If You Liked Ugly Betty, Watch These Next
Finished Ugly Betty (2006) 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 Ugly Betty, most of them are comedy, drama.
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20 titles · updated 24th September 2026
1.Just Shoot Me!(1997)
6.6ComedyAlso comedy
See the inner workings of a high-style magazine owned by Jack Gallo, who has hired his quick-tempered but talented daughter, Maya, to write for the publication. Challenging her at every turn is Nina, a vain and superficial former model. Then there's photographer Elliot, a man who is very popular with his portrait…
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2.Lipstick Jungle(2008)
6.1DramaComedyAlso drama and comedy
Lipstick Jungle is an American comedy-drama television series created by DeAnn Heline and Eileen Heisler for NBC Universal Television Studio. The hour-long series was based on the best-selling novel of the same name by Candace Bushnell, who also served as executive producer alongside showrunner/head writer Oliver…
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3.30 Rock(2006)
7.5ComedyAlso comedy
Liz Lemon, the head writer for a late-night TV variety show in New York, tries to juggle all the egos around her while chasing her own dream.
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4.Alice(1976)
7.0ComedyDramaAlso comedy and drama
Alice is an American sitcom television series that ran from August 31, 1976 to March 19, 1985 on CBS. The series is based on the 1974 film Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore. The show stars Linda Lavin in the title role, a widow who moves with her young son to start her life over again, and finds a job working at a…
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5.Acapulco(2021)
7.3ComedyDramaAlso comedy and drama
In 1984, Maximo Gallardo's dream comes true when he gets the job of a lifetime at Acapulco's hottest resort, Las Colinas. But he soon realizes that working there will be far more complicated than he ever imagined.
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6.2 Broke Girls(2011)
7.2ComedyAlso comedy
Comedy about the unlikely friendship that develops between two very different young women who meet waitressing at a diner in trendy Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and form a bond over one day owning their own successful cupcake business. Only one thing stands in their way – they’re broke.
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7.Broad City(2014)
7.1ComedyDramaAlso comedy and drama
Broad City follows two women throughout their daily lives in New York City, making the smallest and mundane events hysterical and disturbing to watch all at the same time.
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8.Maude(1972)
6.9ComedyDramaAlso comedy and drama
Well-educated and upper middle class, Maude Findlay is the archetypal feminist of her generation. She lives in suburban Tuckahoe, New York, with her fourth husband, Walter, their divorced daughter, Carol, and grandson Phillip.
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9.True Jackson, VP(2008)
7.9ComedyKidsFamilyAlso comedy
A 15-year-old fashionista lands the opportunity of a lifetime when the CEO of Mad Style hires her as the vice president of its youth apparel division.
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10.Jane by Design(2012)
7.1ComedyDramaAlso comedy and drama
Teenage Jane lands a job at Donovan Decker, a hip fashion house, when they mistake her for an adult. Jane soon finds herself juggling life both as a regular high school student and as an assistant to a high powered executive in the cutthroat world of fashion... all while trying to keep her true identity a secret.
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11.Night Court(1984)
7.3ComedyAlso comedy
An eccentric fun-loving judge presides over an urban night court and all the silliness going on there.
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12.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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13.Archie Bunker's Place(1979)
6.5ComedyAlso comedy
Archie Bunker's Place is an American sitcom originally broadcast on the CBS network, conceived in 1979 as a spin-off and continuation of All in the Family. While not as popular as its predecessor, the show maintained a large enough audience to last for four seasons, until its cancellation in 1983. In its first…
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14.Less than Perfect(2002)
6.7ComedyAlso comedy
Claude Casey moved up in the secretarial world of television news, from temp to the anchor's desk. After her boss hires her full time, Claude realizes she may be in over her head in this world of assistants fighting to get ahead. But Claude is determined to prove that though she may not be perfect, she's not going…
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15.Two Guys and a Girl(1998)
7.2ComedyAlso comedy
Welcome to Beacon Street Pizza, the perfect workplace and hangout for aimless wise-guy Berg, neurotic Pete and campus beauty Sharon. Pete and Berg are roommates and students at a local Boston university, while Sharon struggles with her work and relationships. Together, these three best friends try to navigate life…
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16.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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17.Bosom Buddies(1980)
6.4ComedyAlso comedy
Kip and Henry, two young studs working for a New York ad agency, must disguise themselves as women to live in the one apartment they can afford.
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18.The Honeymooners(1955)
7.4ComedyFamilyAlso comedy
A bus driver and his sewer worker friend struggle to strike it rich while their wives look on with weary patience. One of the most influential situation comedy television series in American history.
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19.Katy Keene(2020)
8.1ComedyDramaAlso comedy and drama
A group of aspiring artists living in New York City try to make their dreams come true.
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20.WKRP in Cincinnati(1978)
7.6ComedyAlso comedy
When a Cincinnati radio station switches from sedate music to top-40 rock 'n' roll, its staff of oddball characters is forced to switch gears quickly. New programming director Andy Travis brings in a new DJ named Venus Flytrap to work with the station's burned-out veteran, Dr. Johnny Fever. Neurotic newsman Les…
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