Top 50 [TV shows I'm not watching]
My Top 50 TV shows mentioned by fandom friends that I'm not watching.
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01 Army Wives is an American drama series that follows the lives of four army wives, their families, and an army husband whose wife is in the army. The series, shot at ABC Studios, premiered on Lifetime on June 3, 2007.
02 The Big Bang Theoryis an American sitcom set in Pasadena, California, the show is centered on five characters: two roommate Caltech geniuses, experimental physicist Leonard Hofstadter and theoretical physicist Sheldon Cooper; their neighbor across the hall Penny, an attractive blonde waitress and aspiring actress; and Leonard and Sheldon's equally geeky and socially awkward co-workers and friends Howard Wolowitz, an Aerospace engineer and a non-PhD from JPL, and Rajesh Koothrappali, a particle astrophysicist postdoc also working at Caltech.
03 Blue Bloods is an American police procedural/drama series on CBS, filmed on location in New York City. The series follows the Reagan family of police officers with the New York City Police Department.
04 Boardwalk Empire is an American television series from cable network HBO, set in Atlantic City, New Jersey, during the Prohibition era.
05 Breaking Bad is the story of Walter White, a struggling high school chemistry teacher who is diagnosed with advanced lung cancer at the beginning of the series. He turns to a life of crime, producing and selling methamphetamine with his former student, Jesse Pinkman, with the aim of securing his family's financial future.
06 Burn Notice, something issued by intelligence agencies to discredit or announce the dismissal of agents or sources who are considered to have become unreliable. When spies are burned, their connection to an espionage organization is terminated, leaving them without access to cash or influence.
07 Caprica is a spin-off prequel of the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica, taking place about 58 years prior to the events of Battlestar Galactica. Caprica shows how humanity first created the robotic Cylons who would later plot to destroy humans in retaliation for their enslavement.
08 Charmed is about the four Halliwell sisters-Prue, Piper, Phoebe and, later, Paige. They are the culmination of the most powerful line of good witches in history. The sisters, despite being perceived as normal women by the non-supernatural community, are known as The Charmed Ones in the magical community, whose prophesied destiny is to protect innocent lives against evil beings, such as demons and warlocks.
09 Chuck is about an "average computer-whiz-next-door" who receives an encoded e-mail from an old college friend now working in the CIA; the message embeds the only remaining copy of the world's greatest spy secrets into Chuck's brain.
10 The Closer is an American crime drama, starring Kyra Sedgwick as Deputy Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson, a Georgia police detective who arrives in Los Angeles to lead the Priority Murder Squad, a team that originally dealt with high profile murder cases.
11 Community is about a group of students at a community college in the fictional locale of Greendale, Colorado. The series heavily uses meta-humor and pop culture references, often parodying film and television clichés and tropes.
12 Cougar Town is an American television sitcom that focuses on a recently divorced woman in her forties facing the often humorous challenges, pitfalls and rewards of life's next chapter, along with her son, ex-husband, and friends who together make up her dysfunctional, but supportive and caring extended family.
13 Dead Like Me is an American-Canadian comedy-drama television series that explores the experiences of a small team of Reapers, as well as the post-mortem changes in George and her family as they deal with George's death.
14 Deadwood is an American Western drama television series set in the 1870s in Deadwood, South Dakota, before and after the area's annexation by the Dakota Territory. The series charts Deadwood's growth from camp to town, incorporating themes ranging from the formation of communities to western capitalism.
15 Detroit 1-8-7 is an American crime drama series about Detroit's leading homicide unit.
16 Dexter is an American television drama series that centers on Dexter Morgan, a bloodstain pattern analyst for the Miami Metro Police Department who moonlights as a serial killer.
17 Doctor Who is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. The programme depicts the adventures of a time-travelling humanoid alien known as the Doctor who explores the universe in a sentient time machine called the TARDIS. Along with a series of companions, he faces a variety of foes while working to save civilisations, help people and right wrongs.
18 The Event is an American television series containing elements of science fiction, action/adventure and political allegory. The plot centers on a group of extraterrestrials, some of whom have been detained by the United States Government for sixty-six years since their ship crashed in Alaska, while others have secretly assimilated among the general populace.
19 Flashpoint is a Canadian police drama television series about a fictional elite tactical unit, called the Strategic Response Unit (SRU), within a Canadian metropolitan police force.
20 Friday Night Lights is an American television series that details events surrounding the Dillon Panthers, a high school football team based in fictional Dillon, Texas, with particular focus given to team coach Eric Taylor and his family.
21 Game of Thrones is an American medieval fantasy television series featuring a predominantly British and Irish cast. The series is based on author George R. R. Martin's best-selling A Song of Ice and Fire series of seven planned fantasy novels, the first of which is called A Game of Thrones.
22 Generation Kill is a 2008 HBO television miniseries based on the book of the same name by Evan Wright about his experience as an embedded reporter with the 1st Reconnaissance Battalion of the United States Marine Corps during the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
23 The Good Wife focuses on Alicia Florrick, whose husband Peter Florrick, a former Cook County state's attorney, has been jailed following a very public sex and corruption scandal. Alicia returns to her old job as a litigator (after taking years out to be a mother) to provide for her two children.
24 Heroes tells the stories of ordinary people who discover superhuman abilities, and how these abilities take effect in the characters' lives.
25 Houseis about a central character, Dr. Gregory House, who is an unconventional and misanthropic medical genius who heads a team of diagnosticians at the fictional Princeton‑Plainsboro Teaching Hospital (PPTH) in New Jersey.
26 In Plain Sight is an American dramatic television series that revolves around Mary Shannon, a Deputy United States Marshal attached to the Albuquerque, New Mexico office of the Federal Witness Security Program (WITSEC), more commonly known as the Federal Witness Protection Program.
27 It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia is an American television sitcom that follows the exploits of "The Gang," a group of self-centered friends who run Paddy's Pub, a relatively unsuccessful Irish bar in South Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
28 Justified is an American television drama series set in the city of Lexington, Kentucky and the hill country of Eastern Kentucky. Raylan Givens, a deputy U.S. Marshal, is a tough, southern-bred federal lawman, enforcing his own brand of-at times-extralegal justice.
29 The Killing s an American crime drama television series based on a Danish television series. Set in Seattle, Washington, the series follows the police investigation, the grieving family and the suspects, after the homicide of a young girl, Rosie Larsen (Katie Findlay).[1] Each of the 13 episodes chronicles one day of the investigation.
30 Legend of the Seeker is a television series based on The Sword of Truth novels by Terry Goodkind.
31 Lie to Me is a series in which Dr. Cal Lightman and his colleagues in The Lightman Group assist in investigations, reaching the truth through applied psychology: interpreting microexpressions, through the Facial Action Coding System, and body language.
32 The Mentalist is an American police procedural television series which follows the fictional story of Patrick Jane who, as a paid consultant, uses unorthodox methods to aid the California Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in homicide investigations.
33 Merlin is a British fantasy-adventure television series based on the Arthurian legends of the mythical warlock Merlin and his relationship with Prince Arthur, but differs from traditional versions of the legend in many ways, especially the characters.
34 Misfits is a British comedy-drama series about a group of young offenders forced to work in a community service programme, where they attain supernatural powers after a strange electrical storm.
35 Modern Family is an American television comedy that follows the families of Jay Pritchett, his daughter Claire Dunphy, and his son Mitchell Pritchett who live in a suburban community of Los Angeles, California.
36 Nikita is an American television drama based on the French film Nikita (1990), the remake Point of No Return (1993), and a previous series La Femme Nikita (1997). The series centers on a secret organization known as Division. Recruiting young people with troubled backgrounds, Division erases all evidence of their past lives and molds them into efficient spies and assassins.
37 Numb3rs is an American television drama follows FBI Special Agent Don Eppes and his mathematical genius brother, Charlie Eppes, who helps Don solve crimes for the FBI.
38 The Office is an American comedy television series broadcast by NBC. An adaptation of the previous BBC series of the same name, it depicts the everyday lives of office employees in the Scranton, Pennsylvania, branch of the fictional Dunder Mifflin Paper Company.
39 Parks and Recreation is an American comedy television series that follows Leslie Knope, the Deputy Director of the Parks and Recreation department in the fictional town of Pawnee, Indiana.
40 Rescue Me is an American television drama series that focuses on the professional and personal lives of a group of New York City firefighters in the fictitious Ladder 62 / Engine 99 firehouse.
41 Roswell is based on a set of books and chronicles the adventures of three teen aliens and their human friends, who attend a fictional high school in Roswell, New Mexico.
42 Six Feet Under is an American drama television series that revolves around members of the Fisher family, who run their funeral home in Los Angeles, and their friends and lovers.
43 Skins is a British teen drama that follows a group of teenagers in Bristol, South West England, through the two years of sixth form. The controversial plot line explores issues such as dysfunctional families, mental illness (including eating disorders), adolescent sexuality, substance abuse and death. There is also a USA adaptation which aired on MTV.
44 Smallville is an American television series developed by writers/producers Alfred Gough and Miles Millar, based on the DC Comics character Superman created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster.
45 Sons of Anarchy is an American television drama series about the lives of a close-knit outlaw motorcycle club operating in Charming, a fictional town in Northern California.
46 Terriers is an American crime comedy-drama television series about an ex-cop and recovering alcoholic Hank Dolworth who partners with his best friend, former criminal Britt Pollack in an unlicensed private investigation business.
47 The Tudors is a Canadian/Irish produced historical fiction television series named after the Tudor dynasty and is loosely based upon the reign of King Henry VIII of England.
48 United States of Tara is an American television comedy-drama which follows the life of Tara, a suburban housewife and mother coping with dissociative identity disorder.
49 V is a re-imagining of the 1983 miniseries and chronicles the arrival on Earth of a technologically advanced alien species which ostensibly comes in peace, but actually has sinister motives.
50 White Collar is a series in which a a con-man, forger and thief named Neal Caffrey helps Peter Burke, the FBI agent who initially captured Caffrey, catch other criminals as part of a work-release program.
Made for tvrealm
01 Army Wives is an American drama series that follows the lives of four army wives, their families, and an army husband whose wife is in the army. The series, shot at ABC Studios, premiered on Lifetime on June 3, 2007.
02 The Big Bang Theoryis an American sitcom set in Pasadena, California, the show is centered on five characters: two roommate Caltech geniuses, experimental physicist Leonard Hofstadter and theoretical physicist Sheldon Cooper; their neighbor across the hall Penny, an attractive blonde waitress and aspiring actress; and Leonard and Sheldon's equally geeky and socially awkward co-workers and friends Howard Wolowitz, an Aerospace engineer and a non-PhD from JPL, and Rajesh Koothrappali, a particle astrophysicist postdoc also working at Caltech.
03 Blue Bloods is an American police procedural/drama series on CBS, filmed on location in New York City. The series follows the Reagan family of police officers with the New York City Police Department.
04 Boardwalk Empire is an American television series from cable network HBO, set in Atlantic City, New Jersey, during the Prohibition era.
05 Breaking Bad is the story of Walter White, a struggling high school chemistry teacher who is diagnosed with advanced lung cancer at the beginning of the series. He turns to a life of crime, producing and selling methamphetamine with his former student, Jesse Pinkman, with the aim of securing his family's financial future.
06 Burn Notice, something issued by intelligence agencies to discredit or announce the dismissal of agents or sources who are considered to have become unreliable. When spies are burned, their connection to an espionage organization is terminated, leaving them without access to cash or influence.
07 Caprica is a spin-off prequel of the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica, taking place about 58 years prior to the events of Battlestar Galactica. Caprica shows how humanity first created the robotic Cylons who would later plot to destroy humans in retaliation for their enslavement.
08 Charmed is about the four Halliwell sisters-Prue, Piper, Phoebe and, later, Paige. They are the culmination of the most powerful line of good witches in history. The sisters, despite being perceived as normal women by the non-supernatural community, are known as The Charmed Ones in the magical community, whose prophesied destiny is to protect innocent lives against evil beings, such as demons and warlocks.
09 Chuck is about an "average computer-whiz-next-door" who receives an encoded e-mail from an old college friend now working in the CIA; the message embeds the only remaining copy of the world's greatest spy secrets into Chuck's brain.
10 The Closer is an American crime drama, starring Kyra Sedgwick as Deputy Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson, a Georgia police detective who arrives in Los Angeles to lead the Priority Murder Squad, a team that originally dealt with high profile murder cases.
11 Community is about a group of students at a community college in the fictional locale of Greendale, Colorado. The series heavily uses meta-humor and pop culture references, often parodying film and television clichés and tropes.
12 Cougar Town is an American television sitcom that focuses on a recently divorced woman in her forties facing the often humorous challenges, pitfalls and rewards of life's next chapter, along with her son, ex-husband, and friends who together make up her dysfunctional, but supportive and caring extended family.
13 Dead Like Me is an American-Canadian comedy-drama television series that explores the experiences of a small team of Reapers, as well as the post-mortem changes in George and her family as they deal with George's death.
14 Deadwood is an American Western drama television series set in the 1870s in Deadwood, South Dakota, before and after the area's annexation by the Dakota Territory. The series charts Deadwood's growth from camp to town, incorporating themes ranging from the formation of communities to western capitalism.
15 Detroit 1-8-7 is an American crime drama series about Detroit's leading homicide unit.
16 Dexter is an American television drama series that centers on Dexter Morgan, a bloodstain pattern analyst for the Miami Metro Police Department who moonlights as a serial killer.
17 Doctor Who is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. The programme depicts the adventures of a time-travelling humanoid alien known as the Doctor who explores the universe in a sentient time machine called the TARDIS. Along with a series of companions, he faces a variety of foes while working to save civilisations, help people and right wrongs.
18 The Event is an American television series containing elements of science fiction, action/adventure and political allegory. The plot centers on a group of extraterrestrials, some of whom have been detained by the United States Government for sixty-six years since their ship crashed in Alaska, while others have secretly assimilated among the general populace.
19 Flashpoint is a Canadian police drama television series about a fictional elite tactical unit, called the Strategic Response Unit (SRU), within a Canadian metropolitan police force.
20 Friday Night Lights is an American television series that details events surrounding the Dillon Panthers, a high school football team based in fictional Dillon, Texas, with particular focus given to team coach Eric Taylor and his family.
21 Game of Thrones is an American medieval fantasy television series featuring a predominantly British and Irish cast. The series is based on author George R. R. Martin's best-selling A Song of Ice and Fire series of seven planned fantasy novels, the first of which is called A Game of Thrones.
22 Generation Kill is a 2008 HBO television miniseries based on the book of the same name by Evan Wright about his experience as an embedded reporter with the 1st Reconnaissance Battalion of the United States Marine Corps during the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
23 The Good Wife focuses on Alicia Florrick, whose husband Peter Florrick, a former Cook County state's attorney, has been jailed following a very public sex and corruption scandal. Alicia returns to her old job as a litigator (after taking years out to be a mother) to provide for her two children.
24 Heroes tells the stories of ordinary people who discover superhuman abilities, and how these abilities take effect in the characters' lives.
25 Houseis about a central character, Dr. Gregory House, who is an unconventional and misanthropic medical genius who heads a team of diagnosticians at the fictional Princeton‑Plainsboro Teaching Hospital (PPTH) in New Jersey.
26 In Plain Sight is an American dramatic television series that revolves around Mary Shannon, a Deputy United States Marshal attached to the Albuquerque, New Mexico office of the Federal Witness Security Program (WITSEC), more commonly known as the Federal Witness Protection Program.
27 It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia is an American television sitcom that follows the exploits of "The Gang," a group of self-centered friends who run Paddy's Pub, a relatively unsuccessful Irish bar in South Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
28 Justified is an American television drama series set in the city of Lexington, Kentucky and the hill country of Eastern Kentucky. Raylan Givens, a deputy U.S. Marshal, is a tough, southern-bred federal lawman, enforcing his own brand of-at times-extralegal justice.
29 The Killing s an American crime drama television series based on a Danish television series. Set in Seattle, Washington, the series follows the police investigation, the grieving family and the suspects, after the homicide of a young girl, Rosie Larsen (Katie Findlay).[1] Each of the 13 episodes chronicles one day of the investigation.
30 Legend of the Seeker is a television series based on The Sword of Truth novels by Terry Goodkind.
31 Lie to Me is a series in which Dr. Cal Lightman and his colleagues in The Lightman Group assist in investigations, reaching the truth through applied psychology: interpreting microexpressions, through the Facial Action Coding System, and body language.
32 The Mentalist is an American police procedural television series which follows the fictional story of Patrick Jane who, as a paid consultant, uses unorthodox methods to aid the California Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in homicide investigations.
33 Merlin is a British fantasy-adventure television series based on the Arthurian legends of the mythical warlock Merlin and his relationship with Prince Arthur, but differs from traditional versions of the legend in many ways, especially the characters.
34 Misfits is a British comedy-drama series about a group of young offenders forced to work in a community service programme, where they attain supernatural powers after a strange electrical storm.
35 Modern Family is an American television comedy that follows the families of Jay Pritchett, his daughter Claire Dunphy, and his son Mitchell Pritchett who live in a suburban community of Los Angeles, California.
36 Nikita is an American television drama based on the French film Nikita (1990), the remake Point of No Return (1993), and a previous series La Femme Nikita (1997). The series centers on a secret organization known as Division. Recruiting young people with troubled backgrounds, Division erases all evidence of their past lives and molds them into efficient spies and assassins.
37 Numb3rs is an American television drama follows FBI Special Agent Don Eppes and his mathematical genius brother, Charlie Eppes, who helps Don solve crimes for the FBI.
38 The Office is an American comedy television series broadcast by NBC. An adaptation of the previous BBC series of the same name, it depicts the everyday lives of office employees in the Scranton, Pennsylvania, branch of the fictional Dunder Mifflin Paper Company.
39 Parks and Recreation is an American comedy television series that follows Leslie Knope, the Deputy Director of the Parks and Recreation department in the fictional town of Pawnee, Indiana.
40 Rescue Me is an American television drama series that focuses on the professional and personal lives of a group of New York City firefighters in the fictitious Ladder 62 / Engine 99 firehouse.
41 Roswell is based on a set of books and chronicles the adventures of three teen aliens and their human friends, who attend a fictional high school in Roswell, New Mexico.
42 Six Feet Under is an American drama television series that revolves around members of the Fisher family, who run their funeral home in Los Angeles, and their friends and lovers.
43 Skins is a British teen drama that follows a group of teenagers in Bristol, South West England, through the two years of sixth form. The controversial plot line explores issues such as dysfunctional families, mental illness (including eating disorders), adolescent sexuality, substance abuse and death. There is also a USA adaptation which aired on MTV.
44 Smallville is an American television series developed by writers/producers Alfred Gough and Miles Millar, based on the DC Comics character Superman created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster.
45 Sons of Anarchy is an American television drama series about the lives of a close-knit outlaw motorcycle club operating in Charming, a fictional town in Northern California.
46 Terriers is an American crime comedy-drama television series about an ex-cop and recovering alcoholic Hank Dolworth who partners with his best friend, former criminal Britt Pollack in an unlicensed private investigation business.
47 The Tudors is a Canadian/Irish produced historical fiction television series named after the Tudor dynasty and is loosely based upon the reign of King Henry VIII of England.
48 United States of Tara is an American television comedy-drama which follows the life of Tara, a suburban housewife and mother coping with dissociative identity disorder.
49 V is a re-imagining of the 1983 miniseries and chronicles the arrival on Earth of a technologically advanced alien species which ostensibly comes in peace, but actually has sinister motives.
50 White Collar is a series in which a a con-man, forger and thief named Neal Caffrey helps Peter Burke, the FBI agent who initially captured Caffrey, catch other criminals as part of a work-release program.