The top 100 best TV shows from 2000 to 2025. This list is based on a ranking by BBC Culture, covering shows from 2000 to 2021, with notes on recent 2025 series due to their emerging status.
Top 100 TV Shows (2000-2025)
| Rank | Show Name | Years Active |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Wire | 2002-2008 |
| 2 | Mad Men | 2007-2015 |
| 3 | Breaking Bad | 2008-2013 |
| 4 | Fleabag | 2016-2019 |
| 5 | Game of Thrones | 2011-2019 |
| 6 | I May Destroy You | 2020 |
| 7 | The Leftovers | 2014-2017 |
| 8 | The Americans | 2013-2018 |
| 9 | The Office (UK) | 2001-2003 |
| 10 | Succession | 2018- |
| 11 | BoJack Horseman | 2014-2020 |
| 12 | Six Feet Under | 2001-2005 |
| 13 | Twin Peaks: The Return | 2017 |
| 14 | Atlanta | 2016- |
| 15 | Chernobyl | 2019 |
| 16 | The Crown | 2016- |
| 17 | 30 Rock | 2006-2013 |
| 18 | Deadwood | 2004-2006 |
| 19 | Lost | 2004-2010 |
| 20 | The Thick of It | 2005-2012 |
| 21 | Curb Your Enthusiasm | 2000- |
| 22 | Black Mirror | 2011- |
| 23 | Better Call Saul | 2015-2022 |
| 24 | Veep | 2012-2019 |
| 25 | Sherlock | 2010-2017 |
| 26 | Watchmen | 2019 |
| 27 | Line of Duty | 2012-2021 |
| 28 | Friday Night Lights | 2006-2011 |
| 29 | Parks and Recreation | 2009-2015 |
| 30 | Girls | 2012-2017 |
| 31 | True Detective | 2014-2019 |
| 32 | Arrested Development | 2003-2019 |
| 33 | The Good Wife | 2009-2016 |
| 34 | The Bridge | 2011-2018 |
| 35 | Fargo | 2014- |
| 36 | Downton Abbey | 2010-2015 |
| 36 | Band of Brothers | 2001 |
| 38 | The Handmaid’s Tale | 2017- |
| 39 | The Office (US) | 2005-2013 |
| 40 | Borgen | 2010-2022 |
| 41 | Schitt’s Creek | 2015-2020 |
| 42 | Peep Show | 2003-2015 |
| 43 | Money Heist | 2017-2021 |
| 44 | Community | 2009-2015 |
| 45 | The Good Fight | 2017- |
| 46 | Homeland | 2011-2020 |
| 47 | Grey’s Anatomy | 2005- |
| 48 | Inside No 9 | 2014- |
| 49 | The Bureau | 2015- |
| 50 | Halt and Catch Fire | 2014-2017 |
| 51 | Small Axe | 2020 |
| 52 | This is England ’86, ’88 and ’90 | 2010-2015 |
| 53 | Call My Agent! | 2015-2020 |
| 54 | Happy Valley | 2014- |
| 55 | The Shield | 2002-2008 |
| 56 | The Big Bang Theory | 2007-2019 |
| 57 | The Young Pope | 2016 |
| 58 | Dark | 2017-2020 |
| 59 | The Underground Railroad | 2021 |
| 60 | House of Cards | 2013-2018 |
| 61 | Avatar: The Last Airbender | 2005-2008 |
| 62 | The Good Place | 2016-2020 |
| 62 | Pose | 2018-2021 |
| 64 | Detectorists | 2014-2017 |
| 65 | Orange is the New Black | 2013-2019 |
| 66 | Mare of Easttown | 2021 |
| 67 | RuPaul’s Drag Race | 2009- |
| 68 | Stranger Things | 2016- |
| 69 | 24 | 2001-2010 |
| 70 | Battlestar Galactica | 2004-2009 |
| 71 | Enlightened | 2011-2013 |
| 72 | Gilmore Girls | 2000-2007 |
| 73 | Planet Earth | 2006 |
| 74 | Utopia | 2013-2014 |
| 75 | Babylon Berlin | 2017- |
| 76 | Rick and Morty | 2013- |
| 77 | American Crime Story | 2016- |
| 78 | The Killing (Denmark) | 2007-2012 |
| 79 | Mindhunter | 2017-2019 |
| 80 | House | 2004-2012 |
| 81 | OJ: Made in America | 2016 |
| 82 | Big Little Lies | 2017-2019 |
| 83 | Insecure | 2016-2021 |
| 84 | Normal People | 2020 |
| 84 | Narcos | 2015-2017 |
| 86 | How I Met Your Mother | 2005-2014 |
| 87 | The Comeback | 2005-2014 |
| 88 | The OA | 2016-2019 |
| 89 | Dexter | 2006-2013 |
| 90 | It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia | 2005- |
| 91 | Westworld | 2016- |
| 92 | Show Me a Hero | 2015 |
| 93 | Treme | 2010-2013 |
| 94 | Louie | 2010-2015 |
| 95 | Luther | 2010-2019 |
| 96 | Catastrophe | 2015-2019 |
| 97 | Hannibal | 2013-2015 |
| 98 | Crazy Ex-Girlfriend | 2015-2019 |
| 99 | Steven Universe | 2013-2020 |
| 100 | The Queen’s Gambit | 2020 |
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