If You Liked Newhart, Watch These Next
Finished Newhart (1982) and want more of the same? These 19 TV shows are what its fans watched next, ranked by how often people who liked it also liked these. Like Newhart, most of them are comedy, drama.
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19 titles · updated 1st October 2026
1.Benson(1979)
7.1ComedyAlso comedy
A butler deals with life at the governor's mansion.
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2.Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In(1968)
6.8ComedyAlso comedy
An American sketch comedy television program hosted by comedians Dan Rowan and Dick Martin.
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3.Episodes(2011)
7.2ComedyAlso comedy
A British husband-and-wife comedy writing team travel to Hollywood to remake their successful British TV series, with disastrous results.
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4.Cuckoo(2012)
6.7ComedyDramaAlso comedy and drama
Cuckoo is every parent's worst nightmare - a slacker full of outlandish, New Age ideas. Ken is the over-protective father of a girl who's impulsively married an American hippie on her gap year.
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5.How I Met Your Father(2022)
6.4ComedyDramaAlso comedy and drama
In the near future, Sophie tells her son the story of how she met his father: a story that catapults us back to the year 2021 where Sophie and her close-knit group of friends are in the midst of figuring out who they are, what they want out of life, and how to fall in love in the age of dating apps and limitless…
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6.Shifting Gears(2025)
6.6ComedyAlso comedy
Matt is a stubborn, widowed owner of a classic car restoration shop. When Matt's estranged daughter Riley and her teenage kids move into his house, the real restoration begins.
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7.Schitt's Creek(2015)
7.8ComedyAlso comedy
Formerly filthy rich video store magnate Johnny Rose, his soap star wife Moira, and their two kids, über-hipster son David and socialite daughter Alexis, suddenly find themselves broke and forced to live in Schitt's Creek, a small depressing town they once bought as a joke.
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8.Girlfriends(2000)
7.3DramaComedyAlso drama and comedy
A friend group of black women face life's tests and triumphs together. From dating to divorce, and friends to family to relationships, Joan, Maya, Lynn and Toni support each other despite their differing backgrounds.
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9.Sanford and Son(1972)
7.5ComedyAlso comedy
The misadventures of a cantankerous junk dealer and his frustrated son.
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10.American Housewife(2016)
7.7ComedyAlso comedy
A family comedy narrated by Katie, a strong-willed mother, raising her flawed family in a wealthy town filled with perfect wives and their perfect offspring.
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11.The King of Queens(1998)
7.2ComedyAlso comedy
Life’s good for deliveryman Doug Heffernan, until his newly widowed father-in-law, Arthur, moves in with him and his wife Carrie. Doug is no longer the king of his domain, and instead of having a big screen television in his recently renovated basement, he now has a crazy old man.
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12.Tyler Perry's Sistas(2019)
8.4ComedyDramaAlso comedy and drama
There's nothing that bonds a group of single black women together more than sidestepping the land mines of living, working and dating in Atlanta. In a sea of swipe-lefts, social media drama and unrealistic #relationshipgoals, these friends try to find their Mr. Right.
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13.The Jeffersons(1975)
7.3ComedyFamilyAlso comedy
Sitcom following a successful African-American couple, George and Louise “Weezyö Jefferson as they “move on up” from working-class Queens to a ritzy Manhattan apartment. A spin-off of All in the Family.
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14.Nick Cannon Presents: Wild 'N Out(2005)
8.0ComedyAlso comedy
Nick Cannon and an A-list celebrity lead a team of improv comedians as they compete against each other.
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15.Key & Peele(2012)
7.7ComedyAlso comedy
Key & Peele is an American sketch comedy television show. It stars Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele, both former cast members of MADtv. Each episode of the show consists of several pre-taped sketches starring the two actors, introduced by Key and Peele in front of a live studio audience.
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16.I'm Alan Partridge(1997)
7.4ComedyAlso comedy
The fortunes of a former chat show host who is reduced to a lowly slot on Radio Norwich. Alan Partridge is divorced, living in a travel tavern, and desperate for a return to television.
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17.My Three Sons(1960)
6.6ComedyFamilyAlso comedy
A widower and aeronautical engineer named Steven Douglas raises three sons with the help of his father-in-law, and later the boys' great-uncle. An adopted son, a stepdaughter, wives, and another generation of sons join the loving family in later seasons.
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18.Yes, Dear(2000)
6.8ComedyAlso comedy
A comedy about two young couples and their outrageously contrasting views on parenting. Greg and Kim Warner struggle on a daily basis to become perfect at the job. Kim is a neurotic, stay-at-home mother, and although her husband, Greg, is a success in his career, his more difficult job is keeping his wife calm as…
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19.Taxi(1978)
7.3ComedyDramaAlso comedy and drama
Louie De Palma is a cantankerous, acerbic taxi dispatcher in New York City. He tries to maintain order over a collection of varied and strange characters who drive for him. As he bullies and insults them from the safety of his “cage,” they form a special bond among themselves, becoming friends and supporting each…
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