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HIGHEST RATED NEW TV SHOWS COLLECTION
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The Top 25 Highest Rated New TV Shows of 2022
The Top 25 Highest Rated New TV Shows of 2022
Here is a look at the highest rated brand new scripted TV shows that debuted in 2022. The ratings are averaged from the scores on IMDb, and Rotten Tomatoes.
25 – The Sandman
Sci-Fi & Fantasy  |  Drama
5 August 2022  –  ongoing  |  1 Season so far
NETWORK:
IMDb:  7.8  |  RT Audience:  8.0  |  RT Critics:  8.7
COMBINED SCORE:
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8.17 /10
SYNOPSIS:

The Sandman is an American fantasy drama television series based on the 1989–1996 comic book written by Neil Gaiman and published by DC Comics.

Morpheus, the personification of dreams and one of the seven Endless, is captured in an occult ritual in 1916. After being held captive for 106 years, Dream escapes and sets out to restore order to his realm, the Dreaming.

24 – Shining Girls
Drama
28 April 2022   –  ended  |  1 Season
NETWORK:
IMDb:  7.4  |  RT Audience:  8.8  |  RT Critics:  8.3
COMBINED SCORE:
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8.17 /10
SYNOPSIS:

Shining Girls is an American thriller streaming television series based on the 2013 novel The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes. The series stars Elisabeth Moss, Wagner Moura and Jamie Bell.
Kirby Mazrachi is an archivist at the Chicago Sun-Times. Years ago, she was brutally attacked and left for dead, but her assailant was never found. Today she is still traumatized by the assault and struggles to make sense of her reality that keeps changing. Determined to find her attacker, she discovers a murder that has a striking resemblance to her own attack. Kirby enlists the help of reporter Dan Velazquez and together they uncover several decades-old cold cases of similar murders and begin the hunt for a mysterious serial killer.

23 – The Old Man
Action & Adventure  |  Drama
16 June 2022    –  ongoing  |  1 Season so far
NETWORK:
IMDb:  7.8  |  RT Audience:  7.7  |  RT Critics:  9.6
COMBINED SCORE:
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8.37 /10
SYNOPSIS:
The Old Man is an American drama thriller television series based on the 2017 novel of the same name by Thomas Perry Dan Chase (Jeff Bridges) is a former CIA operative who has been living off-the-grid in Upstate New York for thirty years. After killing an intruder who breaks into his home, Chase is forced into hiding. While in hiding, Chase rents a room from Zoe McDonald (Amy Brenneman), with whom he is forced to partner while on the run. FBI Assistant Director for Counterintelligence Harold Harper (John Lithgow) is called upon to bring in Chase, because of their complicated past during the Soviet–Afghan War. Working alongside Harper are his protege, FBI agent Angela Adams, and CIA officer Raymond Waters; as well as Julian Carson, a hit-man hired by Harper to kill Chase.
22 – Paper Girls
Drama  |  Mystery  |  Sci-Fi & Fantasy
28 July 2022   –  cancelled  |  1 Season
NETWORK:
IMDb:  7.3  |  RT Audience:  8.8  |  RT Critics:  9.1
COMBINED SCORE:
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8.40 /10
SYNOPSIS:

Paper Girls is an American science fiction drama television series created by Stephany Folsom. It is based on the 2015–2019 comic book series of the same name written by Brian K. Vaughan.

Paper Girls follows four young girls who, while out delivering papers during the dark morning hours after Halloween in 1988, become unwittingly caught in a conflict between warring factions of time-travelers, sending them on an adventure through time that will save the world. As they travel between time periods, they encounter future versions of themselves and must choose to embrace or reject their fate.

21 – A League of Their Own
Comedy  |  Drama
11 August 2022  –  ongoing  |  1 Seasons far
NETWORK:
IMDb:  7.2  |  RT Audience:  8.6  |  RT Critics:  9.4
COMBINED SCORE:
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8.40 /10
SYNOPSIS:

A League of Their Own is an American period sports comedy drama television series co-created by Will Graham and Abbi Jacobson,

The series, set in 1943, is about the formation of the Rockford Peaches, a women’s team in the nascent All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.[2] While her husband is away at war, Carson Shaw leaves her small town life to pursue her dream of playing professional baseball. Maxine Chapman is an African-American woman obsessed with baseball, who cannot even get people to allow her to try out and struggles to get considered for any baseball team.

20 – Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty
Comedy  |  Drama
6 March 2022 –  ongoing  |  1 Seasons far
NETWORK:
IMDb:  8.3  |  RT Audience:  8.5  |  RT Critics:  8.5
COMBINED SCORE:
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8.43 /10
SYNOPSIS:
Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty is an American sports drama television series created by Max Borenstein and Jim Hecht for HBO, based on the book Showtime: Magic, Kareem, Riley, and the Los Angeles Lakers Dynasty of the 1980s by Jeff Pearlman. The first season, comprising 10 episodes, chronicles the 1980s Showtime era of the Los Angeles Lakers basketball team (beginning in late 1979), featuring notable NBA stars Magic Johnson and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. It features an ensemble cast led by John C. Reilly, Jason Clarke, Jason Segel, Gaby Hoffmann, Rob Morgan, and Adrien Brody.
19 – Tokyo Vice
Crime  |  Drama
7 April 2022  –  ongoing  |  1 Seasons far
NETWORK:
IMDb:  8.0  |  RT Audience:  9.0  |  RT Critics:  8.5
COMBINED SCORE:
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8.50 /10
SYNOPSIS:

Tokyo Vice is an American crime drama television series created by J.T. Rogers and based on the 2009 book of the same title by Jake Adelstein.

It stars Ansel Elgort (Baby Driver)and Ken Watanabe (Inception) in lead roles.

In 1999, American journalist Jake Adelstein has relocated to Tokyo and must pass a written exam in Japanese to have the chance to join the staff of a major Japanese newspaper. He succeeds in becoming their first foreign-born journalist and starts at the very bottom. Taken under the wing of a veteran detective in the vice squad, he starts to explore the dark and dangerous world of the Japanese yakuza.

18 – From
Mystery  |  Drama  |  Sci-Fi & Fantasy
20 February 2022   –  ongoing  |  1 Seasons far
NETWORK:
IMDb:  7.6  |  RT Audience:  8.5  |  RT Critics:  9.5
COMBINED SCORE:
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8.53 /10
SYNOPSIS:

In a nightmarish town in middle America that traps everyone who enters, unwilling residents strive to stay alive and search for a way out. But they are plagued by the terrifying nocturnal creatures from the surrounding forest. 

17 – House of the Dragon
Sci-Fi & Fantasy  |  Drama  | Action & Adventure
21 August 2022  –  ongoing  |  1 Season far
NETWORK:
IMDb:  8.7  |  RT Audience:  8.5  |  RT Critics:  8.5
COMBINED SCORE:
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8.57 /10
SYNOPSIS:

House of the Dragon is an American fantasy drama television series. A prequel to Game of Thrones (2011–2019), it is the second show in the franchise, created by George R. R. Martin and Ryan Condal for HBO. Both series are based on the A Song of Ice and Fire novels by Martin. Condal and Miguel Sapochnik are the showrunners. Based on parts of the novel Fire & Blood, the series is set about 200 years before the events of Game of Thrones, and 172 years before the birth of Daenerys Targaryen. It portrays the beginning of the end of House Targaryen, the events leading up to and covering the Targaryen war of succession, known as the “Dance of the Dragons”. 

16 – Slow Horses
Drama  |  Crime
31 March 2022   –  ongoing  |  1 Season far
NETWORK:
IMDb:  7.7  |  RT Audience:  8.8  |  RT Critics:  9.5
COMBINED SCORE:
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8.67 /10
SYNOPSIS:

Slow Horses is a spy thriller television series based on the 2010 novel of the same name by Mick Herron.

After a botched and publicly embarrassing training mission, British MI5 officer River Cartwright is exiled to Slough House, an administrative purgatory for service rejects. Known as “Slow Horses”, Cartwright and his colleagues must endure dull, paper pushing tasks and their miserable boss, Jackson Lamb, who expects them to quit out of boredom and frustration. Life in Slough House is defined by drudgery, until the Slow Horses become entangled in a dangerous gambit by “The Park” (the name by which the fictional headquarters of MI5 is known, derived from its location at Regent’s Park).

15 – Dark Winds
Drama  |  Crime
12 June 2022  –  ongoing  |  1 Season far  |  6 Eps
NETWORK:
IMDb:  7.6  |  RT Audience:  8.4  |  RT Critics:  10
COMBINED SCORE:
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8.67 /10
SYNOPSIS:

Dark Winds is an American psychological thriller television series created by Graham Roland based on the Leaphorn & Chee novel series by Tony Hillerman.

The series follows two Navajo police officers, Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee, in the 1970s Southwest as their search for clues in a grisly double murder case forces them to challenge their own spiritual beliefs and come to terms with the trauma of their pasts.

14 – Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
5 May 2022   –  ongoing  |  1 Season far  |  10 Eps
NETWORK:
IMDb:  8.2  |  RT Audience:  8.0  |  RT Critics:  9.9
COMBINED SCORE:
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8.70 /10
SYNOPSIS:

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is the 11th Star Trek series and was launched in 2022 as part of Kurtzman’s expanded Star Trek Universe.

Anson Mount, Ethan Peck, and Rebecca Romijn respectively star as Pike, Spock, and Number One, all characters from The Original Series.

The series follows Captain Christopher Pike (played by Anson Mount) and the crew of the starship USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) in the 23rd century as they explore new worlds throughout the galaxy in the decade before Star Trek: The Original Series.

13 – Reacher
Action & Adventure  |  Crime  |  Drama
3 February 2022  –  ongoing  |  1 Season far  |  8 Eps
NETWORK:
IMDb:  8.1  |  RT Audience:  9.1  |  RT Critics:  9.2
COMBINED SCORE:
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8.80 /10
SYNOPSIS:

Based on the Jack Reacher book series by Lee Child, it stars Alan Ritchson as the title character, a drifter and former military policeman who battles dangerous criminals throughout his travels.

Jack Reacher, a former U.S. Army military policeman, visits the fictional rural town of Margrave, Georgia, and gets arrested for murder. After he is freed, he teams up with Oscar Finlay and Roscoe Conklin to investigate a huge conspiracy with corrupt police officers, politicians and businessmen.

12 – Our Flag Means Death
Comedy  |  Action & Adventure  |  Drama
3 March 2022   –  ongoing  |  1 Season far  |  10 Eps
NETWORK:
IMDb:  7.8  |  RT Audience:  9.4  |  RT Critics:  9.2
COMBINED SCORE:
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8.80 /10
SYNOPSIS:

Starring Rhys Darby, Taika Waititi, Kristian Nairn and Con O’Neill.

The series is loosely based on the life of Stede Bonnet. In 1717, Captain Bonnet is a member of the landed gentry of Barbados who abandons his comfortable life and family to prove himself as a pirate during the Golden Age of Piracy, despite having no aptitude for the role. Sailing aboard his ship the Revenge, Captain Bonnet and his dysfunctional crew struggle to survive against deadly threats from naval warships and other bloodthirsty pirates. During their misadventures the crew of the Revenge cross paths with notorious pirate captain Edward Teach and his crew, including right-hand-man Izzy Hands, and Bonnet and Teach eventually fall in love. 

11 – The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey
Drama
11 March 2022  –  ended  |  Limited Mini-Series  |  6 Eps
NETWORK:
IMDb:  7.8  |  RT Audience:  9.8  |  RT Critics:  8.8
COMBINED SCORE:
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8.80 /10
SYNOPSIS:

The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey is a six episode American drama miniseries based on the novel of the same name by Walter Mosley.

Starring Samuel L. Jackson as Ptolemy Grey, the series premise is a lonely 91-year-old man with dementia is temporarily able to remember his past and uses the time to investigate the death of his nephew.

10 – Power Book IV: Force
Crime  |  Drama
6 February 2022 –  ongoing  |  1 Season so far  |  10 Eps
NETWORK:
IMDb:  8.1  |  RT Audience:  8.5  |  RT Critics:  10
COMBINED SCORE:
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8.87 /10
SYNOPSIS:

Power Book IV: Force is a sequel and third spin-off to Power created by Courtney A. Kemp.

Tommy Egan leaves New York behind and plans to take on Chicago, using his outsider status to break all the local rules and rewrite them on his quest to become the biggest drug dealer in the city. 

9 – Peacemaker
Action & Adventure  |  Sci-Fi & Fantasy  |  Drama
13 January 2022  –  ongoing  |  1 Season so far  |  8 Eps
NETWORK:
IMDb:  8.3  |  RT Audience:  8.9  |  RT Critics:  9.4
COMBINED SCORE:
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8.87 /10
SYNOPSIS:

Created by James Gunn and based on the DC Comics character Peacemaker. It is the first DC Extended Universe (DCEU) television series and a spin-off from the 2021 film The Suicide Squad.

After recovering from the injuries he suffered during the events of The Suicide Squad (2021), Christopher Smith / Peacemaker is forced to join the mysterious A.R.G.U.S. black ops squad “Project Butterfly”. They are on a mission to identify and eliminate parasitic butterfly-like creatures who have taken over human bodies around the world. 

8 – Mo
Comedy  |  Drama
24 August 2022   –  ongoing  |  1 Season so far  |  8 Eps
NETWORK:
IMDb:  7.6  |  RT Audience:  9.0  |  RT Critics:  10
COMBINED SCORE:
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8.87 /10
SYNOPSIS:

The series stars Mo Amer as the titular character. The series is loosely based on Amer’s own life as a Palestinian refugee living in Houston, Texas.

In Texas, Mo straddles the line between two cultures, three languages and a pending asylum request while hustling to support his Palestinian family. 

7 – Julia
Drama
31 March 2022  –  ongoing  |  1 Season so far  |  8 Eps
NETWORK:
IMDb:  8.3  |  RT Audience:  9.2  |  RT Critics:  9.3
COMBINED SCORE:
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8.93 /10
SYNOPSIS:
Starring Sarah Lancashire and David Hyde Pierce. Through Julia Child’s life and her singular joie de vivre, the series explores a pivotal time in American history – the emergence of public television as a new social institution, feminism and the women’s movement, the nature of celebrity and America’s cultural evolution.
6 – This Is Going to Hurt
Comedy  |  Drama
8 February 2022   –  ended  |  Limited Mini-Series  |  7 Eps
NETWORK:
IMDb:  8.4  |  RT Audience:  9.1  |  RT Critics:  9.5
COMBINED SCORE:
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9.00 /10
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Starring Ben Whishaw. The series is a fictional adaptation of Adam Kay’s book This Is Going To Hurt. Set in London during 2006, it focuses on a group of junior doctors working on a busy obstetrics and gynaecology ward located in an NHS hospital. It has frank honesty in the depiction of working in obstetrics and gynaecology. It fully explores the emotional effects working in a hospital environment has on its staff. It explores the lack of support for junior doctors and how their achievements are unsung. The personal lives of the junior doctors are also explored throughout the episodes.
5 – Somebody Somewhere
Comedy  |  Drama
16 January 2022  –  ongoing  |  1 Season so far  |  7 Eps
NETWORK:
IMDb:  7.9  |  RT Audience:  9.1  |  RT Critics: 10
COMBINED SCORE:
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9.00 /10
SYNOPSIS:

Sam is a true Kansan on the surface but beneath it all struggles to fit the hometown mold. As she grapples with loss and acceptance, singing is Sam’s saving grace and leads her on a journey to discover herself and a community of outsiders that don’t fit in but don’t give up, showing that finding your people, and finding your voice, is possible. Anywhere. Somewhere. 

4 – The Bear
Drama
23 June 2022   –  ongoing  |  1 Season so far  |  8 Eps
NETWORK:
IMDb:  8.5  |  RT Audience:  9.1  |  RT Critics: 10
COMBINED SCORE:
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9.00 /10
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A young chef from the world of fine dining comes home to Chicago to run his family’s Italian beef sandwich shop after the suicide of his older brother, who left behind debts, a rundown kitchen, and an unruly staff.
3 – Severance
Drama  |  Mystery  |  Sci-Fi & Fantasy
17 February 2022  –  ongoing  |  1 Season so far  |  9 Eps
NETWORK:
IMDb:  8.7  |  RT Audience:  9.3  |  RT Critics: 9.7
COMBINED SCORE:
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9.23 /10
SYNOPSIS:

Severance was created by Dan Erickson and directed by Ben Stiller and Aoife McArdle.
Starring Adam Scott, Britt Lower, Zach Cherry, John Turturro, Christopher Walken and Patricia Arquette

A biotechnology corporation, Lumon Industries, uses a “severance” medical procedure to separate the non-work memories of some of their employees from their work memories. One severed employee, Mark, gradually uncovers a web of conspiracy from both sides of the division.

2 – Bosch: Legacy
Crime  |  Drama
5 May 2022   –  ongoing  |  1 Season so far  |  10 Eps
NETWORK:
IMDb:  8.5  |  RT Audience:  9.4  |  RT Critics: 10
COMBINED SCORE:
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9.30 /10
SYNOPSIS:

A spin-off of the Amazon Prime Video series Bosch (2014–2021), it stars Titus Welliver as former LAPD detective Harry Bosch, with Mimi Rogers and Madison Lintz also reprising their roles.

Hieronymus “Harry” Bosch has retired from the LAPD and works as a private investigator. Defense attorney Honey “Money” Chandler has him work on some cases for her. His daughter, Maddie, navigates her first days as a patrol officer with the LAPD, working from Hollywood Station, where her father used to be assigned. Bosch investigates businessman Carl Rogers, who previously hired a hitman to kill Chandler. Billionaire businessman Whitney Vance asks Bosch to discreetly investigate a private matter.

1 – Heartstopper
Drama
22 April 2022  –  ongoing  |  1 Season so far  |  8 Eps
NETWORK:
IMDb:  8.7  |  RT Audience:  9.7  |  RT Critics: 10
COMBINED SCORE:
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9.47 /10
SYNOPSIS:

Heartstopper is a British coming-of-age romantic comedy television series on Netflix, adapted from the webcomic and graphic novel of the same name by Alice Oseman.

Written by Oseman herself, the series primarily tells the story of Charlie Spring (Joe Locke), a gay schoolboy who falls in love with classmate Nick Nelson (Kit Connor), whom he sits next to in his new form. It also explores the lives of Tao (William Gao), Elle (Yasmin Finney), Tara (Corinna Brown) and Darcy (Kizzy Edgell)

SO WHICH NETWORKS DID THE BEST?
what a year so far for HBO! 7 entries and some damn good shows! Honourable mentions that didn’t make it into the top 25 are; The Lincoln Lawyer (Netflix), Shining Vale (Starz), The Terminal List (Prime Video) and The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (Prime Video).
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Somebody Somewhere  |  Julia  |  Peacemaker  |  Our Flag Means Death  |  House of the Dragon  |  Tokyo Vice  |  Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty
4
Severance  |  The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey  |  Slow Horses  |  Shining Girls
3
Heartstopper  |  Mo  |  The Sandman
3
Reacher  |  A League of Their Own  |  Paper Girls
1
Dark Winds
1
This Is Going to Hurt
1
The Old Man
1
From
1
Bosch: Legacy
1
The Bear
1
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
1
Power Book IV: Force