Television series that are definitely worth watching

As Alfred the Great defends his kingdom from Norse invaders, Uhtred--born a Saxon but raised by Vikings--seeks to claim his ancestral birthright.

Adventurer James Keziah Delaney returns to London during the War of 1812 to rebuild his late father's shipping empire. However, both the government and his biggest competitor want his inheritance at any cost--even murder.

An unassuming American family is drawn into the workings of a turbulent Middle Eastern nation.

An idiosyncratic FBI agent investigates the murder of a young woman in the even more idiosyncratic town of Twin Peaks.

The series follows the doodles and scribblings of a student at school during the daily lessons. His drawings depict the life of Father Nicholas, who lives in a Vatican City , he is charged with being the handler for the Pope.

Sheriff Deputy Rick Grimes wakes up from a coma to learn the world is in ruins and must lead a group of survivors to stay alive.

A suspended lawyer is forced to enroll in a community college with an eccentric staff and student body.

Follows the misadventures of four irreverent grade-schoolers in the quiet, dysfunctional town of South Park, Colorado.

After the death of his wife Aaigie, Gieljan Beijen decides to sell his farm and everything that belongs to it. But he did not stop there.

A gangster family epic set in 1900s England, centering on a gang who sew razor blades in the peaks of their caps, and their fierce boss Tommy Shelby.

He's smart. He's lovable. He's Dexter Morgan, America's favorite serial killer, who spends his days solving crimes and his nights committing them.

In a war-torn world of elemental powers, a young boy reawakens to undertake a dangerous mystic quest to fulfill his destiny as the Avatar, and bring peace to the world.

Three misfit priests and their housekeeper live on Craggy Island, not the peaceful and quiet part of Ireland that it seems to be.

On his birthday, Thom Payne receives the gift of insignificance and also a new boss. He suspects his erectile dysfunction pills are interfering with his antidepressants, leaving him hapless.

Five friends with big egos and small brains are the proprietors of an Irish pub in Philadelphia.

A chemistry teacher diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer turns to manufacturing and selling methamphetamine with a former student to secure his family's future.

Nine noble families fight for control over the lands of Westeros, while an ancient enemy returns after being dormant for millennia.

The early life of Queen Victoria, from her ascension to the throne at the tender age of 18 to her courtship and marriage to Prince Albert.

A samurai, sent through time, fights to return home and save the world.

A chronicle of the lives of the British aristocratic Crawley family and their servants in the early twentieth century.

At the intersection of the near future and the reimagined past, waits a world in which every human appetite can be indulged without consequence.

Two sisters in 1920s London work to achieve success in the dressmaking business.

Andrew Marr explores key events across 70,000 years of human civilization, from ancient empires to modern technological marvels, through re-enactments and global filming in this thought-provoking documentary series.

Claire Beauchamp Randall, a nurse in World War II, mysteriously goes back in time to Scotland in 1743. There, she meets a dashing Highland warrior and gets drawn into an epic rebellion.

A political family drama set in Florence in the early fifteenth century. Cosimo de Medici finds himself at the helm of his banking dynasty when his father, Giovanni, dies suddenly.