2000s TV opening titles

The 2000s account for 479 of the 2,618 shows here, and 511 opening title sequences.

Comedy leads the decade with 118, then animation with 108.

19 rebuilt their titles mid-run, Doctor Who (2005) most of all with eight sequences.

Filed by first broadcast. A show that ran for thirty years appears once, under the decade it started in.

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1 sequence

Breaking Bad

2008–2013AMCDrama

Twenty seconds of chemistry-set smoke and floating element symbols. Almost aggressively short, which leaves the cold open to do the work.

Seasons 1–5

1 sequence

Grey's Anatomy

2005–ABCDrama

Twenty-six seconds of surgical instruments and a guitar figure, from a series that has now outlived most of the shows that copied it.

Season 1

1 sequence

Dexter

2006–2013ShowtimeCrime

Breakfast filmed as though it were a murder. A mosquito swatted, a blood orange crushed, a shaving nick, a steak sliced, floss drawn tight — every shot of an ordinary morning framed exactly as the violence the show never puts on screen this early.

Seasons 1–8

1 sequence

The Big Bang Theory

2007–2019CBSComedy

Fourteen billion years of natural history in twenty-three seconds, flashing past at one image per beat.

Season 1

1 sequence

Malcolm in the Middle

2000–2006FoxComedy

They Might Be Giants' 'Boss of Me' over archive film of chaos — falling, crashing and general misadventure, cut faster than a network comedy usually dares.

Season 1

1 sequence

The Office

2005–2013NBCComedy

Scranton, a car park and a filing cabinet, shot like stock footage for a regional business — twenty-two seconds that promise nothing will happen.

Season 1

1 sequence

Dancing with the Stars

2005–ABCDocumentary

The American Strictly, which runs two seasons a year and rebuilds its titles for most of them.

Season 10

1 sequence

Scrubs

2001–2010NBC / ABCComedy

Twelve seconds, an X-ray and a guitar — a medical comedy that spends less time on titles than most shows spend on a network ident.

Season 1

1 sequence

Mad Men

2007–2015AMCDrama

A silhouetted adman falls past skyscrapers built out of his own advertising — smiling wives, stockinged legs, a hand holding a drink — and then, at the bottom, is sitting comfortably with a cigarette. Nobody lands. That is the joke and the thesis.

Seasons 1–7

1 sequence

Gilmore Girls

2000–2007The WB / The CWDrama

Carole King's 'Where You Lead' rewritten as a mother-and-daughter duet, over a small Connecticut town in every season at once.

Season 1

1 sequence

It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia

2005–FX / FXXComedy

Photographs of Philadelphia over a jaunty public-domain waltz, with the episode's absurd title card dropped into the middle of it.

Seasons 2–4

2 sequences

House

2004–2012FoxDrama

Anatomical illustration and MRI imagery over Massive Attack's 'Teardrop' — a diagnostic show that opens by looking inside a body rather than at one.

Season 8
Season 1

1 sequence

Supernatural

2005–2020The WB / The CWHorror

Fifteen years without an opening title sequence, and fifteen distinct title cards instead — a few seconds of the show's name, restyled from scratch every season to match what that year was about. The shortest main titles on this site, and the ones that changed the most.

Seasons 1–15

5 sequences

The Wire

2002–2008HBOCrime

The same song recorded five different ways. Every season re-cuts the images and hands 'Way Down in the Hole' to a new artist, matching the institution that season is about.