15 Best New TV Series of 2015
Below, we rank the 15 highest-scoring (and thus best-reviewed) new TV shows to debut in the U.S. during the 2015 calendar year. Shows must have at least 15 reviews from professional critics to qualify for the list. Specials, TV movies, and one-time miniseries are excluded from this list.
Note that Metascores are based on reviews at the time of each show's debut, which generally reflect just the pilot and perhaps a few subsequent episodes (though cable networks generally provide more episodes in advance to critics). Shows are ranked by Metascore prior to rounding.
This British import (airing on PBS's Masterpiece) is a six-part adaptation of Hilary Mantel's Booker Prize-winning historical novels Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies. The series is set during the reign of King Henry VIII and stars Damian Lewis (Homeland) and Mark Rylance (Bridge of Spies). A second season is a possibility, though Mantel will have to finish writing the third novel (The Mirror and the Light) first.
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