If You Liked Madam Secretary, Watch These Next
Finished Madam Secretary (2014) 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 Madam Secretary, most of them are drama, war & politics.
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19 titles · updated 2nd October 2026
1.The West Wing(1999)
8.3DramaAlso drama
The West Wing provides a glimpse into presidential politics in the nation's capital as it tells the stories of the members of a fictional presidential administration. These interesting characters have humor and dedication that touches the heart while the politics that they discuss touch on everyday life.
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2.Covert Affairs(2010)
6.9Action & AdventureDramaAlso drama
A young CIA operative, Annie Walker, is mysteriously summoned to headquarters for duty as a field operative. While Annie believes she's been promoted for her exceptional linguistic skills, there may be something or someone from her past that her CIA bosses are really after. Auggie Anderson is a CIA military…
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3.Threshold(2005)
7.0Sci-Fi & FantasyDramaAction & AdventureAlso drama
Threshold was a science fiction drama television series that first aired on CBS in September 2005. Produced by Brannon Braga, David S. Goyer and David Heyman, the series focuses on a secret government project investigating the first contact with an extraterrestrial species.
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4.The State Within(2006)
7.4DramaWar & PoliticsAlso drama and war & politics
The State Within is a six-part British television political thriller serial written and created by Lizzie Mickery and Daniel Percival, broadcast on BBC One from 2 November to 7 December 2006. After a plane explodes over Washington DC, panic begins to envelop the British embassy, and its ambassador to Washington, Mark…
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5.Pearson(2019)
7.3War & PoliticsDramaAlso war & politics and drama
Powerhouse lawyer Jessica Pearson adjusts to the dirty world of Chicago politics.
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6.The Company(2007)
7.3Action & AdventureDramaAlso drama
The Company tells the thrilling story of Cold War CIA agents imprisoned in double lives, fighting an amoral, elusive, formidable enemy – and each other – in an internecine battle within the Company itself.
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7.Restless(2012)
7.1DramaWar & PoliticsAlso drama and war & politics
A young woman finds out that her mother worked as a spy for the British Secret Service during World War II and has been on the run ever since.
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8.Smiley's People(1982)
7.7DramaMysteryAlso drama
Called out of retirement to settle the affairs of a friend, Smiley finds his old organization, the Circus, so overwhelmed by political considerations that it doesn't want to know what happened. He begins to follow up the clues of his friends past days, discovering that the clues lead to a high person in the Russian…
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9.Burn Notice(2007)
7.5Action & AdventureDramaCrimeAlso drama
A formerly blacklisted spy uses his unique skills and training to help people in desperate situations.
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10.Jake 2.0(2003)
7.0Sci-Fi & FantasyAction & AdventureDramaAlso drama
Jake 2.0 is an American science fiction television series originally broadcast on UPN in 2003. The series was canceled on January 14, 2004 due to low ratings, leaving four episodes unaired in the United States. In the United Kingdom, all the episodes aired on Sky1. The series later aired in syndication on HDNet and…
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11.Police Story(1973)
7.0Action & AdventureCrimeDramaAlso drama
Detective Cheng is commissioned by Interpol to destroy the Empire of Chaiba, a worldwide criminal organization based in Southeast Asia. He initiates an undercover operation to infiltrate the organization.
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12.The New Avengers(1976)
7.2DramaAction & AdventureAlso drama
The New Avengers is a British secret agent fantasy adventure television series broadcast during 1976 and 1977. It is a sequel to the 1960s series The Avengers and was developed by Albert Fennell and Brian Clemens. A joint United Kingdom-France-Canada production, the show picks up the adventures of John Steed and his…
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13.Tyler Perry's The Oval(2019)
8.2DramaFamilyAlso drama
A seemingly perfect interracial first family becomes the White House's newest residents. But behind closed doors they unleash a torrent of lies, cheating and corruption.
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14.Conviction(2016)
6.8DramaAlso drama
A brilliant young attorney, who is also the daughter of a former U.S. president, is blackmailed to head up LA's new Conviction Integrity Unit. She and her team investigate cases where people may have been wrongly convicted.
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15.Danger Man(1960)
7.3Action & AdventureDramaAlso drama
Danger Man is a British television series which was broadcast between 1960 and 1962, and again between 1964 and 1968. The series featured Patrick McGoohan as secret agent John Drake. Ralph Smart created the programme and wrote many of the scripts. Danger Man was financed by Lew Grade's ITC Entertainment.
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16.Foyle's War(2002)
7.9MysteryDramaWar & PoliticsAlso drama and war & politics
As WW2 rages around the world, DCS Foyle fights his own war on the home-front as he investigates crimes on the south coast of England. Foyle's War opens in southern England in the year 1940. Later series sees the retired detective working as an MI5 agent operating in the aftermath of the war.
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17.The Resident(2018)
8.4DramaAlso drama
A tough, brilliant senior resident guides an idealistic young doctor through his first day, pulling back the curtain on what really happens, both good and bad, in modern-day medicine.
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18.Walker(2021)
7.1CrimeDramaAction & AdventureAlso drama
Cordell Walker, a widower and father of two with his own moral code, returns home to Austin after being undercover for two years, only to discover there's harder work to be done at home.
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19.War of the Worlds(1988)
6.4DramaAction & AdventureAlso drama
Humanity must resume its war against the Martians when they revive after decades of hibernation following their defeat in the 1950s. The fate of Earth may very well rest in the hands of a small yet courageous band: astrophysicist Harrison Blackwood, paraplegic computer wizard Norton Drake, microbiologist Suzanne…
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