TV Shows From the 2000s

13 TV Shows That Premiered in 2002: ‘The Wire,’ ‘George Lopez’ ‘American Idol,’ ‘Naruto,’ and More

Jeffrey Barragan
5 min readDec 27, 2022
A retro-looking TV set with a light purple background | 13 Popular TV Shows That Premiered in 2002

The year 2002 brought TV viewers and audiences several notable, still-popular comedy, reality, talk, crime, drama, and animated TV shows.

Many of the TV shows of 2002 premiered in three months: March, June, and September. Some of those shows are still airing on TV–dozens of seasons in–while a couple of TV series didn’t make it past the first season they were on air.

Over the last 20 years, TV networks and streaming platforms have also recreated multiple shows from 2002–and previous years–as new TV shows, movies, spin-offs, and even brought some back from cancellation.

But these are some of the most popular episodic TV shows that premiered in 2002, including “The Wire,” “George Lopez,” “Naruto,” “The Bachelor,” and “American Idol.”

‘The Wire’

The HBO series “The Wire” premiered in June 2002 and aired until March 2008. Although Dominic West starred…

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