The Best TV Shows on TruTV

Every TruTV Show Ranked From Best To Worst

TruTV’s extensive portfolio includes more than 20 shows, spanning the years from 1996 to 2021. Stay up-to-date with over 20 of TruTV’s elite series, with our list refreshed for November 2025. Premiering in 1996 and 2005, Forensic Files and Parco P.I. are among TruTV’s most celebrated shows.

  • Bait Car
    Bait Car (2007)9.0

    Bait Car is an American television series airing on the truTV network.The pilot episode was called Negro Trap, but was changed after protests from the NAACP. The program retains the original name in Asian and South American syndication. The show depicts would-be car thieves caught in the act of auto theft. Police target criminals with a high-tech bait car, rigged with hidden cameras and radio trackers. Viewers are taken along for the ride from the moment the car is stolen to the thief's arrest.

  • Fameless Prankers
    Fameless Prankers (2015)9.0

    An unsuspecting group of wannabe stars think they have been cast on an actual reality show.

  • Impractical Jokers: Inside Jokes
    Impractical Jokers: Inside Jokes (2016)8.4

    Impractical Jokers: Inside Jokes packs classic, fan-favorite episodes of the show with shareable pop-up facts directly from the Jokers themselves, giving viewers a unique and unprecedented look behind the curtain.

  • Lizard Lick Towing
    Lizard Lick Towing (2011)8.1

    Lizard Lick Towing is an American TV series that is filmed in the style of cinema verité. The show is a spin-off of the truTV series All Worked Up, and follows Ron, Amy, Bobby and their team of repossession agents in Wendell, North Carolina. The show is known for the large amount of fights and brawls that take place during the repossessions.

  • Impractical Jokers
    Impractical Jokers (2011)7.9

    This hidden-camera series follows four lifelong friends -- Brian "Q"' Quinn, James "Murr"' Murray, Joe Gatto and Sal Vulcano -- who take dares to an outrageous level. To find out who is best under pressure, the guys compete in awkward and outrageous hidden-camera hijinks with the loser performing what is deemed to be the most-mortifying challenge yet.

  • Forensic Files
    Forensic Files (1996)7.8

    Real crimes, disease outbreaks and accidents around the world are solved by experts using scientific laboratory analysis which helps them find previously undetectable evidence. Brilliant scientific work helps convict the guilty and free the innocent.

  • Tacoma FD
    Tacoma FD (2019)7.7

    There's not a lot of fires to fight in one of the rainiest cities in America, leaving the crew at the Tacoma Fire Department tackling the less glamorous elements of the job. Light on blazes that need extinguishing, this squad keeps itself entertained with creative competitions, friendly first responder rivalries, and bizarre emergency calls.

  • The Carbonaro Effect
    The Carbonaro Effect (2014)7.5

    Michael Carbonaro is a magician by trade, but a prankster by heart. Michael performs baffling tricks on unsuspecting people in everyday situations, all caught on hidden camera. Everyone is left stunned and delighted, even though they have no idea what just hit them.

  • Impractical Jokers: Dinner Party
    Impractical Jokers: Dinner Party (2020)7.5

    Be a guest at a Dinner Party with the stars of Impractical Jokers every Thursday night! Join Sal, Joe, Q and Murr aka The Tenderloins as they dish about their week, their friendship and whatever else is thrown on their dinner table. Just because they can't be together, doesn't mean they have to stop laughing.

  • Adam Ruins Everything
    Adam Ruins Everything (2015)7.4

    Host Adam Conover employs a combination of comedy, history and science to dispel widespread misconceptions about everything we take for granted.

  • Killer Karaoke
    Killer Karaoke (2012)7.0

    Hitting all the wrong notes, in the best possible way, contestants are challenged to perform their favorite songs in extreme and outrageous circumstances.

  • Parco P.I.
    Parco P.I. (2005)6.8

    Parco P.I. was a reality television program that airs on Court TV. The series was about the cases of New York City-based private investigator Vincent "Vinny" Parco, his family, his daughter Dani Parco, his twin sons Chris Parco and Vincent Parco Jr., Ro and a number of the female investigators who work for the firm.

  • I'm Sorry
    I'm Sorry (2017)6.8

    Andrea is a seemingly confident comedy writer, wife and mom, who comically exposes her inner immaturity and neuroses through unexpected life situations.

  • Billy on the Street
    Billy on the Street (2011)6.6

    Comedian Billy Eichner, unfiltered and unapologetic, hits the streets of New York City to test unsuspecting strangers on their knowledge of music and pop culture. With microphone in hand and money in tow, Eichner gives contestants the chance to win cash by answering a series of hilarious and spontaneous questions. The catch? The final round is subjective - Don't agree with Billy? You lose.

  • Those Who Can't
    Those Who Can't (2016)6.4

    There are teachers who inspire, enlighten, and challenge us. These are not those teachers.

  • Most Shocking
    Most Shocking (2006)6.0

    Most Shocking is an American reality television show produced by Nash Entertainment and truTV Original Productions. It generally features narrated video of criminal behavior, police pursuits, robberies, and freak accidents. It also airs a spinoff series Top 20 Countdown: Most Shocking which began airing on October 3, 2009.

  • Hardcore Pawn
    Hardcore Pawn (2010)5.4

    Meet the Gold family. As owners of Detroit's biggest pawn shop, they've bought and sold things you can't begin to imagine. Every day brings new danger as the Golds operate in the heart of one of America's most troubled cities. With 50,000 sq ft of cash and goods surrounding them, there are millions to be made, but their profits come with huge risk.

  • South Beach Tow
    South Beach Tow (2011)5.3

    South Beach Tow is an American truTV reality television series that portrays dramatized reenactments of the day-to-day business of Tremont Towing. Although the program is fictionalized, Tremont Towing is a real Miami towing company. The series premiered on July 20, 2011. The first part of Season 2 premiered on September 19, 2012, and returned after a four month hiatus on May 15, 2013. Season 3 will premiere on October 30, 2013.

  • Fast Foodies
    Fast Foodies (2021)4.7

    Culinary masters compete to perfectly recreate, then skillfully reimagine a celebrity guest’s favorite fast food dish as they try to win the “Chompionship Trophy.”

  • Operation Repo
    Operation Repo (2008)4.2

    Operation Repo is an American television program that depicts the world of car repossession with a team that portrays fictionalized tales of repossessions from California's San Fernando Valley. Similar to another truTV show, Southern Fried Stings, the series is filmed in a cinema verité style but consists of scripted and dramatized performances by actors. The show is filmed by recreating scenes in which the cast conducts repossessions of automobiles for finance companies. In the show they also perform repossessions of other exotic and strange items such as luxury boats, planes, limousines, motorcycles, ATVs, Zambonis, ice cream trucks, tow trucks, buses, trucks, expensive bicycles, hot air balloons, wood chippers, forklifts, and tanning beds.