The Best TV Shows on BET+

Every BET+ Show Ranked From Best To Worst

From 2001 through to 2025, BET+ has accumulated a diverse collection of over 20 television shows. For top-tier entertainment, BET+ delivered BET Awards and The Game in 2001 and 2006. Discover the best of BET+ with our list of over 20 series, meticulously updated for August 2025.

  • Let's Stay Together
    Let's Stay Together (2011)8.7

    Let's Stay Together is an American romantic comedy television series created by Jacque Edmonds Cofer. It premiered on BET on January 11, 2011. The title of the series refers to the Al Green landmark 1972 song of the same name. The series premiere drew 4.4 million viewers. Initially, Soul Food star Malinda Williams was cast in the lead role of Stacy. For undisclosed reasons, she was recast with Nadine Ellis. On April 20, 2013, BET announced that the series was renewed for a second season which aired 22 episodes starting in January 2012. For its second season, Erica Hubbard appeared infrequently due to her pregnancy. New cast member Kyla Pratt joined the cast portraying Crystal, Charles and Kita's cousin. At the 2012 BET Upfront on April 13, 2012, it was revealed that the show has been renewed for a third season. The third season premiered on March 26, 2013. In April 2013, BET Networks announced the show had been renewed for a fourth season that will premiere in early 2014.

  • Tyler Perry's Divorced Sistas
    Tyler Perry's Divorced Sistas (2025)8.7

    Five friends - Rasheda, Geneva, Naomi, Tiffany, and Bridgette - support each other through divorce, marriage, dating, healing, and friendship struggles while their loyalty and sisterhood bonds are tested.

  • 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.

  • Carl Weber's The Family Business
    Carl Weber's The Family Business (2018)8.3

    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 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)8.0

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

  • 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.

  • Madiba
    Madiba (2017)7.8

    A dramatization of Nelson Mandela's struggle to overturn apartheid in South Africa.

  • 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 Game
    The Game (2006)7.7

    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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Tales
    Tales (2017)6.9

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

  • Rebel
    Rebel (2017)6.9

    After her brother is slain by police, Oakland police officer Rebecca “Rebel” Cole becomes disillusioned with the system and is forced to take matters into her own hands and become a private investigator and a champion for her community.

  • 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.

  • The Book of Negroes
    The Book of Negroes (2015)6.4

    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.

  • The Quad
    The Quad (2017)6.0

    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.