ShowWaves - 75 Years of Television and Streaming Shows

ShowWaves charts the 1,000 most influential, popular, and trendsetting TV and streaming shows and series over the past 75 years. Shows are organized by genre represented by streams that grow and shrink over time.

From the early 1940s, when the first television shows were broadcast, to the age of streaming, ShowWaves maps the history of television in one chart. Bolded titles and genre boundaries show the flow and interrelationships among styles; start and end years of each show allow you to compare your favorite shows.

Our graphics are printed on professional-grade matte paper using vivid, archival inks. They are carefully hand-rolled in tissue paper or plastic sleeves and mailed in heavy-duty tubes or boxes.