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A number of original streaming television programmes have been made available by Netflix, an American global Internet streaming-on-demand media company, including original series, specials, miniseries, documentaries, and films. In addition to continuing previously cancelled series from other networks, Netflix occasionally licences or co-produces content from international broadcasters for exclusive distribution in other markets. This content is referred to in those markets as Netflix original content. Red Envelope Entertainment used to create content for Netflix. Since then, the company has produced more original content. Unless otherwise noted, all programming is in English, is arranged by its primary genre or format, and is sorted by premiere date. Netflix either commissioned the original production of these shows or ordered additional seasons.
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10. MOM – (2013-2021) 8 SEASONS
Mom is an American television sitcom that ran for eight seasons on CBS from September 23, 2013, to May 13, 2021. It was created by Chuck Lorre, Eddie Gorodetsky, and Gemma Baker. It is based in Napa, California, and follows estranged mother-daughter duo Bonnie and Christy Plunkett as they try to mend their relationship and their lives by attending Alcoholics Anonymous. The pair have been estranged for years due to their respective addictions. It features Mimi Kennedy, Jaime Pressly, Beth Hall, William Fichtner, Sadie Calvano, Blake Garrett Rosenthal, Matt Jones, French Stewart, and Kristen Johnston in supporting roles along with Anna Faris and Allison Janney in the lead roles.
The series was created by Chuck Lorre Productions and Warner Bros. Television and was filmed in front of a live audience. Throughout its run, it received praise from both critics and viewers, with particular attention being paid to the writing and performances (Janney’s being singled out). It has received praise for dealing with serious subjects like alcoholism, drug addiction, teenage pregnancies, compulsive gambling, homelessness, relapse, cancer, death, domestic violence, overdose, palsy, rape, obesity, stroke, ADHD, and miscarriage while striking a delicate balance between the lighter and darker sides of these topics.
9. YOUNG SHELDON – (2017-2022) 7 SEASONS
Chuck Lorre and Steven Molaro created the coming-of-age sitcom television series Young Sheldon for CBS. The spin-off prequel to The Big Bang Theory, which is set in the late 1980s and early 1990s, opens with Sheldon Cooper, then nine years old, living with his family in East Texas and attending high school. Along with Zoe Perry, Lance Barber, Montana Jordan, Raegan Revord, and Annie Potts, Iain Armitage plays the young Sheldon. The Big Bang Theory’s adult Sheldon Cooper, played by Jim Parsons, narrates the show and serves as an executive producer.
After Parsons presented the Big Bang Theory producers with an initial concept, work on the prequel series started in November 2016. The series was ordered by CBS in March of the following year, and Armitage and Perry were cast. Young Sheldon made its debut on September 25, 2017, as a special preview, and was subsequently renewed for a full season, which started airing on November 2, 2017. CBS renewed the show for a seventh season in March 2021. Launch day for the sixth season was September 29, 2022.
8. WORKIN MOM – (2017-2022) 6 SEASONS
A Canadian television sitcom called Workin’ Moms made its debut on CBC Television on January 10, 2017. As a group of friends coping with the difficulties of being working mothers, Catherine Reitman, Jessalyn Wanlim, Dani Kind, Enuka Okuma, and Juno Rinaldi are featured in the show. Reitman and her husband Philip Sternberg’s production company, Wolf + Rabbit Entertainment, is in charge of the show’s production.
In the middle of season 3, in February 2019, the Netflix global premiere of the show took place. Workin’ Moms received a fourth season renewal on May 29, 2019, and it will debut on February 18, 2020. The show received a fifth season renewal in April 2020, and it debuted on February 16, 2021. The show received a sixth season renewal in June 2021, and it debuted on January 4, 2022. Creator Catherine Reitman revealed on June 20, 2022, that pre-production had started for the seventh and final season, which would air in 2023.
7. NEVER HAVE I EVER – (2020-2022) 4 SEASONS
Never Have I Ever is a Mindy Kaling and Lang Fisher-produced American romantic comedy-drama television series with Maitreyi Ramakrishnan as the lead. Even though it is set in the San Fernando Valley, Kaling’s childhood experiences in the Boston area are reportedly the basis for the show, which Kaling herself has said is based “in the spirit of my childhood.” On April 27, 2020, it made its Netflix debut. It follows an Indian-American high school student who must adjust to her father’s unexpected death. Reviews of the show were generally positive.
The series has been praised for shattering Asian stereotypes and has been called a watershed moment for South Asian representation in Hollywood. A second season of the show was ordered by Netflix on July 1, 2020, and it debuted on July 15, 2021. On August 19, 2021, Netflix decided to renew the show for a third season, consisting of 10 episodes, which was released on August 12, 2022. A fourth and final season is scheduled to debut in 2023.
6. JANE THE VIRGIN – (2014-2019) 5 SEASONS
Jennie Snyder Urman created the satirical telenovela Jane the Virgin, an American romantic comedy-drama. The CW broadcast the series’ October 13, 2014, debut, and it ended on July 31, 2019. It is a loose adaptation of Perla Faras’ Venezuelan telenovela Juana la virgen. In it, Gina Rodriguez plays Jane Gloriana Villanueva, a devout Latina virgin of 23 who becomes pregnant as a result of her gynecologist’s unintentional artificial insemination. It makes fun of telenovela conventions and devices from Latin America.
Critical praise for Jane the Virgin was given, especially for its writing and Rodriguez’s performance. Gina Rodriguez won Best Actress – Television Series Musical or Comedy at the 72nd Golden Globe Awards, where Jane the Virgin was nominated for Best Television Series – Musical or Comedy. The programme won a Peabody Award in 2014, and the American Film Institute named it one of the top 10 television shows of the year.
The series’ on-screen title card was changed starting with the fourth episode of season three, with “The Virgin” being crossed out in favour of a comedic replacement corresponding to each episode. This was in line with the plot, which has Jane no longer being a virgin.
5. THE GOOD PLACE – (2016-2020) 4 SEASONS
Michael Schur is the author of the American fantasy comedy television series The Good Place. After four seasons and 53 episodes, it made its NBC debut on September 19, 2016, and it ended on January 30, 2020.
Eleanor Shellstrop (Kristen Bell) is welcomed to the Good Place, a highly selective Heaven-like utopia created and run by afterlife “architect” Michael (Ted Danson), as a reward for living a good life. Although the plot changes significantly over the course of the series, this is its basic premise. She understands, however, that she was sent there in error and must conceal her morally dubious prior actions while making an effort to become a better, more ethical person. Along with D’Arcy Carden playing Janet, an artificial being who helps the residents, William Jackson Harper, Jameela Jamil, and Manny Jacinto also appear as other residents of the Good Place.
The writing, acting, setting, and tone of The Good Place all won praise from critics. Particularly praised were the show’s exploration and inventive use of ethics and philosophy, as well as the twist ending to the first season. It won four Hugo Awards for Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form, as well as a Peabody Award. 14 Primetime Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Comedy Series for its third and fourth seasons, were among its nominations.
4. BROOKLYN NINE-NINE – (2013-2021) 8 SEASONS
An American police procedural comedy television show called Brooklyn Nine-Nine first aired on Fox and then moved to NBC. From September 17, 2013, to September 16, 2021, a total of eight seasons and 153 episodes of the show were broadcast. The plot of this Dan Goor and Michael Schur production centres on seven New York City Police Department (NYPD) detectives as they get accustomed to life under the strict and serious Captain Raymond Holt (Andre Braugher). The cast also includes Stephanie Beatriz, Terry Crews, Melissa Fumero, Joe Lo Truglio, Chelsea Peretti, Dirk Blocker, and Joel McKinnon Miller. Braugher and Andy Samberg are the show’s co-stars.
Fox initially ordered 13 episodes of this single-camera comedy for its first season before increasing that number to 22. The debut of Brooklyn Nine-Nine was on September 17, 2013. After five seasons, the show was cancelled by Fox on May 10, 2018, and the following day, NBC picked it up for a sixth season, which debuted on January 10, 2019. In February 2020, the seventh season officially began. On August 12, 2021, the eighth and final season’s ten episodes debuted.
Critics have given the series high praise. Samberg won the Golden Globe for Best Actor – Television Series Musical or Comedy the same night the first season of the show won the Golden Globe for Best Television Series – Musical or Comedy. Braugher has won the Critics’ Choice Television Award twice for Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series and has received four Primetime Emmy nominations for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series. The show has also drawn praise for its ability to depict serious topics while maintaining humour. The show won the 2018 GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Comedy Series for its representation of LGBTQ+ people.
3. THE BIG BANG THEORY – (2007-2019) 12 SEASONS
The Big Bang Theory is an American television sitcom that was created by Chuck Lorre, Bill Prady, and Steven Molaro, all of whom also served as the show’s executive producers and head writers. It had a September 24, 2007, CBS debut, and it ran for 279 episodes over 12 seasons, ending on May 16, 2019.
The original cast of the show consisted of five people who lived in Pasadena, California: physicists Sheldon Cooper (Jim Parsons) and Leonard Hofstadter (Johnny Galecki), who share an apartment; Penny (Kaley Cuoco), a waitress and aspiring actress who lives across the hall; and Howard Wolowitz (Simon Helberg), an aerospace engineer, and astrophysicist Raj Koothrappali (Kunal Nayyar). Over time, supporting characters such as microbiologist Bernadette Rostenkowski (Melissa Rauch), comic book store owner Stuart Bloom, and neuroscientist Amy Farrah Fowler (Mayim Bialik) were elevated to starring roles (Kevin Sussman).
Produced by Warner Bros. Television and Chuck Lorre Productions, the programme was captured on camera in front of a live audience. Throughout its first season, it received mixed reviews, but the second and third seasons received more positive feedback. Despite initially receiving mixed reviews, seven of the eleven seasons were among the top ten in the final season ratings, and it eventually won the top spot. From 2011 to 2014, it received nominations for the Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series, and Parsons won the award four times for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series. It received 46 nominations and seven Emmy Awards in total. Additionally, Parsons was honoured with a Golden Globe for his performance in the comedy series.
2. FRIENDS – (1994-2004) 10 SEASONS
Friends is an American television sitcom that ran for ten seasons on NBC from September 22, 1994, to May 6, 2004, and was created by David Crane and Marta Kauffman. The show centres on six friends in their 20s and 30s who reside in Manhattan, New York City, and features an ensemble cast that includes Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, Matthew Perry, and David Schwimmer. Bright/Kauffman/Crane Productions, in collaboration with Warner Bros. Television, produced the television show. Originally, Kevin S. Bright, Kauffman, and Crane served as executive producers.
Between November and December 1993, Kauffman and Crane started creating Friends under the working title Insomnia Cafe. Together, they pitched a seven-page show treatment to NBC after presenting the concept to Bright. The series was finally given the name Friends following numerous script revisions and changes, including the titles Six of One and Friends Like Us.
At Warner Bros. Studios in Burbank, California, movies were filmed. The programme finished the television season in the top ten, eventually winning the top spot in its eighth season. Around 52.5 million American viewers tuned in to the series finale, which aired on May 6, 2004, making it the fifth-most watched series finale in television history and the most watched television episode of the 2000s.
THE OFFICE – (2005-2013) 9 SEASONS
In the television series The Office, which is an American mockumentary sitcom, office workers at the fictional Dunder Mifflin Paper Company’s branch in Scranton, Pennsylvania, go about their daily business. It aired on NBC for nine seasons, from March 24, 2005, to May 16, 2013. Greg Daniels, a veteran writer for Saturday Night Live, King of the Hill, and The Simpsons, based it on the 2001–2003 BBC series of the same name created by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant. In collaboration with Universal Television, Daniels’ Deedle-Dee Productions and Reveille Productions (later Shine America) co-produced the show. Ben Silverman, Howard Klein, Daniels, Gervais, Merchant, and Ben Silverman served as the original executive producers, with a plethora of others being tapped in.
In order to replicate the appearance of a real documentary, the series, like its British counterpart, was shot in a single-camera setup without a studio audience or a laugh track. 201 episodes of the midseason replacement series were broadcast during its run on NBC. The Office’s original main cast included Steve Carell, Rainn Wilson, John Krasinski, Jenna Fischer, and B. J. Novak; however, the ensemble cast underwent a number of changes throughout the course of the series. Ed Helms, Amy Ryan, Mindy Kaling, Craig Robinson, James Spader, Ellie Kemper, and Catherine Tate are notable actors who are not part of the original main cast.
The Office’s brief first season received mixed reviews, but subsequent seasons, and in particular Carell’s performance, received significant praise from television critics as the show’s characters, subject matter, format, and tone significantly diverged from the British version. These seasons were listed among the best TV shows of the year by several critics, and they received numerous honours, including four Primetime Emmy Awards, one for Outstanding Comedy Series in 2006, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, a Golden Globe Award for Carell’s performance, and a Peabody Award in 2006. A decline in quality was noted in the eighth season. However, the ninth and final season ended the series with a generally positive reception, despite the fact that many saw Carell’s departure in season seven as a contributing factor.
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