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Better Call Saul is an American legal crime drama series created by Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould for AMC. Part of the Breaking Bad franchise, it is a spinoff of Gilligan's previous series, Breaking Bad (2008–2013), to which it serves primarily as a prequel, with some scenes taking place during and after the events of Breaking Bad. He wasn't always Saul Goodman, ace attorney for chemist-turned-meth dealer Walter White. Six years before he begins to represent Albuquerque's most notorious criminal, Goodman is Jimmy McGill, a small-time attorney hustling to make a name for himself.

Told from the perspective of an unseen documentary filmmaker, the series offers an honest, often-hilarious perspective of family life. Parents Phil and Claire yearn for an honest, open relationship with their three kids. But a daughter who is trying to grow up too fast, another who is too smart for her own good, and a rambunctious young son make it challenging. Claire's dad, Jay, and his Latina wife, Gloria, are raising two sons together, but people sometimes believe Jay to be Gloria's father.

Veep is an American political satire comedy series following Selina Meyer (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) and her team as they attempt to make their mark and leave a legacy but often instead become mired in day-to-day political games. "Politics is about people," former Sen. Meyer is fond of saying. Unfortunately, the people Meyer, a charismatic leader and rising star in her party, meets after becoming vice president are nothing like she expected, but everything she was warned about.

Desperate Housewives follows a close-knit group of housewives residing in Wisteria Lane. Behind the facade of a postcard-perfect subdivision live four women whose lives are anything but idyllic. Klutzy Susan is divorced and the mother of teenage Julie. Lynette is married to Tom and the frazzled mother of four rambunctious children. Bree is the neighborhood's Martha Stewart, whose perfection masks major dysfunction. Ex-model Gabrielle, married to handsome and successful Carlos, wants to have her cake and eat it too.

Television's most riveting mystery unfurls against a backdrop of steamy seduction, maddening conspiracies and nerve-shattering suspense in ABC's Quantico. People's Choice Award winner Priyanka Chopra (Favorite Actress In A New TV Series, 2016) stars as Alex Parrish, one of a diverse group of young recruits at the FBI Quantico Base. Despite intriguing personal secrets and complicated pasts, Alex and her fellow "NATs" (New Agents In Training) are the best, brightest, most thoroughly vetted candidates in the U.S., so it seems impossible that one of them could be a traitor.

With the American fantasy drama House Of The Dragon (based on George R.R. Martin's "Fire & Blood,"), the beginnings of the reign of House Targaryen are chronicled (a prequel to the series "Game of Thrones"). 100 years after the Seven Kingdoms are united by the Targaryen conquest, House Of The Dragon is set nearly 200 years before the events of "Game of Thrones,"and tells the story of the Targaryen civil war with King Viserys I Targaryen's children battling for control of the Iron Throne.

The Handmaid's Tale is the story of life in the dystopia of Gilead, a totalitarian society in what was the United States. Gilead is ruled by a fundamentalist regime that treats women as property of the state, and is faced with environmental disasters and a plummeting birth rate. As one of the few remaining fertile women, Offred is a Handmaid in the Commander's household, one of the caste of women forced into sexual servitude as a last desperate attempt to repopulate a devastated world.

The Three Stooges were an American vaudeville and comedy team active from 1922 until 1970, best remembered for their 190 short-subject films by Columbia Pictures. The two-reel shorts and feature films of this raucous, knockabout - some might say violent - slapstick comedy trio have endured with a cult following.

Star Trek: Picard is an American science fiction drama featuring retired admiral Jean-Luc Picard. Still deeply affected by the loss of Lieutenant Commander Data and the destruction of Romulus, Picard steps into the next chapter of his life. It begins at the end of the 24th century, 20 years after the character's last appearance in Star Trek: Nemesis.

Shogun is an American historical drama miniseries based on James Clavell's 1975 novel of the same name. The miniseries is loosely based on the adventures of English navigator William Adams, who journeyed to Japan in 1600 and rose to high rank in the service of the shogun (warlord). It follows fictional John Blackthorne's (Richard Chamberlain) experiences and political intrigues in feudal Japan in the early 17th century.