TV Shows Like The Bold Type
If you like The Bold Type, here are 11 similar TV shows — each with its current AI renewal verdict, so you can see which are still going and which have been cancelled.
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The Bold Type works because it trusts its viewers to care about interior lives. Jane, Kat and Sutton are women whose professional ambitions matter as much as their romantic ones, and the show splits the difference between comedy and drama without treating either as a setup for the other. It moves easily from a workplace crisis to a personal revelation to something genuinely funny, often within the same scene. That tonal flexibility is what makes the show feel alive, and it's what fans of The Bold Type are looking for next: shows that understand women have depth, that their friendships mean something, and that you can be both serious and absurd in the same breath.
The best shows like The Bold Type
1. Sex and the City
This is the show that essentially created the template for intelligent, funny dramas about women in the city building careers and lives on their own terms. If you love the camaraderie and witty banter between Jane, Kat and Sutton, you'll find that same easy rhythm between Carrie, Miranda, Charlotte and Samantha, with decades of friendship as the foundation.
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2. Younger
Like The Bold Type, Younger pairs workplace comedy with genuine character development and finds humor in the complications of ambition, identity, and not quite fitting in. Liza's secret and the show's warm treatment of her friendship with Maggie echoes the way The Bold Type balances professional stakes with emotional authenticity.
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3. Girls
Girls shares The Bold Type's commitment to messy, complicated female characters you're not always sure you like but always want to watch. Hannah, Marnie, Jessa and Shoshanna navigate New York and their own terrible choices with the same darkly funny honesty that drives Scarlet's editorial crew.
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4. And Just Like That…
This sequel series takes the characters from Sex and the City forward through middle age, proving that these kinds of character-driven stories about women and friendship don't have an expiration date. If you're invested in seeing Jane, Kat and Sutton's long-term growth, And Just Like That shows what that sustained focus on character can accomplish.
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5. Life on Top
Like The Bold Type, Life on Top focuses on a young woman building a life in a big city and discovering who she is through both her career and her relationships. The story of arrival and adjustment, grounded in genuine connection with the people around you, hits many of the same notes.
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The recommendations here are shows that build their appeal around female characters navigating New York (or a big city version of New York) and figuring out who they are while they work and love and fail. Sex and the City practically invented this formula, and And Just Like That carries it forward with characters you've known for decades. Younger and Girls take similar setups and push them in different directions, one with humor and reinvention, the other with a sharper eye toward the humiliations of ambition and youth. Life on Top is the outlier, a lighter drama about discovering yourself in a new place, but it shares the core DNA: arrival, adjustment, and the relationships that sustain you through it all.
What these shows have in common is a fundamental belief that watching women talk to each other, argue with each other, and figure things out together is enough to hold a series. None of them are interested in making their characters palatable or safe. They're allowed to be selfish, messy, ambitious, insecure, and sometimes terrible. That's where the real investment comes from. If you loved The Bold Type, these shows are betting the same way you do: that character matters more than plot, and that a scene between friends in an apartment is as important as any external conflict. Some of them lean harder into comedy, some into drama, but they're all working from the assumption that their audience is smart enough to handle women who are complicated.
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Frequently asked
- What is the most popular show like The Bold Type?
- Sex and the City is the most popular show similar to The Bold Type in the IsItRenewed catalogue.
- Are shows like The Bold Type still on the air?
- Of the 11 shows similar to The Bold Type listed here, 0 currently carry a renewed verdict — the rest are cancelled, ended, or awaiting a decision.
- How does IsItRenewed pick shows like The Bold Type?
- 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.