The worst current TV show on each network – from CBS to Fox to Netflix

From critic scores as low as 10 per cent, some of America's most publicised programmes fail to impress

USA Network's Falling Water is the highest-ranked production (USA)

In today’s crowded TV landscape, networks and streaming services have all increased the quantity of their offerings – at times to the detriment of quality.

While series like Fox’s The Orville and NBC’s Taken have been consistently critically panned, many of the shows on this list draw a substantial enough viewership to justify their existence.

But, to figure out which current shows are worth avoiding, we turned to the reviews aggregator Rotten Tomatoes to select the most critically loathed scripted show that each network and service is currently producing.

We excluded children’s shows, talk shows and docu-series and we only selected from networks with multiple scripted shows that had enough reviews to receive a Fresh or Rotten designation. We also excluded any network whose lowest rated show was over 75 on the critic scale and used audience scores to break any ties within networks.

Here is the worst current TV show on each network, according to critics:

ABC: Marvel’s Inhumans

The series started in September (ABC)

Critic score: Ten per cent

Audience score: Fifty per cent

Summary: “An isolated community of superhumans fight to protect themselves.”

Amazon: Lore

Critic score: Sixty-five per cent

Audience score: Sixty-five per cent

Summary: “Our collective nightmare mythologies are rooted in real-life horror stories.”

AMC: The Son

Critic score: Fifty per cent

Audience score: Eighty-five per cent

Summary: “A multi-generational epic telling of the story of America’s birth as a superpower through the bloody rise and fall of one Texas oil empire.”

BET: Rebel

Critic score: Twenty-nine per cent

Audience score: Eighty-four per cent

Summary: “An extraordinary take on the seminal police drama that examines the unique and conflicted relationship officers of colour have with their jobs.”

CBS: 9JKL

Critic score: Thirteen per cent

Audience score: Fifty per cent

Summary: “After his divorce and the cancellation of his TV show, actor Josh Roberts moves to New York City, in an apartment that sits between that of his parents and his brother’s.”

CBS All Access: No Activity

Critic score: Seventy per cent

Audience score: Seventy-eight per cent

Summary: “This comedy centres around the mundane human interactions during a high stakes drug cartel bust.”

The CW: Valor

Critic score: Twenty-four per cent

Audience score: Seventy-five per cent

Summary: “The boundaries between military discipline and human desire are tested on a US Army base that houses an elite unit of helicopter pilots trained to perform clandestine international and domestic missions.”

Fox: The Orville

The programme is described as a science fiction comedy-drama (The Orville)

Critic score: Twenty-one per cent

Audience score: Ninety-three per cent

Summary: “Follows the crew of the not-so-functional exploratory ship in the Earth’s interstellar fleet, 400 years in the future.”

HBO: Here and Now

Critic score: Twenty-five per cent

Audience score: Eighty-three per cent

Summary: “A multi-racial family made up of husband, wife, three adopted children from Somalia, Vietnam and Colombia and one biological child, find their bonds tested when one of the children begins seeing things which the rest cannot.”

Hulu: Dimension 404

Critic score: Seventy-one per cent

Audience score: Fifty-nine per cent

Summary: “An anthology series that explores the wonders and terrors of our digital age, from outrageous horror comedy to mind-bending action adventure.”

IFC: Stan Against Evil

Critic score: Sixty-seven per cent

Audience score: Ninety per cent

Summary: “An aging police sheriff begrudgingly joins an alliance with a new sheriff, Evie Barret, to battle angry demons haunting their small New Hampshire town.”

NBC: Taken

Critic score: Thirty-five per cent

Audience score: Sixty-three per cent

Summary: “As former CIA agent Bryan Mills deals with a personal tragedy that shakes his world, he fights to overcome the incident and exact revenge.”

Netflix: Marvel’s Iron Fist

Critic score: Eighteen per cent

Audience score: Seventy-five per cent

Summary: “Danny Rand resurfaces 15 years after being presumed dead. Now, with the power of the Iron Fist, he seeks to reclaim his past and fulfil his destiny.”

Showtime: I’m Dying Up Here

Critic score: Fifty-one per cent

Audience score: Eighty-eight per cent

Summary: “Comedians struggle to make it big in the Los Angeles comedy scene of the 1970s.”

Sundance Now: Riviera

Critic score: Sixty-two per cent

Audience score: Twenty-five per cent

Summary: “Drama following a young married woman whose life is torn apart when her husband is killed in a yacht explosion.”

Syfy: Krypton

The current instalment of the narrative consists of 10 episodes (Syfy)

Critic score: Fifty-eight per cent

Audience score: Seventy-eight per cent

Summary: “The untold story of Superman’s grandfather as he fights for justice on his home planet.”

TBS: The Guest Book

Critic score: Sixty-four per cent

Audience score: Seventy-eight per cent

Summary: “Follows the lives of the residents of a small mountain town as they deal with tourists and visitors.”

TNT: The Alienist

Critic score: Sixty-three per cent

Audience score: Seventy-eight per cent

Summary: “Crime reporter John Moore meets with psychologist Dr Laszlo Kreizler to investigate a serial killer in New York during the late 19th century.”

USA: Falling Water

Critic score: Twenty-eight per cent

Audience score: Seventy-six per cent

Summary: “An intersection between reality and unconscious thought, follow three strangers who slowly realise that they are dreaming parts of a bigger, more sinister tragedy.”

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