Thread: Most Popular/Watched/Recommended Tv-Series

Ok, I've made a list with popular tv-series. It is not a top, but I listed same as I saw the ratings and snatches on trackers.

HEROES

Heroes is an American science fiction television drama series created by Tim Krin, wich premiered on NBC, on September 25, 2006. The series tells the stories of ordinary individuals from around the world who inexplicably develop superhuman abilities, and their roles in preventing disasters, usually foreseen in images produced by precognitive painters. Claire, for example, can regenerate spontaneously her body and can heal any wound, Isaac Mendez provides future, Matt Parkman is a telepat and Hiro Nakamura can in time and can teleport. The series explores the way in wich they adapt to changes and their role in preventing catastrophes and saving humanity.

Series focus on “paranormal phenomena” consisting in the power they hold a number of people with special “gifts”, called heroes.

Heroeshas garnered a number of awards and nominations. The series was nominated in eight categories at the 2007 Primetime Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Drama Series, and was also nominated for Best Television Series-Drama at the 2007 Golden Globes. The series won a People’s Choice Award in 2007 in the category of Best New Drama, and was named Program of the Year in 2007 by the Television Critics Association and Best International Program at the 2008 BAFTA Awards.

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Lost

Lost is an American serial drama television series. It follows the lives of plane crash survivors on a mysterious tropical island, after a commercial passenger jet flying between Sydney, Australia and Los Angeles, United States crashes somewhere in the South Pacific. For the first three seasons each episode typically featured a primary storyline on the island as well as a secondary storyline from a previous point in a character's life, though the introduction of shifts forward in time and other time-related plot devices somewhat changed this formula for the latter half of the series. The pilot episode was first broadcast on September 22, 2004 and since then four full seasons have aired, with the fifth currently in progress, and a sixth set to be the final in 2010. The show airs on the ABC Network in the United States, as well as on regional networks in many other countries.

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Prison Break

Prison Break is an American serial drama television series created by Paul Scheruring, wich premiered on the Fox Broadcasting Company on August 29, 2005. The series revolves around two brothers, one who has been sentenced to death for a crime he did not commit, and the other, ea genius, who devises an elaborate plan to help him escape prison. Lincon Burrows is sentenced to death for killing US Vice President’s brother and sent to Fox River prison, awaiting execution of sentence: death by electrocution. His brother, Michael Scofield, is convinced that Lincon is innocent and decides to save him. He draws an ingenious escape plan, and to enter in prison, his own arrest up: he is simulate robbing a bank and plead guilty at trial. Once convicted, is sent to the application in terms of maximum security Fox River, were is Lincon. Here begins to implement the escape, helped by the coded plan of prison that tattooed on his body. For perfect results, he needs cooperation of several prisoners, dangerous criminals.
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House

House, also known as House, M.D., is an American medical drama that debuted on the Fox network on November 16, 2004. The show was created by David Shore and executive produced by Shore and film director Bryan Singer. The show revolves around Dr. Gregory House (British actor Hugh Laurie), a cynical medical genius educated at Cornell Universiti and then Johns Hopkins Medical School with an addiction to painkillers and a damaged leg arising from an incorrect diagnosism who heads a team of diagnosticians at the fictional Princeton-Planinsboro Teaching Hospitap (PPTH). The show’s premise was created by Shore, who got the idea for the curmudgeonly title character from a visit to a teaching hospital. Initially, Singer wanted an American to play Housem, but British actor Hugh Laurie's audition convinced him that a foreign actor could play the role. Shore wrote House as a character with parallels to Sherlock Holmes; both are forensic geniuses, musicians, drug users, aloof, and largely friendless. The show is filmed in Century City, although it takes place in New Jersey.
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Dexter


Dexter is an American television drama series that airs on American premium channel Showtime. Based on Jeff Lindsay’ short stories, Showtime propose an interesting story of a serial killer. During the day, Dexter Morgan is a model employee of the Criminal Police Laboratory in Miami, but this is just a mask that hides its true identity. In reality, Dexter is a meticulously killer ( a monster and he admits) who meet the thirs for blood during the night. In the shelter of darkness, he follows and then killing criminals wich the law can’t touch, everything with care and determination.
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24

24 is an American Serial action drama television series presented in real time. Each season depicting a 24-hour period in life of Jack Bauer, who works with the United States government as it fight domestic threats. Bauer is often in the field if the Los Angeles Counter Terrorist Unit (CTU) as they try to safeguard the nation from terrorist threats. The show also follows the actions of other CTU agents, government officials and terrorist associated with the plot. The first six seasons of the show were all based in Los Angeles and nearby locations – both real and fictional – in California, although occasionally other locations have been featured as well, most notably, Washington D.C., where a portion of the episodes took place during the fourth and sixth seasons. Departing from tradition, the seventh season is set primarily in Washington D.C.
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Battlestar Galactica

Battlestar Galactica continued from the 2003 mini-series to chronicle the journey of the last surviving humans from the Twelve Colonies of Kobol after their nuclear annihilation by the Cylons. The survivors are led by President Laura Roslin and Commander William Adama in a ragtag fleet of ships with the Battlestar Galactica, an old but powerful warship as its command ship. Pursued by Cylons intent on wiping out the remnants of the human race, the survivors travel across the galaxy looking for the fabled and long-lost thirteenth colony: Earth. Unlike most space opera series, Battlestar Galactica has no aliens (apart from the man-made Cylon robots) and intentionally avoids technobabble. Instead, most of the stories deal with the apocalyptic fall-out of the destruction of the twelve colonies upon the survivors and the moral choices the survivors must make in dealing with the survival of the human race, as well as their war with the Cylons. Stories also deal with the concept of perpetuated cycles of hate and violence driving the human/Cylon conflict, and religious issues, with the implication of an active God whose angelic agents intervene on behalf of the main characters, most notably Gaius Baltar.
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Grey’s Anatomy

Grey’s Anatomy is an American primetime medical drama. It debuted on ABC as a mid-season replacement for Boston Legal on March 27, 2005, immediately following Desperate Housewives. The series is watching intrigues, love stories or residents team and their mentors disappointments at Steattke Grace Hospital. Residents, besides the main characters comes vrom the name and series – Meredith Gray(the ambitious), Cristina Yung (thestubborn), Izzie Stevens (the model ), George O’Malley(the shy), and Alex Karev (the obtrusively) are living inside drama on both sides, personal and professional. It is a rather complex series of character as, in comparison with others of its kind.
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Smallville

Smallville is an American television series developed by writers/producers Alfred Gough and Miles Millar, based on the DC Comics character Superman created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. The television series was initially broadcast by The WB, first premiering on October 16, 2001. In 1989, a rain of giant meteors destroy almost all of the city Smallville (Kansas), make more victims and bring their spouses Jonathan and Martha Kent what they have wanted most: a son. In 2001, Clark Kent is a single teenager who has two very good friends Pete and Chloe and a secret passion for the most beautiful girl in school, Lana Lang. His parents hide them but that they found him in a spaceship after the rain has fallen meteorite. As he grow, Clark discovers he has supernatural powers that it turns into a modern Superman, defending good. Without glasses, especially without a suit, without the ability to fly, but having problems with acne, voice changing, visions and many secrets, Clark must fight meteors anomalies that they left behind: the invisible creatures, people half insect, the dead back to life ...
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Chuck

Chuck is an action-comedy television program from the United States created by Josh Schwartz and Chris Fedak. Creator of "The OC" Josh Schwartz and director McG bring us Chuck, a new series full of humor that tells the life of spies around the age of 20 years. Chuck Bartowski is a nerd with a social life that you want to leave and now works as an expert in computers together with friend, Morgan Grimes. Night party given by his birthday, Chuck receives a mysterious email from his former colleague at Stanford University, Bryce Larkin, who is now a CIA agent. When opened a whole server information - until then-secret is downloaded in the brain or by a long. series of images.
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Scrubs
Scrubs is an Emmy and Peabody Award-winning American comedy-drama that premiered on October 2, 2001, on NBC. It was created by Bill Lawrence and is produced by ABC Studios (previously known as Touchstone Television). The show follows the lives of several employees of Sacred Heart, a teaching hospital. It features fast-paced dialogue, slapstick, and surreal vignettes presented mostly as the daydreams of the central character, Dr. John Michael "J.D." Dorian. The show's title is a play on surgical scrubs in addition to “scrubs” being slang for the new and inexperienced.
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Supernatural

Supernatural is an American drama-horror television series starring Jared Padalecki as Sam Winchester and Jensen Ackles as Dean Winchester, brothers who hunt demons and other figures of the paranormal. "Supernatural" is the story of Sam's and Dean Winchester, two brothers united by the same fate: they travel the country with the mission to find and kill the scary creatures of darkness, the people have only heard of legends and superstitions. During this struggle with evil, Sam discovers he has a series of paranormal abilities: its strange foreboding visions of death all around and near hazards.
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Desperate Housewives

Desperate Housewives is an American television comedy-drama series, created by Marc Cherry, who also serves as show runner, and produced by ABC Studios and Cherry Productions. Executive producers, as of the fourth season, are Marc Cherry, Bob Daily, George W. Perkins, John Pardee and Joey Murphy, David Grossman, Larry Shaw and Sabrina Wind. The setting of the show is the street of Wisteria Lane in the fictional American town of Fairview, Eagle State. It follows the lives of a group of women, seen through the eyes of their dead neighbor, as they work through domestic struggles and family life, while facing the secrets, crimes and mysteries hidden behind the doors of their—at the surface—beautiful and seemingly perfect suburban neighborhood.
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Stargate Atlantis

Stargate Atlantis (often abbreviated as SGA) is an American-Canadian science fiction television program, part of the Stargate franchise owned by MGM. Developed by producers Brad Wright and Robert C. Cooper, it is a spin-off from the television series Stargate SG-1. It was filmed and produced in Canada.
Stargate Atlantis followed the adventures of a human expedition to the lost city of Atlantis in the Pegasus Galaxy. The Stargate has brought humanity into contact with other cultures, including new and powerful enemies: the Wraith, the Genii, and later the Asurans and a lost tribe of Asgard, all while trying to uncover the secrets the Ancients left behind.
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Bones

Bones is an American drama television series that premiered on the Fox Network on September 13, 2005. The show is based on forensics and police procedurals in which each episode focuses on an FBI case file concerning the mystery behind human remains brought by FBI Special Agent Seeley Booth to the forensic anthropology team of Dr. Temperance "Bones" Brennan. Emily Deschanel stars in the title role, opposite David Boreanaz as Agent Seeley Booth. The rest of the cast includes Michaela Conlin, T. J. Thyne, Tamara Taylor and John Francis Daley.
The series, created by Hart Hanson, is very loosely based on the life of real-life forensic anthropologist Kathy Reichs, who is herself a producer on the show. Its title character, Dr. Temperance "Bones" Brennan is named after the protagonist of Reichs' crime novel series. Bones is a joint production by Josephson Entertainment, Far Field Productions and 20th Century Fox Television.
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Weeds

Weeds is an American comedy television series created by Jenji Kohan, produced by Lionsgate Television for the Showtime network.
The plot revolves around a widowed housewife (Mary-Louise Parker) from an affluent California suburb who becomes her neighborhood's marijuana dealer to make ends meet. The title is a play on words, referring to both the slang term for marijuana, and widow's weeds. It also refers to the tendency of American suburbs to grow quickly and pervasively, with the dwellings and their residents being almost as indistinguishable as weeds; this is mirrored in the show's theme song "Little Boxes" and opening credits, and is a recurring theme of the show itself. The theme song changes in the second season. The change consists of a different vocalist every episode.
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CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation is an American crime drama television series. CSI premiered on CBS on October 6, 2000. The ninth season began airing on October 9, 2008 and currently airs in the United States on Thursdays at 9:00 p.m. The show was created by Anthony E. Zuiker and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer. It is filmed primarily at Universal Studios in Universal City, California.
CSI trails the investigations of a team of Las Vegas forensic scientists as they unveil the circumstances behind mysterious and unusual deaths and other crimes. For the first eight and a half seasons, the show starred William Petersen as Dr. Gil Grissom, the night shift supervisor who excels in crime scene investigation. In the middle of the ninth season, Petersen left and was replaced by Laurence Fishburne as Dr. Raymond Langston, a former medical doctor who turns criminalist in an attempt to rid himself of past demons.
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CSI: Miami

CSI: Miami (Crime Scene Investigation: Miami) is a spin-off of the CBS network series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. The series is an American crime drama television series that trails the investigations of a team of Miami-Dade forensic scientists as they unveil the circumstances behind mysterious and unusual deaths and other crimes. The pilot episode was first broadcast on May 9, 2002 as an episode of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and six seasons have been aired. CSI: Miami currently airs on Mondays, at 10:00 p.m. on CBS. The series is produced in partnership with the Canadian media company Alliance Atlantis and CBS Paramount Television.
CSI: Miami is the only show in the CSI franchise to have crossed over with both CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and CSI: NY, but is the only one out of the three which has yet to crossover with a series outside of the franchise. CSI: Miami has crossed over with CSI: NY on more than one occasion.
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CSI: New York

CSI: NY (Crime Scene Investigation: New York) is an American police procedural television series, which premiered on September 22, 2004. The series was the second spin-off, indirectly, from the popular CBS show, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, and directly from CSI: Miami, during an episode of which several of the CSI: NY characters made their first appearance. The show airs Wednesdays at 10PM ET/PT on CBS.
The show trails the investigations of a team of New York City Police Department forensic scientists as they unveil the circumstances behind mysterious and unusual deaths and other crimes.
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Numb3rs

Numb3rs is an American television show produced by brothers Ridley and Tony Scott. It follows FBI Special Agent Don Eppes (Rob Morrow) and his mathematical genius brother, Charlie Eppes (David Krumholtz), who helps Don solve crimes for the FBI. Created by Nicolas Falacci and Cheryl Heuton, the program is produced by CBS Paramount Network Television and airs on the CBS network in the U.S.
The show focuses equally on the relationships between Don Eppes, his brother Charlie Eppes and their father, Alan Eppes (Judd Hirsch), and on the brothers' efforts to fight crime, normally in Los Angeles. A typical episode begins with a crime, which is subsequently investigated by a team of FBI agents led by Don and mathematically described by Charlie, with the help of Larry Fleinhardt (Peter MacNicol) and Amita Ramanujan (Navi Rawat). The insights provided by Charlie's mathematics are always in some way crucial to solving the crime.
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Two and a half men

Two and a Half Men is an American television sitcom, which premiered on CBS on Monday, September 22, 2003 at 9:30 p.m., ET/PT. The sitcom stars Charlie Sheen, Jon Cryer and Angus T. Jones.
Charlie is a bachelor of forty years, and successful with a jingle of author's career. He lives in a residence near the ocean in Malibu, California and leads a full of pleasures life. But his brother Alan divorce after a dozen years of marriage and with his son Jake (a child of ten years, sloth and fat) is moving along with Charlie. At this point the existence of convenient Charlie is shaken. And in a house where no one is grown, the situation can hardly be held under control. The two brothers have very few things in common, but learn to companion and make decisions together about Jake.
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Criminal Minds

Criminal Minds is an American crime drama series that premiered September 22, 2005 on CBS. The show is produced by The Mark Gordon Company in association with ABC Studios and CBS Paramount Network Television. It follows the adventures of a team of profilers from the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU) at Quantico, Virginia. Criminal Minds differs from many criminal system procedural dramas by focusing on the criminal rather than the crime itself.
An elite team of FBI formed exclusively from the "profilers", travels in the United States, in places where criminals operating in series and on the evidence found at the crime scene, tries to establish the psychological profile, and not only, the killers profile, in an attempt to catch before they make new victims. From Jason Gideon-old leader of the group, passing through all the other members very organization Aaron Hotchner, erudite young Spencer Reid, beautiful Jennifer Jarreau, more physical but also intellectual Derek Morgan, experimental and calculated Emily Prentiss and ending with less Psychologist even more genius in computers Penelope Garcia, all are ready to give everything they have good in them to be one step ahead of crime, to bring to justice and not to us with us in spirit mouth to the end.
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Maybe this list is good for those who want to watch tv-series and don't know what. If I forgot something tell me, but don't mention series with less than 2/3 seasons because I'll come with a "Popular New Series" list.

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List made by me (i watched ratings on tv sites like tvrage tv.com and imdb; snatches on trackers and favourite tv series thread)
Info collected and combined from wikipedia and translated from cinemarx.ro
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Thanks for taking the time to compile this list. Now I can know what all the cool kids are watching! :laugh:

Nice list man,
thanks for making it, now i am allowed to know more from some tv-shows

You know I can't believe Smallville's still going. It was so good the first couple of seasons but then it started going downhill.