Best TV series - voted by users

2005 - Today

Starring: Josh Radnor, Jason Segel

In the year 2030 Ted takes his son and daughter on a nostalgic trip down memory lane, regaling them with tales of his life before he met their mother. Predictably, the search for True Love seldom ran smooth...we see Ted's memories through the story of 5 friends in their 20s.

1994 - 2004

Starring: Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox

Meet dippy Phoebe, control freak Monica, wise guy Chandler, good natured but slow witted Joey, geeky Ross and fashion conscious flirt Rachel. Together they form a tightknit gang of twentysomethings each struggling to make sense of live in New York. Luckily, the pals know they can always sort out their work, love and family problems over a cup of coffee at their favourite hangout, Central Perk... With a little help from their friends, of course!

2006 - Today

Starring: Michael C. Hall, Jennifer Carpenter

Dexter Morgan is indispensable to the Miami Metro Police department thanks to his expertise at analysing blood spatters. There's just one thing they don't know about him: Dexter is a serial killer with his own idea of justice.

2009 - Today

Starring: Joseph Gilgun, Matthew McNulty

Five teenagers on community service accidentally gain super powers and are inadvertantly given the job of saving their home town. Think Skins as superheroes. Or Heroes with ASBOs!

2011 - Today

Starring: Peter Dinklage, Emilia Clarke

Set in the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros, where "summers span decades and winters can last a lifetime," Game of Thrones chronicles the violent dynastic struggles among the kingdom's noble families for control of the Iron Throne; as the series opens, additional threats from the snow and ice covered region north of Westeros and from the eastern continent across a narrow sea are simultaneously beginning to rise.

2008 - 2012

Starring: Colin Morgan, Katie McGrath

When young wizard-in-the-making Merlin meets the future king, Prince Arthur, neither suspect what destiny has in store for them...

2004 - 2010

Starring: Matthew Fox, Evangeline Lilly

An aeroplane crashes on an isolated island, leaving the survivors stranded in this alien and hostile environment. Soon enough, they realise that nothing, and nobody, is what it seems on the strange isle.

2009 - Today

Starring: Matthew Morrison, Jane Lynch

In a Midwestern secondary school, Will, the Spanish Teacher, is thrown into the world of competitive glee clubs when he becomes the inspirational coach of the fledging singing group.

2007 - Today

Starring: Jim Parsons, Johnny Galecki

Leonard and Sheldon can tell you anything you want to know about quantum physics. But they are stumped when it comes to real life and relationships. With the arrival of beautiful new neigbour Penny - waitress by profession and screen actress in her spare time - that may be about to change...

2005 - Today

Starring: Matt Smith (IV), Karen Gillan

A 900ar-old alien, the mysterious Doctor has been around the block a fair bit. Th yee last of an extinct race, the Time Lords, he wanders through time and space in his trusty TARDIS (Time and Relative Dimension in Space). Much bigger on the inside than on the outside, this travelling machine is stuck in the disguise of a 1960s British Police Box. Along with a typically young, female and attractive human companion, the Doctor encounters incredible planets and people, inevitably saving the day wherever he roams.

2004 - 2012

Starring: Hugh Laurie, Robert Sean Leonard

Dr. Greg House is a crabby sort who trusts nobody, least of all his patients. In fact, the confirmed misanthrope would be happier if he never had to talk to them at all. Nevertheless, he's brilliant at his job. And, with his team of experts, he's ready to do whatever it takes to solve the most mysterious medical cases.

2010 - Today

Starring: Andrew Lincoln, Steven Yeun

Officer Rick Grimes wakes up in hospital to find himself in the aftermath of a zombie apocalypse and he sets off to find his wife and son. The series will then follow the small group of survivors as they travel across the country in search of a new home away from the hordes of zombies. As their situation grows more and more grim, the group's desperation to survive pushes them to do almost anything to stay alive.

2006 - 2010

Starring: Milo Ventimiglia, Greg Grunberg

Around the world, certain ordinary-seeming individuals discover far from ordinary gifts: teleportation, telepathy, cellular regeneration... With no idea of what's happening to them, nor the repercussions that such incredible talents can have, they must learn to control their new found powers. Little do they know that they are part of an evolution that is to change the world for ever!

1989 - Today

Starring: Harry Shearer, Hank Azaria

The Simpsons, a typical American family, live in the town of Springfield. Homer, the father, has three passions : watching TV, bowling, and drinking beer. But his responsibilities constantly intrude upon his dream of the easy life. Between his job at Springfield's nuclear power plant, his delinquent son Bart and super smart daughter Lisa, and his long-suffering wife Marge, Homer never does get to spend as much time on the sofa as he would like...

2005 - Today

Starring: Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles

Two brothers travel the U.S. on the trail of unexplained occurances and evil happenings. Perhaps one day they will track down the demon who killed their mother twenty years previously...

2005 - Today

Starring: Joe Mantegna, Thomas Gibson

A team of profilers study the behaviour of the most dangerous criminals in America in order to anticipate murders before they happen. Each member of the elite unit brings his own personality, background and speciality to the complicated task in hand...

2005 - 2009

Starring: Dominic Purcell, Wentworth Miller

Michael Scofield is in a race against the clock : his brother Lincoln is on death row. Convinced of Lincoln's innocence but running out of options, Michael decides to get himself incarcarated in the same prision in order to organise their escape...

2004 - 2012

Starring: Teri Hatcher, Felicity Huffman

Wisteria Lane is a peaceful place where residents live out the leafy surburban dream. Or do they? Peep over a few privet hedges and one soon discovers that the owners are far from happy families. Little by little the dark secrets of each emerge to crack the perfect surface of outward appearances...

2007 - 2012

Starring: Blake Lively, Leighton Meester

Mysterious blogger Gossip Girl keeps tabs on the scandalous hi-jinks of uber-privileged youngsters at two New York private schools. Being a teenager is never easy, even for these golden boys and girls...

2005 - Today

Starring: Emily Deschanel, David Boreanaz

Temperance Brennan is a highly qualified anthropoligist at the Jeffersonian Institute. By examining the remains of the dead, she can reconstruct the way they lived – and died. The usefulness of such skills doesn't escape the attention of the FBI, who enlist her help when traditional methods of identifying a body fail. But Temperance's police liason, former army sniper Seeley Booth, has little faith in the findings of science...

2001 - 2010

Starring: Kiefer Sutherland, Mary Lynn Rajskub

Head of the Los Angeles Anti-Terrorist Cell, Jack Bauer has just 24 hours to complete his mission and save the city from a terrible threat...

2001 - 2011

Starring: Tom Welling, Erica Durance

In a small town which was the site of a meteor shower some years previously, the teenage Clark Kent is brought up on a farm by his adoptive parents. Forced to conceal his exceptional powers from even his closest friends, Clark must learn how to harness them for good. But even the best-kept secrets have a way of getting out...

2010 - 2013

Starring: Manu Bennett, Liam McIntyre

Spartacus is a Starz series that relives the ancient Roman tale of a man sold into slavery by the Romans and reinvented as a gladiator. His entire existence is then thrown into a constant struggle to gain revenge upon the Romans and find his beloved wife again.

1993 - 2002

Starring: Gillian Anderson

Fox Mulder is convinced that dismissed by his FBI colleagues as a crackpot conspiracy theorist. Driven by the need to discover what happened to his sister, who disappeared when he was 12, he is convinced that the government is covering up extra-terrestrial activity. So it's not exactly great career news for Agent Dana Scully when she is assigned to help him investigate unresolved cases: The "X-Files." Mulder is sure that paranormal phenonema lie behind many of the mysteries. Now he just has to convince his sceptical new partner -- and the rest of the world.

2007 - 2012

Starring: Zachary Levi, Yvonne Strahovski

Chuck is the average computer-whiz-next-door until he gets an e-mail from an old college friend working for the secret services: the message embeds the only remaining copy of the world's greatest spy secrets into his brain. Chuck's most alarming foes to date were tricky computer viruses. Now, recruited by the NSA, he must take on assassins and international terrorists!

1997 - 2003

Starring: Sarah Michelle Gellar, Alyson Hannigan

When Buffy Summers moves to Sunnydale from LA she dreams of a simple life: High school, family, friends, shopping at the mall... Unfortunately, she has a few demons to deal with. Literally. As the annointed Vampire Slayer of her generation, the sassy teen has to battle bloodsuckers, menace monsters and generally defeat evil whether she likes it or not. The fact that her new town sits on the Hellmouth means that she doesn't have time for much else...

2001 - 2001

Live World War II alongside the American troops of Easy Company. Follow them from their formation in 1942, until the liberation of Nazi Germany in 1945, via the Normandy landings of June 6th 1944. A true television classic.

2005 - Today

Starring: Ellen Pompeo, Patrick Dempsey

Meredith Grey, daughter of a well-respected surgeon, begins her first year of surgical training at Seattle Grace Hospital. She tries hard to get on with her fellow interns, but the competetive atmosphere doesn't make it easy...

1997 - Today

Starring: Trey Parker, Matt Stone

Kyle, Cartman, Stan and Kenny are four filthy mouthed kids growing up in the surreal town of South Park, Colorado, in which each of the residents seems more politically correct than the rest.

2008 - Today

Starring: Simon Baker, Robin Tunney

Independent detective consultant, Patrick Jane, uses his incredible powers of observation to help the California Bureau of Investigation (CBI) crack cases, no matter how insolvable they at first appear.