Best TV Shows of 2024
The 40 most popular TV shows that premiered in 2024, 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.The Gentlemen(2024)
7.9ComedyDramaCrime
When aristocratic Eddie inherits the family estate, he discovers that it's home to an enormous weed empire — and its proprietors aren't going anywhere.
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2.High Potential(2024)
8.3DramaCrimeMystery
Morgan is a single mom with an exceptional mind, whose unconventional knack for solving crimes leads to an unusual and unstoppable partnership with a by-the-book seasoned detective.
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3.Tracker(2024)
7.6DramaCrime
Lone-wolf survivalist Colter Shaw roams the country as a “reward seeker,” using his expert tracking skills to help private citizens and law enforcement solve all manner of mysteries while contending with his own fractured family.
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4.Avatar: The Last Airbender(2024)
7.8Action & AdventureSci-Fi & FantasyDrama
A young boy known as the Avatar must master the four elemental powers to save a world at war — and fight a ruthless enemy bent on stopping him.
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5.Elsbeth(2024)
6.8CrimeDramaComedy
After her successful career in Chicago, Elsbeth Tascioni, an astute but unconventional attorney, utilizes her singular point of view to make unique observations and corner brilliant criminals alongside the NYPD.
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6.Dark Matter(2024)
7.8Sci-Fi & FantasyDrama
Jason Dessen is abducted into an alternate version of his life. To get back to his real family, he embarks on a harrowing journey to save them from the most terrifying foe imaginable: himself.
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7.Landman(2024)
8.2Drama
Set in the proverbial boomtowns of West-Texas and a modern-day tale of fortune-seeking in the world of oil rigs, the series is an upstairs/downstairs story of roughnecks and wildcat billionaires that are fueling a boom so big it’s reshaping our climate, our economy and our geopolitics.
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8.Fallout(2024)
8.1Action & AdventureSci-Fi & FantasyDrama
The story of haves and have-nots in a world in which there's almost nothing left to have. 200 years after the apocalypse, the gentle denizens of luxury fallout shelters are forced to return to the irradiated hellscape their ancestors left behind — and are shocked to discover an incredibly complex, gleefully weird,…
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9.Beauty in Black(2024)
8.4Drama
A stripper's fate takes a turn when she crosses paths with the wealthy, dysfunctional family behind a cosmetics dynasty and a devious trafficking scheme.
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10.Shōgun(2024)
8.4DramaWar & Politics
In Japan in the year 1600, at the dawn of a century-defining civil war, Lord Yoshii Toranaga is fighting for his life as his enemies on the Council of Regents unite against him, when a mysterious European ship is found marooned in a nearby fishing village.
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11.The Day of the Jackal(2024)
8.3DramaAction & AdventureMystery
An unrivalled and highly elusive lone assassin, the Jackal, makes his living carrying out hits for the highest fee. But following his latest kill, he meets his match in a tenacious British intelligence officer who starts to track down the Jackal in a thrilling cat-and-mouse chase across Europe, leaving destruction in…
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12.ted(2024)
8.0Comedy
It's 1993 and Ted the bear's moment of fame has passed, leaving him living with his best friend, 16-year-old John Bennett, who lives in a working-class Boston home with his parents and cousin. Ted may not be the best influence on John, but when it comes right down to it, he's willing to go out on a limb to help his…
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13.Georgie & Mandy's First Marriage(2024)
8.0Comedy
Georgie and Mandy raise their young family in Texas while navigating the challenges of adulthood, parenting, and marriage.
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14.The Agency(2024)
7.2DramaMystery
Covert CIA agent Martian is ordered to abandon his undercover life and return to London Station. When the love he left behind unexpectedly reappears, their romance reignites, pitting his career, his real identity and his mission against his heart while hurling them both into a deadly game of international intrigue…
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15.Hazbin Hotel(2024)
8.5AnimationComedyDrama
In attempt to find a non-violent alternative for reducing Hell's overpopulation, the daughter of Lucifer opens a rehabilitation hotel that offers a group of misfit demons a chance at redemption.
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16.X-Men '97(2024)
8.7AnimationAction & AdventureSci-Fi & Fantasy
The X-Men, a band of mutants who use their uncanny gifts to protect a world that hates and fears them, are challenged like never before, forced to face a dangerous and unexpected new future.
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17.Matlock(2024)
7.0DramaCrime
After achieving success in her younger years, the brilliant septuagenarian Madeline Matlock rejoins the workforce at a prestigious law firm where she uses her unassuming demeanor and wily tactics to win cases and expose corruption from within. Inspired by the classic television series of the same name.
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18.Nobody Wants This(2024)
7.3ComedyDrama
An agnostic sex podcaster and a newly single rabbi fall in love, but can their relationship survive their wildly different lives and meddling families?
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19.NCIS: Origins(2024)
7.6CrimeDrama
In 1991, years prior to the events of NCIS, Leroy Jethro Gibbs starts his career as a newly minted special agent at the fledgling NCIS Camp Pendleton office, where he forges his place on a gritty, ragtag team led by NCIS legend Mike Franks.
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20.Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story(2024)
7.6DramaCrime
The story of the Menéndez brothers, who were convicted in 1996 of murdering their parents José and Mary Louise “Kitty” Menéndez.
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21.Batman: Caped Crusader(2024)
7.3AnimationCrimeAction & Adventure
Welcome to Gotham City, where the corrupt outnumber the good, criminals run rampant and law-abiding citizens live in a constant state of fear. Forged in the fire of tragedy, wealthy socialite Bruce Wayne becomes something both more and less than human—the Batman. His one-man crusade for justice attracts unexpected…
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22.Cross(2024)
7.0CrimeDramaMystery
Alex Cross is a brilliant but flawed homicide detective and full of contradictions. A doting father and family man, Cross is single-minded to the point of obsession when he hunts killers. He is desperate for love, but his wife’s murder has left him too damaged to receive it.
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23.Doctor Who(2024)
6.4Action & AdventureDramaSci-Fi & Fantasy
The Doctor and his companion travel across time and space encountering incredible friends and foes.
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24.Sausage Party: Foodtopia(2024)
6.8AnimationComedyAction & Adventure
After the foods win their war against the humans at the end of the film, they create Cibopolis, a city of their own ruled entirely by foods. But soon, problems arise, including rain, crows, and internal discord among the foods. To find answers, Frank, Brenda, and Barry set out to find a human.
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25.The Penguin(2024)
8.4DramaCrime
With the city in peril following the seawall's collapse, Oswald "Oz" Cobb seeks to fill the power vacuum left by the death of Carmine Falcone and finally give his mother Francis the life he's always promised. But first, Oz must confront his enemies and his own demoralizing reputation as "the Penguin."
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26.Sugar(2024)
7.1DramaMystery
John Sugar is a dashing private eye navigating the dark corners of sunny LA. Though he sees only the good in humanity, Sugar is haunted by a secret too dangerous to expose.
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27.3 Body Problem(2024)
7.5Sci-Fi & FantasyMysteryDrama
Across continents and decades, five brilliant friends make earth-shattering discoveries as the laws of science unravel and an existential threat emerges.
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28.Ludwig(2024)
7.8MysteryCrimeDrama
John Taylor lives in quiet solitude, designing puzzles for a living, under the nom-de-plume of 'Ludwig'. When his identical twin, James, disappears off the face of the earth, John takes over his brother's identity in a quest to discover his whereabouts.
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29.Wizards Beyond Waverly Place(2024)
8.8ComedySci-Fi & FantasyFamily
Justin Russo has chosen to lead a normal, mortal life with his family, Giada, Roman and Milo. But when Justin's sister Alex brings Billie to his home seeking help, Justin realizes he must dust off his magical skills to mentor the wizard-in-training while also juggling his everyday responsibilities — and safeguarding…
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30.Rivals(2024)
7.4Drama
It is 1986 and Britain is booming. "Rivals" dives headfirst into the cutthroat world of TV where hair-dos are big and ambitions are even bigger. Deals are brokered in boardrooms, as well as bedrooms. Nobody can be sure who will come out on top. With every man and woman out only for themselves, can true love really…
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31.Murder in a Small Town(2024)
6.9DramaCrime
Karl Alberg moves to a quiet coastal town to soothe a psyche that has been battered by big-city police work but finds himself needing to call upon all his skills to solve the murders that continue to wash up on his shore.
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32.Bad Monkey(2024)
7.2ComedyCrime
A detective turned restaurant inspector in Southern Florida is pulled into a world of greed and corruption after a tourist finds a severed arm while fishing. And yes, there's a monkey.
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33.Black Doves(2024)
7.0Action & AdventureMysteryCrime
When a spy posing as a politician's wife learns her lover has been murdered, an old assassin friend joins her on a quest for truth — and vengeance.
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34.Law & Order Toronto: Criminal Intent(2024)
7.5CrimeDrama
An elite squad of detectives investigate high-profile crime and corruption in metro Toronto.
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35.Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft(2024)
6.5Action & AdventureAnimation
Thrust into a high-stakes chase around the world, fearless adventurer Lara Croft confronts her traumatic past while unraveling an ancient mystery.
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36.St. Denis Medical(2024)
6.7Comedy
An eclectic group of underfunded yet dedicated doctors and nurses navigates caring for patients — and each other — while keeping it all together at an Oregon hospital.
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37.Ninja Kamui(2024)
8.1AnimationAction & Adventure
A team of assassins exacts a bloody retribution on Joe Logan – a former ninja who escaped his clan – and his family for betraying their ancient code. Rising from his seeming "death," Joe will re-emerge as his former self – Ninja Kamui – to avenge his family and friends and bring down the very clan that made him.
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38.Disclaimer(2024)
7.5DramaMystery
When an intriguing novel appears at the bedside of a journalist whose career has been built on revealing transgressions, she is horrified to realize she's a key character in a long-buried story—one that exposes her darkest secret.
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39.Dune: Prophecy(2024)
7.2Sci-Fi & FantasyDramaAction & Adventure
Ten thousand years before the ascension of Paul Atreides, sisters Valya and Tula Harkonnen establish the fabled sect and female order that would become known as the Bene Gesserit to control the future of humankind.
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40.Palm Royale(2024)
6.2DramaComedy
In 1969, an ambitious woman aspires to cross the line between the haves and have-nots to secure her seat at America's most exclusive, fashionable, and treacherous table: Palm Beach high society.
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