Smallville
The series follows the adventures of Clark Kent (Tom Welling), who resides in the fictional town of Smallville, Kansas, during the years before he becomes known as Superman.
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Arrow
The series follows billionaire playboy Oliver Queen, portrayed by Stephen Amell,
who, after five years of being stranded on a hostile island, returns
home to fight crime and corruption as a secret vigilante whose weapon of
choice is a bow and arrow.
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Flash
It is based on the DC Comics character Flash (Barry Allen), a costumed superhero crime-fighter with the power to move at superhuman speeds
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Burn Notice
Jeffrey Donovan as Michael Westen: A CIA contractor who has been burned
(identified as an unreliable or dangerous agent) and now finds himself
in his hometown of Miami, unable to leave. With his assets frozen, he is
forced to live off his wits and any small investigative jobs he can
find while he searches for answers about who has burned him and why.
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The Big Bang Theory
The show is primarily centered on five characters living in Pasadena, California: roommates Leonard Hofstadter and Sheldon Cooper, both physicists; Penny, a waitress and aspiring actress who lives across the hall; and Leonard and Sheldon's equally geeky and socially awkward friends and co-workers, mechanical engineer Howard Wolowitz and astrophysicist Raj Koothrappali.
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Leverage
Leverage follows a five-person team: a thief, a grifter,
a hacker, and a retrieval specialist, led by former insurance
investigator Nathan Ford, who use their skills to fight corporate and
governmental injustices inflicted on ordinary citizens.
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Criminal Minds
The series follows a team of profilers from the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU) based in Quantico, Virginia.
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House
The show's main character is Dr. Gregory House (Hugh Laurie), a pain medication-dependent, unconventional, misanthropic medical genius who leads a team of diagnosticians at the fictional Princeton–Plainsboro Teaching Hospital (PPTH) in New Jersey.
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Psych
The series stars James Roday as Shawn Spencer, a young crime consultant for the Santa Barbara Police Department whose "heightened observational skills" and impressive detective instincts allow him to convince people that he solves cases with psychic abilities.
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Sherlock
Benedict Cumberbatch as Sherlock Holmes and Martin Freeman as Doctor John Watson presents a contemporary adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes detective stories.
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The Mentalist
The show follows former "psychic" Patrick Jane (Simon Baker), who is a consultant to the California Bureau of Investigation (CBI) (and beginning with season six, the FBI), using the highly developed observational skills he previously employed to "read" people's minds.
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Lie To Me
Dr. Cal Lightman (Tim Roth)
and his colleagues in The Lightman Group accept assignments from third
parties (commonly local and federal law enforcement), and assist in
investigations, reaching the truth through applied psychology: interpreting microexpressions, through the Facial Action Coding System, and body language
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The Walking Dead
Andrew Lincoln as sheriff's deputy Rick Grimes, who awakens from a coma to find a post-apocalyptic world dominated by flesh-eating zombies. He sets out to find his family and encounters many other survivors along the way.
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The 100
The series is set 97 years after a devastating nuclear war wiped out
almost all life on Earth. The only known survivors are the residents of
twelve space stations in Earth's orbit prior to the war.
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Fringe
The series follows Olivia Dunham (Anna Torv), Peter Bishop (Joshua Jackson), and Walter Bishop (John Noble), members of the fictional Fringe Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, based in Boston, Massachusetts, under the supervision of Homeland Security. The team uses fringe science
and FBI investigative techniques to investigate a series of
unexplained, often ghastly occurrences, which are related to mysteries
surrounding a parallel universe.
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Heroes
The series tells the stories of ordinary people who discover superhuman abilities, and how these abilities take effect in the characters' lives.
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Dexter
The series centers on Dexter Morgan (Michael C. Hall), a blood spatter pattern analyst for Miami Metro Police Department who also leads a secret life as a serial killer, hunting down criminals who have slipped through the cracks of the justice system.
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Bones
The show is based on forensic anthropology and forensic archaeology, with each episode focusing on an FBI case file concerning the mystery behind human remains brought by FBI Special Agent Seeley Booth (David Boreanaz) to the forensic anthropologist Dr. Temperance "Bones" Brennan (Emily Deschanel).
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Lost
It follows the survivors of the crash of a commercial passenger jet, flying between Sydney and Los Angeles, on a mysterious tropical island somewhere in the South Pacific Ocean.
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24
Kiefer Sutherland as Counter Terrorist Unit (CTU) agent Jack Bauer. Each 24-episode season covers 24 hours in the life of Bauer, using the real time method of narration.
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The Mysteries of Laura
The series follows the life of Laura Diamond, a homicide detective with the New York Police Department
who balances her day job with her off-duty hours as a single mother to
twin sons, while trying to get her soon-to-be-ex-husband to sign the
divorce papers.
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Futurama
The series follows the adventures of a late-20th-century New York City pizza delivery boy, Philip J. Fry, who, after being unwittingly cryogenically frozen for one thousand years, finds employment at Planet Express, an interplanetary delivery company in the retro-futuristic 31st century.
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Family Guy
The series centers on the Griffins, a family consisting of parents Peter and Lois; their children Meg, Chris, and Stewie; and their anthropomorphic pet dog Brian.
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American Dad
The series focuses on the eccentric Smith family and their three housemates: Father, husband, CIA Agent, and breadwinner Stan Smith; his wife and homemaker/housewife, Francine Smith; their college-aged daughter, Hayley Smith; and their high-school-aged son, Steve Smith. Outside of the Smith family, there are three additional main characters, including Hayley's boyfriend turned husband, Jeff Fischer; the family's man-in-a-goldfish-body pet, Klaus; and Roger, the alien, who is "full of masquerades, brazenness, and shocking antics".
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The Simpsons
The series is a satirical depiction of a middle class American lifestyle epitomized by the Simpson family, which consists of Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa, and Maggie. The show is set in the fictional town of Springfield and parodies American culture, society, television, and many aspects of the human condition.
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The Boondocks
The show begins with a black family, the Freemans, settling into the fictional, peaceful, and mostly white suburb of Woodcrest from Chicago's South Side.
The perspective offered by this mixture of cultures, lifestyles, social
classes, stereotypes, viewpoints and racial(ized) identities provides
for much of the series' satire, comedy, and conflict.
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Two And A Half Men
Starring Charlie Sheen, Jon Cryer, and Angus T. Jones, the show is about a hedonistic jingle
writer, Charlie Harper; his uptight brother, Alan; and Alan's growing
son, Jake. After Alan divorces, he moves with his son to share Charlie's
beach-front Malibu house and
complicate Charlie's free-wheeling life.
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Anger Management
The series revolves around Charlie Goodson (Sheen), a one-time minor
league baseball player who struggled to take the next step due to
recurring anger issues. Thanks to a female therapist, Dr. Kate Wales (Selma Blair), Charlie was able to get his issues under control and finally make it to the major leagues.
But he had a relapse during a big league game, breaking a bat over his
knee in anger and causing a career-ending injury. The incident inspired
Charlie to return to school and become an anger management therapist.
Charlie is divorced from his one-time wife, Jennifer (Shawnee Smith),
on whom he cheated multiple times during his baseball-playing days. The
two still see a lot of each other, mainly due to having joint custody
of their teenage daughter, Sam (Daniela Bobadilla), who has her own issues with OCD.
Charlie has a complicated relationship with Kate, who is not only his
therapist, but also his best friend and a sex-only love interest. He
holds regular group sessions in his home for anger management patients,
and also does anger therapy at an area prison.
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How I Met Your Mother
The series follows the main character, Ted Mosby, and his group of friends in Manhattan. As a framing device, Ted, in the year 2030, recounts to his son and daughter the events that led him to meeting their mother.
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Brooklyn Nine-Nine
Set in the fictional 99th Precinct of the New York City Police Department in Brooklyn, the single-camera series follows a precinct team of detectives and a newly appointed captain.
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George Lopez
George Lopez, who plays a fictionalized version of himself, and revolves around his life at work and raising his family at home.
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Saint George
Saint George revolves around the hectic life of a recently divorced working class Mexican-American who has become a successful entrepreneur.
Lopez portrays the main character who must balance his family
life consisting of a demanding ex-wife, an 11-year-old son, and his
mother, uncle, and cousin--and teaching history class at a night school once a week.
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Whose Line Is It Anyway
The show consists of a panel of four performers who create characters,
scenes and songs on the spot, in the style of short-form improvisation
games.
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Monk
Adrian Monk is a brilliant San Francisco detective, whose obsessive compulsive disorder just happens to get in the way.
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Suits
The series is set at Pearson Hardman, a fictional law firm in New York City. Mike, once a college scholarship recipient and on his way to becoming a law student at Harvard University, was kicked out of college for selling the answers to a math test he had memorized, ruining his chances of attending law school. Mike instead makes a living as a bicycle messenger, and is convinced by his friend, Trevor, to take part in a marijuana deal. The deal happens to be a sting operation
which Mike astutely discovers and narrowly avoids, instead stumbling
into a job interview with Harvey, a lawyer at Pearson Hardman and
arguably the "best closer in New York City". Recently made senior
partner, Harvey must hire a Harvard-educated lawyer as an associate, as
per firm policy. Using his eidetic memory
and legal knowledge, Mike proves to Harvey he is undoubtedly the best
candidate and is subsequently hired, despite neither receiving a college
degree nor attending Harvard.
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My Wife and Kids
Michael Kyle, a loving husband and modern-day patriarch who rules his
household with a unique and distinct parenting style. As he teaches his
three children some of life's lessons, he does so with his own brand of
humor.
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Tyler Perry's House of Payne
A multi-generational family lives together under one roof.
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My Name Is Earl
You know the kind of guy who does nothing but bad things and then
wonders why his life sucks? Well, that was me. Every time something good
happened to me, something bad was always waiting round the corner: karma.
That's when I realized that I had to change, so I made a list of
everything bad I've ever done and one by one I'm gonna make up for all
my mistakes. I'm just trying to be a better person. My name is Earl.
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The Fresh Prince of Bel Air
The show stars Will Smith as a fictionalized version of himself, a street-smart teenager from West Philadelphia who is sent to move in with his wealthy aunt and uncle in their Bel Air mansion after getting into a fight on a local basketball court.
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The Wayne Bros
Shawn and Marlon Williams (Shawn Wayans and Marlon Wayans) are two brothers who live in an apartment on 126th street in Harlem. Shawn owns a newsstand
in the fictional Neidermeyer Building where he and his brother Marlon
work on a daily basis. In the same building, their father John "Pops"
Williams (John Witherspoon) owns a diner and Dee Baxter (Anna Maria Horsford, season 2 onward) works as a security guard.
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Get Smart
The series centers on bumbling secret agent Maxwell Smart, also known as Agent 86. His female partner is Agent 99, whose real name is never revealed in the series. Agents 86 and 99 work for CONTROL, a secret U.S. government counter-intelligence
agency based in Washington, D.C. The pair investigates and thwarts
various threats to the world, though Smart's bumbling nature and demands
to do things by-the-book invariably cause complications. However, Smart
never fails to save the day. Looking on is the long-suffering head of
CONTROL, who is addressed simply as "Chief."
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El Chavo
El Chavo del Ocho (often shortened to El Chavo) is a Mexican television sitcom that gained enormous popularity in Hispanic America as well as in Brazil, Spain, United States and other countries.It centers on the adventures and tribulations of the title character—a poor orphan nicknamed "El Chavo".
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