If You Liked Battlestar Galactica, Watch These Next
Finished Battlestar Galactica (2004) and want more of the same? These 20 TV shows are what its fans watched next, ranked by how often people who liked it also liked these. Like Battlestar Galactica, most of them are sci-fi & fantasy, action & adventure, drama.
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20 titles · updated 2nd October 2026
1.Star Trek: Discovery(2017)
6.9Sci-Fi & FantasyAction & AdventureDramaAlso sci-fi & fantasy and action & adventure
Follow the voyages of Starfleet on their missions to discover new worlds and new life forms, and one Starfleet officer who must learn that to truly understand all things alien, you must first understand yourself.
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2.Caprica(2010)
6.9DramaSci-Fi & FantasyAlso drama and sci-fi & fantasy
Set 58 years before Battlestar Galactica, Caprica follows two rival families - the Graystones and the Adamas - as they grow, compete, and thrive in the vibrant world of the peaceful 12 Colonies, living in a society close to our own. Entangled in the burgeoning technology of artificial intelligence and robotics that…
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3.Star Trek: Picard(2020)
7.2Sci-Fi & FantasyAction & AdventureDramaAlso sci-fi & fantasy and action & adventure
Set twenty years after the events of Star Trek Nemesis, we follow the now-retired Admiral Picard into the next chapter of his life.
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4.Another Life(2019)
6.1Sci-Fi & FantasyDramaAlso sci-fi & fantasy and drama
After a massive alien artifact lands on Earth, Niko Breckinridge leads an interstellar mission to track down its source and make first contact.
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5.Falling Skies(2011)
7.1Action & AdventureSci-Fi & FantasyDramaAlso action & adventure and sci-fi & fantasy
Falling Skies opens in the chaotic aftermath of an alien attack that has left most of the world completely incapacitated. In the six months since the initial invasion, the few survivors have banded together outside major cities to begin the difficult task of fighting back. Each day is a test of survival as citizen…
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6.Invasion(2021)
7.1Sci-Fi & FantasyDramaAlso sci-fi & fantasy and drama
Earth is visited by an alien species that threatens humanity's existence. Events unfold in real time through the eyes of five ordinary people across the globe as they struggle to make sense of the chaos unraveling around them.
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7.Defiance(2013)
6.8DramaSci-Fi & FantasyAlso drama and sci-fi & fantasy
In the near future, planet Earth is permanently altered following the sudden—and tumultuous—arrival of seven unique alien races. In the boom-town of Defiance, the newly-formed civilization of humans and aliens must learn to co-exist peacefully.
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8.The Expanse(2015)
8.1DramaMysterySci-Fi & FantasyAlso drama and sci-fi & fantasy
A thriller set two hundred years in the future following the case of a missing young woman who brings a hardened detective and a rogue ship's captain together in a race across the solar system to expose the greatest conspiracy in human history.
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9.Krypton(2018)
7.1Action & AdventureDramaSci-Fi & FantasyAlso action & adventure and drama
Set two generations before the destruction of the legendary Man of Steel’s home planet, Krypton follows Superman’s grandfather — whose House of El was ostracized and shamed — as he fights to redeem his family’s honor and save his beloved world from chaos.
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10.V(2009)
6.8Sci-Fi & FantasyDramaAlso sci-fi & fantasy and drama
A re-imagining of the 1980s miniseries about the world's first encounter with an alien race in which the aliens call themselves The Visitors, and have a seemingly friendly agenda that may or may not be a cover for something more malevolent.
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11.Halo(2022)
8.2Sci-Fi & FantasyAction & AdventureAlso sci-fi & fantasy and action & adventure
Depicting an epic 26th-century conflict between humanity and an alien threat known as the Covenant, the series weaves deeply drawn personal stories with action, adventure and a richly imagined vision of the future.
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12.Alien: Earth(2025)
7.3Sci-Fi & FantasyDramaAlso sci-fi & fantasy and drama
When the mysterious deep space research vessel USCSS Maginot crash-lands on Earth, Wendy and a ragtag group of tactical soldiers make a fateful discovery that puts them face-to-face with the planet's greatest threat.
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13.War of the Worlds(2019)
7.2Sci-Fi & FantasyDramaAlso sci-fi & fantasy and drama
When astronomers detect a transmission from another galaxy, it is definitive proof of intelligent extra-terrestrial life. The world’s population waits for further contact with bated breath. They do not have to wait long. Within days, mankind is all but wiped out by a devastating attack; pockets of humanity are left…
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14.Raised by Wolves(2020)
7.5Sci-Fi & FantasyDramaAlso sci-fi & fantasy and drama
After Earth is ravaged by a great religious war, an atheistic android architect sends two of his creations, Mother and Father, to start a peaceful, godless colony on the planet Kepler-22b. Their treacherous task is jeopardized by the arrival of the Mithraic, a deeply devout religious order of surviving humans.
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15.Smallville(2001)
8.2Sci-Fi & FantasyAction & AdventureDramaAlso sci-fi & fantasy and action & adventure
The origins of the world’s greatest hero–from Krypton refugee Kal-el’s arrival on Earth through his tumultuous teen years to Clark Kent’s final steps toward embracing his destiny as the Man of Steel.
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16.Blade Runner: Black Lotus(2021)
7.1AnimationSci-Fi & FantasyAction & AdventureAlso sci-fi & fantasy and action & adventure
Los Angeles 2032. A young woman wakes up with no memories, and possessing deadly skills. The only clues to her mystery are a locked data device and a tattoo of a black lotus. Putting together the pieces, she must hunt down the people responsible for her brutal and bloody past to find the truth of her lost identity.
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17.Dark Matter(2015)
6.8Sci-Fi & FantasyDramaAlso sci-fi & fantasy and drama
The six-person crew of a derelict spaceship awakens from stasis in the farthest reaches of space. Their memories wiped clean, they have no recollection of who they are or how they got on board. The only clue to their identities is a cargo bay full of weaponry and a destination: a remote mining colony that is about to…
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18.Torchwood(2006)
7.3Sci-Fi & FantasyAction & AdventureDramaAlso sci-fi & fantasy and action & adventure
The exploits of a team of people whose job is to investigate the unusual, the strange and the extraterrestrial.
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19.The 100(2014)
7.9Sci-Fi & FantasyAction & AdventureDramaAlso sci-fi & fantasy and action & adventure
100 years in the future, when the Earth has been abandoned due to radioactivity, the last surviving humans live on an ark orbiting the planet — but the ark won't last forever. So the repressive regime picks 100 expendable juvenile delinquents to send down to Earth to see if the planet is still habitable.
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20.Intelligence(2014)
6.5Action & AdventureSci-Fi & FantasyDramaAlso action & adventure and sci-fi & fantasy
A drama centered on a high-tech intelligence operative who is enhanced with a super-computer microchip in his brain, and the director of the elite government cyber-security agency who supports him.
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