Comfort Shows That Are Perfect For Playing In Background Of Life, Ranked
Folding laundry? Working from home? Cooking dinner for the family? Whatever is going on in daily life, a good comfort show is usually playing in the background to keep you company. These are the shows that feel familiar and can keep them company, like a good friend. Which of these shows feel to you like a great, big hug? Vote up the shows you wold most like have playing in the background of your life, vote down the show that require your full attention.Â
- 1Workers plod along at Dunder Mifflin's paper-supply company.
- Premiered: March 24, 2005
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- 2A midlevel bureaucrat works tirelessly toward improving her hometown.
- Premiered: April 9, 2009
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- 3A woman endeavors to raise a daughter on her own.
- Premiered: October 5, 2000
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Schitt's Creek
Eugene Levy, Catherine O'Hara, Annie MurphyWhen a rich family goes broke, its members move to Schitt's Creek, a depressing small town.- Premiered: January 13, 2015
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- 5A child genius deals with his siblings and eccentric parents.
- Premiered: January 9, 2000
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- 6Through a series of flashbacks, Ted tells his kids how he met their mother.
- Premiered: September 19, 2005
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- 7A free-spirited beauty moves in next door to two physicists.
- Premiered: September 24, 2007
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- 8Four older women share a house in Miami Beach.
- Premiered: September 14, 1985
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- 9The psychiatrist helms a radio call-in show in Seattle.
- Premiered: September 16, 1993
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- 10Sam Malone, former reliever for the Red Sox, runs a Boston bar where "everybody knows your name."
- Premiered: September 30, 1982
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- 11A third-generation restaurateur runs a burger joint with his wife and their three kids.
- Premiered: January 9, 2011
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- 12Lucy Ricardo makes life difficult for her Cuban bandleader husband.
- Premiered: October 15, 1951
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- 13The life of the head writer at a late-night TV variety show.
- Premiered: October 11, 2006
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- 14Friends living in Manhattan obsess over little things.
- Premiered: July 5, 1989
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- 15Homer and Marge Simpson raise Bart, Lisa and baby Maggie in Springfield.
- Premiered: December 17, 1989
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- 16Accidentally frozen, a pizza delivery boy wakes up 1,000 years in the future.
- Premiered: March 28, 1999
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- 17Five egocentric friends run a bar together in Philadelphia.
- Premiered: August 4, 2005
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- 18Six friends living in New York hang out at a coffee bar.
- Premiered: September 22, 1994
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- 19Host Rod Serling introduces stories of fantasy and suspense.
- Premiered: October 2, 1959
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- 20Rescued after 15 years in a cult, Kimmy Schmidt gets reacquainted with the real world in New York.
- Premiered: March 6, 2015
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- 21Buffy Summers battles evil in the suburbs.
- Premiered: March 10, 1997
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- 22A mystery novelist solves crimes as she travels.
- Premiered: September 30, 1984
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- 23The search is on to crown Britain's "Best Amateur Baker."
- Premiered: August 17, 2010
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- 24Capt. Benson and her NYPD squad fight for justice in cases ripped straight from the headlines.
- Premiered: September 20, 1999
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- 25FBI special agents probe cases involving phenomena that defy conventional explanations.
- Premiered: September 10, 1993
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- 26An urban youth moves in with rich relatives.
- Premiered: September 10, 1990
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- 27A 12-year-old must master his powers in order to save the world.
- Premiered: February 21, 2005
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- 28Detectives and prosecutors pursue justice in the New York City streets and courtrooms.
- Premiered: September 13, 1990
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- 29An investigation team in Las Vegas scours crime scenes for forensic evidence.
- Premiered: October 6, 2000
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- 30A doctor works at a hospital with unpredictable staffers and patients.
- Premiered: October 2, 2001
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- 31An offbeat police squad must get its act together to impress its precinct's new captain.
- Premiered: September 17, 2013
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- 32A quirky family of employees at supersized megastore Cloud 9 tackle the day-to-day grind together.
- Premiered: November 30, 2015
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- 33Two brothers battle evil forces.
- Premiered: September 13, 2005
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- 34An elite squad of FBI profilers analyzes the country's most-twisted criminal minds.
- Premiered: September 22, 2005
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- 35Eleanor Shellstrop finds out that even in the afterlife, it's never too late to change your ways.
- Premiered: September 19, 2016
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- 36Reenactments and interviews retell the circumstances of unsolved crimes and paranormal events.
- Premiered: September 14, 1988
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- 37A high-school chemistry teacher has a midlife crisis.
- Premiered: January 20, 2008
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- 38A gay lawyer and an interior designer share an apartment and constantly mind each other's business.
- Premiered: September 28, 2017
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- 39The crew of the starship USS Enterprise explores the galaxy and fosters peace in the 24th century.
- Premiered: September 28, 1987
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- 40Special agents investigate crimes related to the Navy and Marine Corps.
- Premiered: September 23, 2003
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- 41The Cunningham family enjoys life in 1950s Milwaukee.
- Premiered: January 15, 1974
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- 42Judge Judy Sheindlin hears real cases.
- Premiered: September 16, 1996
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- 43A novice sleuth convinces the police to let him help on baffling cases by pretending to be psychic.
- Premiered: July 7, 2006
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- 44Long-time rivals are brought together when their husbands fall in love with each other.
- Premiered: May 8, 2016
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- 45A woman with three daughters marries a widower with three sons.
- Premiered: September 26, 1969
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- 46The adventures of an eccentric family living in New England.
- Premiered: January 31, 1999
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- 47Compelling mysteries, powerful documentaries, in-depth investigations.
- Premiered: March 31, 1992
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- 48A team of doctors at Grey Sloan Memorial in Seattle.
- Premiered: March 27, 2005
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- 49A square yellow sponge lives in the underwater city of Bikini Bottom.
- Premiered: May 1, 1999
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- 50Cameras catch police in action as they confront crime and comfort victims.
- Premiered: March 11, 1989
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- 51The adventures of four boys who live in South Park, Colo.
- Premiered: August 13, 1997
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- 52A small Texas town has high expectations for its top-ranked football team.
- Premiered: October 3, 2006
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Queer Eye
Antoni Porowski, Tan France, Karamo BrownFive gay style experts aid hapless men and women in the United States.- Premiered: February 7, 2018
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- 54People resolve grievances in small-claims court.
- Premiered: September 8, 1997
- 55Army surgeons blow off steam between hours of combat surgery.
- Premiered: September 17, 1972
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- 56When a college student leaves the nest, she discovers that everything is not going to go her way.
- Premiered: January 3, 2018
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