Shows Like Jane The Virgin That Dramedy Fans Need To Watch

"Jane the Virgin" has been off the air for a while now, but fans of the fantastic show are still caught up in its inimitable charm. And while nothing is going to hit the exact same sweet spot as "Jane," if you are jonesing for a new dramedy fix, we have some ideas. Like "Jane the Virgin," the shows on this list blend the best elements of comedy and drama, have quirky and interesting characters, and playfully embrace the fantastical nature of television life.

In "Jane the Virgin," our heroine lives at home with her mother and grandmother (and later, son), and female bonding is an important element of the show. Therefore, our list includes other shows that focus on female family bonds or friendships. We also looked for shows that have at least some of the other amazing qualities of The CW's telenovela — a penchant for over-the-top satire, non-stop addictive mysteries, touching romantic entanglements, and so forth — and are worthy successors for the series. Here are 14 shows like "Jane the Virgin" that dramedy fans need to check out.

"Hart of Dixie" was a charming little show that ran for four seasons on the CW from 2011 to 2015, and it reminds us of "Jane the Virgin" with its eccentricity and cast of intriguing oddball characters. The show revolves around Zoe Hart (Rachel Bilson), a New York City doctor who is unexpectedly left partial ownership of a medical practice in the fictional town of Bluebell, Alabama. Since Zoe's dream fellowship has fallen apart, she decides to head to Bluebell to work at the practice, and to learn about the deceased, estranged father who left it to her. In Alabama, Zoe rents a room from football player-turned-mayor Lavon Hayes (Cress Williams) and gets to work alongside Dr. Brick Breeland (Tim Matheson), who is less than thrilled to have her there.

Like Jane Villanueva, while Dr. Zoe Hart is lovable and intelligent, she is also prone to talking a bit too much and getting herself into messes. Zoe also has just as complicated a love life as Jane: There's her ongoing flirtation with town lawyer George Tucker (Scott Porter), who is engaged to debutante Lemon Breeland (Jamie King), not to mention her love-hate relationship with bartender Wade Kinsella (Wilson Bethel). Throughout the show, Zoe romances both men, but it's Zoe's relationship with herself that is the most appealing piece of the puzzle. As she learns to embrace small-town Southern life, Zoe develops proper bedside manner and the ability to connect with others in a truly meaningful way.

Like "Jane the Virgin," the Netflix hit "Grace and Frankie" strikes a solid balance between kooky comedy and moments of drama, although in comparison to "Jane," it leans slightly more toward the former. That shouldn't be a surprise, given the powerhouse comedic chops of Lily Tomlin, who plays hippie stoner Frankie, and the expert match of her character with Jane Fonda's uptight Grace.

After their husbands reveal themselves as secret lovers, Frankie and Grace form an unlikely friendship (they previously hated each other) and become roommates in their shared family beach house. But the ex-husbands, Sol (Sam Waterston) and Robert (Martin Sheen) are still very much in the picture, creating a lovably dysfunctional foursome. The couples' children are equally entertaining and consistently play a role in lighthearted family storylines.

Grace and Robert have two daughters: strong-willed, acerbic Brianna (June Diane Raphael), who has inherited control of her mother's beauty company, and the kinder Mallory (Brooklyn Decker), who's married to Mitch (Geoff Stults) and works as a stay-at-home mom when the series begins. There are also Frankie and Sol's two sons: Coyote (Ethan Embry), who's recovering from addiction, and adopted son Bud (Baron Vaughn), a lawyer who works at the firm where his father and Robert worked pre-retirement. In Season 5, Bud marries Allison (Lindsey Kraft), and the two have a child named Faith. Similar to "Jane the Virgin," this is a show about a multigenerational and unconventional family and the unconditional love they have for one another.

"Crazy Ex-Girlfriend" aired during the same years and on the same channel as "Jane the Virgin," which naturally led to comparisons. The two shows actually made a great pair, as "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend" is another idiosyncratic program focused on a heroine with a messy life. Granted, Rebecca Bunch (Rachel Bloom), the protagonist of "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend," is less stable and put-together than Jane Villanueva, but she's undeniably endearing in her own unhinged way. The show is also quite funny, including its musical scenes, which represent Rebecca's internal fantasy sequences.

While Rebecca is an intelligent and successful lawyer, mental health issues (we eventually learn she has borderline personality disorder) lead her to make rash, often poor decisions — like moving from NYC to West Covina, California in pursuit of a camp crush from a decade prior, Josh Chan (Vincent Rodriguez III). In California, Rebecca finds work at a small firm run by goofy Darryl Whitefeather (Pete Gardner) and begins her obsessive pursuit of Josh, who's now dating the domineering Valencia Perez (Gabrielle Ruiz).

Eventually, the show (and Rebecca's life) becomes about more than Josh, as Rebecca makes friends — including work bestie Paula Proctor (Donna Lynne Champlin), sardonic neighbor Heather (Vella Lovell), and eventually even Valencia — and searches for her ideal career path. And in addition to Josh, she also dates his nerdy friend Greg Serrano (played by Santino Fontana and later, Skylar Astin) as well as her one-time boss, wealthy and arrogant Nathaniel Plimpton III (Scott Michael Foster). Like Jane, Rebecca also finds herself tangled in love triangles — there's even a musical number about it.

Because it is a satire, the plotlines on "Jane the Virgin" play loosely with the idea of reality, and the same goes for "Drop Dead Diva," which requires a full-on divorce from realism and embrace of the fantastical. In the show, a superficial model, Deb Dobkins, is killed in a car crash and brought back to life, placed in the body of a plus-sized lawyer named Jane Bingum (Brooke Elliott). Jane works alongside Deb's fiancé Grayson Kent (Jackson Hurst), though she is not allowed to tell him about her predicament.

Ensuring that Deb-as-Jane obeys this rule is Fred (Ben Feldman), Deb's guardian angel, who is being punished for allowing Deb to leave heaven in the first place. Other characters include Jane's assistant Teri Lee (Margaret Cho), Jane's work frenemy Kim Kaswell (Kate Levering), and Deb's best friend Stacy Barrett (April Bowlby), who knows the truth about her new identity. "Drop Dead Diva" aired on Lifetime from 2009 to 2014, and its unique and lighthearted premise holds up well. It was also notorious for its fun guest stars — including recurring parts for Kim Kardashian, Rosie O'Donnell, and Paula Abdul.

Well before "Jane the Virgin" hit the airwaves, "Gilmore Girls" set the template for quirky television programs featuring dialogue-heavy, intergenerational female relationships. "Gilmore Girls" follows mother-daughter duo Lorelai (Lauren Graham) and Rory (Alexis Bledel) Gilmore, two fast-talking, wise-cracking, pop culture-obsessed best friends who happen to be related. Lorelai had Rory as a teenager, and Rory has the soul of a wise old woman, so it's often debatable which of them occupies the parental role — but what isn't debatable is the way the show crackles with sharp dialogue and heartwarming storylines.

Set in a fictional Connecticut town called Stars Hollow, the show features a cast of oddballs including Lorelai's kooky best friend Sookie St. James (Melissa McCarthy), Rory's sheltered friend Lane Kim (Keiko Agena), and Lorelai's on-and-off love interest Luke Danes (Scott Patterson), who owns the diner at which the town congregates. Lorelai's conservative, wealthy parents — Richard (Edward Herrmann) and Emily Gilmore (Kelly Bishop) — also play a dominant role, juxtaposed with Lorelai's more modest means. It's through her grandparents that Rory is able to attend a prestigious private school, Chilton, in return for Friday night dinners at their mansion in Hartford.

"Gilmore Girls" was popular enough to last for seven seasons (and a mini-series years later on Netflix). Its fans are zealous, still debating things like whether Rory should have ended up with her early high school boyfriend Dean Forester (Jared Padalecki), reformed bad boy Jess Mariano (Milo Ventimiglia), or smarmy college boyfriend Logan Huntzberger (Matt Czuchry). None of this avid audience ever wants to leave the enchanting confines of Stars Hollow.

In Freeform's "The Bold Type," three young millennials tackle life in the big city as they work their way up at a women's magazine, Scarlet. The show focuses on contemporary social topics of relevance to women as they navigate New York. Its characters think about things like money, rent, and roommates — a necessity when living in the city on a journalist's income.

The show centers on three friends, one of whom shares a name and occupation with the protagonist of "Jane the Virgin": uptight writer Jane Sloan (Katie Stevens), fun fashionista Sutton Brady (Meghann Fahy), and passionate social media guru Kat Edison (Aisha Dee). Over the course of five seasons, the women work their way up the ladder at Scarlet — too quickly, but this is television, after all — and form bonds with mentors, such as editor-in-chief Jacqueline Carlyle (Melora Hardin) and fashion department head Oliver Grayson (Stephen Conrad Moore).

Like in any good dramedy, the women have plenty of suitors, most notably Richard Hunter (Sam Page), a Scarlet lawyer who eventually becomes Sutton's husband; Ryan Decker (Dan Jeannotte), a writer with whom Jane becomes involved; and Adena El-Amin (Nikohl Boosheri), a photographer and Kat's on-again, off-again girlfriend. But at the end of the day, it's the friendship between Jane, Sutton, and Kat that propels the show. The characters go through deep issues — alcoholism, infidelity, a double mastectomy, divorce — and their friendship carries them through.

Much like "Jane the Virgin," Netflix's "Ginny & Georgia" blends comedy and drama while also integrating an element of mysterious fun and danger. Brianne Howey plays Georgia Miller, young mother of teenage Ginny (Antonia Gentry) and her younger brother Austin (Diesel La Torraca). Ginny is more mature than her mother, who is constantly scheming and plotting to ensure her kids have a nicer life than she had, which at times included breaking the law.

We only know pieces of Georgia's past, but she's had to scrape by, doing whatever she can to get ahead. Now that her husband has died (she killed him, we learn), Georgia's sights are squarely set on Paul Randolph (Scott Porter), mayor of Wellsbury, the town to which the Millers recently moved. Georgia concocts a plan to worm her way into working for Paul and, eventually, enters into a relationship with him. Many other locals also factor into the plot of the show, but none more so than restaurant owner Joe (Raymond Ablack) who has intense chemistry with Georgia and, we later learn, met her in passing as a teenager. We're hoping for more answers in Season 2, including more about Georgia's backstory and more deviancy from Georgia as she somehow manages to stay one step ahead of everyone.