TV Shows

Edina Monsoon (Jennifer Saunders) and her best friend Patsy Stone (Joanna Lumley) are two chaotic, fashion-obsessed, relentlessly self-destructive women in their 40s–60s who refuse —…

Ricky Gervais plays a man whose life is turned upside down when his wife dies from cancer. Despite being male-centered, the show features extraordinary portrayals…

The Sex and the City revival follows Carrie, Miranda, and Charlotte into their 50s — navigating grief, career pivots, divorce, and what friendship and identity…

Pamela Adlon writes, directs, and stars as Sam Fox — a single actress-mother raising three daughters while navigating Hollywood, aging, menopause, desire, and her eccentric…

Set in post-war East London, this long-running drama follows a community of midwives and nuns across decades. Features multiple storylines centered on older women’s health,…

Judi Dench leads an extraordinary ensemble of older British actresses — including Eileen Atkins, Imelda Staunton, and Julia McKenzie — in this BBC adaptation of…

The lives of an aristocratic family and their servants in early 20th century England. Features Maggie Smith’s Violet Crawley — an elderly woman of ferocious…

Set on an NHS geriatric ward, this darkly funny and moving series explores aging, dying, and the staff who care for older women at the…

Four older women share a home in Miami: the sardonic Dorothy, the sweet and naive Rose, the man-hungry Blanche, and Dorothy’s sharp-tongued octogenarian mother Sophia.…

When their husbands announce they’re in love with each other, two very different women — uptight Grace (Jane Fonda) and free-spirited Frankie (Lily Tomlin) —…

Jean Smart plays Deborah Vance, a legendary but overlooked Las Vegas comedian forced to take on a young comedy writer. A razor-sharp examination of ageism…

Police Sergeant Catherine Cawood (Sarah Lancashire) is raising her teenage grandson in the Calder Valley while quietly carrying the weight of her daughter’s death —…

Three glamorous Hollywood women whose plane makes an emergency landing in Cleveland decide to stay when they discover the city makes them feel seen and…

Celia (Anne Reid) and Alan (Derek Jacobi) are childhood sweethearts who reconnect in their 70s via Facebook after decades of separate lives. Their adult daughters…

Madeline “Matty” Matlock (Kathy Bates, 76) comes out of retirement to join a prestigious law firm, deploying her apparent frailty and dotty-grandmother presentation as a…

Frances McDormand is magnificent as Olive Kitteridge — a prickly, brilliant, difficult older woman whose life unfolds in a small Maine town. An unflinching portrait…

A Cuban-American single mother veteran raises her family across three generations. Rita Moreno’s Lydia is a revelation — an older woman whose sexuality, vanity, and…

DCI Jane Tennison (Helen Mirren) is a brilliant detective who fights institutional sexism, alcoholism, and her own relentless ambition across seven instalments spanning 15 years.…

A media dynasty implodes as aging patriarch Logan Roy refuses to relinquish power. Sarah Snook’s Siobhan is a brilliant, compromised woman navigating a world designed…

Mary Ann Singleton (Laura Linney, 54) returns to San Francisco and to 28 Barbary Lane — and to Anna Madrigal (Olympia Dukakis, 87), the beloved…

The sweeping dramatization of Queen Elizabeth II’s reign. Later seasons follow Elizabeth as an older woman dealing with family crisis, political pressure, and aging with…

Gillian Anderson plays Detective Superintendent Stella Gibson — a composed, sexually confident, professionally ruthless woman in her 40s hunting a serial killer. A rare portrayal…

Julian Fellowes’s HBO period drama set in 1880s New York, where young Marian Brook moves in with her old-money aunts — the formidable Agnes van…

When a Madoff-style financial scandal wipes out her savings and destroys her reputation overnight, attorney Diane Lockhart (Christine Baranski) is forced to rebuild her career…