Popular TV Releases from 2008
These are TV shows that premiered in 2008, ordered by current popularity.
This 2008 TV shows page highlights 50 titles, led by Off Pedder, Breaking Bad, and House of 72 Tenants.
2008 sits within the 2000s — seen here alongside other premieres from the decade.
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- Years
- 2008
- Updated
- 2026-07-13
Context
Breakout premieres
Shows from this year with especially strong audience ratings.

The sitcom is about office politics in a magazine company, as well as family and romantic relationships amongst the characters, with the majority of the cast from Best Selling Secrets.

Walter White, a New Mexico chemistry teacher, is diagnosed with Stage III cancer and given a prognosis of only two years left to live. He becomes filled with a sense of fearlessness and an unrelenting desire to secure his family's financial future at any cost as he enters the dangerous world of drugs and crime.

This drama is based on the film 'Seventy-two Tenants' and describes the struggle between landlords and tenants in the seventy-two houses in the street in the late 1940s, as well as a large number of descriptions of neighborhood life under the rule of the Kuomintang.

Yoda, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Anakin Skywalker, Mace Windu and other Jedi Knights lead the Grand Army of the Republic against the droid army of the Separatists.

The Sons of Anarchy (SOA) are an outlaw motorcycle club with many charters in the United States and overseas. The show focused on the original and founding charter, Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club, Redwood Original, often referred to by the acronym SAMCRO, Sam Crow, or simply Redwood Charter. The charter operates both legal and illegal businesses in the small town of Charming, California. They combine gun-running and a garage, and involvement in porn film industry. Clay, the charter president, likes it old school and violent; while Jax, his stepson and the club's VP, has thoughts about changing the way things are done. Their conflict has effects on both the club and their personal relationship, especially when Jax goes on a personal quest to cleanse the SAMCRO name and image.

Patrick Jane, a former celebrity psychic medium, uses his razor sharp skills of observation and expertise at "reading" people to solve serious crimes with the California Bureau of Investigation.
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Walter White, a New Mexico chemistry teacher, is diagnosed with Stage III cancer and given a prognosis of only two years left to live. He becomes filled with a sense of fearlessness and an unrelenting desire to secure his family's financial future at any cost as he enters the dangerous world of drugs and crime.

A Victorian-era Toronto detective uses then-cutting edge forensic techniques to solve crimes, with the assistance of a female coroner who is also struggling for recognition in the face of tradition, based on the books by Maureen Jennings.

The intimate confines of psychotherapy sessions are seen from the perspective of a therapist and individual patients.

Stories about people who get into problems who use the help of Virgin Mary and where a rose appears and their problems are solved.
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50 visible shows

The Mentalist

Breaking Bad

Markus Lanz

Sons of Anarchy

Fringe

Natsume's Book of Friends

True Blood

X Factor

Star Wars: The Clone Wars

Murdoch Mysteries
Mein Nachmittag

Inazuma Eleven

House of 72 Tenants

World Theme Tour

To Love Ru

Anna und die Liebe

Black Butler

NPR Tiny Desk Concerts

Wedding Ring

Merlin

Gossips Behind the Scene

La rosa de Guadalupe

The Penguins of Madagascar

Q&A

Ghost Adventures

We Got Married

Balika Vadhu

The secrets of Edem

In Treatment

Radio Arvyla

Sekirei

Off Pedder

Sanctuary

ないしょのつぼみ

A Certain Magical Index

Soul Eater

Batman: The Brave and the Bold

Martha Speaks

Leverage

Der Bergdoktor

Underbelly

90210

Childrens Hospital

Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's

Celebrity Juice

Die Küchenschlacht

In Plain Sight

Ojciec Mateusz

Ben 10: Alien Force

Big Brother Israel
