Best TV Shows of 2023
The 40 most popular TV shows that premiered in 2023, most watched first, with a vote floor so obscure titles do not crowd out the ones people remember.
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40 titles · updated 2nd October 2026
1.Lioness(2023)
8.3DramaWar & Politics
Cruz Manuelos, a rough-around-the-edges but passionate young Marine, is recruited to join the CIA's Lioness Engagement Team to help bring down a terrorist organization from within. Joe, the station chief of the Lioness program, is tasked with training, managing and leading her female undercover operatives.
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2.Silo(2023)
8.2Sci-Fi & FantasyDrama
In a ruined and toxic future, thousands live in a giant silo deep underground. After its sheriff breaks a cardinal rule and residents die mysteriously, engineer Juliette starts to uncover shocking secrets and the truth about the silo.
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3.Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake(2023)
8.7AnimationAction & AdventureComedy
Fionna and Cake – with the help of the former Ice King, Simon Petrikov - embark on a multiverse-hopping adventure and journey of self-discovery. All the while a powerful new antagonist determined to track them down and erase them from existence, lurks in the shadows.
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4.LEGO Ninjago: Dragons Rising(2023)
8.0AnimationAction & AdventureKids
A phenomenon known as the Merge has caused many legendary realms to suddenly combine into one, but their union is unstable. A Spinjitzu Ninja Master must train a new generation of heroes to help find Elemental Dragons who can save the planet before the forces of evil use the same dragon energy to destroy this new…
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5.The Night Agent(2023)
7.7Action & AdventureDramaMystery
Brought together by a midnight phone call, an FBI agent and a cybersecurity expert must unravel an ever-growing web of political conspiracies.
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6.The Last of Us(2023)
8.4Drama
Twenty years after modern civilization has been destroyed, Joel, a hardened survivor, is hired to smuggle Ellie, a 14-year-old girl, out of an oppressive quarantine zone. What starts as a small job soon becomes a brutal, heartbreaking journey, as they both must traverse the United States and depend on each other for…
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7.Will Trent(2023)
7.3CrimeDramaComedy
Special Agent Will Trent was abandoned at birth and endured a harsh coming-of-age in Atlanta's overwhelmed foster care system. Determined to make sure no one feels as he did, he now has the highest clearance rate.
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8.Percy Jackson and the Olympians(2023)
7.2Action & AdventureSci-Fi & FantasyDrama
Percy Jackson is on a dangerous quest. Outrunning monsters and outwitting gods, he must journey across America to return Zeus's master bolt and stop an all-out war. With the help of his friends Annabeth and Grover, Percy's journey will lead him closer to the answers he seeks: how to fit into a world where he feels…
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9.XO, Kitty(2023)
8.1ComedyDrama
Teen matchmaker Kitty Song Covey thinks she knows everything there is to know about love. But when she moves halfway across the world to reunite with her long-distance boyfriend, she'll soon realise that relationships are a lot more complicated when it's your heart on the line.
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10.The Walking Dead: Dead City(2023)
7.9Action & AdventureDramaSci-Fi & Fantasy
Maggie and Negan travel to post-apocalyptic Manhattan - long ago cut off from the mainland. The crumbling city is filled with the dead and denizens who have made it a world full of anarchy, danger, beauty, and terror.
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11.Shrinking(2023)
7.8DramaComedy
Jimmy is struggling to grieve the loss of his wife while being a dad, friend, and therapist. He decides to try a new approach with everyone in his path: unfiltered, brutal honesty. Will it make things better—or unleash uproarious chaos?
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12.Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur(2023)
7.4AnimationKidsSci-Fi & Fantasy
After 13-year-old super-genius Lunella accidentally brings ten-ton T-Rex, Devil Dinosaur into present-day New York City via a time vortex, the duo works together to protect the city's Lower East Side from danger.
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13.ONE PIECE(2023)
8.1Action & AdventureSci-Fi & Fantasy
With his straw hat and ragtag crew, young pirate Monkey D. Luffy goes on an epic voyage for treasure.
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14.Gen V(2023)
7.6Action & AdventureDramaSci-Fi & Fantasy
At America's only college for superheroes, gifted students put their moral boundaries to the test, competing for the university's top ranking, and a chance to join The Seven, Vought International's elite superhero team. When the school's dark secrets come to light, they must decide what kind of heroes they want to…
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15.Monarch: Legacy of Monsters(2023)
7.7Sci-Fi & FantasyDramaAction & Adventure
After surviving Godzilla's attack on San Francisco, Cate is shaken yet again by a shocking secret. Amid monstrous threats, she embarks on a globetrotting adventure to learn the truth about her family—and the mysterious organization known as Monarch.
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16.My Life with the Walter Boys(2023)
7.8Drama
When a tragedy disrupts her life, a teen moves in with her guardian's big family in a small town and learns new lessons about love, hope and friendship.
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17.My Adventures with Superman(2023)
8.1AnimationAction & AdventureSci-Fi & Fantasy
Twenty-somethings Clark Kent, the bright and driven Lois Lane, and their best friend Jimmy Olsen begin to discover who they are and everything they can accomplish together as an investigative reporting team at the Daily Planet.
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18.The Ark(2023)
6.4Sci-Fi & FantasyMystery
100 years in the future, planetary colonization missions have begun as a necessity to help secure the survival of the human race. The first of these missions on a spacecraft known as Ark One encounters a catastrophic event causing massive destruction and loss of life. With more than a year left to go before reaching…
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19.The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon(2023)
8.0Sci-Fi & FantasyAction & AdventureDrama
After washing ashore in France, Daryl struggles to piece together how he got there and why, as he navigates a fractured, walker-infested landscape to find his way home. During his journey, Daryl has to protect a young boy, Laurent, who is seen as a messiah, while facing new, dangerous walker variants and the "Power…
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20.BEEF(2023)
7.8ComedyDrama
A road rage incident between two strangers — a failing contractor and an unfulfilled entrepreneur — sparks a feud that brings out their darkest impulses.
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21.Star Wars: Young Jedi Adventures(2023)
4.6AnimationKidsAction & Adventure
Set during the High Republic era and the prime of the Jedi Order, follow Jedi younglings as they study the ways of the Force, explore the galaxy, help citizens and creatures in need, and learn valuable skills needed to become Jedi along the way.
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22.Animal Control(2023)
6.2Comedy
A group of local animal control workers' lives are complicated by the fact that animals are simple, but humans are not. Leading the crew is Frank, an opinionated, eccentric animal control officer who may not have gone to college but is still the most well-read person in the room. In his past life as a cop, Frank…
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23.The Diplomat(2023)
7.6DramaWar & Politics
Amid an international crisis, a US diplomat contends with her high-profile job as ambassador to the UK and her strained marriage to a political star.
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24.Citadel(2023)
6.9DramaCrimeAction & Adventure
What if you lost your memory? What if a spy didn't know they were a spy? Years ago, the top agents of Citadel, Mason Kane and Nadia Sinh, had their minds wiped. But, they're called back to action as sinister forces emerge from the past. With the help of spymaster Bernard Orlick, these former lovers must remember the…
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25.Blue Lights(2023)
7.6CrimeDrama
Follows rookie police officers working in Belfast, a city in which being a frontline response cop comes with unique pressures and dangers.
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26.Krapopolis(2023)
7.0AnimationComedySci-Fi & Fantasy
In mythical ancient Greece, a flawed family of humans, gods and monsters tries to run one of the world’s first cities without killing each other.
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27.Poker Face(2023)
7.5CrimeMystery
Follow Charlie Cale, a woman with an extraordinary ability to tell when someone is lying, as she hits the road and, at every stop, encounters a new cast of characters and crimes she can't help but solve.
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28.History of the World: Part II(2023)
5.7Comedy
Explore different periods of human history through a variety of sketches.
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29.Ahsoka(2023)
7.4Sci-Fi & FantasyAction & Adventure
Former Jedi Knight Ahsoka Tano investigates an emerging threat to a vulnerable galaxy.
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30.Wolf Pack(2023)
7.6Sci-Fi & FantasyDrama
When a raging wildfire releases a supernatural creature, four young adults find themselves drawn together under a full moon.
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31.Hijack(2023)
7.5Drama
Expert negotiator Sam Nelson is in for the ride of his life—and so is everyone on board with him—after a group of hijackers take control. Sam will try every move in his playbook to take them down...as the stakes grow higher by the second.
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32.Secret Invasion(2023)
6.4DramaSci-Fi & FantasyAction & Adventure
Nick Fury and Talos discover a faction of shapeshifting Skrulls who have been infiltrating Earth for years.
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33.Fatal Seduction(2023)
6.6CrimeMysteryDrama
A married professor is pulled into a passionate affair with a younger man that uncovers a path of tragedy and betrayal from those closest to her.
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34.The Last Thing He Told Me(2023)
7.0MysteryDrama
A woman must forge a relationship with her teenage stepdaughter in order to find her husband, who has mysteriously disappeared.
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35.Mayfair Witches(2023)
7.3DramaSci-Fi & Fantasy
An intuitive young neurosurgeon discovers that she is the unlikely heir to a family of witches. As she grapples with her newfound powers, she must contend with a sinister presence that has haunted her family for generations.
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36.Sullivan's Crossing(2023)
8.1Drama
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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37.Found(2023)
6.3DramaCrime
In any given year, more than 600,000 people are reported missing in the U.S. Of these reported cases, more than half of the missing people are people of color, too easily neglected by the system. Gabi Mosely, a former missing person herself, now specializes in PR and leads a crisis management team that seeks out…
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38.The Irrational(2023)
6.7CrimeDrama
Alec Mercer is a world-renowned professor of behavioral psychology with a unique insight into human nature who lends his expertise to an array of high-stakes cases involving governments, corporations and law enforcement. However, he meets his match in a female domestic terror suspect who turns his world upside down.
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39.Alert: Missing Persons Unit(2023)
7.5DramaCrime
When police officer Nikki Batista’s son goes missing, she joins the Philadelphia Police Department's Missing Person’s Unit (MPU) to help other people find their loved ones, even as she searches for her own. Six years later, her world is turned upside-down when her ex-husband, Jason Grant, a former police officer,…
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40.Night Court(2023)
6.5Comedy
Unapologetically optimistic judge Abby Stone, the daughter of the late Harry Stone, follows in her father's footsteps as she presides over the night shift of a Manhattan arraignment court and tries to bring order to its crew of oddballs and cynics, most notably former night court prosecutor Dan Fielding.
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