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TV Shows & Series: Popular TV Shows/Series of 2012

TV shows/series in chronological context: 2012 (MMXII) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2012th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 12th year of the 3rd millennium, the 12th year of the 21st century, and the 3rd year of the 2010s decade. 2012 was designated as: International Year of CooperativesInternational Year of Sustainable Energy for All ()

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Arrow(2012-2020)

TV-14
| 42min per episode | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Action & Adventure
3.1/5 (with 1,791 votes)

Spoiled billionaire playboy Oliver Queen is missing and presumed dead when his yacht is lost at sea. He returns five years later a changed man, determined to clean up the city as a hooded vigilante armed with a bow.

With Stephen Amell, Katie Cassidy, David Ramsey, Emily Bett Rickards, Colin Donnell, Willa Holland, ...
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Elementary(2012-2019)

TV-14
| 43min per episode | Drama, Mystery, Crime
3.6/5 (with 425 votes)

A modern-day drama about a crime-solving duo that cracks the NYPD's most impossible cases. Following his fall from grace in London and a stint in rehab, eccentric Sherlock escapes to Manhattan where his wealthy father forces him to live with his worst nightmare - a sober companion, Dr. Watson.

With Jonny Lee Miller, Lucy Liu, Aidan Quinn, Jon Michael Hill, John Noble, Erik Jensen, ...

Pablo Escobar, The Drug Lord(2012)

45min per episode | Crime, Drama
3.8/5 (with 388 votes)

Pablo Escobar: El Patrón del Mal is a 2012 Colombian television series produced and broadcast on Caracol TV, about the life of Pablo Escobar. It is only available in Spanish. There is a version available with English subtitles.

With Andrés Parra
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Gravity Falls(2012-2016)

TV-Y7
| 22min per episode | Animation, Comedy, Mystery, Science-Fiction & Fantasy, Kids & Family
4.2/5 (with 345 votes)

Twin brother and sister Dipper and Mabel Pines are in for an unexpected adventure when they spend the summer helping their great uncle Stan run a tourist trap in the mysterious town of Gravity Falls, Oregon.

Directed by Aaron Springer, Rob Renzetti, Stephen Sandoval

Chicago Fire(2012-)

TV-14
| 1h per episode | Drama
4.0/5 (with 274 votes)

An edge-of-your-seat view into the lives of everyday heroes committed to one of America's noblest professions. For the firefighters, rescue squad and paramedics of Chicago Firehouse 51, no occupation is more stressful or dangerous, yet so rewarding and exhilarating. These courageous men and women are among the elite who forge headfirst into danger when everyone else is running the other way and whose actions make the difference between life and death.

With Jesse Spencer, Teri Reeves, Lauren German, Monica Raymund, Christian Stolte, Merle Dandridge, ...

The Legend of Korra(2012-2014)

TV-Y7
| 23min per episode | Action & Adventure, Animation, Drama, Kids & Family, Science-Fiction & Fantasy
4.2/5 (with 270 votes)

Avatar Korra, a headstrong, rebellious, feisty young woman who continually challenges and breaks with tradition, is on her quest to become a fully realized Avatar. In this story, the Avatar struggles to find balance within herself.

Directed by Joaquim Dos Santos

High School DxD(2012-2018)

TV-MA
| 24min per episode | Action & Adventure, Comedy, Science-Fiction & Fantasy, Animation
4.3/5 (with 212 votes)

The story follows Issei Hyōdō, a dim-witted, lecherous second-year high school student who is killed by a girl on his first date ever. Issei is reincarnated as a devil, and from that day forward, he serves as an underling of Riasu, a high-level devil who is also the prettiest girl on Issei's campus.

Continuum(2012-2016)

TV-14
| 45min per episode | Action & Adventure, Drama, Science-Fiction & Fantasy
3.7/5 (with 194 votes)

The series centers on the conflict between a group of rebels from the year 2077 who time-travel to Vancouver, BC, in 2012, and a police officer who accidentally accompanies them. In spite of being many years early, the rebel group decides to continue its violent campaign to stop corporations of the future from replacing governments, while the police officer endeavours to stop them without revealing to anyone that she and the rebels are from the future.

With Rachel Nichols, Victor Webster, Erik Knudsen, Tony Amendola, Lexa Doig, Richard Harmon, ...
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Sword Art Online(2012-)

TV-14
| 24min per episode | Animation, Science-Fiction & Fantasy, Action & Adventure
3.8/5 (with 184 votes)

In the near future, a Virtual Reality Massive Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game (VRMMORPG) called Sword Art Online has been released where players control their avatars with their bodies using a piece of technology called Nerve Gear. One day, players discover they cannot log out, as the game creator is holding them captive unless they reach the 100th floor of the game's tower and defeat the final boss. However, if they die in the game, they die in real life. Their struggle for survival starts now...

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Revolution(2012-2014)

TV-14
| 42min per episode | Action, Science Fiction, Drama, Adventure
3.1/5 (with 147 votes)

Revolution focuses on the struggle to survive 15 years after a global blackout.

With Billy Burke

The Newsroom(2012-2014)

TV-MA
| 1h per episode | Drama
4.1/5 (with 145 votes)

A behind-the-scenes look at the people who make a nightly cable-news program. Focusing on a network anchor, his new executive producer, the newsroom staff and their boss, the series tracks their quixotic mission to do the news well in the face of corporate and commercial obstacles-not to mention their own personal entanglements.

With Jeff Daniels, Emily Mortimer, John Gallagher, Jr., Alison Pill, Thomas Sadoski, Dev Patel, ...

Scandal(2012-2018)

TV-14
| 43min per episode | Drama
3.5/5 (with 144 votes)

Everyone has secrets and Olivia Pope has dedicated her life to protecting and defending the public images of the elite by keeping those secrets under wraps. Pope and her team are at the top of their game when it comes to getting the job done for their clients, but it becomes apparent that these "gladiators in suits," who specialize in fixing the lives of other people, have trouble fixing those closest at hand -- their own.

Directed by Tom Verica - With Kerry Washington, Henry Ian Cusick, Columbus Short, Darby Stanchfield, Katie Lowes, Jeff Perry, ...
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Avenida Brasil(2012)

1h 10min per episode | Drama, Mystery, Soap / Telenovela, Crime
4.0/5 (with 132 votes)

Brazil Avenue is a dynamic, lifelike, and modern telenovela that reveals how unrelenting ambition and inflicted cruelty can change a young girl’s destiny and lead her to seek revenge.

With Débora Falabella

Marvel's Ultimate Spider-Man(2012-2017)

TV-Y7
| 21min per episode | Action & Adventure, Animation, Comedy
3.7/5 (with 113 votes)

While being trained by S.H.I.E.L.D., Spider-Man battles evil with a new team of teen colleagues.

Girls(2012-2017)

TV-MA
| 28min per episode | Comedy, Drama
3.0/5 (with 107 votes)

The assorted humiliations, disasters and rare triumphs of four very different twenty-something girls: Hannah, an aspiring writer; Marnie, an art gallery assistant and cousins Jessa and Shoshanna.

With Lena Dunham, Allison Williams, Jemima Kirke, Zosia Mamet, Adam Driver, Alex Karpovsky, ...

Veep(2012-2019)

TV-MA
| 30min per episode | Comedy
3.8/5 (with 100 votes)

A look into American politics, revolving around former Senator Selina Meyer who finds being Vice President of the United States is nothing like she expected and everything everyone ever warned her about.

With Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Anna Chlumsky, Tony Hale, Matt Walsh, Reid Scott

Another(2012)

20min per episode | Action & Adventure, Animation, Drama, Mystery
4.0/5 (with 95 votes)

When Kouichi Sasakibara transfers to his new school, he can sense something frightening in the atmosphere of his new class, a secret none of them will talk about. At the center is the beautiful girl Mei Misaki. Kouichi is immediately drawn to her mysterious aura, but then he begins to realize that no one else in the class is aware of her presence.

Directed by Takeshi Furusawa

Beauty and the Beast(2012-2016)

TV-PG
| 42min per episode | Drama, Science-Fiction & Fantasy
3.6/5 (with 81 votes)

Detective Catherine Chandler is a smart, no-nonsense homicide detective. When she was a teenager, she witnessed the murder of her mother at the hands of two gunmen and herself was saved by someone – or something. Years have passed and while investigating a murder, Catherine discovers a clue that leads her to Vincent Keller, who was reportedly killed in 2002. Catherine learns that Vincent is actually still alive and that it was he who saved her many years before. For mysterious reasons that have forced him to live outside of traditional society, Vincent has been in hiding for the past 10 years to guard his secret – when he is enraged, he becomes a terrifying beast, unable to control his super-strength and heightened senses.

With Kristin Kreuk, Jay Ryan, Max Brown, Austin Basis, Nina Lisandrello, Brian J. White, ...
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JoJo's Bizarre Adventure(2012-)

TV-MA
| 24min per episode | Action, Adventure, Animation, Fantasy, Horror
4.1/5 (with 77 votes)

Follow the intergenerational feud between the Joestar Family and various forces of evil, the most prominent of which is Dio Brando and his followers.

Nashville(2012-2018)

TV-14
| 42min per episode | Drama
3.1/5 (with 75 votes)

Rayna Jaymes and Juliette Barnes face personal and professional challenges as they navigate their paths as artists and individuals. Surrounding them, and often complicating their lives, are their family, friends and, in some cases, lovers, as well as the up-and-coming performers and songwriters trying to get ahead in the business.

Directed by Callie Khouri, Michael Lohmann, Paul McCrane, Michael Waxman, Mario Van Peebles, Eric Stoltz, ... - With Connie Britton, Hayden Panettiere, Eric Close, Charles Esten, Jonathan Jackson, Sam Palladio, ...

Longmire(2012-2017)

TV-14
| 45min per episode | Crime, Drama, Western
3.9/5 (with 75 votes)

A Wyoming sheriff rebuilds his life and career following the death of his wife. Based on the “Walt Longmire” series of mystery novels written by best-selling author Craig Johnson.

With Robert Taylor
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Touch(2012-2013)

TV-14
| 43min per episode | Science Fiction, Drama, Mystery
3.4/5 (with 74 votes)

Martin Bohm, a widower and single father, is haunted by an inability to connect to his autistic, mute 11-year-old son, Jake. Their relationship and their lives take an extraordinary turn when he discovers his gifted son has the ability to see things that no one else can and the patterns that connect seemingly unrelated events.

Directed by Francis Lawrence, Milan Cheylov, Seith Mann, Nelson McCormick, Sanford Bookstaver, Matt Earl Beesley, ... - With Kiefer Sutherland, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Danny Glover, Titus Welliver, David Mazouz, Mark Ivanir, ...

Alcatraz(2012)

TV-14
| 43min per episode | Action & Adventure, Drama, Mystery
3.2/5 (with 72 votes)

A unique team investigates the shocking reappearance of Alcatraz's most notorious prisoners, fifty years after they vanished.

Directed by J. J. Abrams - With Sarah Jones

Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23(2012-2013)

TV-14
| 22min per episode | Comedy
3.5/5 (with 66 votes)

After a naive Midwestern girl's big city dreams are dashed her first week in New York, she finds herself living with her worst nightmare in this hilarious, contemporary comedy about a female odd couple who are surrounded by an outrageous cast of characters.

With Krysten Ritter, Dreama Walker, Michael Blaiklock, Eric André, James Van Der Beek, Liza Lapira, ...

Anger Management(2012-2014)

22min per episode | Comedy
3.0/5 (with 61 votes)

Charlie is a non-traditional therapist specializing in anger management. He has a successful private practice and he performs pro bono counseling for an inmate group at a state prison. Prior to his career as a therapist, he was a major league baseball player whose career was put on the shelf for good by his own struggle with anger issues.

With Charlie Sheen

The Returned(2012-2015)

TV-MA
| 55min per episode | Drama, Mystery, Science-Fiction & Fantasy
3.7/5 (with 59 votes)

In the shadow of an enormous hydraulic dam, the lives of the residents of a small French town are changed to their core when hundreds of previously dead relatives all return home on the same day.

With Anne Consigny
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Psycho-Pass(2012-2019)

28min per episode | Science-Fiction & Fantasy, Animation, Action & Adventure
3.9/5 (with 59 votes)

Psycho-Pass is set in a futuristic era in Japan where the Sibyl System, a powerful network of psychometric scanners, actively measures the biometrics of its citizens' minds. The resulting assessment is called a Psycho-Pass. When the calculated likelihood of an individual committing a crime, measured by the Crime Coefficient index, exceeds an accepted threshold, he or she is pursued, apprehended, and either arrested or decomposed by the field officers of the Crime Investigation Department of the Public Safety Bureau.

Perception(2012-2015)

TV-14
| 1h per episode | Crime, Drama, Mystery
3.7/5 (with 57 votes)

Dr. Daniel Pierce, a neuroscientist and professor, is recruited to help the federal government crack difficult cases. His intimate knowledge of human behavior and masterful understanding of the mind give him an extraordinary ability to read people, but his eccentric view of the world and less-than-stellar social skills can often interfere with his work.

With Eric McCormack, Rachael Leigh Cook, Arjay Smith, Kelly Rowan, LeVar Burton, Scott Wolf, ...

Line of Duty(2012-)

1h per episode | Crime, Drama, Mystery
4.1/5 (with 55 votes)

A drama about the investigations of AC-12, a controversial police anticorruption unit.

With Martin Compston, Vicky McClure, Adrian Dunbar, Craig Parkinson, Lennie James, Keeley Hawes, ...

Lilyhammer(2012-2014)

TV-MA
| 58min per episode | Drama, Comedy, Crime
3.7/5 (with 53 votes)

After Frank The Fixer Tagliano testifies against his Mafia boss in New York, he enters the Witness Protection Program and makes an unusual demand: he wants to be set up with a new life in the Norwegian small town of Lillehammer or as he calls it, Lilyhammer.

Directed by Simen Alsvik, Ole Endresen, Øystein Karlsen, Tuva Novotny, Steven Van Zandt - With Steven Van Zandt, Trond Fausa Aurvåg, Sven Nordin, Anne Krigsvoll, Beate Eriksen, Jay Benedict, ...
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