World Television Day

Delve into our biggest and greatest shows this World Television Day

World Television Day celebrates how TV has become one of the most prominent means of entertainment in the modern world, telling stories which entertain, inform, and shape the world. Continue reading to dive into some of our biggest and greatest shows.

Succession

Starring: Brian Cox, Jeremy Strong, Sarah Snook, Kieran Culkin, Alan Ruck, Nicholas Braun, Matthew Macfadyen

Winner of 9 Golden Globes and 13 Emmys, including Outstanding Drama Series (2022, 2020). Power, politics, money...it's all in the family in this award-winning, provocative, funny series about a highly dysfunctional dynasty.

Check out the trailer here.

The Last of Us

Starring: Pedro Pascal, Bella Ramsey, Nick Offerman, Murray Bartlett, Storm Reid, Anna Torv, Gabriel Luna

Based on the 2013, highly successive video game of the same name, The Last of Us, takes place after a global pandemic destroys civilization. A hardened survivor, Joel Miller, takes charge of a 14-year-old girl, Ellie Williams, who may be humanity’s last hope.

Check out the trailer here.

House of the Dragon

Starring: Paddy Considine, Matt Smith, Olivia Cooke, Emma D’Arcy, Rhys Ifans, Steve Toussaint, Eve Best, Fabien Frankel, Sonoya Mizuno

Based on George R.R. Martin’s “Fire & Blood” and set 200 years before the events of Game of Thrones, the 9-time Emmy® nominated prequel series, House of the Dragon tells the epic story of House Targaryen during the reign of King Viserys I Targaryen.

Check out the trailer here.

The Sopranos

Starring: James Gandolfini, Lorraine Bracco, Edie Falco, Michael Imperioli, Dominic Chianese, Vincent Pastore, Steven Van Zandt

Hailed as one of television’s essential dramas and celebrating 25 years in January, The Sopranos created by David Chase follows James Gandolfini as Tony Soprano: husband, father, and mob boss. During the shows run, the series accumulated an astonishing 112 Emmy nominations winning 21, and 5 Golden Globes.

Watch iconic opening credits here.

Euphoria

Starring: Zendaya, Hunter Schafer, Jacob Elordi, Alexa Demie, Angus Cloud, Maude Apatow, Sydney Sweeney, Barbie Ferreira

Starring actress Zendaya, the youngest two-time winner in Emmy® history. Euphoria follows a group of high school students as they navigate love and friendships in a world of drugs, sex, identity, trauma, and social media in today’s increasingly unstable world.

Check out the trailer here.

Insecure

Starring: Issa Rae, Yvonne Orji, Jay Ellis, Natasha Rothwell, Amanda Seales, Kendrick Sampson

Created by and starring Issa Rae, this comedy series looks at the friendship of two modern-day black women, as well as all of their uncomfortable experiences and racy tribulations. As they navigate the tricky professional and personal terrain of Los Angeles, best friends Issa (Rae) and Molly (Yvonne Orji) face the challenges of being black women who defy all stereotypes.

Check out the final season tribute here.

A Black Lady Sketch Show

Starring: Robin Thede, Gabrielle Dennis, Skye Townsend, Ashley Nicole Black, Quinta Brunson, DaMya Gurley

The first sketch comedy series to be written by, directed by, and starring Black women, Robin Thede's, A Black Lady Sketch Show, finds the multi-talented cast portraying nearly one hundred dynamic characters - and exaggerated versions of themselves - in unabashed sketches and laugh-out-loud interstitials.

Watch a hilarious sketch from the show here.

Sex and the City

Starring: Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis, Cynthia Nixon, David Eigenberg, Chris Noth, Willie Garson, John Corbett

Sarah Jessica Parker stars as Carrie Bradshaw, a New York writer who finds inspiration for her column from the genuine, emotional, and often humorous exploits of her friends and lovers. Co-starring Kristin Davis as Charlotte, Cynthia Nixon as Miranda, and Kim Cattrall as Samantha – For six seasons the group provided us with their hilarious, outspoken, and outrageous look at dating, mating, and relating in New York City.

Brought to you by executive producer Michael Patrick King, And Just Like That… is a new chapter in the Sex and the City story. The series follows Carrie, Miranda and Charlotte as they navigate the journey from the complicated reality of life and friendship in their 30s, to the even more complicated reality of life and friendship in their 50s.

Check out the trailer here.

Friends

Pictured above (L-R): Courtney Cox, Matthew Perry, Jennifer Aniston, David Schwimmer, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc

Pivoted as one of the most iconic sitcoms of all time, the 6-time Emmy® winning series was created by Marta Kauffman and David Crane. Monica Geller, Rachel Green, Chandler Bing, Phoebe Buffay, Ross Geller and Joey Tribbiani are six twenty-something best friends living in New York City, a time in your life when your friends are your family. The show follows these friends through drama, love, life lessons, friendship, and family.

Check out these hilarious bloopers here.

The Big Bang Theory

Starring: Johnny Galecki, Jim Parsons, Kaley Cuoco, Simon Helberg, Kunal Nayyar, Mayim Bialik, Melissa Raunch

Leonard and Sheldon are brilliant physicists, the kind of "beautiful minds" that understand how the universe works. But none of that genius helps them interact with people, especially women. All this begins to change when a free-spirited beauty named Penny moves in next door. We are also introduced to their socially dysfunctional, fellow Caltech scientists Howard Wolowitz and Raj Koothrappali. Boldly crossing the frontiers of comedy and science, hit series The Big Bang Theory has accumulated 10 Emmy® and 7 Golden Globe wins during its run.

Check out clips of the most popular episodes here.

The Sandman

Starring: Tom Sturridge, Vivienne Acheampong, Boyd Holbrook, Patton Oswalt, Vanesu Samunyai, Gwendoline Christie

Based on the beloved award-winning DC comic series written by Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, is a rich, character-driven blend of myth and dark fantasy woven together over the course of ten epic chapters following Dream's many adventures.

Check out the trailer here.

Gilmore Girls

Starring: Lauren Graham, Alexis Bledel, Melissa McCarthy, Keiko Agena, Scott Patterson, Kelly Bishop, Edward Herrmann

Set in Stars Hollow, Connecticut – a charming, small, and slightly off-center town, it’s here we meet fiercely independent single mom Lorelai raising gifted, Ivy League-bound daughter Rory. But when Rory's attention turns from dreams of private school and Harvard to thoughts of boys and adolescent self-reliance, single mom Lorelai begins noticing more of her own rebellious youth--only 16 years ago--in Rory.

Check out the series recap here.

Rick & Morty

Starring: Ian Cardoni, Harry Belden, Chris Parnell, Spencer Grammer, Sarah Chalke

Emmy® award-winning half-hour animated hit comedy series, Rick and Morty, follows a sociopathic genius scientist who drags his inherently timid grandson on insanely dangerous adventures across the universe.

Check out the trailer here.

We hope you enjoyed taking a look at some of our biggest TV titles, maybe some inspired your next binge watch!
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