The Best TV Shows on TruTV

Every TruTV Show Ranked From Best To Worst

Premiering in 1996 and 2005, Forensic Files and Parco P.I. are among TruTV’s most celebrated shows. As of August 2025, we’ve curated over 20 of TruTV’s premier shows for your viewing pleasure. A broadcaster of distinction, TruTV has aired more than 20 shows between 1996 and 2021.

  • Chris Webber's Full Court Pranks
    Chris Webber's Full Court Pranks (2017)10.0

    A hidden-camera series that features some of the nation's biggest athletes and sports celebrities playing elaborate -- but good-natured -- pranks on their most adoring fans.

  • 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.

  • Forensic Files
    Forensic Files (1996)8.0

    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.

  • Motor City Masters
    Motor City Masters (2014)8.0

    Automotive designers compete to build the ultimate car and earn the title of "Motor City Master".

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • The Carbonaro Effect
    The Carbonaro Effect (2014)7.4

    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.

  • 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.

  • World's Dumbest...
    World's Dumbest... (2008)7.2

    truTV Presents: World's Dumbest... is a cable television series produced by Meetinghouse Productions, Inc. and is airing on truTV. Originally known as World's Dumbest Criminals, it is a weekly countdown that takes a comedic look at 20 half-witted and offbeat events caught on camera and sometimes by 911 dispatchers. These events are now broken down into topics such as Criminals, Drivers, Daredevils, Partiers, etc. and features commentary from B to C-list comedians and writers such as Jared Logan, Chris Fairbanks, Kevin McCaffrey, Jaime Andrews, Brendon Walsh, Ted Jessup, Brad Loekle, Daisy Gardner, Billy Kimball, Mike Trainor, John Enos, Jamie Lee, Rachel Feinstein, Mike O'Gorman, Amanda Landry, and Gilbert Gottfried. Because the series' original focus was on criminals bungling their acts of crime, commentary used to rely heavily on celebrities who have been known for their own past brushes with the law, including Danny Bonaduce, Leif Garrett, Tonya Harding, Todd Bridges, Daniel Baldwin, and Gary Busey. Often times, and when video clips have no audio track, sound effects and mock commentators are added to enhance the humor of the events.

  • I'm Sorry
    I'm Sorry (2017)6.9

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Bobcat Goldthwait's Misfits & Monsters
    Bobcat Goldthwait's Misfits & Monsters (2018)5.5

    This scripted anthology series mashes up wildly different genres to tell suspenseful stories with funny, imaginative twists. Each episode turns familiar tropes inside out to create a curated and eclectic collection of stories filled with equal parts nostalgia and modern satire.

  • 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.

  • 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.”

  • Top Secret Videos
    Top Secret Videos (2020)4.0

    Part clip-show, part workplace comedy, our cast of comedians turned NSA interns, spend their days providing hilarious commentary on the craziest 'Top Secret Videos' while bonding together over their monumental yet mundane task.

  • Friends of the People
    Friends of the People (2014)1.5

    A fresh and unique take on sketch comedy, with a combination of scripted sketches, man-on-the-street segments and more.