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Best Romance TV Shows

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1. Romeo & Juliet

Simon Godwin's version of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet filmed at London's National Theatre with Jessie Buckley and Josh O'Connor as the doomed young lovers airs as a part of PBS's Great Performances.

2. My So-Called Life

Aug 25, 1994 • Rated TV-14

My So-Called Life started in 1994 on ABC. It was very popular. It was a show that many could relate to and came off as more realistic than many other high school shows. Unfortunately, ABC cancelled it after one season. It has remained a favorite for long after. There are many questions left unresolved. If there was a season 2, would Rayanne and Angela be friends? Would Graham overcome his fidelity issues? Would Angela ditch dreamboat Jordan Catalano and go with geeky Brian Krakow? We'll never know.

3. Longford

Feb 17, 2007 • Rated TV-MA

Based on a true story, this dramatic television movie tells the tale of a well-respected politician who puts his career and reputation on the line to stand up for a woman convicted of murdering her children.

4. Felicity

Sep 29, 1998 • Rated TV-14

This coming-of-age drama tracked the experiences of the naive Felicity Porter (Keri Russell), who moves across the country to New York to attend college and pursue her high school crush, Ben Covington (Scott Speedman). The show followed Felicity and her new friends as they made the transition to adulthood and dealt with an endless slew of crises. The show aired 4 seasons and showed the main characters' four years attending college. Although now off the air, it remains one of the WB's best shows, giving the audience a realistic portrayal of the world of young adults.

5. Modern Family

Sep 23, 2009 • Rated TV-PG

The Pritchett family are being filmed for a documentary in this mockumentary of the extended family which includes patriarch Jay, his second wife Gloria and son Manny; Jay's son, Mitchell, his partner Cameron, and their adopted daughter Lily; and Jay's daughter Claire, her husband Phil and their three children, Haley, Alex, and Luke.

6. Howards End

Apr 8, 2018 • Rated TV-14

Kenneth Lonergan's adaptation of the classic E.M. Forster novel about sisters Margaret (Hayley Atwell) and Helen Schlegel (Philippa Coulthard) as they seek love and purpose in turn of the century England.

7. Pushing Daisies

Oct 3, 2007 • Rated TV-PG

This romantic comedy shows us the fairy tale-like world of Ned, a man who can bring dead people back to life through the power of his touch. The same touch he must use to "kill" them after no more than a minute or another person will die. With the help of Emerson, a local PI, Ned uses his ability to solve murder cases and cash in on any rewards. But things get complicated when a murder victim turns out to be Ned's long-lost childhood crush and he decides to break the rules and let her live. show is created by Bryan Fuller, who has brought us fantasy series such as Wonderfalls and Dead Like Me. The series shares the quick-witted comedy and darker emotions of Fuller's previous shows.

8. Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Mar 10, 1997 • Rated TV-14

Sarah Michelle Gellar stars as Buffy Summers, The Chosen One, the one girl in all the world with the strength and skill to fight the vampires. With the assistance of her close friends, Willow (Alyson Hannigan), Xander (Nicholas Brendon), and her Watcher Giles (Anthony Stewart Head), she balances slaying, family, friendships, and relationships.

9. The Normal Heart

May 25, 2014 • Rated TV-MA

Ned Weeks (Mark Ruffalo) faces conflicts with his brother (Alfred Molina), his lover Felix (Matt Bomer), and Bruce Niles (Taylor Kitsch), a closeted investment banker, as he tries to organize awareness about a new disease killing gay men. While Ned's doctor and friend, Dr. Emma Brookner (Julia Roberts) does her best to council her patients in this adaptation of Larry Kramer's Tony-winning play about the early days of the AIDS crisis.

10. Feel Good (2020)

Mar 19, 2020 • Rated TV-MA

Canadian comedian Mae (Mae Martin) juggles living in London, dealing with her parents (Adrian Lukis and Lisa Kudrow), her recovery from addiction and falling for heterosexual girl named George (Charlotte Ritchie).

11. Insecure

Oct 9, 2016 • Rated TV-MA

The comedy follows the lives of best friends Issa Dee (Issa Rae) and Molly (Yvonne Orji).

12. RAMY

Apr 19, 2019 • Rated TV-MA

Ramy Hassan (Ramy Youssef) is a first-generation Egyptian-American Muslim trying to balance the challenges of family expectations and what he wants in life in this comedy co-created by Youssef.

13. EZ Streets

Oct 27, 1996 • Rated TV-14

EZ Streets is an epic drama about a dark, gritty urban world, the people who live there and their struggle to live by the creed of the streets. The one-hour series explores the lives of Detective Cameron Quinn, gangster Jimmy Murtha, and ex-con Daniel Rooney, fiercely independent men living parallel lives on opposite sides of the law. Quinn is a cop who has to deal with corruption in order to find the truth. Murtha and Rooney are two individuals living in a very violent world with its own moral code. Rooney just got out of jail for a crime that he did not commit, but he's slowly being drawn back in by Murtha, the head of one of the city's most notorious new gangs, the EZ's. Keeping Murtha one step ahead of hard time is his attorney, Theresa Connors.

14. Nashville (2012)

2012 • Rated TV-PG

Veteran country singer Rayna James (Connie Britton) goes on tour as newcomer Juliette Barnes (Hayden Panettiere) seeks to be the new star.

15. P-Valley

Jul 12, 2020 • Rated TV-MA

The half-hour drama from Katori Hall explores the lives of those who work and visit the Mississippi Delta strip club, The Pynk.

16. Big Mouth

Sep 29, 2017 • Rated TV-MA

The animated comedy from Nick Kroll and Andrew Goldberg is about teenagers and their experiences with the changes puberty brings.

17. Masters of Sex

Sep 29, 2013 • Rated TV-MA

Masters of Sex is a Showtime series features Michael Sheen and Lizzy Caplan as the real-life pioneers of the science of human sexuality, William Masters and Virginia Johnson. The series chronicles their unusual lives, romance and pop culture trajectory, which saw them go from a Midwestern teaching hospital to the cover of Time magazine and Johnny Carson's couch. Masters, which also stars Caitlin Fitzgerald, Nicholas D'Agosto and Teddy Sears, is an adaptation of Thomas Maier's book, Masters of Sex: The Life and Times of William Masters and Virginia Johnson, The Couple Who Taught America How to Love.

18. Behind the Candelabra

The life of the Las Vegas showman Liberace (Michael Douglas) and his younger lover Scott Thorson (Matt Damon) is depicted in this biopic directed by Steven Soderbergh.

19. Normal People

Apr 29, 2020 • Rated TV-14

Set in Ireland, the complicated relationship between the wealthy bur lonely Marianne (Daisy Edgar-Jones) and Connell (Paul Mescal), the son of her family's house cleaner, begins in secret as teenagers but everything changes once at Trinity College in this 12-episode limited series based on Sally Rooney's novel of the same name.

20. The Wonder Years

Jan 31, 1988 • Rated TV-14

"The Wonder Years" was a hit comedy series starring Fred Savage as Kevin Arnold the main character, a boy facing rites of passage on his way to adulthood. Kevin lives with his brother Wayne (Jason Hervey), his sister Karen (Olivia d'Abo), his father Jack (Dan Lauria), and his mother Norma (Alley Mills). Kevin grows up with his on-and-off girlfriend, Winnie Cooper (Danica McKellar), and his best friend, Paul Pfeiffer (Josh Saviano).The show had a successful 6 year run.Theme Song: "With a Little Help From My Friends" by John Lennon & Paul McCartney -- performed by Joe CockerABC Broadcasty History: January 1988 - April 1988 --- Tuesdays 8:30 October 1988 - February 1989 --- Wednesdays 9:00 February 1989 - August 1990 --- Tuesdays 8:30 August 1990 - August 1991 --- Wednesdays 8:00 August 1991 - February 1992 --- Wednesdays 8:30 March 1992 - September 1993 --- Wednesdays 8:00

21. Please Like Me

Aug 2, 2013 • Rated TV-MA

20-year-old Josh (Josh Thomas) is dumped by his girlfriend, explores his sexuality and deals with demands from his family in this Australian comedy.

22. Scott Pilgrim Takes Off

Nov 17, 2023 • Rated TV-MA

Scott Pilgrim (voiced by Michael Cera) meets Ramona Flowers (voiced by Mary Elizabeth Winstead) and must defeat her seven exes if he wants to date her in the anime series based on Bryan Lee O'Malley's Scott Pilgrim graphic novel series (2010 film Scott Pilgrim vs. the World was also based on them).

23. The Good Place

Sep 19, 2016 • Rated TV-PG

Eleanor Shellstrop (Kristen Bell) enters the afterlife and discovers they have mistaken her for someone else and she seeks to rectify this with the help of her afterlife mentor Michael (Ted Danson).

24. Heartstopper

Apr 22, 2022 • Rated TV-14

Openly gay Charlie (Kit Connor) and rugby player Nick (Joe Locke) becomes friends at a British high school in this adaptation of Alice Oseman's graphic novel of the same name.

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