Hidden Gem TV Shows on Metacritic Audience
Brilliant series most people have not found yet. Every title here is rated by at least 5,000 people across every site, enough to trust the score, but by fewer than the 100,000 our main rankings ask for, so none of them can appear there. Ranked by Metacritic Audience alone; the MEANRANK score beside each title is what every site together makes of it.
1
I'm Alan Partridge
A
88
2
Yes Minister
A+
90
3
Foyle's War
A
86
4
Little House on the Prairie
A
81
5
Longmire
A
80
6
Flashpoint
B
76
7
Motorheads
A
80
8
Medium
B
75
9
The Mighty Boosh
A
86
10
Shoresy
A+
90
11
Mystery Science Theater 3000
A
87
12
The Pretender
A
84
13
Pachinko
A
88
14
Babylon 5
B
78
15
Queer as Folk
A
81
16
The Wonder Years
A
81
17
Being Erica
A
80
18
The Unit
B
78
19
Magnum, P.I.
A
83
20
Man vs. Wild
A
81
21
Rectify
A
87
22
Spaced
A
86
23
Midsomer Murders
B
75
24
Murder, She Wrote
B
79
25
MacGyver
B
73
26
Forever
B
72
27
The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance
A
85
28
Terriers
A
85
29
According to Jim
C
63
30
Columbo
A
81
31
The Red Road
B
74
32
The Good Guys
B
76
33
Miami Vice
B
79
34
Highlander
A
80
35
The Practice
B
78
36
Not Going Out
B
79
37
Corner Gas
A
83
38
Party of Five
B
78
39
Halt and Catch Fire
A
82
40
The Knick
A
84
41
Almost Human
B
72
42
Southland
A
86
43
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
B
78
44
Parenthood
A
80
45
Feud
A
80
46
Red Dwarf
A
80
47
Mr Inbetween
A
85
48
Party Down
A
82
49
Dead Boy Detectives
A
81
50
Faking It
B
77
51
Extras
A
83
52
Pushing Daisies
A
84
53
Better Off Ted
A
84
54
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
B
75
55
Black Books
A
81
56
The New Adventures of Old Christine
B
77
57
Father Ted
A
84
58
Miranda
A
84
59
The Gates
C
69
60
My Wife and Kids
B
78
61
Millennium
B
75
62
The Fosters
A
82
63
First Kill
C
68
64
Flight of the Conchords
A
84
65
The Thick of It
A
88
66
Coupling
A
84
67
Endeavour
A
83
68
Quantum Leap
B
77
69
The Cosby Show
C
69
70
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
A
80
71
Damages
A
83
72
My Brilliant Friend
A
88
73
My Lady Jane
A
82
74
Farscape
A
81
75
Witches of East End
B
71
76
Derek
B
72
77
Life on Mars
A
84
78
Switched at Birth
B
78
79
Surviving Jack
B
77
80
My So-Called Life
A
87
81
In Plain Sight
B
72
82
Undeclared
A
82
83
Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman
B
74
84
Pose
A
82
85
Dynasty
B
72
86
Awake
B
78
87
Jericho
B
71
88
Gypsy
C
63
89
Homicide: Life on the Street
A
88
90
Motherland: Fort Salem
B
74
91
Call the Midwife
A
80
92
Boston Legal
A
80
93
Kingdom
A
83
94
Scrubs
A
83
95
High Desert
B
71
96
The Wrong Mans
A
82
97
That's So Raven
B
74
98
Ashes to Ashes
A
82
99
Reno 911!
B
79
100
Common Law
B
70
I'm Alan Partridge
A
88
2
Yes Minister
A+
90
3
Foyle's War
A
86
4
Little House on the Prairie
A
81
5
Longmire
A
80
6
Flashpoint
B
76
7
Motorheads
A
80
8
Medium
B
75
9
The Mighty Boosh
A
86
10
Shoresy
A+
90
11
Mystery Science Theater 3000
A
87
12
The Pretender
A
84
13
Pachinko
A
88
14
Babylon 5
B
78
15
Queer as Folk
A
81
16
The Wonder Years
A
81
17
Being Erica
A
80
18
The Unit
B
78
19
Magnum, P.I.
A
83
20
Man vs. Wild
A
81
21
Rectify
A
87
22
Spaced
A
86
23
Midsomer Murders
B
75
24
Murder, She Wrote
B
79
25
MacGyver
B
73
26
Forever
B
72
27
The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance
A
85
28
Terriers
A
85
29
According to Jim
C
63
30
Columbo
A
81
31
The Red Road
B
74
32
The Good Guys
B
76
33
Miami Vice
B
79
34
Highlander
A
80
35
The Practice
B
78
36
Not Going Out
B
79
37
Corner Gas
A
83
38
Party of Five
B
78
39
Halt and Catch Fire
A
82
40
The Knick
A
84
41
Almost Human
B
72
42
Southland
A
86
43
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
B
78
44
Parenthood
A
80
45
Feud
A
80
46
Red Dwarf
A
80
47
Mr Inbetween
A
85
48
Party Down
A
82
49
Dead Boy Detectives
A
81
50
Faking It
B
77
51
Extras
A
83
52
Pushing Daisies
A
84
53
Better Off Ted
A
84
54
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
B
75
55
Black Books
A
81
56
The New Adventures of Old Christine
B
77
57
Father Ted
A
84
58
Miranda
A
84
59
The Gates
C
69
60
My Wife and Kids
B
78
61
Millennium
B
75
62
The Fosters
A
82
63
First Kill
C
68
64
Flight of the Conchords
A
84
65
The Thick of It
A
88
66
Coupling
A
84
67
Endeavour
A
83
68
Quantum Leap
B
77
69
The Cosby Show
C
69
70
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
A
80
71
Damages
A
83
72
My Brilliant Friend
A
88
73
My Lady Jane
A
82
74
Farscape
A
81
75
Witches of East End
B
71
76
Derek
B
72
77
Life on Mars
A
84
78
Switched at Birth
B
78
79
Surviving Jack
B
77
80
My So-Called Life
A
87
81
In Plain Sight
B
72
82
Undeclared
A
82
83
Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman
B
74
84
Pose
A
82
85
Dynasty
B
72
86
Awake
B
78
87
Jericho
B
71
88
Gypsy
C
63
89
Homicide: Life on the Street
A
88
90
Motherland: Fort Salem
B
74
91
Call the Midwife
A
80
92
Boston Legal
A
80
93
Kingdom
A
83
94
Scrubs
A
83
95
High Desert
B
71
96
The Wrong Mans
A
82
97
That's So Raven
B
74
98
Ashes to Ashes
A
82
99
Reno 911!
B
79
100
Common Law
B
70