Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip

Series Similar to Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip

If you enjoyed Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, these series share similar themes, tone, and quality. Each recommendation is scored on genre overlap, tonal match, and critical acclaim.

1. Boston Legal

   2004 · Drama, Comedy, Legal · ended

   Recommended for similar Drama / Comedy profile, highly rated (8).

   Sometimes irreverent and funny, sometimes intense and moving, Boston Legal prides itself on being at the forefront of issue-oriented television, often addressing issues that are underreported by the media. Fast-paced and wildly comedic, the series confronts social and moral issues, while its characters continually stretch the boundaries of the law.

2. 30 Rock

   2006 · Comedy · ended

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile, highly rated (8), also on NBC.

   Multiple award-winning comedy 30 Rock is told through the comedic voice of Emmy and two-time Golden Globe winner Tina Fey as variety show producer Liz Lemon. The series also features two-time Emmy and three-time Golden Globe winner Alec Baldwin as top network executive Jack Donaghy and Emmy nominee Tracy Morgan as Tracy Jordan, the unpredictable star of Lemon's hit variety show, TGS with Tracy Jordan, Lemon constantly has her hands full, juggling corporate interference from Donaghy and off-the-handle star antics from Jordan, all while attempting to salvage her own personal life.

3. Freaks and Geeks

   1999 · Drama, Comedy · ended

   Recommended for similar Drama / Comedy profile, hidden gem, also on NBC.

   Freaks and Geeks, the Emmy® award-winning series about the trials and tribulations of high school outsiders in 1980 Michigan.

4. Monarch of the Glen

   2000 · Drama, Comedy · ended

   Recommended for similar Drama / Comedy profile, highly rated (8), hidden gem.

   Heart-warming drama based on Compton Mackenzie's novels, featuring a rural community of eccentric characters. Archie MacDonald becomes the laird of a huge, decaying family estate in the Cairngorms.

5. Six Feet Under

   2001 · Drama, Comedy · ended

   Recommended for similar Drama / Comedy profile, highly rated (8.1).

   When death is your business, what is your life? For the Fisher family, the world outside of their family-owned funeral home continues to be at least as challenging as--and far less predictable than--the one inside on Six Feet Under.

6. Rake

   2010 · Drama, Comedy · ended

   Recommended for similar Drama / Comedy profile, highly rated (8).

   Cleaver Greene, a talented but self-destructive barrister who uses unconventional methods and usually defends those beyond redemption. With unyielding optimism he takes on only the most difficult court cases that no one else wants, from suicide bombing to sex offences and thefts to psychotic school girl drama. At the same time the Sydney barrister tries to put his personal life in order, where his addiction to short term highs and women land him into trouble.

7. Rescue Me

   2004 · Drama, Comedy · ended

   Recommended for similar Drama / Comedy profile, highly rated (8).

   Tommy Gavin is a lifesaver. Whether he is pulling survivors from fiery high-rise infernos or the twisted steel of a subway collision, Gavin takes great pride in leading the heroic but often overwhelmed firefighters of New York City's Truck Company 62. Gavin is also a man drifting between sorrow and anger over a recent separation from his wife and three kids, and recurring memories of comrades and other New-Yorkers who fell victim to the tragedy of 9/11.

8. Fresh Meat

   2011 · Drama, Comedy · ended

   Recommended for similar Drama / Comedy profile, highly rated (8).

   A comedy drama series about the hilarious and painful truths of being a student. The latest creation from Sam Bain and Jesse Armstrong, Fresh Meat follows a group of six students about to embark on the most exciting period of their lives so far - university.

9. The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

   2009 · Drama, Comedy, Crime · ended

   Recommended for similar Drama / Comedy profile, highly rated (8), hidden gem.

   The first BBC drama to be filmed entirely on location in Botswana, The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency is a charming story chronicling the adventures of Mma Ramotswe, a Motswana woman who starts up the country's first female-owned detective agency. Based on the novels by Alexander McCall Smith.

10. Chuck

    2007 · Drama, Comedy, Action · ended

    Recommended for similar Drama / Comedy profile, highly rated (8.2), also on NBC.

    Chuck Bartowski is a computer geek that gets catapulted into a new career as the government's most vital secret agent. When Chuck opens an e-mail subliminally encoded with government secrets, he unwittingly downloads an entire server of sensitive data into his brain. With the government's most precious secrets in Chuck's head, Major John Casey of the National Security Agency assumes the responsibility of protecting him. His partner is the CIA's top agent, Sarah Walker.