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21. Nashville
(8/10 stars)The lives and tragedies of rising and fading country music stars in Nashville, Tennessee. more
Top 40 Drama TV Shows on Sky/WOW 2026
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(8/10 stars)22. The Knick
(8/10 stars)Set in downtown New York in 1900, 'The Knick' is a Cinemax drama series from Academy Award and Emmy-winning director Steven Soderbergh. It is centered on the Knickerbocker Hospital and the groundbreaking surgeons, nurses and staff who work there, pushing the bounds of medicine in a time of... more
23. Silicon Valley
(9/10 stars)In the high-tech gold rush of modern Silicon Valley, the people most qualified to succeed are the least capable of handling success. A comedy partially inspired by Mike Judge's own experiences as a Silicon Valley engineer in the late 1980s. more
24. The Newsroom (2012)
(9/10 stars)Genres: Drama
A newsroom undergoes some changes in its workings and morals as a new team is brought in, bringing unexpected results for its existing news anchor. more
25. Death In Paradise
(8/10 stars)Murders and mojitos. Fresh off the plane, a British detective joins the police force on the luscious Caribbean island of Saint Marie. more
26. Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
(8/10 stars)Delves into the dark side of the NYC underworld as the detectives investigate and prosecute various sexually oriented crimes, including rape, pedophilia, domestic violence, and the abuses of children, the disabled, and elderly victims of non-sexual crimes who require specialist handling, all while t... more
27. Looking
(9/10 stars)The series revolves around three friends in San Francisco who explore the fun and sometimes overwhelming options available to a new generation of gay men. more
28. Mord mit Aussicht
(8/10 stars)Sophie Haas had actually been looking forward to finally being promoted to head of Cologne's homicide squad. But instead, she is unexpectedly transferred to the fictitious provincial town of Hengasch, where murder and manslaughter are nowhere in sight. At least that's how it seems at first... more
29. Billions
(9/10 stars)Genres: Drama
U.S. Attorney Chuck Rhoades goes after hedge fund king, Bobby "Axe" Axelrod in a battle between two powerful New York figures. more
30. Chernobyl
(10/10 stars)Chernobyl dramatizes the story of the 1986 nuclear accident — one of the worst man-made catastrophes in history — and the sacrifices made to save Europe from unimaginable disaster. more
31. The Rookie
(9/10 stars)Starting over isn’t easy, especially for small-town guy John Nolan who, after a life-altering incident, is pursuing his dream of being a Los Angeles police officer. As the force’s oldest rookie, he’s met with skepticism from some higher-ups who see him as just a walking midlife crisis. If he can’t k... more
32. Ballers
(8/10 stars)A series centered around a group of football players and their families, friends and handlers. more
33. Blue Bloods
(8/10 stars)A drama about a multi-generational family of cops dedicated to New York City law enforcement. Frank Reagan is the New York Police Commissioner and heads both the police force and the Reagan brood. He runs his department as diplomatically as he runs his family, even when dealing with the politics tha... more
34. Intelligence
(10/10 stars)Organized crime and the Organized Crime Unit (OCU) work together to achieve the opposing goals of each respective world. more
35. Big Little Lies
(9/10 stars)Based on Liane Moriarty’s bestselling book, and featuring Reese Witherspoon, Nicole Kidman, and Shailene Woodley, this darkly comedic series tells the tale of three mothers whose seemingly perfect lives unravel to the point of murder. more
36. Caprica
(8/10 stars)Set nearly 60 years before the events depicted in Battlestar Galactica, Caprica tells the story of how the Cylons came to be, set against the backdrop of the Greystones and the Adamas, two families that are changed in an act of tragedy that takes the lives of their daughters. more
37. Law & Order
(7/10 stars)A blended police procedural and courtroom drama which employs a two-part approach: The first half of each episode focuses on NYPD homicide detectives investigating a crime—often derived from a real-life headline—and apprehending a suspect. The second half takes place in the courtroom, with the distr... more
38. Babylon Berlin
(10/10 stars)Beneath the decadence of 1929 Berlin, lies an underworld city of sin. Police investigator Gareon Rath has been transferred from Cologne to the epicenter of political and social changes in the Golden Twenties. more
39. Quarry
(10/10 stars)Based loosely on a series of books by Max Allen Collins, the project centers on a Marine marksman who, upon returning home from Vietnam in 1973, finds himself shunned by those he loves and demonized by the public. The disillusioned vet is quickly recruited into a network of contract killers and corr... more
40. Doc Martin
(10/10 stars)Make an appointment with the brilliant but socially awkward and neurotic Doc Martin. When Martin develops an aversion to blood, he abandons his career as a celebrated London surgeon and becomes the only doctor in a sleepy small town where his tactless manner soon has the whole town in an uproar. more
Why these charts are worth it
Drama TV shows have redefined television over the past two decades. The shift from episodic formats to complex serialised storytelling – with characters who change fundamentally across seasons, plotlines that build slowly, and moral questions without easy answers – made drama the centre of what is often called the Golden Age of Television. Many of the highest-rated series of all time are drama series.
What separates strong drama from average drama is rarely budget. It is the characters: how they respond to pressure, what choices they make when forced to decide between what is right and what is easy – and whether the series gives them enough time to be convincing. This ranking shows the drama series the community has rated most consistently over time. Use the runtime filter to find drama series with shorter episodes if you prefer a more compact format.
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Strong drama TV shows often overlap with crime and thriller in terms of character depth and emotional tension.
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