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IMDb
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Top 250 TV shows
3 days ago - The top rated TV Shows list only includes TV series and TV mini series. The list is ranked by a formula which includes the number of ratings each show received from users, and value of ratings received from regular users
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Reddit
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r/coolguides on Reddit: A cool guide to the best TV shows of all time
April 22, 2025 - I've seen most of the shows on the list and I agree with many of the entries, but Black Sails is probably my all-time favourite still. Absolutely amazing dialogue, fantastic narrative and impeccable story-telling.
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What is the best animated series of all time?

For me, its avatar: the last airbender, I fell in love when it first came out, and watched the entire series two more times since then, it is a complete masterpiece 500/10 would watch 3 more times

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A cool guide to the best TV shows of all time
Every time this comes up I think of how the last column should be removed cause of how much they skew things. More on reddit.com
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What is the best TV show of all time??
Why is no one mentioning true detective season 1? It was soooo fucking good More on reddit.com
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[UPDATED] Top 100 Best TV Shows according to IMDb, RottenTomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB. How many shows from this list have you watched and which do you recommend the most?
Full quality image here because Reddit compresses the image in the app. (edit: I just updated the image because The Last Kingdom's country was wrong on the original image. It is correct now.) I just added Ratingraph ratings as you suggested. So this is the updated ranking. I finished 43 shows from this list. I'd like to hear how many shows you've finished and which ones you recommend. This list only includes shows from 1997-2024 (edit: but the top 3 best old shows are Dekalog (1989) with 8.93 overall rating, Mr Bean (1990) with 8.90 and The Twilight Zone (1959) with 8.82). This list does not include ongoing shows (edit: the best ongoing show is Heartstopper with 8.86 overall rating. My Brilliant Friend with 8.71 is the best ongoing show that is already renewed to its final season). Honorable mentions: This Is Us, Legion and Dopesick tied with Penny Dreadful at 100th. Honorable mentions 2: Crash Landing on You has a 9.12 overall rating and it would be good enough to be 3rd on this list. Young Royals has a 8.94 overall rating, that would be good enough to get 9th place. Detectorists has a 8.86 overall rating and Utopia UK has a 8.84 overall rating (both good enough to be 11th on this list). But these shows do not have a page on Metacritic, so their score is based only on IMDb, Rottentomatoes, TMDB and Ratingraph ratings. There are many highly rated foreign shows that could be on this list, but unfortunately most of them do not have critic ratings on Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic. That's why this list is mostly American-British. Edit: I missed This Is Going to Hurt. It is a British miniseries with 8.50 overall rating, so it should be in the Top 100. More on reddit.com
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Rotten Tomatoes
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40 Best Shows of the Past 20 Years | Rotten Tomatoes
September 21, 2018 - "Breaking Bad," "Game of Thrones," and "Friends" were among the top shows of the past 20 years.
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The Hollywood Reporter
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The Most-Watched TV Shows And Movies Right Now
1 day ago - The most-viewed series and movies of the week · ↑ Two weeks out from its final season premiere, Stranger Things ascended to the top overall ranking, with the first four seasons amassing about 1.35 billion minutes of watch time.
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University of Pennsylvania Libraries
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Best TV of All Time - Lists - Cinema & Media Studies - Guides at Penn Libraries
1 week ago - This list comes from Rob Sheffield's list of 100 Greatest TV Shows of All Time, from Rolling Stone, Sept. 16, 2016, with links to streaming sources online or records for DVD sets in the Penn Libraries collections, for the benefit of television studies and media history researchers. Dates for programs that have ended since the publication of this list are updated. The Van Pelt Video Collection and the video collection at the Annenberg School for Communication Library include many classic and newer television series from the U.S.
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Wikipedia
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List of television shows considered the best - Wikipedia
November 8, 2025 - This is a list of television shows that television critics or magazines have considered among the best of all time. The television shows are included on at least four separate best-of lists from different publications (inclusive of all time periods, networks and genres), as chosen by their ...
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Netflix Tudum
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Top 10 Most Popular Shows on Netflix of All Time - Netflix Tudum
3 weeks ago - Limited Series · My List · Watch · ExploreMore Info · 98.2M views all time · #10 in Shows · *Rankings based on total views in the first 91 days of release · Global | All Time* News · My Secret Santa Sleigh Rides to No. 1 and Stranger Things ...
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AARP Online Community
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AARP Online Community and Discussion Forums - What are your top ten all time favorite TV series? - AARP Online Community
December 12, 2020 - And lump all those shows about Zoo's on Animal Planet into one series. ... Josie And The Pussycats (1970-1972) -- long tails and ears for hats! Thundarr The Barbarian (1980-1981) -- best animated show ever. He-Man And The Masters Of The Universe (1983-1984) -- amazing
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Variety
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The 100 Greatest TV Shows of All Time
December 21, 2023 - Variety breaks down the best TV shows of all time. From The Sopranos to Community, these are the best series ever aired.
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Metacritic
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Best TV Shows of All Time - Metacritic
This hilarious comedy won a Golden Globe award for best comedy series. It was created by Ricky Gervais and Steve Merchant. David Brent (Ricky Gervais) is a manager of low intelligence and has no sense of humor, but is convinced that he is the best, the most entertaining and the most well liked boss of all time.Today the show has been sold in more than 60 countries and it even had a remake in America.
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WGA
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101 Best Written TV Series List
The Wire was creator David Simon's Baltimore-set follow-up to his HBO miniseries The Corner, but this time he expanded his gaze to the multi-pronged bureaucracies and civic institutions that fed into and mirrored the ghetto drug trade.
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The Guardian
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The 50 greatest HBO shows ever – ranked | Television | The Guardian
November 15, 2022 - New York real estate heir Robert Durst’s confession that he “killed them all, of course” was one of the most jaw-dropping TV moments of all time. A landmark docuseries which helped bring a monster to justice and kickstarted the entire true-crime genre. If True Detective was a one-series deal, it would be much higher in our ranking.
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Hypixel Forums
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Community: THE greatest TV show of all time (review) | Hypixel Forums
September 26, 2022 - With Dan Harmon back, the show is recovering from the… interesting events of season 4. The episode where they take a lie-detector test and the MeowMeowBeenz one are some of the best episodes of the series, period. I like how ambitious this season was, it reminds me of season 3 with all of the ...
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Quora
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What is the best TV series and why? - Quora
Answer (1 of 1026): When it comes to the Sci-Fi Genre, Dark is the best one hands down! The script of this series is brilliantly written. The casting of the actors was bang on! The cinematography, the visual landscapes, the background score are amazing. The best part of Dark is its storytelling....
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IMDb
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Intelligent and well-written (mostly) drama shows
HBO Max I heard this show is Barack Obama's favorite TV show of all time. ... New Jersey mob boss Tony Soprano deals with personal and professional issues in his home and business life that affect his mental state, leading him to seek professional psychiatric counseling.CreatorDavid ChaseStarsJames GandolfiniLorraine BraccoEdie Falco ... Classic American Anthology series created by Rod Serling, featuring standalone stories of science fiction, fantasy, and horror, each with a twist ending or moral lesson.CreatorRod SerlingStarsRod SerlingRobert McCordJay Overholts
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TV Series (Sorted by Number of ratings Descending)
2 weeks ago - He's Dexter Morgan, America's favorite serial killer, who spends his days solving crimes and his nights committing them. ... A group of vigilantes set out to take down corrupt superheroes who abuse their superpowers. ... A mockumentary on a group of typical office workers, where the workday consists of ego clashes, inappropriate behavior, tedium and romance. ... A father recounts to his children the journey he and his four best ...
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TreasureTV
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The Greatest TV Series of All-Time — TreasureTV
Best Currently Airing • Best Completed • Best Canceled · Past Rankings: 2020 • 2018
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DigitalDreamDoor
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Greatest Television Shows of All Time - digitaldreamdoor.com forum
June 28, 2025 - ManPerson wrote: Sun Jul 13, 2025 11:11 am Made a list for the 2010s. Obviously, most won't end up making the all time list. 1. Game of Thrones 2. Stranger Things 3. The Walking Dead 4. Better Call Saul 5. Rick & Morty 6. Sherlock 7. Black Mirror 8. The Mandalorian 9.