TV Shows Like The Great
If you like The Great, 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 Great works because it refuses to choose between serious drama and outright comedy. Catherine's rise to power is genuinely consequential, but the show treats both her ambitions and her husband's disasters with a winking humor that keeps the stakes from becoming oppressive. Viewers drawn to The Great want their history served with a knowing irreverence—the costumes and court intrigue are real, but the dialogue and character motivations are refreshingly unconcerned with what actually happened. They want smart entertainment from literate writing, delivered with energy and a touch of anarchic fun.
The best shows like The Great
1. Bridgerton
Bridgerton matches The Great's blend of period setting and modern sensibility, dressing up romantic and political scheming in gorgeous costumes while letting characters speak with anachronistic wit and directness. The show luxuriates in the messy desires of its ensemble cast with the same irreverent energy that drives Catherine's schemes.
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2. The Crown
Like The Great, The Crown is fundamentally interested in how power reshapes people, following a woman navigating an impossible role across decades of change. It trades comedy for gravitas, but it shares that same obsession with the interior lives of those born or married into absolute authority.
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3. The Tudors
The Tudors centers on a young, volatile monarch surrounded by scheming courtiers and forbidden desires, much like The Great's Peter and Catherine. It has less comedy but equally high stakes, with sex, betrayal, and the fragility of power driving every episode.
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4. And Just Like That…
And Just Like That lacks the period setting, but it shares The Great's refusal to separate humor from real emotional stakes. Both shows are funny about adult relationships that are complicated, messy, and consequential.
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5. Versailles
Versailles traces a young monarch's ascent to absolute power much as The Great does, painting court life as a arena of ambition, seduction, and political maneuvering. The show has The Great's narrative momentum and its interest in how an individual transforms a kingdom through will and cunning.
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More on shows like The Great
The recommendations here split into two camps. Bridgerton, Versailles, and The Tudors all traffic in period drama with genuine heat and consequence, where ambition, power, and desire drive the plot. The Crown sits apart: it's a more serious, deliberate account of royalty and duty. And Just Like That is the outlier, present mainly because it shares The Great's comedic DNA—that capacity to be funny while addressing real human struggle.
For anyone hungry for more of what The Great does so well, Bridgerton offers Regency-era excess with a similarly ironic tone. The Tudors gives you a young, reckless monarch in a court full of danger and scheming, though with less comedy and more gruesome consequence. Versailles takes a similar approach to Louis XIV as The Great does to Catherine, building a narrative around a monarch's ascent and the power plays that surround it. The Crown is the longest commitment here, a show that respects its subject matter entirely, but it still explores the interior lives of people navigating the weight of a crown. And Just Like That lacks the period setting, but it shares that combination of humor and honest reckoning with complicated adult lives.
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Frequently asked
- What is the most popular show like The Great?
- Bridgerton is the most popular show similar to The Great in the IsItRenewed catalogue.
- Are shows like The Great still on the air?
- Of the 11 shows similar to The Great listed here, 0 currently carry a renewed verdict — the rest are cancelled, ended, or awaiting a decision.
- How does IsItRenewed pick shows like The Great?
- 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.