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The Best TV Shows on Spike

Every Spike Show Ranked From Best To Worst

As of January 2025, our compilation of Spike’s top-rated series boasts over 20 unique shows. Unsolved Mysteries and Cops represent the pinnacle of Spike’s programming, launching in 1988 and 1989. Across the timeline from 1988 to 2017, Spike has presented audiences with over 20 captivating shows.

  • WWE Confidential
    WWE Confidential (2002)10.0

  • Bar Rescue
    Bar Rescue (2011)7.9

    Jon Taffer is the Gordon Ramsay of the bar and nightclub business. In each episode, Taffer helps transform a struggling bar into a vibrant, profitable business, utilizing his expertise as a nightlife consultant

  • Unsolved Mysteries
    Unsolved Mysteries (1988)7.8

    Combines four to five segments of dramatic re-enactments, interviews and updates of real human and paranormal mysteries. An audience interactive call-to-action request allowed viewers to call in with tips to help solve the cases.

  • Ink Master
    Ink Master (2012)7.8

    A group of the country's most creative and skilled tattoo artists compete for a hundred thousand dollars and the title of Ink Master. The stakes couldn't be higher with "living canvasses" donating their skin to be permanently marked in this adrenalized competition elimination.

  • Takeshi's Castle
    Takeshi's Castle (2002)7.7

    Takeshi's Castle was a Japanese game show that aired between 1986 and 1990 on the Tokyo Broadcasting System. It featured the Japanese actor Takeshi Kitano as a count who owns a castle and sets up difficult challenges for players to get to him. Contestants throw themselves into daunting physical challenges as they attempt to storm Takeshi's Castle and win the grand prize of one million yen. The show has become a cult television hit around the world. A special live "revival" was broadcast on April 2, 2005, for TBS's 50th anniversary celebrations.

  • 1000 Ways to Die
    1000 Ways to Die (2009)7.7

    The science of living and the randomness of death are combined with a dash of Darwinism. Forensic experts, pathologists, toxicologists, herpetologists, and other experts offer eloquent explanations of mortality.

  • Blue Mountain State
    Blue Mountain State (2010)7.6

    Three incoming freshman in a big-time, Midwestern college football program have to juggle football, girls, class and nonstop hazing.

  • Deadliest Warrior
    Deadliest Warrior (2009)7.5

    Deadliest Warrior was a television program in which information on historical or modern warriors and their weapons are used to determine which of them is the "deadliest" based upon tests performed during each episode. The show was characterized by its use of data compiled in creating a dramatization of the warriors' battle to the death. The show ran for three seasons.

  • Stripperella
    Stripperella (2003)7.2

    From Stan Lee, the man who brought us such popular superheroes as Spider-Man and The X-Men, comes this new kind of superhero in the form of the animated series "Stripperella". Pamela Anderson provides the voice of Erotica Jones who is stripper by night and superhero Stripperella by even later at night. A show with something for everyone, Stan Lee promises that despite it's adult setting 'Stripperella' is "really a family show...but for a highly sophisticated family."

  • The Dudesons
    The Dudesons (2006)7.2

    The Dudesons is a reality series following four Finnish friends as they dare each other to perform stupid stunts and crazy antics.

  • TNA iMPACT!
    TNA iMPACT! (2004)7.1

    TNA iMPACT offers a unique style of wrestling that features a blend of the traditional with high-flying athleticism and cutting edge action. TNA's roster includes the biggest names in wrestling today, and the hottest new stars in the sport.

  • The Shannara Chronicles
    The Shannara Chronicles (2016)7.0

    A young Healer armed with an unpredictable magic guides a runaway Elf in her perilous quest to save the peoples of the Four Lands from an age-old Demon scourge.

  • MXC
    MXC (2003)6.9

    Footage from the popular game show, Takeshi's Castle has been re-edited, re-written and re-voiced into a hilarious, intentionally over-produced, modern "action/X-treme" sports show.

  • Raw
    Raw (1993)6.8

    A regularly scheduled, live, year-round program featuring some of the biggest WWE Superstars.

  • Cops
    Cops (1989)6.7

    Follow real-life law enforcement officers from various regions and departments of the United States armed with nothing but with cameras to capture their actions, performing their daily duty to serve and protect the public.

  • Lip Sync Battle
    Lip Sync Battle (2015)6.4

    Each episode features two A-list celebrities like you've never seen them before - syncing their hearts out in hysterically epic performances. Hosted by LL Cool J with colorful commentary by social media maven and supermodel co-host, Chrissy Teigen. The mic is off, the battle is on!

  • WWE Velocity
    WWE Velocity (2002)6.2

    WWE Velocity was a professional wrestling television program produced by World Wrestling Entertainment. It replaced two syndicated WWE shows, Jakked/Metal. Once a weekly Saturday night show on Spike TV and on Sky Sports 2 in the UK on Sunday mornings, Velocity became a webcast from 2005 to 2006. The newest episode would be uploaded to WWE.com on Saturdays and be available for the next week. Older webcast episodes were also archived. It was the counterpart show to WWE SmackDown and WWE Raw and was recorded before the television taping of SmackDown.

  • The Ultimate Fighter
    The Ultimate Fighter (2005)6.2

    The Ultimate Fighter is an American reality television series and mixed martial arts (MMA) competition produced by the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) and Pilgrim Media Group currently airing on ESPN+. It previously aired for fourteen seasons on Spike TV. The show features professional MMA fighters living together in Las Vegas, Nevada, and follows them as they train and compete against each other for a prized six-figure contract with the UFC. The series debuted on January 17, 2005.

  • The Mist
    The Mist (2017)6.2

    A small town family is torn apart by a brutal crime. As they deal with the fallout an eerie mist rolls in, suddenly cutting them off from the rest of the world, and in some cases, each other.

  • WWE Heat
    WWE Heat (1998)5.1

    WWE Heat is a professional wrestling television program that was produced by World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE).