I love great shows of any genre as long as there is something unique, fun, exciting or has great acting with a fantastic plot. The following is a list of TV shows from around the world that I would recommend in alphabetical order.
The Almighty Johnsons
The Almighty Johnsons is a South Pacific Pictures comedy-drama series about four brothers, raised in heartland New Zealand, who also happen to be the ...
Genres: Drama, Comedy, Fantasy
Almost Human
Almost Human is an action-packed police drama set 35 years in the future, when police officers are partnered with highly evolved human-like androids. ...
Genres: Drama, Crime, Science-Fiction
American Horror Story
American Horror Story is an horror television anthology series. Each season is conceived as a self-contained miniseries, following a disparate set of ...
Genres: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Angel
"If you need help, then look no further. Angel Investigations is the best. Our rates are low but our standards are high. When the chips are down, and ...
Genres: Drama, Action, Horror
Arrested Development
After being passed over as partner at The Bluth Co., widower Michael resolves to quit the family business and move away to spend more quality time wit...
Genres: Comedy, Family
Arrow
After a violent shipwreck, billionaire playboy Oliver Queen was missing and presumed dead for five years before being discovered alive on a remote isl...
Genres: Drama, Action, Science-Fiction
Babylon 5
"It was the dawn of the Third Age of Mankind ten years after the Earth-Minbari War The Babylon Project was a dream given form. Its goal: to prevent an...
Genres: Drama, Action, Science-Fiction
Battlestar Galactica
The world ended with no warning, and all that was left… was hope.A truce between the humans of the Twelve Colonies and the Cylons—intelligent robo...
Genres: Drama, Science-Fiction, War
Bedlam
Set in Bedlam Heights - an apartment building converted from a pre-Victorian lunatic asylum - the inhabitants in this sexy, contemporary paranormal pr...
Genres: Drama, Horror
Being Human
Comedy-drama series about three twenty-something housemates trying to live normal lives, despite struggling with unusual afflictions - one is a werewo...
Genres: Drama, Comedy, Science-Fiction
The Big Bang Theory
The Big Bang Theory is a comedy about brilliant physicists, Leonard and Sheldon, who are the kind of "beautiful minds" that understand how the univers...
Genres: Comedy
Black Mirror
Over the last ten years, technology has transformed almost every aspect of our lives before we've had time to stop and question it. In every home; on ...
Genres: Drama, Science-Fiction, Thriller
Black Sails
1715. The Golden Age of Piracy. New Providence Island is a lawless territory, controlled by history's most notorious pirate captains. The most feared ...
Genres: Drama, Action, Adventure
Breaking Bad
Breaking Bad follows protagonist Walter White, a chemistry teacher who lives in New Mexico with his wife and teenage son who has cerebral palsy. White...
Genres: Drama, Crime, Thriller
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
"Into every generation, there is a chosen one. She alone will stand against the vampires, the demons, and the forces of darkness. She is the slayer."B...
Genres: Drama, Action, Fantasy
Carnivàle
Carnivàle is set in the United States during the Great Depression and Dust Bowl. In tracing the lives of two disparate groups of people, its overarch...
Genres: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Channel Zero
Get ready for some thrills and chills with Channel Zero, a horror anthology series. Each six hour installment draws inspiration from a different "cree...
Genres: Drama, Horror, Supernatural
Charlie Jade
Charlie Jade is a rogue private detective in a world dominated by greedy multinational corporations. While on an investigation, Charlie explores a sec...
Genres: Drama, Science-Fiction
Childhood's End
Written by Arthur C. Clarke and hailed as a revolutionary work of science fiction since its publishing in 1953, Childhood's End follows the peaceful a...
Genres: Drama, Science-Fiction
Chilling Adventures of Sabrina
Chilling Adventures of Sabrina reimagines the origin & adventures of Sabrina the Teenage Witch as a dark coming-of-age story that traffics in horr...
Genres: Drama, Supernatural
Chuck
Chuck Bartowski is a computer geek that gets catapulted into a new career as the government's most vital secret agent. When Chuck opens an e-mail subl...
Genres: Drama, Comedy, Action
Continuum
Continuum is a one-hour police drama centered on Kiera Cameron, a regular cop from 65 years in the future who finds herself trapped in present day Van...
Genres: Drama, Crime, Science-Fiction
Marvel's Daredevil
Matt Murdock, a Marvel Comics hero who's a lawyer by day but fights the bad guys at night to avenge the murder of his father, a boxer. But what sets M...
Genres: Drama, Action, Crime
Dexter
Dexter is a crime drama series based around the main character, a serial killer named Dexter Morgan. Dexter only kills other killers and criminals and...
Genres: Horror, Thriller
Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23
After a naive Midwestern girl's big city dreams are dashed during her first week in New York, she finds herself living with her worst nightmare, in a ...
Genres: Comedy
Doctor Who
Adventures across time and space with the time travelling alien and companions.
Genres: Drama, Adventure, Science-Fiction
Eureka
With the help of Albert Einstein and other trusted advisors, President Harry S. Truman commissioned a top-secret residential development in a remote a...
Genres: Drama, Comedy, Science-Fiction
The Expanse
A thriller set two hundred years in the future, The Expanse follows the case of a missing young woman who brings a hardened detective and a rogue ship...
Genres: Science-Fiction, Thriller, Mystery
The Fades
Seventeen-year old Paul can see the spirits of the dead. When one of these restless spirits crosses back into the living world, he is forced into a fi...
Genres: Drama, Thriller, Supernatural
Firefly
Five hundred years in the future, a renegade crew aboard a small spacecraft tries to survive as they travel the unknown parts of the galaxy and evade ...
Genres: Adventure, Science-Fiction, Western
Fringe
When an international flight lands at Boston's Logan Airport and the passengers and crew have all died grisly deaths, FBI Special Agent Olivia Dunham ...
Genres: Drama, Action, Science-Fiction
Game of Thrones
Based on the bestselling book series A Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin, this sprawling new HBO drama is set in a world where summers span d...
Genres: Drama, Adventure, Fantasy
The Good Place
The Good Place is a smart, unique comedy about what makes a good person. The show follows Eleanor Shellstrop, an ordinary woman who enters the afterli...
Genres: Comedy, Fantasy, Supernatural
Grimm
Grimm is a drama series inspired by the classic Grimm Brothers' Fairy Tales. After Portland homicide detective Nick Burkhardt discovers he's descended...
Genres: Drama, Crime, Supernatural
Haven
When FBI Special Agent Audrey Parker is dispatched to the small town of Haven, Maine, on a routine case, she soon finds herself increasingly involved ...
Genres: Drama, Crime, Supernatural
Hemlock Grove
Secrets are just a part of daily life in the small Pennsylvania town of Hemlock Grove, where the darkest evils hide in plain sight.
Genres: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Helix
Helix is a science fiction thriller that focuses on a CDC expedition into the arctic. They go there to investigate the potential outbreak of a disease...
Genres: Horror, Science-Fiction, Thriller
In the Flesh
Thousands of dead people have risen from their graves and nearly destroyed Britain. A cure has been found - but can the treated zombies be rehabilitat...
Genres: Drama, Horror, Supernatural
iZombie
Olivia "Liv" Moore is a rosy-cheeked, disciplined, over-achieving medical resident who had her life path completely mapped out... until the night she ...
Genres: Drama, Crime, Horror
Marvel's Jessica Jones
Haunted by a traumatic past, Jessica Jones uses her gifts as a private eye to find her tormentor before he can harm anyone else in Hell's Kitchen.
Genres: Action, Crime, Science-Fiction
Kyle XY
Kyle XY is an incredible mystery about a teenager with no past. The series tells the surprising journey of Kyle, a 16 year-old teenage savant who is m...
Genres: Drama, Science-Fiction, Mystery
Legend of the Seeker
In a mythical land, one man, Richard Cypher, discovers his true destiny as he, a mysterious young woman, a wise old wizard and a magical sword are all...
Genres: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Letterkenny
Wayne is a good-ol' country boy in Letterkenny, Ontario trying to protect his homegrown way of life on the farm, against a world that is constantly ev...
Genres: Comedy
Lost Girl
Lost Girl follows supernatural seductress Bo, a Succubus who feeds on the sexual energy of humans. Growing up with human parents, Bo had no reason to ...
Genres: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Lucifer
The Devil has come to Los Angeles…Based upon the characters created by Neil Gaiman, Sam Kieth and Mike Dringenberg for DC Entertainment's Vertigo im...
Genres: Drama, Crime, Supernatural
The Magicians
Based upon Lev Grossman's best-selling books, The Magicians centers around Brakebills University, a secret institution specializing in magic. There, a...
Genres: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
Phil Coulson heads an elite team of fellow agents with the worldwide law-enforcement organization known as S.H.I.E.L.D. (Strategic Homeland Interventi...
Genres: Action, Adventure, Science-Fiction
Midnight, Texas
Welcome to a place where being normal is really quite strange, Midnight, Texas. From Niels Arden Oplev, the visionary director of "Mr. Robot", and bas...
Genres: Drama, Mystery, Supernatural
Misfits
When five young outsiders on Community Service get caught in a strange storm, they discover that they have developed superpowers.
Genres: Drama, Comedy, Science-Fiction
The Neighbors
The Neighbors revolves around a family that has relocated to a gated townhouse community in New Jersey called "Hidden Hills". Upon their arrival, they...
Genres: Comedy, Science-Fiction
Nightflyers
Set in the year 2093, Nightflyers is a psychological thriller that follows a team of scientists aboard the Nightflyer, the most advanced ship ever bui...
Genres: Drama, Science-Fiction, Thriller
The 100
Ninety-seven years ago, nuclear Armageddon decimated planet Earth, destroying civilization. The only survivors were the 400 inhabitants of 12 internat...
Genres: Action, Adventure, Science-Fiction
Outsiders
A struggle for power and control set in the rugged and mysterious hills of Appalachia, Outsiders tells the story of the Farrell clan, a family of outs...
Genres: Drama, Adventure
Orphan Black
Orphan Black is about Sarah, an outsider and orphan whose life changes dramatically after witnessing the suicide of a woman, "Beth", who looks just li...
Genres: Drama, Science-Fiction, Thriller
Preacher
Based on the popular cult comic book franchise of the same name, Preacher is a supernatural, twisted and darkly comedic drama that follows a West Texa...
Genres: Drama, Western, Supernatural
Raised by Wolves
After Earth is torn apart by religious differences and the human race teeters on the edge of extinction, an atheistic android architect sends two of h...
Genres: Drama, Science-Fiction
ReGenesis
Cloning, bioterrorism, genetic engineering, not since the atom bomb has science had such potential to change the world. Canada, Mexico, and the United...
Genres: Drama, Science-Fiction, Mystery
Äkta Människor
What happens when robots become so human that they can barely be distinguished from real people? When they can even be our lovers? Real Humans takes p...
Genres: Drama, Science-Fiction
Reaper
On his twenty-first birthday, Sam Oliver discovers his parents sold his soul to the devil before he was born, and he must now serve as the devil's per...
Genres: Drama, Comedy, Supernatural
Residue
An unnamed UK metropolis. The future. Photojournalist Jennifer Preston is investigating the aftermath of a freak explosion known as 'the Catastrophe' ...
Genres: Horror, Science-Fiction, Thriller
Rome
Four hundred years after the founding of the Republic, Rome is the wealthiest city in the world. The Republic was founded on principals of shared powe...
Genres: Drama, Action, Adventure
Sanctuary
Sanctuary follows the adventures of the beautiful, enigmatic and always surprising Dr. Helen Magnus, a brilliant scientist who holds the secrets of a ...
Genres: Drama, Adventure, Science-Fiction
Sense8
A group of people around the world are suddenly linked mentally, and must find a way to survive being hunted by those who see them as a threat to the ...
Genres: Drama, Science-Fiction, Thriller
The Shannara Chronicles
The Shannara Chronicles is a new TV series based on the best-selling fantasy novels by Terry Brooks. Set thousands of years after the destruction of o...
Genres: Drama, Adventure, Fantasy
Sleepy Hollow
Sleepy Hollow is a thrilling mystery-adventure drama series spanning two and a half centuries, in which a resurrected Ichabod Crane pairs up with a pr...
Genres: Drama, Mystery, Supernatural
Spy
Sky sitcom about a man accidentally recruited as a trainee spy for MI5. Stars Darren Boyd, Robert Lindsay and young Jude Wright.
Genres: Comedy, Espionage
Stan Against Evil
Stan Against Evil follows Stan Miller, a perpetually disgruntled former sheriff of a small New England town who was forced into retirement. Stan has t...
Genres: Comedy, Action, Horror
Stargate SG-1
Stargate SG-1 is a science fiction series based on the original film Stargate. It involves the team SG-1 going on various adventures to different alie...
Genres: Action, Adventure, Science-Fiction
Stargate Atlantis
Atlantis, built thousands of years ago by the highly evolved Ancients, is home base for an elite expedition from Earth. These courageous military comm...
Genres: Action, Adventure, Science-Fiction
Stargate Universe
Stargate Universe follows a band of soldiers, scientists and civilians, who must fend for themselves as they are forced through a Stargate when their ...
Genres: Action, Adventure, Science-Fiction
Star Trek
The original Star Trek series focuses on the 23rd century adventures of Captain James T. Kirk and the U.S.S. Enterprise (NCC-1701), a powerful interst...
Genres: Adventure, Science-Fiction
Star Trek: Enterprise
Star Trek: Enterprise (ENT) focuses on the 22nd century adventures of Captain Jonathan Archer aboard the Enterprise NX-01 during the early days of int...
Genres: Adventure, Science-Fiction
Star Trek: Voyager
Star Trek: Voyager (VOY) focuses on the 24th century adventures of Captain Kathryn Janeway aboard the U.S.S. Voyager. Smaller than either Kirk's or Pi...
Genres: Adventure, Science-Fiction
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (DS9) focuses on the 24th century adventures of Captain Benjamin Sisko on space station Deep Space 9, an outpost situated n...
Genres: Adventure, Science-Fiction
Star Trek: Discovery
Star Trek, one of the most iconic and influential global television franchises, returns 50 years after it first premiered, with Star Trek: Discovery. ...
Genres: Drama, Adventure, Science-Fiction
Supernatural
The show follows brothers Sam and Dean Winchester, who travel across America in a black 1967 Chevy Impala investigating and combating paranormal event...
Genres: Drama, Action, Supernatural
Todd & The Book of Pure Evil
Imagine a book of awesome power. A book that will make your deepest, darkest dreams come true… but at a horrifying cost. This is The Book of Pure Ev...
Genres: Comedy, Fantasy
Top Gear
Top Gear is a British television series about motor vehicles, primarily cars, and the most widely watched factual television programme in the world.
Genres:
Torchwood
Captain Jack Harkness is a man from the 51st century trapped in the past who leads the last remnants of the Torchwood Institute, a top secret British ...
Genres: Drama, Science-Fiction
True Blood
True Blood is a horror/drama based on a series of novels called The Southern American Vampires Mysteries. It focuses on Sookie Stackhouse and her vari...
Genres: Drama, Romance, Supernatural
The Last Kingdom
The Last Kingdom is a show of heroic deeds and epic battles but with a thematic depth that embraces politics, religion, warfare, courage, love, loyalt...
Genres: Drama, Action, History
The Walking Dead
The Walking Dead tells the story of the months and years that follow after a zombie apocalypse. It follows a group of survivors, led by former police ...
Genres: Drama, Action, Horror
Under the Dome
Under the Dome is the story of a small town that is suddenly and inexplicably sealed off from the rest of the world by an enormous transparent dome. T...
Genres: Drama, Science-Fiction, Thriller
Vikings
Vikings transports us to the brutal and mysterious world of Ragnar Lothbrok, a Viking warrior and farmer who yearns to explore - and raid - the distan...
Genres: Drama, Action, History
Warehouse 13
After saving the life of the President, two Secret Service agents find themselves abruptly transferred to Warehouse 13 -- a massive, top-secret storag...
Genres: Drama, Science-Fiction, Mystery
Wayward Pines
Imagine the perfect American town... beautiful homes, manicured lawns, children playing safely in the streets. Now imagine never being able to leave. ...
Genres: Drama, Science-Fiction, Mystery
