The Best Science Fiction Shows from 2016


Below is our top ten list of the best Science Fiction Shows which first started broadcasting in 2016.

10. Legends of Tomorrow


Legends%20of%20TomorrowFirst Aired: 21 January, 2016

Legends of Tomorrow is a TV series starring Caity Lotz, Amy Louise Pemberton, and Dominic Purcell. Time-travelling rogue Rip Hunter has to recruit a rag-tag team of heroes and villains to help prevent an apocalypse that could impact…


9. Luke Cage


Luke%20CageFirst Aired: 30 September, 2016

Luke Cage is a TV series starring Mike Colter, Simone Missick, and Theo Rossi. When a sabotaged experiment gives him super strength and unbreakable skin, Luke Cage becomes a fugitive attempting to rebuild his life in Harlem and must…


8. The Shannara Chronicles


The%20Shannara%20ChroniclesFirst Aired: 05 January, 2016

The Shannara Chronicles is a TV series starring Austin Butler, Ivana Baquero, and Manu Bennett. Series of adventures, war, and evil that occur throughout the history of the Four Lands.


7. Stranger Things


Stranger%20ThingsFirst Aired: 15 July, 2016

Stranger Things is a TV series starring Millie Bobby Brown, Finn Wolfhard, and Winona Ryder. When a young boy disappears, his mother, a police chief and his friends must confront terrifying supernatural forces in order to get him…


6. The OA


The%20OAFirst Aired: 16 December, 2016

The OA is a TV series starring Brit Marling, Jason Isaacs, and Scott Wilson. Having gone missing seven years ago, the previously blind Prairie returns home, now in her twenties with her sight restored. While many believe she is a…


5. Timeless


TimelessFirst Aired: 03 October, 2016

Timeless is a TV series starring Abigail Spencer, Matt Lanter, and Malcolm Barrett. An unlikely trio travel through time in order to battle unknown criminals and protect history as we know it.



4. Westworld


WestworldFirst Aired: 02 October, 2016

Westworld is a TV series starring Evan Rachel Wood, Jeffrey Wright, and Ed Harris. Set at the intersection of the near future and the reimagined past, explore a world in which every human appetite can be indulged without consequence.


3. Travelers


TravelersFirst Aired: 17 October, 2016

Travelers is a TV series starring Eric McCormack, MacKenzie Porter, and Nesta Cooper. Hundreds of years from now, surviving humans discover how to send consciousness back through time, into people of the 21st century, while…


2. 11.22.63


11.22.63First Aired: 15 February, 2016

11.22.63 is a TV mini-series starring James Franco, Sarah Gadon, and George MacKay. A high school teacher travels back in time to prevent John F. Kennedy’s assassination.


1. Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency


Dirk%20Gently%27s%20Holistic%20Detective%20AgencyFirst Aired: 22 October, 2016

Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency is a TV series starring Samuel Barnett, Elijah Wood, and Hannah Marks. Holistic detective Dirk Gently investigates cases involving the supernatural.