Romance TV Shows — BBC Top 100

Browse 7 romance TV shows from BBC's 100 Greatest Television Series of the 21st Century, in their original ranking order.

Years on air

7 shows

  1. 30. Girls

    2012–2017

    Comedy, Drama, Romance

    Four young women in New York stumble through work, relationships, money, friendship, and adulthood with uncomfortable honesty.

  2. 36. Downton Abbey

    2010–2015

    Drama, Family, Romance

    An aristocratic English family and its servants face love, scandal, war, inheritance, and social change in the early 20th century.

  3. 47. Grey's Anatomy

    2005–present

    Drama, Medical, Romance

    Surgeons at a Seattle hospital balance demanding medical cases with friendships, romances, rivalries, and personal crises.

  4. 72. Gilmore Girls

    2000–2007

    Comedy, Drama, Romance

    A fast-talking single mother and her teenage daughter navigate love, school, family expectations, and life in a quirky Connecticut town.

  5. 84. Normal People

    2020

    Drama, Romance

    Two Irish teenagers from different social backgrounds repeatedly come together and drift apart as they move from school into adulthood.

  6. 86. How I Met Your Mother

    2005–2014

    Comedy, Drama, Romance

    Ted Mosby tells his children how he met their mother, retracing years of friendship, romance, and misadventures in New York.

  7. 96. Catastrophe

    2015–2019

    Comedy, Romance

    An American man and an Irish woman become a couple after an unexpected pregnancy, then discover how messy marriage and parenting can be.