Top-Tier Black-Led TV Shows
by rayiannadaniels | created - 20 Oct 2022 | updated - 5 months ago | PublicNot only are these shows entertaining, but they contain A1 acting, writing, direction and production.
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1. Insecure (2016–2021)
TV-MA | 30 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Follows the awkward experiences and racy tribulations of a modern-day African-American woman.
Stars: Issa Rae, Yvonne Orji, Jay Ellis, Natasha Rothwell
Votes: 22,391
2. Claws (2017–2022)
TV-MA | 45 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A look at the life and crimes of five women who work at a Florida nail salon.
Stars: Niecy Nash, Carrie Preston, Judy Reyes, Karrueche Tran
Votes: 7,056
3. Power (2014–2020)
TV-MA | 60 min | Crime, Drama
James "Ghost" St. Patrick, a wealthy New York nightclub owner who has it all; dreaming big, catering to the city's elite, and living a double life as a drug kingpin.
Stars: Omari Hardwick, Lela Loren, Naturi Naughton, Joseph Sikora
Votes: 52,416
4. Empire (2015–2020)
TV-14 | 42 min | Drama, Music
A hip-hop mogul must choose a successor among his three sons who are battling for control over his multi-million dollar company, while his ex-wife schemes to reclaim what is hers.
Stars: Terrence Howard, Taraji P. Henson, Jussie Smollett, Bryshere Y. Gray
Votes: 41,064
5. Survivor's Remorse (2014–2017)
TV-MA | 30 min | Comedy, Drama, Sport
Cam Calloway and Reggie Vaughn gained fame and fortune that no one could have imagined growing up in one of Boston''s most infamous neighborhoods.
Stars: RonReaco Lee, Jessie T. Usher, Erica Ash, Teyonah Parris
Votes: 2,556
6. Black Lightning (2018–2021)
TV-14 | 43 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
A crusading school principal gets back into action as the original African-American electrical superhero.
Stars: Cress Williams, Nafessa Williams, Christine Adams, Marvin Jones III
Votes: 27,249
7. Superstition (2017–2018)
45 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
The supernatural drama centers around the Hastings family, owners of the only funeral home in the mysterious town of La Rochelle, Georgia. The family also acts as the keepers of the town's dark secrets and history.
Stars: Brad James, Morgana Van Peebles, Robinne Lee, Demetria McKinney
Votes: 2,044
8. Star (2016–2019)
TV-14 | 42 min | Drama, Music, Musical
A trio of women form a musical group in Atlanta.
Stars: Jude Demorest, Brittany O'Grady, Ryan Destiny, Amiyah Scott
Votes: 5,089
9. Dear White People (2017–2021)
TV-MA | 30 min | Comedy, Drama
At a predominantly white Ivy League college, a group of black students navigate various forms of racial and other types of discrimination.
Stars: Logan Browning, Brandon P Bell, DeRon Horton, Antoinette Robertson
Votes: 26,420
10. Queen Sugar (2016–2022)
TV-14 | 60 min | Drama
Follows the life of three siblings, one of whom moves from Los Angeles to Louisiana to claim a shared inheritance from their recently departed father: an 800-acre sugarcane farm.
Stars: Rutina Wesley, Kofi Siriboe, Omar J. Dorsey, Nicholas L. Ashe
Votes: 5,596
11. Greenleaf (2016–2020)
TV-14 | 60 min | Drama
The unscrupulous world of the Greenleaf family and their sprawling Memphis megachurch, dark secrets, and lies.
Stars: Merle Dandridge, Kim Hawthorne, Desiree Ross, Lamman Rucker
Votes: 5,996
12. The Chi (2018– )
TV-MA | 60 min | Drama
From Emmy® winner Lena Waithe, The Chi is a timely coming-of-age drama series centered on a group of residents who become linked by coincidence but bonded by the need for connection and redemption.
Stars: Jason Mitchell, Jacob Latimore, Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine, Alex R. Hibbert
Votes: 7,879
13. Boomerang (2019–2020)
TV-14 | 30 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Based on the 1992 American romantic comedy film, this new series will follow the lives of Jacqueline Boyer's son and Marcus and Angela Graham's daughter as they try to step out of their parents' shadows and make a legacy of their own.
Stars: Tetona Jackson, Tequan Richmond, Leland B. Martin, Lala Milan
Votes: 428
14. First Wives Club (2019– )
TV-14 | 30 min | Comedy, Romance
TV adaptation of the 1996 comedy about about three divorced wives who share a common past.
Stars: Jill Scott, Michelle Buteau, RonReaco Lee, Mark Tallman
Votes: 1,885
15. P-Valley (2020– )
TV-MA | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Follows the lives of strip-club dancers working down in the Dirty Delta.
Stars: Nicco Annan, Shannon Thornton, J. Alphonse Nicholson, Brandee Evans
Votes: 11,292
16. Lovecraft Country (2020)
TV-MA | 60 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A young African-American travels across the U.S. in the 1950s in search of his missing father.
Stars: Jonathan Majors, Jurnee Smollett, Courtney B. Vance, Michael Kenneth Williams
Votes: 47,330
17. Them (2021– )
TV-MA | 45 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
Anthology horror series with varying characters and locations by season, featuring different aspects of the horror genre.
Stars: Deborah Ayorinde, Ashley Thomas, Shahadi Wright Joseph, Alison Pill
Votes: 25,149
18. BMF (2021– )
TV-MA | 60 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
Two brothers who rose from the decaying streets of southwest Detroit in the late 1980s and gave birth to one of the most influential crime families in the country.
Stars: Da'Vinchi, Michole Briana White, Demetrius 'Lil Meech' Flenory, Russell Hornsby
Votes: 6,482
19. Power Book II: Ghost (2020–2024)
TV-MA | 60 min | Crime, Drama
The journey of some of Power's most controversial characters.
Stars: Michael Rainey Jr., Gianni Paolo, Lovell Adams-Gray, Woody McClain
Votes: 11,100
20. Our Kind of People (2021–2022)
TV-14 | Drama
A single mom risks it all and moves her family to a vineyard with hopes of taking her natural-hair-care line to the next level by infiltrating the African American elite in Oak Bluffs.
Stars: Yaya DaCosta, Nadine Ellis, Lance Gross, Rhyon Nicole Brown
Votes: 1,718
21. Power Book III: Raising Kanan (2021– )
TV-MA | 60 min | Crime, Drama
Power Book III: Raising Kanan is a prequel set in the 1990s that will chronicle the early years of Kanan Stark, the character first played by executive producer Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson.
Stars: Patina Miller, London Brown, Malcolm M. Mays, Hailey Kilgore
Votes: 6,391
22. The Ms. Pat Show (2021– )
TV-MA | 30 min | Comedy, Drama
A woman from Atlanta finds herself in conservative middle America where she lives her life as a reluctant suburban mom.
Stars: Patricia Williams, J. Bernard Calloway, Tami Roman, Briyana Guadalupe
Votes: 1,137
23. How to Get Away with Murder (2014–2020)
TV-14 | 43 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A group of ambitious law students and their brilliant criminal defense professor become involved in a twisted murder plot that promises to change the course of their lives.
Stars: Viola Davis, Billy Brown, Jack Falahee, Aja Naomi King
Votes: 166,768
24. Scandal (2012–2018)
TV-14 | 43 min | Drama, Thriller
A former White House Communications Director starts her own crisis management firm only to realize her clients are not the only ones with secrets.
Stars: Kerry Washington, Darby Stanchfield, Katie Lowes, Guillermo Diaz
Votes: 79,733
25. Martin (1992–1997)
TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Sassy sitcom centering on radio and television personality Martin Payne. Series focuses on his romantic relationship with girlfriend Gina, her best friend Pam and escapades with best friends Tommy and Cole.
Stars: Martin Lawrence, Tisha Campbell, Thomas Mikal Ford, Carl Anthony Payne II
Votes: 10,845
26. Girlfriends (2000–2008)
TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy
A look at the lives, loves, and losses of four different women, Toni, Maya, Lynn, and Joan.
Stars: Tracee Ellis Ross, Golden Brooks, Persia White, Reginald C. Hayes
Votes: 5,060
27. Harlem (2021– )
TV-MA | 30 min | Comedy
A group of four friends follow their dreams after graduating from college together.
Stars: Meagan Good, Jerrie Johnson, Grace Byers, Shoniqua Shandai
Votes: 5,106
28. Surface (2022– )
TV-MA | 48 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A woman's quest to rebuild her life after a suicide attempt, and her struggle to understand all the things that led up to that moment.
Stars: Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Ari Graynor, François Arnaud
Votes: 4,968
29. The Girl Before (2021)
TV-MA | 46 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
A woman falls for an architect and gets an eerie premonition about his house, when she finds out that another woman died there.
Stars: Gugu Mbatha-Raw, David Oyelowo, Jessica Plummer, Ben Hardy
Votes: 5,639
30. Godfather of Harlem (2019– )
TV-MA | 55 min | Crime, Drama
A gangster named Bumpy Johnson makes his way in Harlem during the 1960s. A TV prequel to the 2007 film, 'American Gangster', which centered on the criminal enterprise of Frank Lucas.
Stars: Forest Whitaker, Ilfenesh Hadera, Lucy Fry, Antoinette Crowe-Legacy
Votes: 20,909
31. Reasonable Doubt (2022– )
TV-MA | 53 min | Drama
Jax Stewart juggles work, family, friends, and a complicated personal life as a brilliant and fearless defense attorney in Los Angeles who bucks the justice system every chance she gets.
Stars: Emayatzy Corinealdi, McKinley Freeman, Tim Jo, Angela Grovey
Votes: 2,157
32. Bel-Air (2022– )
TV-MA | 51 min | Drama
The journey of a street-smart teen whose life is forever transformed when he moves from the streets of West Philadelphia to live with his relatives in one of LA's wealthiest suburbs.
Stars: Jabari Banks, Cassandra Freeman, Jimmy Akingbola, Olly Sholotan
Votes: 12,957
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