The Americans
(FX)
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Genre: Period drama,Spy fiction
Format: Serial drama
Created
by: Joe Weisberg
Starring:
Keri Russell, Matthew Rhys, Maximiliano, Hernandez, Holly Taylor, Keidrich
Sellati, Noah Emmerich, Annet Mahendru, Susan Misner, Alison Wright
Opening
theme: "The Americans Theme" by Dominik Hauser
Composer(s): Nathan Barr
Country
of origin:United States
Original
language(s):English,Russian
No.
of seasons: 2
No.
of episodes: 26 (List of episodes)
The series focuses on the personal and professional lives of the
Jennings', sometimes incorporating real-life events into the narrative. The
show's creator has described the series as being ultimately about a marriage.
And you think you
have work-life balance problems? KGB agents Elizabeth and Philip Jennings tried
to find the secrets of the Stealth program, their children struggled to find
themselves, and this ’80s drama found a new gear.
Broad City
(Comedy Central)
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Genre : Comedy
Format:
Sitcom
Created
by: Ilana Glazer, Abbi Jacobson
Starring:
Ilana Glazer, Abbi Jacobson
Theme
music composer:DJ Raff
Opening
theme: "Latino & Proud"
Country
of origin:United States
Original
language(s):English
No.
of seasons:1
No.
of episodes:10 (List of episodes)
Broad City follows two young best friends navigating their way through
everyday life in New York City. The show is centered around the lives of low
income, struggling women and their friendships.
Meet your new
favorite two broke girls. Ilana Glazer and Abbi Jacobson deliver the contact
buzz of laughter in the weirdest, freshest, funkiest new comedy of the season.
Cosmos (Fox)
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Genre: Science documentary
Based
on Cosmos: A Personal Voyage
Written
by: Ann Druyan,Steven Soter
Directed
by: Brannon Braga, Bill Pope, Ann Druyan
Presented
by: Neil deGrasse Tyson
Composer(s)
: Alan Silvestri
Country
of origin: United States
Original
language(s): English
No.
of episodes: 13 (List of episodes)
The series has been rebroadcast internationally in dozens of
other countries by local National Geographic and Fox stations. The series
concluded on June 8, 2014, with home media release of the entire series on June
10, 2014.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
picked up his mentor Carl Sagan’s work (with the help of Seth MacFarlane),
breathing new life into the ancient universe and making a passionate argument
against the forces of anti-science.
Fargo (FX)
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Genre : Crime drama,Dark comedy
Created
by: Noah Hawley
Based
on: Fargo By Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Starring:
Billy Bob Thornton, Allison Tolman, Colin Hanks, Martin Freeman
Composer(s): Jeff Russo
Country
of origin: United States
Original
language(s): English
No.
of seasons: 1
No.
of episodes: 10 (List of episodes)
This miniseries
isn’t a remake of the Coen Brothers’ movie so much as an extended jazz cover of
it — in an improvisatory yet deeply original string of riffs. It’s a bloody yet
playful examination of the seduction of evil and the hard cold road of good.
Game of Thrones
(HBO)
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Genre : Fantasy, Drama
Format:
Serial drama
Created
by: David Benioff, D. B. Weiss
Based
on: A Song of Ice and Fire, By George R. R. Martin
Starring:
see List of Game of Thrones characters
Composer(s):
Ramin Djawadi
Country
of origin: United States
Original
language(s): English
No.
of seasons: 4
No.
of episodes: 40 (List of episodes)
The series, set on the fictional continents of Westeros and Essos at the end of a decade-long summer,
interweaves several plot lines.
Like Daenerys’
dragons, this fantasy epic in its fourth season continues to grow in scale and
confidence. But what makes it great is that it handles small conversational
duels as well as its epic battles.
The Good Wife
(CBS)
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Genre: Legal
drama, Political drama
Created by: Robert King,Michelle King
Starring: Julianna Margulies, Matt Czuchry, Archie Panjabi, Graham
Phillips, Makenzie Vega, Alan Cumming, Zach Grenier, Matthew Goode, Josh Charles,
Christine Baranski
Composer(s): David Buckley
Country of origin : United States
Original language(s): English
No. of seasons: 5
No. of episodes: 112 (List of episodes)
The show has received widespread critical acclaim and won
numerous awards, including five Emmys and the 2014 Television Critics Association award for Outstanding Achievement in
Drama.
For five years
running, this sharp-witted legal drama has offered more pleasure per season
than anything out there. Taking on love, politics, technology and (spoiler)
death, it shows no sign of adjourning.
Last Week
Tonight With John Oliver (HBO)
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Genre: Comedy, news satire
Created by: HBO
Developed by: John Oliver
Presented by: John Oliver
Opening theme: "Go" by Valley Lodge
Country of origin: United States
Original language(s): English
No. of episodes: 17 (as of September 14, 2014) (List of
episodes)
Oliver's contract with HBO lasts two years with an option for
more. Oliver says he has full creative, including free
rein to criticize corporations. That freedom may be facilitated in part by
HBO's ad-free subscription model.
The Daily Show alum’s blistering
comedy-cast is very new, but it’s the most welcome addition in a year of
late-night change. Reorienting the fake-news format toward world events and
commercial culture, it’s becoming the go-to chaser to the stiff drink of
Sunday-night TV.
Louie
(FX)
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Genre: Dark comedy, Comedy-drama, Satire, Surreal humor
Created by: Louis C.K.
Written by: Louis C.K.
Directed by: Louis C.K.
Starring: Louis C.K.
Opening theme: "Brother Louie" performed by Ian
Lloyd (seasons 1–3)
Country of origin: United States
Original language(s): English
No. of seasons: 4
No. of episodes: 53 (List of episodes)
The show has been met with critical acclaim and was included
in various critics' 2010s top-ten lists of TV shows.[3] C.K. has received several Award nominations for his acting, writing, and directing, and has won for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy
Series at the 64th and 66th Primetime Emmy Awards.
The only predictable
things about Louis CK’s show are that it will be unpredictable and that it will
linger with you long after you watch. From philosophy to sex-toy jokes,
vignettes to the equivalent of a full-length movie, this is TV that can be
whatever it wants to.
Mad Men (AMC)
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Genre: Period drama
Created by: Matthew Weiner
Starring: Jon Hamm, Elisabeth Moss,
Vincent Kartheiser, January Jones, Christina Hendricks, Jared Harris, Bryan
Batt, Michael Gladis, Aaron Staton, Rich Sommer, Maggie Siff, Kiernan Shipka, Jessica
Pare, Kevin Rahm, Christopher Stanley, Jay R. Ferguson, Ben Feldman, Mason Vale
Cotton, Robert Morse, John Slattery
Opening theme: "A Beautiful Mine" (Instrumental), by RJD2
Composer(s): David Carbonara
Country of origin: United States
Original language(s): English
No. of seasons: 7
No. of episodes: 85 (List of episodes)
Mad Men is set in the 1960s, initially at the fictional Sterling
Cooper advertising agency on Madison Avenue in New
York City, and later at the newly created firm, Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce
(later Sterling Cooper & Partners), located nearby in the Time-Life Building, at 1271 Sixth Avenue.
We’ll see if the
back half of the final season can close the deal next year, but this was a fine
start. In seven often-haunting episodes, the age of Aquarius met the age of
IBM, and it left us with a song.
True Detective (HBO)
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Genre: Southern Gothic, Drama, Neo-noir, Crime, Mystery
Created by: Nic
Pizzolatto
Written by: Nic Pizzolatto
Directed by: Cary Joji Fukunaga
Starring: Matthew
McConaughey, Woody Harrelson, Michelle Monaghan, Michael Potts, Tory Kittles
Opening theme: "Far from Any Road" by The Handsome
Family
Composer(s): T Bone Burnett
Country of origin: United States
Original language(s): English
No. of seasons: 1
No. of episodes: 8 (List of episodes)
The first season premiered on January 12, 2014, and consisted
of eight episodes which concluded on March 9, 2014. The series has received
widespread critical acclaim.
Few shows have
inspired so many obsessions so quickly, and it wasn’t just The Yellow King’s
magic. This one-season story (rebooting next year) dripped talent, from
Harrelson and McConaughey’s testosterone-drunk performances to Nic Pizzolatto’s
dirty poetry to Cary Fukunaga’s direction, in which you could practically see
ghosts come alive in the postindustrial bayou air.
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