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2 days ago · Vote up the best original shows made just for USA Network. Latest additions: Scare Tactics, The Anonymous, Race to Survive: New Zealand. Most divisive: The 4400. Over 3.3K Ranker voters have come together to rank this list of The Best USA Network Original Series.
- Touching Evil
- Fairly Legal
- Rush
- Common Law
- The 4400
- Sirens
- Benched
- Political Animals
- In Plain Sight
- Necessary Roughness
In 2004, the USA Network remade the British series Touching Evil for a US audience. The series starred Jeffrey Donovan (known for another USA original, Burn Notice) and Vera Farmiga (Bates Motel). While it was a critical hit, it unfortunately did not catch on with audiences, leading USA to cancel it after only one season. Despite only lasting twelv...
If there are any genres that the USA Network seems to feel most comfortable with, they are legal dramas and comedies. Many more of these legal shows will show up on this list, but until then, let's look at Fairly Legal. Fairly Legal stars Sarah Shahi, who previously guested on Psych, and has gone on to star in Person of Interest. In Fairly Legal, S...
Despite lasting only one season and garnering only mixed reactions, Rush is a USA original series worth taking a second look at. The series is sort of like Ray Donovan, if Ray was a doctor instead of a fixer. The series stars Tom Ellis (Fox's Lucifer) as Dr. William P. Rush, a hard-partying physician servicing those with lots of money and even more...
Common Law was the USA Network's comedic take on the complicated relationship between two homicide detectives. Rather than play the show off as a straight police comedy, like Brooklyn Nine-Nine, USA rather blended both comedic and dramatic elements in Common Law. The short premise is as follows: two LA homicide detectives despise each other, so the...
While the USA Network might like to stay in their usual wheel house of legal and medical dramas, occasionally they will try their hand at the science fiction genre, more closely associated with their sister channel, Syfy. One of those attempts at sci-fi was the drama The 4400, which lasted for four successful seasons. The 4400 featured an ensemble ...
The USA Network is not only about dramas. In fact, they have quite a few funny and unique comedies. One of those comedies, Sirens, aired for two seasons, and was developed by actor Dennis Leary. The medical comedy features not doctors, but the EMTs who have devoted their lives to helping others out-- or maybe they're just looking for a paycheck. Th...
Benched aired for just one season on the USA Network, and unfortunately had a very difficult time attracting an audience. And it is a shame, because it is a well-made comedy that takes a fresh look at a part of the legal system many know little about-- the public defenders office. The series features Eliza Coupe (another Scrubs alumni) as Nina Whit...
In 2012 the USA Network, along with Greg Berlanti (The Flash), developed the star-studded political drama, Political Animals. The series followed the lives of a former first family (the family of the President) and featured a cast so good it was meant for HBO. The series starred Sigourney Weaver (Alien) as Elaine Barrish, the former First Lady and ...
In Plain Sight, starring Mary McCormack (The West Wing), was one of the longer running shows on the USA Network. Joining McCormack, who played U.S. Marshall Mary Shannon, was Fred Weller (Missing Persons), who played Deputy U.S. Marshall Michael Mann. The series follows Mary, who struggles to navigate her complicated personal life, while at the sam...
Necessary Roughness (its title is a play on "unnecessary roughness"-- probably didn't need to point that out) aired for three seasons on USA, and starred Callie Thorne (Homicide: Life on the Street) as Dr. Dani Santino, a therapist who begins treating players on the New York Hawks football team. The series also featured Marc Blucas as Matt Donnally...
- Community. NBC. 2009-15. The half-hour comedy is a format built around comfort and familiarity, and while “Community” had those trappings — a quirky ensemble, a relatable setting, a will-they-won’t-they storyline — the Dan Harmon series was best when it got weird.
- Hannibal. NBC. 2013-15. Somehow, showrunner Bryan Fuller tricked NBC into airing an avant-garde homoerotic romance between Hannibal Lecter (Mads Mikkelsen) — practicing psychiatrist, preening aesthete, noted gourmand — and Will Graham (Hugh Dancy), an FBI profiler who could inhabit the mindset of a sociopath.
- Homeland. Showtime. 2011-20. Carrie Mathison has all the hallmarks of an unreliable narrator — except she’s usually right. That was what made “Homeland’s” first two seasons so compelling: The CIA agent played masterfully by Claire Danes ought to have been a superspy, but the very mania that lent her a special insight also clouded her judgment, and made her appear untrustworthy to superiors.
- Top Chef. Bravo. 2006-present. As a genre, reality has a largely lowbrow reputation. Not so with “Top Chef,” the Bravo tentpole that’s evolved over 20 seasons into the Rolls-Royce of food television.
1. Person of Interest. 2011–2016 103 eps TV-14. 8.5 (193K) Rate. TV Series. An off-the-grid and presumed-dead former CIA agent, John Reese, is hired by a mysterious tech billionaire software genius, Harold Finch, to prevent violent crimes before they happen in New York City via an advanced surveillance AI.
- Benjamin Hathaway
- Homicide: Life on the Street (1993-1999) Homicide: Life on the Street. Action. Crime. Drama. Release Date. January 31, 1993. Cast. Richard Belzer , Giancarlo Esposito , Peter Gerety , Clark Johnson , Yaphet Kotto , Michael Michele , Kyle Secor , Jon Seda.
- Gunsmoke (1955-1975) Gunsmoke. Release Date. September 10, 1955. Cast. James Arness , Amanda Blake , Dennis Weaver , Ken Curtis , Milburn Stone , Woody Chambliss.
- Six Feet Under (2001-2005) Six Feet Under. Release Date. June 3, 2001. Creator. Alan Ball. Cast. Peter Krause , Michael C. Hall , Frances Conroy , Lauren Ambrose , Freddy Rodriguez , Mathew St. Patrick , Rachel Griffiths , Justina Machado.
- 30 Rock (2006-2013) 30 Rock. Release Date. October 11, 2006. Creator. Tina Fey. Cast. Tina Fey , Alec Baldwin , Tracy Morgan , Jack McBrayer , Scott Adsit , Judah Friedlander , Jane Krakowski , Kevin Brown.
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