Shows Like The Chronicle

If you liked The Chronicle (2001), a comedy and sci-fi & fantasy series, here are 20 shows with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

1
Amazing Stories (1985)
★ 7.5/10Also sci-fi & fantasy and comedy
A truly amazing, fantastical, science fiction, funny and odd, and sometimes scary, sad and endearing anthology series presented by Steven Spielberg with guest appearances by many famous actors, actresses, and directors.
2
Creeped Out (2017)
★ 7.2/10Also sci-fi & fantasy
A masked figure known as "The Curious" collects tales of dark magic, otherworldly encounters and twisted technology in this kids anthology series.
3
Freddy's Nightmares (1988)
★ 7.2/10Also sci-fi & fantasy
The evil, sinister killer of the "Nightmare On Elm Street" movies, Freddy Krueger, hosts this show, where each week, he shows us a tale of evil and death about the lives of people who live in Springwood.
4
Future Man (2017)
★ 7.2/10Also comedy and sci-fi & fantasy
Josh Futturman, a janitor by day/world-ranked gamer by night, is tasked with preventing the extinction of humanity after mysterious visitors from the future proclaim him the key to defeating the imminent super-race…
5
Creepshow (2019)
★ 7.4/10Also sci-fi & fantasy
A young boy's horror comic book comes to life in this anthology series of terrifying tales.
6
The Outer Limits (1963)
★ 7.8/10Also sci-fi & fantasy
The Outer Limits is an anthology tv series of self-contained sci-fi-horror stories, sometimes with a plot twist at the end.
7
My Favorite Martian (1963)
★ 6.2/10Also sci-fi & fantasy and comedy
Newspaper reporter Tim O'Hara finds a crashed alien spaceship that contains one live alien. Not wanting to be discovered by the authorities, the Martian assumes the identity of Tim's Uncle Martin and begins to repair…
8
Maggie (2022)
★ 7.2/10Also comedy and sci-fi & fantasy
As a psychic, Maggie regularly sees the future of her friends, parents, clients and random strangers on the street, but when she suddenly sees a glimpse of her own future, she is forced to start living in her own…
9
The X-Files (1993)
★ 8.4/10Also sci-fi & fantasy
The exploits of FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully who investigate X-Files: marginalized, unsolved cases involving paranormal phenomena. Mulder believes in the existence of aliens and the paranormal while…
10
So Weird (1999)
★ 6.8/10Also sci-fi & fantasy
Fourteen-year-old Fi Phillips investigates the paranormal while touring the country in a bus with her widowed rock-star mom and her skeptical brother, Jack. At the beginning of Season 3, Fi passed the job of case…
11
Zapped (2016)
★ 6.5/10Also comedy and sci-fi & fantasy
Brian Weaver, an online data marketing assistant (even he doesn't know what that is), finds himself abruptly transported to a parallel world, a place of bizarre creatures, magical forces and psychopathic fairies.
12
Over the Garden Wall (2014)
★ 8.6/10Also sci-fi & fantasy and comedy
Two brothers, Wirt and Greg, find themselves lost in the Unknown; a strange forest adrift in time. With the help of a wise old Woodsman and a foul-tempered bluebird named Beatrice, Wirt and Greg must travel across this…
13
Goosebumps (1995)
★ 8/10Also sci-fi & fantasy and comedy
Anything can turn spooky in this horror anthology series based on the best-selling books by master of kid horror, R.L. Stine. In every episode, see what happens when regular kids find themselves in scary situations…
14
Are You Afraid of the Dark? (2019)
★ 7.6/10Also sci-fi & fantasy
Each season of this horror anthology series follows a different group of kids, members of the Midnight Society, as they discover terrifying curses and creatures.
15
The Institute (2025)
★ 7.5/10Also sci-fi & fantasy
When 14 year old genius Luke Ellis is kidnapped, he awakens at The Institute, a facility full of children who all got there the same way he did, and who are all possessed of unusual abilities. In a nearby town, haunted…
16
My Adventures with Superman (2023)
★ 8.1/10Also sci-fi & fantasy
Twenty-somethings Clark Kent, the bright and driven Lois Lane, and their best friend Jimmy Olsen begin to discover who they are and everything they can accomplish together as an investigative reporting team at the…
17
Lazarus (2025)
★ 7.5/10Also sci-fi & fantasy
In 2052, a Nobel Prize-winning neuroscientist develops a drug called Hapna — a cure-all that has the unexpected side-effect of causing death three years later. In response to this threat, a special force of…
18
Stuart Fails to Save the Universe (2026)
★ 8.3/10Also comedy and sci-fi & fantasy
After accidentally creating a new multiverse, comic book store owner Stuart Bloom must locate a quantum-interference device to restore reality.
19
Boo, Bitch (2022)
★ 7.2/10Also comedy and sci-fi & fantasy
Two senior BFFs make a last-ditch attempt to be seen. But when one of them becomes a ghost, she'll need to really live her best life — while she can.
20
Truth Seekers (2020)
★ 7.1/10Also comedy
A ghost-hunting duo team up to uncover and film paranormal sightings across the U.K. and share their adventures on an online channel. Their supernatural experiences grow more frequent, terrifying, and even deadly as…