FRIENDS (1994 - 2004)
Rachel Green flees her wedding day and seeks out childhood friend Monica Geller, a New York City chef. They become roommates, and Rachel joins Monica's social circle of single people in their mid-20s: struggling actor Joey Tribbiani, business professional Chandler Bing, masseuse and musician Phoebe Buffay, and newly divorced paleontologistRoss Geller, Monica's older brother. To support herself, Rachel becomes a waitress at Central Perk, a Manhattan coffeehouse where the group often hangs out; when not there, the six are usually at Monica and Rachel's nearby West Village apartment, or Joey and Chandler's across the hall.
DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES (2004 - 2012)
The "normal" suburban life for a group of close-knit housewives takes a dark turn when one of their closest friends mysteriously commits suicide. Now while trying to deal with their own hectic problems and romantic lives, each year brings on a new mystery and more dark and twisted events to come. Life behind closed doors is about to be revealed as suburban life takes a funny and dark turn.
2 BROKE GIRLS (2011 - 2015)
Sassy, streetwise Max works two jobs
just to get by, one of which is waiting tables during the night shift at the
retro-hip Williamsburg Diner. Sophisticated Caroline is an uptown trust fund
princess who's having a run of bad luck that forces her to reluctantly give
waitressing a shot. When Caroline discovers Max's knack for baking amazing
cupcakes, she sees a lucrative future for them, but they first need to raise
the start-up money.
SEX AND THE CITY (1998 - 2004)
Set and filmed in New York City,
follows the lives of a group of four women—three in their mid-thirties and one
in her forties-who, throughout their different natures and ever-changing sex
lives, remain inseparable and confide in each other. The quirky series had multiple continuing
storylines that tackled relevant and modern social issues such as sexuality, sexually
transmitted diseases, safe sex, promiscuity, and femininity while exploring the
difference between friendships and romantic relationships.
THE BIG BANG THEORY (2007 – PRESENT)
The show is about Leonard
Hofstadter and Sheldon Cooper are both brilliant physicists working at Caltech
in Pasadena, California. Also friends with colleague’s mechanical engineer Howard Wolowitz and
astrophysicist Rajesh Koothrappali. They
are self-professed nerds, all have little or no luck with popular women. When
Penny, a pretty woman and an aspiring actress originally from Omaha, moves into
the apartment across the hall from Leonard and Sheldon's, Leonard has another
aspiration in life, namely to get Penny to be his girlfriend.
iCARLY (2007 – 2012)
When Carly and her sassy best friend Sam
act funny at a school talent show audition, tech-savvy Freddie tapes it and
posts it online without telling them. After seeing the girls' strong chemistry
and banter, the online audience clamors for more and the iCarly webcast is
born. While grappling with typical issues of adolescence, Carly, Sam, and
Freddie find out that they have also become online celebrities as their
show – which features talent contests, recipes, problem-solving, and
random dancing – garners international accolades.
CHUCK (2007 - 2012)
Since geeky Chuck accidentally became the
mental host of the Intersect, an unprecedentedly powerful computer mind
containing all information available to the US government, he's a primordial
national security asset and risk. So CIA and NSA each appoint a top agent to
guard Chuck, and often get involved with him in spy adventures. Meanwhile his
identity must be kept secret from Chuck's sister, her perfect partner Devon,
both surgeons, and Chuck's goofy colleagues in Buy More, the Burbank electronics
store where he works as a cover.
MY NAME IS EARL (2005 - 2009)
Earl is a low-life who buys a winning
lottery ticket, only to get hit by a car, losing the ticket in the process. He
then realizes in the hospital that his bad luck is the result of karma in which
fate punishes him for all the rotten things he's ever done in his life;
therefore, he then decides to dedicate his life to making amends to all the
people he has hurt in his life.
GLEE (2009 - 2015)
When a High School Spanish teacher, Will
Schuester, becomes the director of the school's failing Glee club, New
Directions, he hopes to be able to rejuvenate it. The club competes in the
choir competition circuit. It's been called "a High School Musical for
adults", the series follows the club and its mixture of oddball members as
they try and restore it to its former glory. It is not only about compete to win the Nationals, but
also have to deal with the tough and cruel realities of their school, McKinley
High.
ONCE UPON A TIME (2011 - PRESENT)
The series takes place in the
fictional seaside town of Storybrooke, Maine, in which the residents are
actually characters from various fairy tales that were transported to the
"real world" town and robbed of their real memories by the Evil Queen
Regina, using a powerful curse obtained from Rumplestiltskin. The residents of Storybrooke have lived an
unchanging existence for 28 years, unaware of their own lack of aging. The
town's only hope lies with a bail bondsperson named Emma Swan, the daughter of Snow
White and Prince Charming . who was
transported from the fairy tale world before she could be cursed.
GOSSIP GIRLS (2007 - 2012)
The series begins with the return of
Upper East Side "it girl," Serena van der Woodsen from a mysterious stay at a boarding school in
Cornwall, Connecticut. Blair Waldorf whom creators describe as the
queen at the center of their chess game, is a longtime friend and occasional
rival of Serena's, and the queen bee of Constance Billard School's social scene.
The story also follows Chuck Bass, the bad boy of the Upper East Side;
"golden boy" Nate Archibald, Chuck's best friend and Blair's
boyfriend for many years. However, their relationship had been rocky ever since
Serena left for boarding school.
