The Best TV Shows on BET

Every BET Show Ranked From Best To Worst

A broadcaster of distinction, BET has aired more than 20 shows between 2001 and 2023. For top-tier entertainment, BET delivered BET Awards and Coming to the Stage in 2001 and 2003. As of January 2026, we’ve curated over 20 of BET’s premier shows for your viewing pleasure.

  • Haus of Vicious
    Haus of Vicious (2022)10.0

    From creator Jill Ramsey, the eight-episode first season follows Roman's character Chantel Vivian, a fashion designer whose success is overshadowed by her narcissistic husband, addiction, unresolved childhood traumas and dysfunctional personal life. With the assistance of her secret weapon, Jaelyn Ryan (Erica Peeples), publicist to her Vicious Empire, Chantel works to rise through the ranks, but her husband Kane's (Redaric Williams) behavior threatens to tear down the house Chantel built.

  • Ms. Pat Settles It
    Ms. Pat Settles It (2023)10.0

    Ms. Pat is taking her unfiltered humor, street smarts and life lessons to a seat behind the judge's bench to settle real cases. She's enlisting the help of her friends, family and co-stars as her jury but don't get it twisted, her ruling is FINAL!

  • BET Presents: The Encore
    BET Presents: The Encore (2021)9.0

    Some of the biggest R&B girl group members of the 1990s and early 2000s come together to record a supergroup album in 30 days.

  • Carl Weber's The Family Business
    Carl Weber's The Family Business (2018)8.4

    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 Sistas
    Tyler Perry's Sistas (2019)8.4

    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 Assisted Living
    Tyler Perry's Assisted Living (2020)8.4

    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 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.

  • BET Awards
    BET Awards (2001)7.7

    An annual event concert celebrating African Americans and other American minorities in music, acting, sports, and other fields of entertainment over the past year.

  • The New Edition Story
    The New Edition Story (2017)7.7

    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.

  • Hit the Floor
    Hit the Floor (2013)7.6

    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.

  • The Game
    The Game (2006)7.5

    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.

  • Tyler Perry's House of Payne
    Tyler Perry's House of Payne (2007)7.5

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

  • Real Husbands of Hollywood
    Real Husbands of Hollywood (2013)7.2

    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.

  • Being Mary Jane
    Being Mary Jane (2013)7.1

    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 Book of Negroes
    The Book of Negroes (2015)6.5

    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.

  • Tales
    Tales (2017)6.5

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

  • Zoe Ever After
    Zoe Ever After (2016)6.3

    Zoe Moon a newly single mother mother wants to start a cosmetics buisness.

  • The Quad
    The Quad (2017)5.3

    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 freshmen also promises to keep Eva's hands full.

  • Coming to the Stage
    Coming to the Stage (2003)N/A

    Amateur comedians strut their stand-up stuff before celebrity judges in this competition.

  • Keyshia Cole: The Way It Is
    Keyshia Cole: The Way It Is (2006)N/A

    Titled after Keyshia Cole's 2005 debut album, this reality docudrama peeks inside the life of the Grammy-nominated R&B songstress who has overcome a rough childhood to make her dreams come true. When she's not on the road, in the studio or making public appearances, Keyshia keeps busy re-establishing a relationship with her mom, Frankie -- who placed Keyshia in foster care while Frankie abused drugs and alcohol -- and supporting her sister Neffe and her four children. Through therapy sessions, heated discussions, and tough love, the women work to rid themselves of past demons and strengthen the ties that bind them.