Family TV Shows — NYT Top 100

Browse 5 family TV shows from The New York Times' 100 Best TV Shows of the 21st Century, in their original ranking order.

Years on air

5 shows

  1. 4. Succession

    2018–2023

    Drama, Family

    The dysfunctional Roy family fights over control of a global media empire as its aging patriarch refuses to let go.

  2. 12. Arrested Development

    2003–2019

    Comedy, Family

    The one responsible member of a formerly rich family tries to hold everyone together after his father is arrested.

  3. 52. 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.

  4. 77. Modern Family

    2009–2020

    Comedy, Family

    Three connected households navigate parenting, marriage, aging, and everyday chaos in a mockumentary-style family sitcom.

  5. 82. Better Things

    2016–2022

    Comedy, Drama, Family

    A working actress raises three daughters in Los Angeles while caring for family and trying to preserve a life of her own.