The Best TV Shows on Starz

Every Starz Show Ranked From Best To Worst

Highlighting Starz’s quality programming, Martin Lawrence Presents 1st Amendment Stand-Up and Party Down stand out, premiering in 2007 and 2009. Stay up-to-date with over 20 of Starz’s elite series, with our list refreshed for May 2025. Across the timeline from 2007 to 2022, Starz has presented audiences with over 20 captivating shows.

  • Power Book II: Ghost
    Power Book II: Ghost (2020)8.3

    Picking up just days after the “Power” finale, this sequel series follows Tariq navigating his new life, in which his desire to shed his father’s legacy comes up against the mounting pressure to save his family.

  • Power Book IV: Force
    Power Book IV: Force (2022)8.3

    Tommy Egan leaves New York behind and plans to take on Chicago, using his outsider status to break all the local rules and rewrite them on his quest to become the biggest drug dealer in the city.

  • Outlander
    Outlander (2014)8.2

    The story of Claire Randall, a married combat nurse from 1945 who is mysteriously swept back in time to 1743, where she is immediately thrown into an unknown world where her life is threatened. When she is forced to marry Jamie, a chivalrous and romantic young Scottish warrior, a passionate affair is ignited that tears Claire's heart between two vastly different men in two irreconcilable lives.

  • Power Book III: Raising Kanan
    Power Book III: Raising Kanan (2021)8.2

    Set in South Jamaica, Queens, in 1991, this prequel to "Power" revolves around the coming of age of Kanan Stark.

  • Spartacus
    Spartacus (2010)8.0

    Torn from his homeland and the woman he loves, Spartacus is condemned to the brutal world of the arena where blood and death are primetime entertainment.

  • BMF
    BMF (2021)8.0

    The drug trafficking drama is inspired by the true story of two brothers who rose from the decaying streets of southwest Detroit in the late 1980s and gave birth to one of the most influential crime families in the country. It revolves around brothers Demetrius "Big Meech" Flenory and Terry "Southwest T" Flenory, who together took their vision beyond the drug trade and into the world of hip-hop. The drama, per Starz, will tell a story about love, family and capitalism in the pursuit of the American dream.

  • Men in Kilts: A Roadtrip with Sam and Graham
    Men in Kilts: A Roadtrip with Sam and Graham (2021)7.8

    A celebration of Scottish history and culture, with Outlander stars Sam Heughan and Graham McTavish discovering the heritage of their native country, meeting local artisans and experts and experiencing genuine moments of awe and fascination as they share their travels with the audience.

  • The Pillars of the Earth
    The Pillars of the Earth (2010)7.7

    A sweeping epic of good and evil, treachery and intrigue, violence and beauty, a sensuous, spirited story set against a backdrop of war, religious strife and power struggles in 12th Century England.

  • Power
    Power (2014)7.7

    A successful New York entrepreneur lives a double life as the head of a drug empire that serves only the rich and influential, all while wanting to escape the underworld and keep his family safe.

  • Ash vs Evil Dead
    Ash vs Evil Dead (2015)7.7

    Bruce Campbell reprises his role as Ash Williams, an aging lothario and chainsaw-handed monster hunter who’s spent the last three decades avoiding maturity, and the terrors of the Evil Dead. But when a Deadite plague threatens to destroy all of mankind, he’s forced to face his demons — both metaphorical and literal.

  • P-Valley
    P-Valley (2020)7.7

    Down deep in the Mississippi Delta, Trap music meets film noir in this kaleidoscopic story of a little-strip-club-that-could and the big characters who come through its doors—the hopeful, the lost, the broken, the ballers, the beautiful, and the damned.

  • Black Sails
    Black Sails (2014)7.6

    The pirate adventures of Captain Flint and his men twenty years prior to Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic “Treasure Island.” Flint, the most brilliant and most feared pirate captain of his day, takes on a fast-talking young addition to his crew who goes by the name John Silver. Threatened with extinction on all sides, they fight for the survival of New Providence Island, the most notorious criminal haven of its day – a debauched paradise teeming with pirates, prostitutes, thieves and fortune seekers, a place defined by both its enlightened ideals and its stunning brutality.

  • The Spanish Princess
    The Spanish Princess (2019)7.6

    The beautiful Spanish princess, Catherine of Aragon, navigates the royal lineage of England with an eye on the throne.

  • Da Vinci's Demons
    Da Vinci's Demons (2013)7.5

    The series follows the "untold" story of Leonardo Da Vinci: the genius during his early years in Renaissance Florence. As a 25-year old artist, inventor, swordsman, lover, dreamer and idealist, he struggles to live within the confines of his own reality and time as he begins to not only see the future, but invent it.

  • Party Down
    Party Down (2009)7.4

    A group of struggling actors and dysfunctional dreamers wait for their big break while they are stuck serving hors d'oeurves for a Hollywood catering company 'Party Down.'

  • Counterpart
    Counterpart (2017)7.4

    Howard Silk is a lowly cog in a bureaucratic UN agency who is turning the last corner of a life filled with regret when he discovers the agency he works for is guarding a secret: a crossing to a parallel dimension.

  • American Gods
    American Gods (2017)7.1

    An ex-con becomes the traveling partner of a conman who turns out to be one of the older gods trying to recruit troops to battle the upstart deities. Based on Neil Gaiman's fantasy novel.

  • Martin Lawrence Presents 1st Amendment Stand-Up
    Martin Lawrence Presents 1st Amendment Stand-Up (2007)7.0

  • The Girlfriend Experience
    The Girlfriend Experience (2016)7.0

    Explore the relationships between exclusive escorts and their clients, for whom they provide far more than just sex. Known as GFEs, they are women who provide “The Girlfriend Experience”—emotional and sexual relationships at a very high price.

  • Hightown
    Hightown (2020)6.7

    Amid the drug trade on Cape Cod, a body washes ashore and is discovered by an irreverent National Marine Fisheries Service officer, Jackie Quinones, who is determined to help solve the murder even if the state cops want her nowhere near the case.