If You Liked The West Wing, Watch These Next
Finished The West Wing (1999) 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 The West Wing, most of them are drama.
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19 titles · updated 2nd October 2026
1.Madam Secretary(2014)
7.0DramaWar & PoliticsAlso drama
After years away from the CIA, Elizabeth McCord is pulled back into the political arena. The newly appointed Secretary of State is tough, fair, and smart, driving international diplomacy, wrangling office politics, and circumventing protocol as she negotiates global and domestic issues, both at the White House and at…
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2.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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3.Brothers and Sisters(2006)
7.1DramaAlso drama
The close-knit Walker family deals with struggles and triumphs.
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4.Pearson(2019)
7.3War & PoliticsDramaAlso drama
Powerhouse lawyer Jessica Pearson adjusts to the dirty world of Chicago politics.
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5.Dirt(2007)
6.7DramaAlso drama
Dirt is an American television serial broadcast on the FX network. It premiered on January 2, 2007 and starred Courteney Cox as Lucy Spiller, the editor-in-chief of the first-of-its-kind "glossy tabloid" magazine DirtNow, which was previously two separate publications: drrt and Now.
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6.Parenthood(2010)
7.5DramaAlso drama
The trials and tribulations of the very large, colorful and imperfect Braverman family.
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7.Blue Bloods(2010)
7.8CrimeDramaAlso drama
A drama about a multi-generational family of cops dedicated to New York City law enforcement. Frank Reagan is the New York Police Commissioner and heads both the police force and the Reagan brood. He runs his department as diplomatically as he runs his family, even when dealing with the politics that plagued his…
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8.Sullivan's Crossing(2023)
8.1DramaAlso drama
After Neurosurgeon Maggie Sullivan’s personal and professional life are thrown into turmoil she returns home to Sullivan’s Crossing. While there, Maggie is forced to navigate her complicated present while confronting the painful past she has chosen to ignore for years.
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9.Star(2016)
8.0DramaAlso drama
Star is a tough-as-nails young woman who came up in the foster care system and decides one day to take control of her destiny. She tracks down her sister, Simone, and her Instagram bestie, Alexandra, and together, the trio journeys to Atlanta with the hope of becoming music superstars.
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10.Starsky & Hutch(1975)
7.3Action & AdventureDramaCrimeAlso drama
Streetwise Detective David Starsky partners up with a more intellectual partner, Kenneth 'Hutch' Hutchinson, to protect citizens and patrol the streets of Bay City.
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11.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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12.The Kennedys(2011)
6.5DramaAlso drama
The triumphs and tragedies of the most popular political family in American history.
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13.SkyMed(2022)
6.7DramaAlso drama
Life, death and drama at 20,000 feet. The series weaves together intense character journeys and high-stakes medical rescues, as we follow the triumphs, heartbreaks and tribulations of budding nurses and pilots flying air ambulances in remote Northern Canada. They’re all in over their heads, and on their own, with no…
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14.Hill Street Blues(1981)
7.6DramaCrimeAlso drama
A realistic glimpse into the daily lives of the officers and detectives at an urban police station.
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15.Offspring(2010)
6.9DramaAlso drama
An exuberant drama set in Melbourne's Fitzroy, centering on Nina Proudman and her struggle to deal with her fabulously messy family, her hunt for a decent love life and her tendency to overthink and fly off into fantasy.
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16.The Fosters(2013)
7.5DramaAlso drama
Stef Foster, a dedicated police officer, and her partner Lena Adams, a school vice principal, have built a close-knit, loving family with Stef's biological son from a previous marriage, Brandon, and their adopted twins, Mariana and Jesus. Their lives are disrupted in unexpected ways when Lena meets Callie, a hardened…
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17.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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18.Las Vegas(2003)
7.0DramaAction & AdventureCrimeAlso drama
Ed Deline is a strict ex-CIA officer who went from being Head of Security to becoming President of Operations of the Montecito, whose job is to run the day-to-day operations of the casino. Following his departure, former Marine Danny McCoy, Ed's former protégé, becomes the Montecito's new President of Operations.
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19.Detroit 1-8-7(2010)
6.6DramaCrimeAlso drama
What does it take to be a detective in one of America's toughest cities? Follow one homicide unit as Detroit's finest unearth the crisis and revelation, heartbreak and heroism of these inner city cops in Detroit, Michigan.
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