The staff at IMDb is celebrating the end of a great year of TV with a look back at our favorites from 2025.

IMDb Staff's Favorite Series of 2025

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Before Oprah, before Arsenio, there was Mr. SOUL. Ellis Haizlip ensures that the Revolution would be televised with "SOUL!," America's first "Black Tonight Show." From 1968 to 1973, the public-television variety show SOUL!, guided by enigmatic producer and host Ellis Haizlip, offered an unfiltered, uncompromising celebration of Black literature, poetry, music, and politics--voices that had few other options for national exposure, and, as a result, found the program an improbable place to call home. The series was among the first to provide expanded images of African Americans on television, shifting the gaze from inner-city poverty and violence to the vibrancy of the Black Arts Movement. With participants' recollections and illuminating archival clips, Mr. SOUL captures a critical moment in culture whose impact continues to resonate, and an unsung hero whose voice we need now more than ever, to restore the SOUL of a nation.

Harry Belafonte, Michael Jackson, Sidney Poitier, Blair Underwood, Stevie Wonder, James Baldwin, Earth Wind & Fire, George Faison, Nikki Giovanni, Al Green, Patti LaBelle, Stan Lathan, Felipe Luciano, Sam Pollard, Sonia Sanchez, Greg Tate, Questlove, Melissa Haizlip, Sarah Lewis, Ellis Haizlip, Robert Glasper, and Ashford & Simpson in Mr. Soul! (2018)

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