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The Best TV Shows on Spike

Every Spike Show Ranked From Best To Worst

As of November 2024, our compilation of Spike’s top-rated series boasts over 20 unique shows. Among Spike’s finest offerings are Unsolved Mysteries and Cops, which debuted in 1988 and 1989, respectively. A broadcaster of distinction, Spike has aired more than 20 shows between 1988 and 2017.

  • 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

  • Ink Master
    Ink Master (2012)7.9

    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.

  • Unsolved Mysteries
    Unsolved Mysteries (1988)7.7

    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.

  • 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)7.5

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

  • Afro Samurai
    Afro Samurai (2007)7.3

    In a futuristic Japan where conflicts are settled by the sword, Afro Samurai must avenge his father's murder by challenging a powerful warrior.

  • Tut
    Tut (2015)7.2

    The story of the Egyptian Pharaoh, one of the most renowned leaders in human history. This ambitious special-event series tells the story of Tut’s rise to power and his struggle to lead Egypt to glory, while his closest advisers, friends and lovers scheme for their own nefarious interests. “Tut” opens up a fascinating window into a world filled with heart-breaking romance, epic battles, political backstabbing, conspiracy, jealousy, and even murder — proving his world was not far removed from our own — and that his reign as the youngest Egyptian king played out as a real-life drama for the ages.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • WWE Raw
    WWE Raw (1993)6.7

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

  • Blade: The Series
    Blade: The Series (2006)6.5

    Blade is a half-man, half-vampire who employs his extraordinary powers in a crusade to save mankind from the demonic creatures who walk the night. Set in Detroit, Blade investigates the vampire house of Chthon. Along the way he forms an uneasy alliance with Krista Starr, a former military veteran who becomes entrenched in the world of vampires while investigating the murder of her twin brother.

  • 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!

  • 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.

  • James Gunn's PG Porn
    James Gunn's PG Porn (2008)5.1

    James Gunn's PG Porn is a web series created by brothers James Gunn, Brian Gunn, and Sean Gunn. It consists of a series of pornography spoofs, with a humorous event occurring just before the supposed commencement of pornographic sexual acts. Each episode pairs a mainstream actor with a pornographic actress or model. The tagline is, "For people who love everything about Porn...except the sex." The initial web episode premiered on Spike.com and received over a million hits in a week, and was featured on Entertainment Weekly's The Must List. Spike subsequently picked up the series for an additional 11 episodes.

  • WWE Heat
    WWE Heat (1998)5.0

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