American TV series about journalists

List of the best American TV series about journalists selected by visitors to our site: Home Before Dark, Limetown, Scream, I Am the Night, Clickbait, Billions, The Newsroom, Making a Murderer, The Loudest Voice, Supergirl.

In the top there are new series of 2022, a plot description and trailers for series that have already been released.

Country
Markimdb: 7.5
Genrecrime, detective
CountryUSA

A young girl moves from Brooklyn to the small lakeside town her father left behind. While there, her dogged pursuit of the truth leads her to unearth a cold case that everyone in town, including her own father, tried hard to bury.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genrefantastic, thriller, crime, detective
CountryUSA

Follows Lia Haddock, a journalist for American Public Radio (APR), as she unravels the mystery behind the disappearance of over 300 people at a neuroscience research facility in Tennessee.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genrehorror, thriller, comedy, drama, crime, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:14

What starts as a YouTube video going viral, soon leads to problems for the teenagers of Lakewood and serves as the catalyst for a murder that opens up a window to the town's troubled past. Everyone has secrets. Everyone tells lies. Everyone is fair game.

Markimdb: 6.9
Genredrama, detective
CountryUSA
Duration00:52

Fauna Hodel, who was given away by her teenage birth mother, begins to investigate the secrets to her past, following a sinister trail that swirls ever closer to an infamous Hollywood gynecologist connected to the legendary Black Dahlia murder.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryAustralia, USA

When family man Nick Brewer is abducted in a crime with a sinister online twist, those closest to him race to uncover who is behind it and why.

Markimdb: 8.4
Genredrama
CountryUSA
Duration02:07

    A complex drama about power politics in the world of New York high finance. Shrewd, savvy U.S. Attorney Chuck Rhoades and the brilliant, ambitious hedge fund king Bobby "Axe" Axelrod are on an explosive collision course, with each using all of his considerable smarts, power and influence to outmaneuver the other. The stakes are in the billions in this timely, provocative series.

    Markimdb: 8.6
    Genredrama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:00

    A behind-the-scenes look at the people who make a nightly cable-news program. Focusing on a network anchor, his new executive producer, the newsroom staff and their boss, the series tracks their quixotic mission to do the news well in the face of corporate and commercial obstacles-not to mention their own personal entanglements.

    Markimdb: 8.6
    Genredocumentary, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:00

    Filmed over 10 years, this real-life thriller follows a DNA exoneree who, while exposing police corruption, becomes a suspect in a grisly new crime.

    Markimdb: 7.9
    Genredrama, biography
    CountryUSA
    Duration00:51

    The rise and fall of Fox News founder Roger Ailes, focusing primarily on the past decade in which Ailes arguably became the Republican Party’s de facto leader, while flashing back to defining events in his life.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrefantastic, action, drama, adventure
    CountryUSA
    Duration06:41

    Twenty-four-year-old Kara Zor-El, who was taken in by the Danvers family when she was 13 after being sent away from Krypton, must learn to embrace her powers after previously hiding them. The Danvers teach her to be careful with her powers, until she has to reveal them during an unexpected disaster, setting her on her journey of heroism.

    Markimdb: 8.5
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA

    Based on Michael Connelly's best-selling novels, these are the stories of relentless LAPD homicide Detective Harry Bosch who pursues justice at all costs. But behind his tireless momentum is a man who is haunted by his past and struggles to remain loyal to his personal code: “Everybody counts or nobody counts.”

    Markimdb: 8.3
    Genredrama
    CountryUSA

    A behind-the-scenes look at the lives of the people who help America wake up in the morning, exploring the unique challenges faced by the men and women who carry out this daily televised ritual.

    Markimdb: 5.4
    Genrecomedy, crime, detective
    CountryUSA

    Beth Burgess, a discredited journalist, is desperate to salvage her career by latching on to the story of a young mother sentenced to life in prison for maiming and murdering her husband, crimes she claims she didn't commit. In trying to uncover the truth, Beth finds herself in over her head as she contends with Colorado gun-smugglers, clickbait culture, the doldrums of marriage and her own tarnished past.

    Markimdb: 5
    Genrecomedy
    CountryUSA

    A time in Mark Feuerstein's adult life when he lived in apartment 9K in the building he grew up in, sandwiched between his parents' apartment, 9J; and his brother, sister-in-law and their baby's apartment, 9L and his attempts to set boundaries with his intrusive but well-meaning family.

    Markimdb: 7.8
    Genrecomedy, melodrama
    CountryUSA
    Duration00:22

    Happy Endings is an American television sitcom that ran on ABC from April 13, 2011 to May 3, 2013. The show follows the dysfunctional adventures of six best friends living in Chicago.

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genrethriller, drama, detective
    CountryUSA

    An unconventional thriller that takes place over three summers — 1993-95 — in a small Texas town when a beautiful popular teen, Kate, is abducted and, seemingly unrelated, a girl, Jeanette, goes from being a sweet, awkward outlier to the most popular girl in town and, by ’95, the most despised person in America.

    Markimdb: 8
    Genrefantastic, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, Sweden
    Duration01:00

    In a parallel present where the latest must-have gadget for any busy family is a 'Synth' - a highly-developed robotic servant that's so similar to a real human it's transforming the way we live.

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genredrama
    CountryUSA

    An immersive, behind-the-headlines account of the historically turbulent events surrounding the 2016 presidential election and its aftermath, which divided a nation. This two-part biopic tells the story of two powerful figures, Comey and Trump, whose strikingly different personalities, ethics and loyalties put them on a collision course.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genrefantastic, thriller, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:03

    An MIT grad student and a tech superstar bring a low-level Pentagon official a staggering discovery that an asteroid is just six months away from colliding with Earth.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:58

    Follow 16-year-old Henrietta, aka Henry, who discovers she has the ability to teleport. The first time she realizes this, she is in a truck with her high school’s Golden Boy, who tries to rape her.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genrecomedy, melodrama
    CountryUSA
    Duration03:04

    A decade after their wild summer as junior counselors, the gang reunites for a weekend of bonding, hanky-panky and hair-raising adventures.

    Markimdb: 7.6
    Genrecomedy
    CountryUSA
    Duration05:15

    The early life of child genius Sheldon Cooper, later seen in The Big Bang Theory.

    Markimdb: 8.1
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration00:28

    A suburban mother faces her cancer diagnosis while trying to find humor and happiness as well.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration00:43

    Five ordinary people with superhuman physical and mental abilities are brought together to form one extraordinary team of Alphas. Operating within the U.S. Department of Defense, the team investigates cases that point to others with Alpha abilities.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genrecomedy, cartoon
    CountryUSA
    Duration00:22

    Brickleberry National Park is facing closure, but not if the park’s dysfunctional park rangers can help it! “Brickleberry,” an animated half-hour series, follows the crazy bunch of park rangers as they do their worst to keep the park running. Steve (David Herman) has been “Ranger of the Month” every month for years, so he feels threatened when Ethel (Natasha Leggero) is transferred from Yellowstone National Park to help whip the park into shape. Connie (Roger Black) and Denzel (Jerry Minor) are two unique rangers that each bring special skills (or in Denzel’s case, lack of skills) to the job, and Woody (Tom Kenny) is the hapless Head Ranger who puts nothing above his beloved park, except his adopted bear cub, Malloy (Daniel Tosh), who he’s taken in and spoils to death.

    Markimdb: 8.7
    Genredocumentary
    CountryUSA

    From birth to brain surgery: This docuseries provides an intimate look at the lifesaving work of four doctors at Lenox Hill Hospital in NYC.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genrecomedy
    CountryUSA
    Duration00:22

    Contra Security is a high tech security firm that specializes in breaking in as a way to test security measures. The team members comprise various skills, and even more various personalities.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genredrama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:00

    Based on the book by Lily Koppel, this 10 episode limited series tells the story of the women who were key players behind some of the biggest events in American history. As America’s astronauts were launched on death-defying missions, Life Magazine documented the astronauts’ families, capturing the behind-the-scenes lives of their young wives. Overnight, these women were transformed from military spouses into American royalty. As their celebrity rose and tragedy began to touch their lives, they rallied together.

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genrecomedy
    CountryUSA
    Duration00:28

    Stuart Pritchard is an awkward, overly-confident Englishman trying to date in Los Angeles – where he repeatedly attempts to infiltrate the world of beautiful people.

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genremelodrama, drama, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration02:04

    Mary Ann returns to present-day San Francisco and is reunited with her daughter and ex-husband, twenty years after leaving them behind to pursue her career. Fleeing the midlife crisis that her picture-perfect Connecticut life created, Mary Ann is quickly drawn back into the orbit of Anna Madrigal, her chosen family and a new generation of queer young residents living at 28 Barbary Lane.

    Markimdb: 8.2
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryUSA

    Explore a dark mentorship that forms between Deborah Vance, a legendary Las Vegas comedian, and an entitled, outcast 25-year-old.

    Markimdb: 7.6
    Genredrama
    CountryUSA

    A teenager finds out she was abducted as a toddler and returns to her biological family.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genrecomedy
    CountryUSA

    Esther and Benji are platonic best friends who want nothing more than to be accepted by the vain and status-obsessed culture of Los Angeles. Despite their sometimes contentious relationship, when push comes to shove, they’ve got each other’s back … And they have nobody else to hang out with.

    Markimdb: 4.5
    Genrefantasy, drama, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration03:56

    Set in the fictional college town of Hilltowne, Charmed follows the lives of three sisters, Macy, Mel and Maggie Vera who, after the tragic death of their mother, discover they are three of the most powerful witches of all time.

    Markimdb: 8
    Genrecomedy
    CountryUSA

    Before there were parenting blogs, trophies for showing up, and peanut allergies, there was a simpler time called the '80s. For geeky 11-year old Adam these were his wonder years and he faced them armed with a video camera to capture all the crazy. The Goldbergs are a loving family like any other, just with a lot more yelling.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genredrama
    CountryUSA

    A journalist with a lot to prove investigates the case of Anna Delvey, the Instagram-legendary German heiress who stole the hearts of New York’s social scene – and stole their money as well.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genrefantastic, action, comedy, cartoon
    CountryUSA

    Axe Cop is an animated series based on the webcomic of the same name. It premiered on Fox on July 21, 2013, as a part of the channel's Animation Domination HD programming block. The series aired 6 11-minute episodes in its first season, which will later expand to half-hour episodes should the show be renewed for a second season.

    Markimdb: 7.7
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryUSA

    An LA family with serious boundary issues have their past and future unravel when a dramatic admission causes everyone's secrets to spill out.

    Markimdb: 8.3
    Genrecomedy
    CountryUSA

    A satirical half-hour series from comedian Sacha Baron Cohen exploring the diverse individuals, from the infamous to the unknown across the political and cultural spectrum, who populate our unique nation.

    Genrefantastic, action, adventure
    CountryUSA
    Duration00:30

    It's 1946, and peace has dealt Peggy Carter a serious blow as she finds herself marginalized when the men return home from fighting abroad. Working for the covert SSR (Strategic Scientific Reserve), Peggy must balance doing administrative work and going on secret missions for Howard Stark all while trying to navigate life as a single woman in America, in the wake of losing the love of her life - Steve Rogers.

    Markimdb: 8.5
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:07

    The owners of a dive bar in Brooklyn, Horace and Pete, along with bar regulars share their experiences and lives with each other while drinking or working at the bar.

    Markimdb: 8.6
    Genredocumentary, crime, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:00

    Robert Durst, scion of one of New York’s billionaire real estate families, has been accused of three murders but never convicted. Brilliant, reclusive, and the subject of relentless media scrutiny, he’s never spoken publicly—until now. During interviews with Andrew Jarecki, he reveals secrets of the case that baffled authorities for 30 years. In 2010, Jarecki made the narrative film All Good Things based on the infamous story of Robert Durst. After Durst saw the film, he contacted Jarecki wanting to tell his story. What began as a feature documentary ultimately became a six-part series as more and more of his incredible story was revealed.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genrethriller, drama, detective
    CountryUSA, Mexico
    Duration00:43

    Persons Unknown is an American mystery drama television series that revolves around strangers who are imprisoned inside a small ghost town. The thirteen-episode summer series premiered on June 7, 2010 at 10:00 p.m. on NBC. On June 30, NBC moved the show to 8:00 p.m. on Saturday from its Monday time slot. It completed its run on August 28, 2010. The series was canceled shortly thereafter.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genrecomedy
    CountryUSA

    Murphy Brown (Candice Bergen) is a recovering alcoholic who returns to the fictional newsmagazine FYI for the first time following a stay at the Betty Ford Clinic residential treatment center. Over 40 and single, she is sharp tongued and hard as nails. In her profession, she is considered one of the boys, having shattered many glass ceilings encountered during her career. Dominating the FYI news magazine, she is portrayed as one of America's hardest-hitting (though not the warmest or more sympathetic) media personalities.

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genrecomedy
    CountryUSA

    Michael Carbonaro is a magician by trade, but a prankster by heart. Michael performs baffling tricks on unsuspecting people in everyday situations, all caught on hidden camera. Everyone is left stunned and delighted, even though they have no idea what just hit them.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genredrama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration00:43

    Low Winter Sun is an American television drama series developed by Chris Mundy, starring Mark Strong and Lennie James. The series premiered on August 11, 2013, on AMC, with the first season consisting of ten episodes. It is based upon the 2006 British two-part miniseries of the same name.

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA

    A complex thriller revolving around three characters, each with troubling pasts clouding their intersecting motives: Emma is a young woman who once loved a dangerous killer, John is a former serial predator desperate for redemption, and a grieving mother Mary who is obsessed with finding her missing daughter.

    Markimdb: 8.3
    Genredocumentary, crime
    CountryUSA

    A searing indictment of Big Pharma and the political operatives and government regulations that enable over-production, reckless distribution and abuse of synthetic opiates.

    Markimdb: 6
    Genrefantastic, action, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:41

    Jefferson Pierce is a man wrestling with a secret. As the father of two daughters and principal of a charter high school that also serves as a safe haven for young people in a New Orleans neighborhood overrun by gang violence, he is a hero to his community.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA

    The story of Ben Clemens, who after 32 years as a border patrol agent is forced to work for the very people he spent his career trying to keep out of the United States. Now exposed to life on the other side of the wall, Ben will start to question his black and white views of the world, challenging his ideology and his loyalties.




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