The Best TV Shows on YouTube Premium

Every YouTube Premium Show Ranked From Best To Worst

Boasting a rich catalog, YouTube Premium features more than 20 shows, with broadcasting dates ranging from 2016 to 2022. Highlighting YouTube Premium’s quality programming, Escape the Night and Foursome stand out, premiering in 2016 and 2016. As of November 2025, our compilation of YouTube Premium’s top-rated series boasts over 20 unique shows.

  • HistoryMarche
    HistoryMarche (2018)10.0

    HistoryMarche delves into the tactics, strategies, and impacts of historical battles, bringing them to life with detailed animations and creative storytelling. The channel balances education with engaging visuals, making complex military maneuvers accessible. With a focus on transparency, it highlights scholarly debates and speculative history, encouraging critical thinking. By blending storytelling and modern animation, HistoryMarche makes history dynamic, relevant, and visually compelling.

  • TWICE: Seize the Light
    TWICE: Seize the Light (2020)9.0

    TWICE has successfully opened their first world tour TWICE WORLD TOUR 2019 ‘TWICELIGHTS’. TWICE members introduce and unveil the journey of how 9 members became TWICE - from the years of trainees overcoming the hardships of stress and pressure, to becoming one of the most popular K-pop groups. The real TWICE documentary of the beginning, present and the future of TWICE, everything you've never seen anywhere.

  • Wayne
    Wayne (2019)8.3

    In this gritty and sometimes bloody tale, sixteen year-old Wayne sets out on a dirt bike with his new crush Del to take back the 1978 Pontiac Trans Am that was stolen from his father before he died. It is Wayne and Del against the world.

  • Mind Field
    Mind Field (2017)8.2

    Explore the surprising things we know (and don’t know) about why people are the way they are through expert interviews, rare footage from historical experiments, and brand-new, ground-breaking demonstrations of human nature at work.

  • Cobra Kai
    Cobra Kai (2018)8.2

    This Karate Kid sequel series picks up 30 years after the events of the 1984 All Valley Karate Tournament and finds Johnny Lawrence on the hunt for redemption by reopening the infamous Cobra Kai karate dojo. This reignites his old rivalry with the successful Daniel LaRusso, who has been working to maintain the balance in his life without mentor Mr. Miyagi.

  • I AM NON
    I AM NON (2019)8.2

    YouTube Originals documentary on the making of "Get To The Punchline", the first film written and directed by Non (formerly, Nounen Rena). It covers the pre-production, 13-day shoot, and post-production of the film showing the wildly creative but inexperienced film-maker's struggles to make her first film.

  • Gray Zone Agency, Inc.
    Gray Zone Agency, Inc. (2020)8.0

  • Escape the Night
    Escape the Night (2016)7.7

    Welcome to "Escape the Night." In this surreality competition series, hosted by Joey Graceffa, 10 guests are invited from the modern world to attend a dinner at his newly acquired mansion estate, which has been locked in the 1920's; when America was roaring... roaring with madness. This is a dinner party to die for. No one is safe.

  • Top Management
    Top Management (2018)7.7

    A former K-Pop idol trainee finds a new dream as an idol manager.

  • Impulse
    Impulse (2018)7.6

    16-year-old Henry Coles is an outsider in her new town of Reston, New York. With a major chip on her shoulder and no friends, she remains withdrawn and isolated, but everything changes when a traumatic encounter with a classmate triggers something deep within Henry— unleashing a power she cannot control.

  • What the Duck
    What the Duck (2018)7.6

    Pop and Mo's love is tested as Pop works in Catering to be near her, but his feelings shift when he meets Oat, while Mo grows closer to a dedicated pilot trainee.

  • Step Up
    Step Up (2018)7.3

    Twins Tal and Janelle relocate from Ohio to Atlanta, where at their new school High Water is always a beat.

  • The Heroic Quest of the Valiant Prince Ivandoe
    The Heroic Quest of the Valiant Prince Ivandoe (2022)7.3

    The series follows the adventures of Ivandoe , the young prince of the forest whose father, The Mighty Stag, sends him on a quest for the magical Golden Feather of the fearsome Eagle King. Ivandoe and his dedicated squire, a small bird named Bert, discover new and mysterious areas of the forest and an array of peculiar creatures along the way.

  • Origin
    Origin (2018)7.2

    A group of troubled passengers wake up on a damaged spaceship abandoned in deep space, each having left behind a dark past in search of a fresh start on a newly colonized planet. As their terrifying situation spirals into paranoia, they come to realize that the greatest threat to their dream of starting over – and indeed their lives – is something far darker than the pasts they were so desperate to escape.

  • Liza on Demand
    Liza on Demand (2018)6.9

    LIZA ON DEMAND is a half-hour, single camera comedy that follows the chaotic misadventures of Liza, a young woman in Los Angeles who is trying to make a career out of juggling various gig economy jobs — for lack of a better idea of what to do with her life. Meanwhile, Liza's best friends and roommates Oliver and Harlow try their best to both support and sometimes distract her.

  • Foursome
    Foursome (2016)6.8

    Andie is undateable– thanks to her older brother Alec, the most popular guy in high school, who makes sure no guy comes near her. Fortunately, Andie has her three best friends to help her shake the little sister stigma: Dakota, the gay best friend who is more than confident in his own sexuality; Imogen the innocent, fresh-out-of-home-school wallflower; and Courtney, Alec’s girlfriend and last year’s homecoming queen, who can’t let go of her high school days. These four very different personalities help each other navigate the hormone-induced, angst-filled sea of high school.

  • Bad Internet
    Bad Internet (2016)6.8

    A satirical anthology series about the terrifying potential futures of internet technology and culture. Not at all similar to any other shows about technological overreaching.

  • Do You Want to See a Dead Body?
    Do You Want to See a Dead Body? (2017)6.7

    Follow comedian Rob Huebel as he takes a different celebrity friend on a hilarious adventure to find a dead body...and then maybe get tacos or something.

  • Ryan Hansen Solves Crimes on Television
    Ryan Hansen Solves Crimes on Television (2017)6.6

    The LAPD thinks it's a good idea to form a task force partnering actors with homicide detectives.

  • Weird City
    Weird City (2019)6.1

    Set in the not-too-distant future, this comedy anthology explores the issues of everyday life in the metropolis of Weird — stories that can only be told through the prism of sci-fi and comedy.