When you need some downtime after a long day, a great way to unwind is relaxing in front of the TV watching a series. Here are our 10 favourite TV drama and comedy series – some new ones and some evergreens.
1. Santa Clarita Diet
Catch our April 2017 cover star, Drew Barrymore, living life as an undead woman who develops a taste for human flesh. This horror-comedy will have you laughing and screaming all in one sitting. You’ll need a strong stomach for this one!
2. Big Little Lies
This drama series follows the lives of the wives and mothers of Monterey. Watch as the secrets of these families unfold and the truth about a tragedy unravels week by week. The cast is stellar and includes Reese Witherspoon, Nicole Kidman, Laura Dern and Shailene Woodley. One-hundred percent gripping!
3. Being Mary Jane
The gorgeous Gabrielle Union plays Mary Jane Paul, a budding journalist fighting for her spot in prime-time TV. Watch as her struggles as a single, 40-year-old black woman keep getting in the way of her goal of becoming a head news anchor.
4. Scandal (The Fixer)
Kerry Washington plays Olivia Pope, a former media consultant to the US president who has now opened her own firm. Pope and her associates specialise in fixing other people’s disasters, but they can’t seem to ever fix their own.
5. Grey’s Anatomy
This series never grows old, even after more than 10 years on our screens. This medical drama follows the lives of a group of surgeons and how they struggle to separate their personal lives from their jobs. Prepare to be riveted by the relationships and lives of the doctors of Seattle Grace.
6. The Big Bang Theory
An amazingly quirky sitcom that revolves around seven friends: three physicists, an astronaut, two scientists and a pretty waitress. Enjoy the geeky scientific references as well as all the fun they poke at obsessive hypochondriac Sheldon Cooper.
7. Suits
This riveting legal drama is perfect for binge-viewing. Mike Ross, a college dropout who never attended law school, finds himself working for Harvey Specter, one of the best lawyers in New York. Watch as they wriggle their way out of sticky situations.
8. Shameless
The true definition of a dysfunctional family is what you’ll get with the Gallaghers. Watch as their alcoholic father refuses to face reality while his children suffer.
9. Downton Abbey
This historical period drama stars the Crawley family, who find themselves suddenly next in line to inherit Downton Abbey. The family feuds and lies have a way of catching up with them.
10. Orange is the New Black
This show focuses on the lives of female inmates at Litchfield prison. Watch as the characters struggle to adjust to life on the inside and how some plan to get out.
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