993 hour long comedy-drama television series set in Key West, Florida. Thirteen episodes aired on Fox between January and June 1993. It was created by David Beaird and Allan Marcil. The show was produced by Viacom Productions.
Genres: | Drama, Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | FOX |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 0 / 10 (0) |
Kindred: The Embraced is an American television series produced by John Leekley Productions and Spelling Television. Loosely based on the role-playing game Vampire: The Masquerade, the series premiered on Fox on April 2, 1996, and ran for eight episodes b
Genres: | Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | FOX |
Created By: | Mark Rein·Hagen, John Leekley |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 6.7 / 10 (10) |
All That is an American live-action, sketch comedy-variety show that aired on the Nickelodeon cable television network featuring short comedic sketches and weekly musical guests. The theme song for All That was performed by TLC featuring Aileen Quinn. Ear
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 10 |
Network: | Nickelodeon |
Created By: | Mike Tollin, Brian Robbins, Alison Taylor |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.3 / 10 (2) |
The story of military hero Eric Carter’s return to the U.S. and the trouble that follows him back – compelling him to ask CTU for help in saving his life, and stopping what potentially could be one of the largest-scale terror attacks on American soil.
Genres: | Action & Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | FOX |
Created By: | Evan Katz, Manny Coto, atom100 |
Status: | Canceled |
User Score (votes): | 5.5 / 10 (86) |
Ally McBeal is an American legal comedy-drama television series, originally aired on Fox from September 8, 1997 to May 20, 2002. Created by David E. Kelley, the series stars Calista Flockhart in the title role as a young lawyer working in the fictional Bo
Genres: | Drama, Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 5 |
Network: | FOX |
Created By: | David E. Kelley |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 6.2 / 10 (100) |
Beverly Hills, 90210 followed the lives of a group of teenagers living in the upscale, star-studded community of Beverly Hills, California and attending the fictitious West Beverly Hills High School and, subsequently, the fictitious California University
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 10 |
Network: | FOX |
Created By: | Aaron Spelling, Darren Star |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 6 / 10 (108) |
413 Hope St. is an American drama series which aired on the Fox network in the fall of 1997. The series was co-created by actor/comedian Damon Wayans, who made a stark departure from his usual comedic work. The ensemble cast—headed by film actor Richard
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | FOX |
Created By: | Damon Wayans |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 0 / 10 (0) |
The American Embassy is an American drama series that aired on Fox from March to April 2002. The series was created by James D. Parriott, and executive produced by Danny DeVito.
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | FOX |
Created By: | James D. Parriott |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 0 / 10 (0) |
After resigning, a secret agent is abducted and taken to what looks like an idyllic village, but is really a bizarre prison. His warders demand information. He gives them nothing, but only tries to escape.
Genres: | Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | ITV |
Created By: | Patrick McGoohan, George Markstein |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.6 / 10 (70) |
The Lot is a 30 minute dramedy series that aired for 2 seasons and 16 episodes on the AMC from 1999 to 2001. It profiled the fictional studio Sylver Screen Pictures during the 1930s and the pursuits of its classic stars. The show was met with neither popu
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | AMC |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 0.5 / 10 (1) |
Vic Reeves Big Night Out is a British cult comedy stage show and later TV series which ran on Channel 4 for two series in 1990 and 1991, as well as a New Year special. It marked the beginnings of the collaboration between Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer and s
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | Channel 4 |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 9 / 10 (2) |
Family-based sitcom set in the capital of British Pakistan - Sparkhill, Birmingham. Citizen Khan follows the trials and tribulations of loud-mouthed, tight-fisted, self-appointed community leader Mr Khan and his long suffering family, wife Mrs Khan and da
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 5 |
Network: | BBC One |
Created By: | Adil Ray |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.4 / 10 (11) |
Still Open All Hours is a sitcom set in a grocer's shop. It is a sequel to the series Open All Hours, written by original series writer Roy Clarke and featuring several of the permanent cast members of the original series
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 5 |
Network: | BBC One |
Created By: | Roy Clarke |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 5.4 / 10 (16) |
The life of Gumball Watterson, a 12-year old cat who attends middle school in Elmore. Accompanied by his pet, adoptive brother, and best friend Darwin Watterson, he frequently finds himself involved in various shenanigans around the city, during which he
Genres: | Family, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Animation, Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 6 |
Network: | Cartoon Network |
Created By: | Ben Bocquelet |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.9 / 10 (61) |
In 2071, roughly fifty years after an accident with a hyperspace gateway made the Earth almost uninhabitable, humanity has colonized most of the rocky planets and moons of the Solar System. Amid a rising crime rate, the Inter Solar System Police (ISSP) se
Genres: | Action & Adventure, Animation, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Networks: | TV Tokyo, WOWOW Prime |
Created By: | Shinichiro Watanabe |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 8.3 / 10 (275) |
Tom Goes to the Mayor is an American animated television series created by Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim for Cartoon Network's late night programming block, Adult Swim. It premiered on November 14, 2004 and ended on September 25, 2006, with a total of t
Genres: | Animation, Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | Adult Swim |
Created By: | Eric Wareheim, Tim Heidecker |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.4 / 10 (15) |
A young boy takes his mother's place in a group of gemstone-based beings, and must learn to control his powers.
Genres: | Animation, Comedy, Action & Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 5 |
Network: | Cartoon Network |
Created By: | Rebecca Sugar |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.2 / 10 (111) |
The two Warner Brothers Yakko and Wakko and their Warner sister Dot had been (supposedly) created in the 1930's, but their cartoons were too screwy for the general public to handle. The three Warners were locked up in the studio water tower until they esc
Genres: | Animation, Comedy, Family |
Number Of Seasons: | 5 |
Networks: | The WB, Fox Kids |
Created By: | Tom Ruegger |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.7 / 10 (112) |
Tiny Toon Adventures, is an American animated comedy television series produced by Amblin Entertainment and Warner Bros. Animation and was broadcast from September 14, 1990 through May 28, 1995. It follows the adventures of a group of young cartoon charac
Genres: | Animation, Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 3 |
Networks: | CBS, Fox Kids |
Created By: | Tom Ruegger, Steven Spielberg |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.2 / 10 (53) |
KaBlam! is an American animated sketch comedy that ran on Nickelodeon from 1996 to 2000. It features a collection of short films in several different styles of animation, bridged by the characters Henry and June, who introduce the shorts and have adventur
Genre: | Animation |
Number Of Seasons: | 4 |
Network: | Nickelodeon |
Created By: | Chris Viscardi, Will McRobb |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.7 / 10 (3) |
Three years after the zombie virus has gutted the country, a team of everyday heroes must transport the only known survivor of the plague from New York to California, where the last functioning viral lab waits for his blood.
Genres: | Action & Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 5 |
Network: | Syfy |
Created By: | Karl Schaefer, Craig Engler |
Status: | Returning Series, Ended |
User Score (votes): | 6.4 / 10 (255) |
The unlikely friendship between Merlin, a young man gifted with extraordinary magical powers, and Prince Arthur, heir to the crown of Camelot.
Genres: | Action & Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 5 |
Network: | BBC One |
Created By: | Jake Michie, Johnny Capps, Julian Murphy, Julian Jones |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.1 / 10 (184) |
The adventures of a present-day, multinational exploration team traveling on the Ancient spaceship Destiny many billions of light years distant from the Milky Way Galaxy. They evacuated there and are now trying to figure out a way to return to Earth, whil
Genres: | Action & Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | Syfy |
Created By: | Brad Wright, Robert C. Cooper |
Status: | Canceled |
User Score (votes): | 7.1 / 10 (248) |
A competition reality series that challenges a lucky few to create their very own superhero and reward the winner with having their character immortalized in a new comic book.
Genre: | Reality |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | Syfy |
Created By: | Stan Lee, Bruce Nash |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 4 / 10 (1) |
A mysterious criminal steals a secret state-of-the-art time machine, intent on destroying America as we know it by changing the past. Our only hope is an unexpected team: a scientist, a soldier and a history professor, who must use the machine's prototype
Genres: | Action & Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | NBC |
Created By: | Eric Kripke, Shawn Ryan |
Status: | Canceled |
User Score (votes): | 7.1 / 10 (265) |
Total Blackout is an American game show airing on Syfy which features contestants that have to complete challenges such as: identifying things with either their hands, nose, or mouth; gathering items; or getting from point A to Point B while being totally
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | Syfy |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7 / 10 (2) |
Ghost Hunters International was a spin-off series of Ghost Hunters that aired on Syfy. The series premiered on January 9, 2008. Like its parent series, GHI was a reality series that followed a team of paranormal investigators; whereas, the original series
Genre: | Documentary |
Number Of Seasons: | 3 |
Network: | Syfy |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.3 / 10 (7) |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 5 / 10 (2) |
Experience our planet's natural beauty and examine how climate change impacts all living creatures in this ambitious documentary of spectacular scope.
Genre: | Documentary |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | Netflix |
Status: | Ended |
Origin Country: | GB |
User Score (votes): | 7.8 / 10 (8) |
You vs. Wild is an interactive live-action project from Netflix.
Genres: | Reality, Action & Adventure |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | Netflix |
Status: | Returning Series |
Origin Country: | US |
User Score (votes): | 0 / 10 (0) |
In this reboot of the '80s series, a magic sword transforms an orphan girl into warrior She-Ra, who unites a rebellion to fight against evil.
Genres: | Animation, Kids, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | Netflix |
Status: | Returning Series |
Origin Country: | US |
User Score (votes): | 7.2 / 10 (13) |
Welcome Back, Kotter is an American television sitcom starring Gabe Kaplan and featuring a young John Travolta. Videotaped in front of a live studio audience, it originally aired on the ABC network from September 9, 1975, to June 8, 1979.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 4 |
Created By: | Alan Sacks, Gabe Kaplan |
Network: | ABC |
Status: | Ended |
Origin Country: | US |
User Score (votes): | 7.5 / 10 (19) |
Baretta is an American detective television series which ran on ABC from 1975 to 1978. The show was a milder version of a successful 1973–74 ABC series, Toma, starring Tony Musante as chameleon-like, real-life New Jersey police officer David Toma. While p
Genres: | Action & Adventure, Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 4 |
Created By: | Stephen J. Cannell |
Network: | ABC |
Status: | Ended |
Origin Country: | US |
User Score (votes): | 7 / 10 (15) |
A grieving teen finds an unexpected connection with two classmates at her new high school after they all land in the same Shoplifters Anonymous group.
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Created By: | Amy Andelson, Emily Meyer, Kirsten Smith |
Network: | Netflix |
Status: | Returning Series |
Origin Country: | US |
User Score (votes): | 7.7 / 10 (3) |
When social upheaval sweeps Russia in the early 20th century, Czar Nicholas II resists change, sparking a revolution and ending a dynasty.
Genres: | Drama, War & Politics, Documentary |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | Netflix |
Status: | Ended |
Origin Country: | US |
User Score (votes): | 8 / 10 (3) |
Murphy is a flawed and irreverent woman who just happens to be blind and is the only “witness” to the murder of her drug-dealing friend, Tyson. When the police dismiss her story, she sets out with her dog, Pretzel, to find the killer while also managing h
Genres: | Drama, Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Created By: | Corinne Kingsbury |
Network: | The CW |
Status: | Returning Series |
Origin Country: | US |
User Score (votes): | 7.6 / 10 (8) |
The Fab Five touch down in Tokyo to spread the joy, explore the culture, and help four Japanese men and women find the confidence to be themselves.
Genres: | Comedy, Reality |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | Netflix |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 9 / 10 (1) |
A devout detective's faith is tested as he investigates a brutal murder that seems to be connected to an esteemed Utah family's spiral into LDS fundamentalism and their distrust in the government.
Genres: | Crime, Drama, Mystery |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Created By: | Dustin Lance Black |
Network: | Hulu |
Status: | Returning Series |
Origin Country: | US |
User Score (votes): | 9.2 / 10 (14) |