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The Best TV Shows on BET

Every BET Show Ranked From Best To Worst

Stay up-to-date with over 20 of BET’s elite series, with our list refreshed for November 2024. 106 & Park and Access Granted represent the pinnacle of BET’s programming, launching in 2000 and 2001. From 2000 through to 2020, BET has accumulated a diverse collection of over 20 television shows.

  • Carl Weber's The Family Business
    Carl Weber's The Family Business (2018)8.5

    Meet the Duncans, a prominent family from Jamaica, Queens. By day, they’re an upstanding family; by night, they live a dangerous secret life.

  • Tyler Perry's Assisted Living
    Tyler Perry's Assisted Living (2020)8.5

    After losing his job, Jeremy, a patriarch of a young family with teenage children, decides to move to the backwoods of Georgia to help his crazy grandfather. Grandpa Vinny has foolishly purchased a terribly run-down home for the elderly and he is in way over his head, but comedy ensues as Mr. Brown and Cora show up at the right time as needy investors.

  • Tyler Perry's Sistas
    Tyler Perry's Sistas (2019)8.3

    There's nothing that bonds a group of single black women together more than sidestepping the land mines of living, working and dating in Atlanta. In a sea of swipe-lefts, social media drama and unrealistic #relationshipgoals, these friends try to find their Mr. Right.

  • Tyler Perry's The Oval
    Tyler Perry's The Oval (2019)8.2

    A seemingly perfect interracial first family becomes the White House's newest residents. But behind closed doors they unleash a torrent of lies, cheating and corruption.

  • Games People Play
    Games People Play (2019)8.1

    Three ambitious women navigate the highly competitive world of professional sports.

  • The Game
    The Game (2006)7.9

    When her boyfriend Derwin Davis is chosen as the new third-string wide receiver for the San Diego Sabers, Melanie Barnett decides to attend a local college so she can be with him. While Derwin worries about the plays on the field, Melanie adjusts to her new lifestyle. She gets a play-by-play account of the lives and relationships among NFL wives, girlfriends and mom/managers who use their best game to help their men stay on the field and on their arm.

  • The New Edition Story
    The New Edition Story (2017)7.9

    Follow the story of R&B pioneers Michael Bivins, Ricky Bell, Ronnie Devoe, Bobby Brown, Ralph Tresvant and Johnny Gill as they navigate fame from their native Boston to Hollywood and beyond.

  • House of Payne
    House of Payne (2007)7.7

    The show revolved around a multi-generational family living under one roof in Atlanta led by patriarch Curtis Payne and his wife Ella.

  • Hit the Floor
    Hit the Floor (2013)7.7

    Ahsha Hayes enters the wild world of professional basketball when she tries out for the elite L.A. Devil Girls dance team against the wishes of her mother Sloane, a former dancer herself.

  • Real Husbands of Hollywood
    Real Husbands of Hollywood (2013)7.6

    Comedian and actor, Kevin Hart teams up with BET Networks to bring viewers one of the funniest shows on television "Real Husbands of Hollywood". The semi-scripted series is the fakest reality show ever following these men of Hollywood along their surreal lives. Enjoy the ride as these guys take on all things, from the husband's point of view. You may recognize some situations or characters from those other reality shows.

  • Boomerang
    Boomerang (2019)7.6

    Follow the lives of Jacqueline Boyer's son and Marcus and Angela Graham's daughter as they try to step out of their parents' shadows and make a legacy of their own. Based on the 1992 American romantic comedy film.

  • American Soul
    American Soul (2019)7.6

    The story of entrepreneur Don Cornelius, who developed the Soul Train show, which rose to prominence in the 1970s.

  • Being Mary Jane
    Being Mary Jane (2013)7.3

    Mary Jane Paul is a one-woman-show: a successful TV news anchor, and an entirely self-sufficient powerhouse who remains devoted to a family that doesn't share her motivation. Intense drama and unforgettable moments unfold as Mary Jane juggles her life, her relationships, her work, and commitments to her family.

  • The Bobby Brown Story
    The Bobby Brown Story (2018)7.2

    The life and career of R&B singer Bobby Brown, who left the pop group New Edition to score eight consecutive top-10 pop singles as a solo artist before his life began to unravel after his marriage to pop icon Whitney Houston.

  • Tales
    Tales (2017)7.1

    A one-hour anthology series that distills classic hip-hop records and reimagines them as cinematic love letters.

  • The Book of Negroes
    The Book of Negroes (2015)6.7

    Kidnapped in Africa and subsequently enslaved in South Carolina, Aminata must navigate a revolution in New York, isolation in Nova Scotia and treacherous jungles of Sierra Leone, in an attempt to secure her freedom in the 19th century.

  • Reed Between the Lines
    Reed Between the Lines (2011)6.6

    Reed Between the Lines is an American television family sitcom created by Kellie R. Griffin. It premiered on BET on October 11, 2011. On April 12, 2011, BET announced that it picked up Reed Between The Lines for a fall 2011-2012 television schedule to pair with The Game and Let's Stay Together. On April 12, 2012, BET announced that Reed Between the Lines will return for a second season in 2012. On August 17, 2012, it was announced that Tracee Ellis Ross would depart from Reed Between the Lines, adding three new cast members for the upcoming second season.

  • 106 & Park
    106 & Park (2000)6.0

    106 & Park is an American Hip Hop and R&B music video show set up in a countdown format, that airs Monday through Friday at 6/5c on BET. Since its inception, it was the network's #1 rated show.

  • The Quad
    The Quad (2017)5.9

    Dr. Eva Fletcher is the newly-elected President of the fictional Georgia A&M University. Upon arriving, Eva is charged with saving the prestigious HBCU from bankruptcy and her twenty-year marriage from crumbling while managing a tumultuous relationship with her rebellious only daughter. A diverse group of freshman also promises to keep Eva's hands full.

  • Access Granted
    Access Granted (2001)N/A

    Access Granted is an American television series that features an in depth look at the planning, filming and production of R&B and hip hop music videos. Each week a different artist and their new music video are featured, with the video premiering at the end of the episode. The series aired from 2001 to 2009 on BET.