TV Shows Like Hacks
If you like Hacks, here are 12 similar TV shows — each with its current AI renewal verdict, so you can see which are still going and which have been cancelled.
HBO Max · Comedy · Hacks is ended
Hacks works because the tension at its center is specific and honest. Deborah Vance is not a lovable eccentric; she is a woman who clawed her way to the top of a brutal industry and calcified around her own survival instincts. Ava, the twenty-five-year-old writer forced into her orbit, is not simply young and naive; she is self-righteous in ways that are genuinely irritating. Putting those two people together and letting them alternately wound and need each other produces something sharper than most comedies attempt. The Las Vegas backdrop, all that artificial light and transactional glamour, suits the show perfectly.
The best shows like Hacks
1. The Studio
Like Hacks, The Studio is a comedy set inside an industry that eats its own, and it understands that the desire for approval can make otherwise capable people ridiculous. The newly appointed studio head is, in his own way, as status-obsessed and self-sabotaging as anyone in Deborah's orbit. If you liked watching Hacks dissect the machinery behind a performer's career, this show does something similar for the business of making movies.
Stream on Apple TV, Apple TV Amazon Channel
Likely Renewed82%
2. And Just Like That…
Hacks is partly about what happens to a woman when the culture decides she is no longer relevant, and And Just Like That engages with a version of that same anxiety, following Carrie, Miranda, and Charlotte as they navigate friendships and identities that no longer fit quite right. It is a softer show than Hacks, less willing to make its characters genuinely unlikable, but the generational self-examination runs through both. Fans who connected with Deborah's loneliness beneath the polish will find something familiar here.
Stream on HBO Max, HBO Max Amazon Channel
Ended0%
3. CSI: Vegas
CSI: Vegas shares Hacks' setting, that specific Las Vegas world of performance, artifice, and high stakes, though it works in a very different register as a forensic procedural. The hook of old hands returning to defend an institution they built gives it a mild echo of Deborah's arc. It is a reasonable pick for Hacks fans who want something set in Sin City but are happy to trade the comedy for a mystery.
Stream on Paramount Plus Premium, Paramount Plus Essential, Paramount Plus Apple TV Channel , Paramount+ Amazon Channel
Cancelled0%
4. The Game
The Game shares Hacks' interest in what people sacrifice, and what they perform, to stay close to someone with power in a competitive world. The relationship dynamics are messy in ways that feel true rather than tidy, and the show does not always let its characters off the hook. It is a looser tonal match, but fans of Hacks who responded to the push and pull of ambition versus compromise will find things to hold onto here.
Stream on Netflix, Netflix Standard with Ads
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5. Search Party
Search Party is built around self-absorbed twenty-somethings who are convinced their instincts are better than they are, which puts it squarely in Ava territory. It is a dark comedy that gets genuinely uncomfortable, and it earns those uncomfortable moments the way Hacks does, by making you understand exactly why these people make bad choices. If Ava's mix of self-righteousness and vulnerability was what drew you to Hacks, Search Party is the clearest next step.
Stream on Netflix, Netflix Standard with Ads
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More on shows like Hacks
Fans of Hacks tend to want a few specific things: some degree of industry insider friction, characters who are difficult to fully root for, writing that treats comedy as a serious subject, and a relationship dynamic with real stakes. The best follow-up shows carry at least two of those qualities. None of the recommendations below are perfect matches, but each one shares a piece of what makes Hacks worth watching.
The Studio and Search Party are probably the closest fits in terms of sensibility. The Studio puts a desperately approval-hungry studio head at the center of a show about creative compromise and corporate absurdity, and it is bracingly funny about how badly smart people can behave when status is on the line. Search Party is darker and weirder, following four self-absorbed twenty-somethings, much like Ava, into an increasingly sinister situation. And Just Like That picks up the generational-reckoning thread directly, watching three women reckon with who they have become versus who they expected to be. CSI: Vegas shares the Las Vegas setting and a sense of institutional loyalty under threat, though it plays things far straighter as a procedural. The Game rounds out the list with a drama-comedy hybrid about relationships, ambition, and the price of attaching your identity to someone else's career.
These shows vary quite a bit in tone. Search Party and The Studio are the ones most likely to scratch the same itch Hacks does on a week-to-week basis. And Just Like That will appeal most to viewers who responded to the Deborah side of the equation, the cost of being a woman who has been at this a long time. The others offer useful detours rather than direct equivalents, but for a fan who has already burned through Hacks twice, a detour is not a bad thing.
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Frequently asked
- What is the most popular show like Hacks?
- The Studio is the most popular show similar to Hacks in the IsItRenewed catalogue.
- Are shows like Hacks still on the air?
- Of the 12 shows similar to Hacks listed here, 0 currently carry a renewed verdict — the rest are cancelled, ended, or awaiting a decision.
- How does IsItRenewed pick shows like Hacks?
- The recommendations come from TMDB's similar-titles data, and each is shown with its current AI renewal verdict so you know which are still going.