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TV Shows & Series: Best "improvisation" TV Shows/Series


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Curb Your Enthusiasm(2000-)

FSK: 16+ years
| Comedy
4.1/5 (with 333 votes)

The off-kilter, unscripted comic vision of Larry David, who plays himself in a parallel universe in which he can't seem to do anything right, and, by his standards, neither can anyone else.

Whose Line Is It Anyway?(1998-2007)

FSK: 16+ years
| 22min per episode | Comedy, Reality-TV
3.9/5 (with 148 votes)

The show where everything's made up and the points don't matter. Not a talk show, not a sitcom, not a game show, Whose Line Is It Anyway? is a completely unique concept to network television. Four talented actors perform completely unrehearsed skits and games in front of a studio audience. Host Drew Carey sets the scene, with contributions from the audience, but the actors rely completely on their quick wit and improvisational skills. It's genuinely improvised, so anything can happen - and often does.

Whose Line Is It Anyway?(2013-)

22min per episode | Reality-TV, Comedy
3.9/5 (with 37 votes)

Comedian Aisha Tyler hosts this improv comedy show where the actors on the show - Wayne Brady, Colin Mochrie, Ryan Stiles along with a special guest each episode -must put their comedic skills to the test through a series of spontaneous improv games, prompted only by random ideas supplied by the studio audience.

Reno 911!(2003-2009)

FSK: 16+ years
| 21min per episode | Comedy
3.6/5 (with 68 votes)

This partially unscripted comedy brings viewers into the squad car as incompetent officers swing into action, answering 911 calls about everything from speeding violations and prostitution to staking out a drug den. Within each episode, viewers catch a "fly on the wall" glimpse of the cops' often politically incorrect opinions, ranging from their personal feelings to professional critiques of their colleagues.

Thank God You're Here(2023-)

1h per episode | Comedy
3.2/5 (with 3 votes)

Each episode involves performers walking through a door into an unknown situation, greeted by the line "Thank God you're here!". They then had to improvise their way through the scene. At the end of each episode a winner was announced.

Partička(2011-)

45min per episode | Comedy
1.9/5 (with 2 votes)

Partička is an improvisation show of Prima TV, based on the Slovak version of the same name. The entire program is based on the improvisation of four actors in different games. As in the Slovak version, Daniel Dangl accompanies the show, and Marián Čurko is the music.

Whose Line Is It Anyway?(1988-1999)

FSK: 12+ years
| 22min per episode | Comedy
3.8/5 (with 26 votes)

An un-scripted comedy show in which four guest performers improvise their way through a series of games, many of which rely on audience suggestions.

Web Therapy(2011-2015)

FSK: 12+ years
| 30min per episode | Comedy
3.6/5 (with 13 votes)

Fiona Wallice is a therapist with little patience for her patients. Tired of hearing about people's problems for fifty long minutes, she devises a new treatment, the three-minute video chat. And still, the sessions end up being largely about her. If she's your therapist, you've got problems.

HarmonQuest(2016-2019)

3.9/5 (with 14 votes)

A fantasy comedy adventure series that melds live action comedians riffing on a stage in front of a live studio audience with animated forays into a fantasy adventure roleplaying game. The intrepid comedians, Dan Harmon, Jeff Davis, and Erin McGathy, along with a rotating special guest member, gather around a kitchen table and attempt to play the game and fail in hilarious fashion, to the chagrin of their adjudicator-referee- Game Master Spencer Crittenden.

Buona la prima!(2007-2017)

20min per episode | Comedy
3.9/5 (with 4 votes)

Buona la prima! is an Italian television series.

Das Begräbnis(2022-)

3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

- No description / details available yet. -

Directed by Jan Georg Schütte

Murder in Successville(2015-2017)

30min per episode | Comedy
3.1/5 (with 8 votes)

Each week Successville's loveable detective, D.I Sleet, enlists the help of a celebrity sidekick to solve the latest high-profile murder in this improvised comedy murder mystery series.

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Thank God You're Here(2006-2007)

1h per episode | Comedy
2.8/5 (with 2 votes)

In this improvisational comedy competition, four guest stars walk into a live improvised comedy sketch, in which they know nothing beyond the costumes they have been given, and greeted by the line 'Thank God you're here!'. They must improvise their way through the sketch with the other actors onstage until a judge sounds a horn. The guest proclaimed the winner by judge Dave Foley takes home a cheap trophy -- and, of course, bragging rights. Based on the Australian series of the same name.

Nadie sabe nada(2022-)

FSK: 6+ years
| Comedy, Talk-Show
4.0/5 (with 3 votes)

Andreu Buenafuente and Berto Romero improvise in response to questions the audience send in. A programme based on the comedy chemistry between two friends, their own experiences and, above all, absolute ignorance.

Players(2010)

22min per episode | Comedy, Drama

Players is an American comedy series which premiered on the Spike network on March 2, 2010. The series is a partially scripted/mostly improvised comedy about two brothers who run a sports bar together. After airing 3 episodes, Players was removed from the Spike schedule and put on hiatus. The remaining seven episodes from season one were pushed back to air beginning July 21, 2010. Spike aired the final four episodes back-to-back on August 14, 2010.

Midtown(2015-)

Two NYPD Cops dialogue continuously, debating everything under the sun. Midtown is based on the true cop stories of former NYPD cop turned improv comedian Scott Baker. The show features Scott and Tom Malloy, star of the film Love N' Dancing (Dir: Rob Iscove) and graduate of the famous IoWest Improv Training center in Los Angeles. The series features real cop banter, and is based on situational humor related to being a cop in the NYPD. All of the dialogue is unscripted, and relies only on the improv comedy talents of Baker and Malloy.

Round the Horne(1965-1968)

5.0/5 (with 1 vote)

A radio comedy sketch show, presented as a local variety show with Kenneth Horne as the host.

Riot(2014)

1h per episode | Comedy
0.5/5 (with 1 vote)

The show's concept places two teams of celebrities and comedians in a series of competitions that have the teams sing, dance and create comedy sketches while overcoming multiple mental and physical obstacles. Instructed by guest team captains, two teams of comedians are instructed to create and participate in a set of unscripted improv skits, some of which take place on a set tilted at 22-1/2 degrees or some of which take place in complete darkness with the audience able to observe through night-vision cameras while the contestants blunder about.

Directed by Ron de Moraes

Middleditch & Schwartz(2020-)

50min per episode | Comedy
4.0/5 (with 22 votes)

Comedy duo Thomas Middleditch and Ben Schwartz turn small ideas into epically funny stories in this series of completely improvised comedy specials.

Halfway Home(2007)

30min per episode | Comedy, Crime
2.8/5 (with 1 vote)

Halfway Home is an American comedy series that aired on Comedy Central in Spring 2007. On its official website, Halfway Home is described as an "improvised half-hour show featuring the daily exploits of five ex-cons living together in a residential rehab facility". After airing 10 episodes, on June 20, 2007 costar Regan Burns confirmed that the show had ended.

Ross Noble: Freewheeling(2013-2015)

45min per episode | Comedy, Reality-TV
3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Ross Noble embarks on a travelogue of Britain, basing all destinations and narrative on the suggestions of his Twitter followers.

10 Items or Less(2006-2009)

FSK: 12+ years
| 30min per episode | Comedy
4.1/5 (with 2 votes)

Leslie Pool returns to his native Ohio to run the Green & Grains grocery store he has just inherited from his father. Seeking to undermine Green & Grains is Leslie's arch nemesis, Amy, who manages the Super Value Mart down the street. He has known her since high school, where she was the popular beauty queen and he, a nerd.

Thank God You're Here(2008)

1h per episode | Comedy

UK-produced partially improvised comedy based on the original Australian show with the same name. In the show, four guests are placed into a scene they have no knowledge about and have to improvise. The series is hosted by Paul Merton, who also acts as judge and performs his own improvised scene.

The Factory(2008)

30min per episode | Comedy

Factory was a comedy television series. It premiered on Sunday, 29 June 2008 at 10:00 p.m. Eastern/9:00 p.m. Central on Spike. The series, produced by 3 Arts Entertainment, is directed by and stars Mitch Rouse and fellow comedians Michael Coleman, Jay Leggett and David Pasquesi. The pilot episode of the show has been made available free on iTunes. The show starred and was produced by Mitch Rouse, formerly of According To Jim.

Campus(2011)

3.3/5 (with 6 votes)

Campus is a semi-improvised British sitcom created by the team behind the comedy sketch show Smack the Pony and hospital-based sitcom Green Wing, led by Victoria Pile who acts as co-writer, producer and director. It is set in the fictitious Kirke University and follows the lives of the staff, in particular the power-crazed and callous vice chancellor Jonty de Wolfe, lazy womanising English literature professor Matt Beer and newly promoted senior mathematics lecturer Imogen Moffat. Campus was first broadcast as a television pilot on Channel 4 on 6 November 2009, as part of the channel's Comedy Showcase season of comedy pilots. A full series was later commissioned and commenced airing on 5 April 2011, with the first episode being a re-shoot and expanded version of the pilot. When first broadcast many critics claimed it was too similar to Green Wing and that much of the humour was offensive. However, others praised the show's dark humour and surrealism. Campus was cancelled after one series due to poor TV ratings. Over the course of the first series the average ratings were 554,000 viewers per episode, or 2.99% of the total audience, which is below the Channel 4 average.

Directed by Victoria Pile - With Andy Nyman

Tarinanmetsästäjät(2018-)

1h per episode | Drama, Comedy, Reality-TV

- No description / details available yet. -

Dieu merci!(2007-2008)

1h per episode | Comedy

Dieu merci! is a French language Quebec television series based on the Australian series, Thank God You're Here. This version debuted the 27 September 2007 on TVA Sundays at 7 PM, and differed in that it featured actors, singers and other artists. During its fall upfronts, TVA announced the show as Thank God You're Here, indicating that the show's final title had not yet been decided.

Directed by Jean-Marc Létourneau