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007: Road to a Million: Season 1
November 10, 2023
Nine teams of two travel around the world, facing physical and mental challenges to locate 10 questions hidden by "The Controller" (Brian Cox) that when answered correctly are keys to winning the £1,000,000 grand prize.
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10.5: Apocalypse: Season 1
May 21, 2006
In a new miniseries sequel that has "disaster" written all over it, a series of super-sized seismic events (they're called "quake swarms," people) threatens not only the west coast--as in NBC's earlier "10.5"--but the entire United States and perhaps all of the western hemisphere.
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12 Monkeys (2015): Season 1
January 16, 2015
The 1995 film is remade as a TV show with James Cole (Aaron Stanford) time-traveling from 2043 to the present time to stop a virus before it can decimate the population.
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21 Jump Street: Season 1
April 12, 1987
From the house of Stephen J. Cannell, 21 Jump Street features three young police offers who go undercover at local high schools to sniff out criminals before they can blossom into professionals.
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24: Season 1
November 6, 2001
With the finale of 7th season, 24 is still one of the most innovative, addictive and acclaimed dramas on television.In its first seven seasons, the suspenseful series was nominated for a total of 58 Emmy awards, winning for Outstanding Drama Series (2006) and Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series for star Kiefer Sutherland (2006). Season Six garnered a sixth consecutive Emmy nomination for Sutherland and second consecutive nomination for supporting actor Jean Smart.
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24: Season 2
October 29, 2002
With the finale of 7th season, 24 is still one of the most innovative, addictive and acclaimed dramas on television.In its first seven seasons, the suspenseful series was nominated for a total of 58 Emmy awards, winning for Outstanding Drama Series (2006) and Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series for star Kiefer Sutherland (2006). Season Six garnered a sixth consecutive Emmy nomination for Sutherland and second consecutive nomination for supporting actor Jean Smart.
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24: Season 3
October 28, 2003
With the finale of 7th season, 24 is still one of the most innovative, addictive and acclaimed dramas on television.In its first seven seasons, the suspenseful series was nominated for a total of 58 Emmy awards, winning for Outstanding Drama Series (2006) and Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series for star Kiefer Sutherland (2006). Season Six garnered a sixth consecutive Emmy nomination for Sutherland and second consecutive nomination for supporting actor Jean Smart.
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24: Season 4
January 9, 2005
With the finale of 7th season, 24 is still one of the most innovative, addictive and acclaimed dramas on television.In its first seven seasons, the suspenseful series was nominated for a total of 58 Emmy awards, winning for Outstanding Drama Series (2006) and Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series for star Kiefer Sutherland (2006). Season Six garnered a sixth consecutive Emmy nomination for Sutherland and second consecutive nomination for supporting actor Jean Smart.
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24: Season 5
January 15, 2006
Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland) has tried both retirement and death, but he still finds himself dragged back into CTU for another long day of work without a single bathroom break. New cast members this season include Sean Astin and Jean Smart.
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24: Season 6
January 14, 2007
The sixth season of the Emmy-winnning series finds hero Jack Bauer in far worse shape than we left him last year, thanks to serving 20 months in a Chinese prison. Fortunately, a new terrorist threat arrives to distract him from his troubles. There's also a new President (D.B. Woodside's Wayne Palmer), but look for previous First Couple Gregory Itzin and Jean Smart to return mid-season.
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24: Season 7
January 11, 2009
Jack Bauer returns from Africa (24: Redemption) to find himself defending his actions before Congress.
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24: Season 8
January 17, 2010
Jack is enjoying retirement and life with his family when an assassination plot draws him back to CTU (in New York City).
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24: Legacy: Season 1
February 5, 2017
Former Army Ranger Eric Carter (Corey Hawkins) seeks CTU's help when something from his past puts his life and possibly the United States in danger in this reboot of the 2010 series.
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24: Live Another Day: Season 9
May 5, 2014
Picking up four years since the events of season eight, Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland) is still on run and ends up in London trying to prevent another threat in this 12-episode season.
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666 Park Avenue: Season 1
September 30, 2012
Henry Martin (Dave Annable) and Jane Van Veen (Rachael Taylor), a young couple from the Midwest, are offered the job as co-managers of The Drake, an historic Manhattan apartment building owned by Gavin Doran (Terry O'Quinn).
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72 Hours: Season 1
June 6, 2013
Each week, three teams of three compete in three-day-long wilderness challenges to locate a suitcase containing $100,000 in exotic locations around the world.
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9-1-1: Season 1
January 3, 2018
LAPD officer Athena Grant (Angela Bassett), firefighter Bobby Nash (Peter Krause), and 911 operator (Connie Britton) are just some of the of the first responders in this procedural drama from Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk.
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9-1-1: Lone Star: Season 1
January 19, 2020
The spin-off of 9-1-1 focuses on Owen Strand, a New York City firefighter (Rob Lowe) who moves to Austin with his son.
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A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms: Season 1
January 18, 2026
Hedge knight Ser Duncan "Dunk" the Tall (Peter Claffey) and his squire, Egg (Dexter Sol Ansell), begin their adventures together in the drama series set a thousand years before the events in "Game of Thrones."
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A Spy Among Friends: Season 1
March 12, 2023
MI6 officer Nicholas Elliott (Damian Lewis) learns his friend and colleague Kim Philby (Guy Pearce) is working as a KGB double agent in this limited series based on Ben Macintyre's non-fiction book of the same name.
[Premiered originally in the UK on ITVX on 8 Dec 2022 and to air in the US on MGM+ on 12 Mar 2023]
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Accused (2023): Season 1
January 22, 2023
Each episode features a new defendant preparing to hear the verdict before flashbacks tell how they ended up on trial in the Howard Gordon crime drama anthology series based on the British series of the same name.
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Adventure Time: Distant Lands: Season 1
June 25, 2020
Based on the animated series Adventure Time created by Pendleton Ward, the first of four specials finds BMO (voiced by Niki Yang) crash-landing on a alien planet on the brink of destruction.
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Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake: Season 1
August 31, 2023
Fionna the Human and Cake the Cat find themselves in the land of Ooo in the latest spinoff of Adventure Time.
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Agent Elvis: Season 1
March 17, 2023
Elvis (voiced by Matthew McConaughey) joins a secret spy program in this animated series co-created by Priscilla Presley and John Eddie.
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Agent X: Season 1
November 8, 2015
After the death of her husband, Natalie Maccabee (Sharon Stone) runs for office and becomes the first female Vice President. As VP, she learns she has command over Agent X (Jeff Hephner), who can help with drastic calamities when the normal channels of government cannot intercede.
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Alcatraz: Season 1
January 16, 2012
Fifty years after they vanished, some of Alcatraz's most notorious prisoners reappear and start committing crime once again. Emerson Hauser (Sam Neill), Rebecca Madsen (Sarah Jones), and Diego "Doc" Soto (Jorge Garcia) team up to investigate how this happened.
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Alex Rider: Season 1
November 13, 2020
After the death of his uncle, the teenage Alex Rider (Otto Farrant) is recruited by MI6's Department of Special Operations to infiltrate a school in this adaptation of the novels by Anthony Horowitz.
[Premiered originally in the UK on Prime Video on 4 Jun 2020 and in the US on 13 Nov 2020]
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Alias: Season 1
September 30, 2001
Sydney Bristow was recruited as an undergrad to work for SD-6, which she thought was a government agency. However, when her fiancé is killed by SD-6 agents, she finds out that SD-6 is actually a counter-government agency. Sydney approaches the CIA and becomes a double agent, which means that she goes on SD-6 missions, but passes the information about her missions to her CIA handler, Vaughn.
Sydney's father, Jack Bristow, is also an double agent. Both had a distant relationship for years, but their present situation brings them closer together. Sydney and her father spend the first season trying to foil SD-6's missions and preventing them from getting their hands on what they are determined to get. For years SD-6 has fought against FTL and K-Directorate, two crime organizations that are also in the pursue of various artifacts build by the 15th century scientist and prophet, Milo Rambaldi. However, when a new player referred to as "The Man" comes to town, FTL and K-Directorate are put out of business and SD-6 engages in the pursue of this new mysterious opponent.
After eliminating SD-6 and all of the other SD cells, Sydney, Marshall, Dixon, Jack, and Vaughn are now fully working for the CIA.
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Alien: Earth: Season 1
August 12, 2025
Wendy (Sydney Chandler) and a group of soldiers discover a dangerous creature after the deep space research vessel USCSS Maginot crash-lands on Earth in the Noah Hawley series set two years before the events of the 1979 film Alien.
[Airs on FX and Hulu]
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Allegiance (2015): Season 1
February 5, 2015
CIA analyst Alex O'Connor (Gavin Stenhouse) learns his parents (Scott Cohen and Hope Davis) are Russian spies, who are tasked with planning a terrorist attack on the United States.
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Almost Human: Season 1
November 17, 2013
The creative team behind Fringe (including producer J.J. Abrams and creator J.H. Wyman) returns with a new sci-fi crime drama set in the year 2048, when every Los Angeles police officer is paired with a robot partner. Karl Urban (Star Trek), Michael Ealy (Common Law), Lili Taylor (Six Feet Under), Minka Kelly (Friday Night Lights), Mackenzie Crook (The Office), and Michael Irby (The Unit) star.
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Altered Carbon: Season 1
February 2, 2018
Set 300 years in the future where consciousness can be stored digitally, a soldier named Takeshi Kovacs (Will Yun Lee/Joel Kinnaman) awakens in a new body when he is freed from prison by Laurens Bancroft (James Purefoy), who wants him to find who killed his previous body in the sci-fi series based on Richard K. Morgan's 2002 novel of the same name.
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Altered Carbon: Season 2
February 27, 2020
Takeshi Kovacs (Anthony Mackie), in another new body, looks for Quellcrist Falconer (Renée Elise Goldsberry) in the second season of the sci-fi series based on Richard K. Morgan's 2002 novel of the same name.
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Amazing Stories: Season 1
September 29, 1985
Amazing Stories is an incredible collection of short tales from the creative mind of Steven Spielberg. Most episodes ran in a half-hour time slot, with only a few going longer than that. In spite of the brevity of the show, each episode packs in a well-developed story, along with some subtle commentaries on human nature and morality.
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American Born Chinese: Season 1
May 24, 2023
Jin Wang's (Ben Wang) average high school life is changed after meeting a new foreign student (Jim Liu) and the arrival of Chinese mythological gods in this adaptation of Gene Luen Yang's graphic novel of the same name.
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American Crime: Season 2
January 6, 2016
Taylor Blaine (Connor Jessup), a student at a public high school accuses two basketball players at a rival private high school of posting pictures on social media after drugging and assaulting him in the second season of the anthology series.
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American Crime: Season 3
March 12, 2017
Luis Salazar (Benito Martinez) enters Mexico illegally to search for his missing son and finds work as a farm laborer where Coy Henson (Connor Jessup) also works with Isaac Castillo (Richard Cabral) on a tomato farm owned by Jeanette Hesby's (Felicity Huffman) family. Social worker Kimara Walters (Regina King) seeks to help Shae (Ana Mulvoy-Ten) get out from her life as a 17-year-old prostitute. While Nicholas Coates (Timothy Hutton) and his wife Clair (Lili Taylor) hire an Haitian named Gabrielle (Mickaëlle X. Bizet) to be their son’s nanny in the third season of the anthology series.
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American Crime: Season 1
March 5, 2015
Race, class, and gender are explored in this John Ridley drama that focuses on the lives of people involved in the trial for the home invasion that left a war hero dead and his wife on life support in a Central California town.
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American Gods: Season 1
April 30, 2017
After the death of his wife, ex-con Shadow Moon (Ricky Whittle) becomes a bodyguard for Mr. Wednesday (Ian McShane), who is actually a mythological god working on building an army to battle the new gods of this world in the Bryan Fuller and Michael Green adaptation of Neil Gaiman's award-winning fantasy novel of the same name.
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American Gods: Season 2
March 10, 2019
The second season of the fantasy drama sees the introduction of New Media (Kahyun Kim).
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American Gods: Season 3
January 10, 2021
Shadow Moon (Ricky Whittle) is hiding in the small Wisconsin town of Lakeview under the name Mike Ainsell as he seeks his own path in the third season of the fantasy drama.
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American Odyssey: Season 1
April 5, 2015
An international conspiracy involving a major US corporation and terrorists is discovered by Sgt. Odelle Ballard (Anna Friel), former U.S. Attorney turned corporate lawyer Peter Decker (Peter Facinelli), and political activist Harrison Walters (Jake Robinson) with hacker Bob Offer (Nate Mooney), who must all come together to stop the people involved in the conspiracy.
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Andor: Season 1
September 21, 2022
The prequel Star War series follows Cassian Andor's (Diego Luna) journey to become the Rebel leader first introduced in 2016's Rogue One.
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Andor: Season 2
April 22, 2025
The second and final season of the Star Wars prequel series.
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Angel: Season 1
October 5, 1999
"If you need help, then look no further. Angel Investigations is the best. Our rats are low..."
"Rates!"
"It says 'rats.' Our rates are low, but our standards are high. When the chips are down, and you're at the end of your rope you need someone that you can count on. And that's what you'll find here -- someone who will go all the way, no matter what. So don't lose hope. Come on over to our offices and you'll see that there's still heroes in this world."
For over two centuries, Angelus was one of the most vicious vampires ever to walk the earth. Then he killed the wrong girl, and her grieving Gypsy family cursed him with the return of his soul, causing him to suffer remorse for all the hundreds of innocents that he had killed through the years. Now he goes by the name Angel, and he fights to protect the helpless from those who would prey upon them as he once did himself.
After three years of living in Sunnydale, fighting alongside his girlfriend Buffy, Angel has moved to Los Angeles to continue the good fight. Aided by a few old friends and some new ones, Angel must take on vampires, demons, lawyers, and all of the other dark forces that Los Angeles has to offer.
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Angie Tribeca: Season 1
January 25, 2016
The cop comedy from from Steve Carell and his wife Nancy focuses on the Los Angeles Police Department's Really Heinous Crimes Unit that includes Angie Tribeca (Rashida Jones), her new partner J. Geils (Hayes MacArthur), and their Captain (Jere Burns).
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Another Life: Season 1
July 25, 2019
Astronaut Niko Breckinridge (Katee Sackhoff) leads a team to look into an alien artifact in this sci-fi drama from Aaron Martin and Noreen Halpern.
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APB: Season 1
February 6, 2017
Billionaire Gideon Reeves (Justin Kirk) takes over the Chicago Police Department's 13th district and turns it into a private police force after his best friend is murdered with the help of officer Theresa Murphy (Natalie Martinez) and technical officer Ada Hamilton (Caitlin Stasey).
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Arcane: Season 2
November 6, 2021
Set in the utopian region of Piltover and the oppressed underground of Zaun, the story follows the origins of two iconic League champions-and the power that will tear them apart.
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Archer: Season 14
August 30, 2023
The 14th and final season of the animated comedy series finds Lana Kane (voiced by Aisha Tyler) in charge of The Agency.
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Archer: Season 10
May 29, 2019
The 10th season of the animated series includes the subtitle 1999 and finds Sterling and his friends on a space savage ship.
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Archer: Season 8
April 5, 2017
Archer moves to FXX for its eighth season which is set in 1940s Los Angeles.
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Archer: Season 7
March 31, 2016
Sterling and his friends move to Los Angeles and start a private detective agency in the seventh season of the animated comedy.
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Archer: Season 2
January 27, 2011
Archer Sterling and the ISIS spies return for a second season of espionage.
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Archer: Season 1
September 17, 2009
The animated comedy from the same people who brought you Adult Swim introduces Sterling Archer, a spy for ISIS, whose boss is also his mother and his ex-girlfriend is a fellow spy.
A sneak peak of episode one was shown in September 2009.
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Archer: Season 6
January 8, 2015
The series drops the Vice and returns to espionage with a baby in tow for the sixth season of the animated comedy.
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Archer: Season 3
September 15, 2011
Archer is an animated, half-hour comedy set at the International Secret Intelligence Service (ISIS), a spy agency where espionage and global crises are merely opportunities for its highly trained employees to confuse, undermine, betray and royally mess up together.
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Archer: Season 4
January 17, 2013
Timothy Olyphant and Ron Leibman will guest star this season. Bob’s Burgers' Bob Belcher is set to visit the spy world in one episode of the show (with Sterling Archer, also voiced by H. Jon Benjamin, crossing over for one episode of the Fox show).
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Around the World in 80 Days: Season 1
January 2, 2022
Phileas Fogg (David Tennant), his valet Jean Passepartout (Ibrahim Koma), and journalist Abigail "Fix" Fortescue (Leonie Benesch) set out on their journey to travel the world in 80 days in the latest adaptation of Jules Verne's novel of the same name.
[Premiered originally in the UK on BBC One on 26 Dec 2021 and in the US as a part of PBS's Masterpiece on 2 Jan 2022]
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Arrow: Season 1
October 10, 2012
Based on the DC comics character, Oliver Queen (Stephen Amell), a son of a billionaire returns to Sterling City after having been stranded on a deserted island and seeks revenge under the guise of the Arrow.
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Ascension: Season 1
December 15, 2014
In 1963, a spaceship with 600 people was secretly launched to colonize a planet that would take 100 years to reach. Now 50 years later, a mysterious murder on board the ship causes the inhabitants to question their journey.
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Ash Vs. Evil Dead: Season 1
October 31, 2015
The comedic horror series from by Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell finds Ash (Bruce Campbell) trying to keep away from the Evil Dead for the past 30 years. When a Deadite plague breaks out, a reluctant Ash with the help of Pablo Simon Bolivar (Ray Santiago) and Kelly Maxwell (Dana Delorenzo) try to end Evil once and for all.
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Ash Vs. Evil Dead: Season 2
October 2, 2016
Ash reluctantly reunites with his father (Lee Majors) as he, Ruby Knowby (Lucy Lawless), Pablo (Ray Santiago) and Kelly (Dana DeLorenzo) have to face more Deadites in the second season.
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Ashes to Ashes: Season 1
March 7, 2009
Welcome to the Ashes to Ashes guide at TV.com.
DI Alex Drake of the Metropolitan Police is taken hostage and shot, and wakes to find herself apparently thrown back in time to 1981. She quickly recognises DCI Gene Hunt and his team from detailed reports made by DCI Sam Tyler about his own trip to 1973.
Initially sceptical about the surreal nature of her new environment, Alex, a modern, no-nonsense woman, clashed regularly with her sexist colleagues but had to learn to adjust while she strove to find her way back to 2008. As time passed, Alex started to accept her situation, and wonder whether her life in the future had been the dream. Executive Producer Jane Featherstone described this spin-off from Life on Mars as "a touch of Moonlighting teamed with a measure of Miami Vice." The show aimed to build on the success of its award-winning predecessor, resurrecting Philip Glenister's ever-popular detective while taking the opportunity to wink at 1980s fashions and attitudes.
Ashes to Ashes is a Kudos production in association with Monastic Productions for the BBC.
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Astrid & Lilly Save the World: Season 1
January 26, 2022
Best friends Astrid (Jana Morrison) and Lilly (Samantha Maureen Aucoin) accidentally opened a portal and must save the world from monsters.
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Atlantis: Season 1
September 28, 2013
During his search for his father, Jason (Jack Donnelly) ends up on the island of Atlantis, where he makes new friends, enemies, and sees a variety of creatures.
[Originally aired on BBC1 beginning 28 Sep 2013]
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Atomic: Season 1
April 1, 2026
Cartel driver Max (Alfie Allen) and a mysterious man he calls JJ (Shazad Latif) discover uranium smuggling in North Africa in the British series inspired by the non-fiction book "Atomic Bazaar" by William Langewiesche.
[Premiered originally in the UK on Sky Atlantic on 28 August 2025 ad in the US on Hulu on 1 Apr 2026]
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Avatar: The Last Airbender (2024): Season 1
February 22, 2024
Air Nomad Aang (Gordon Cormier) seeks to save the world from Fire Lord Ozai (Daniel Dae Kim) with help from his friends Sokka (Ian Ousley) and Katara (Kiawentiio) in the live-action adaptation of the Nickelodeon animated series of the same name.
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Axe Cop: Season 1
July 21, 2013
The cartoon based on a idea about a policeman (Nick Offerman) who uses an ax to enforce the law was originally created by 5-year-old Malachai Nicolle and his older brother, Ethan. The show is part of Fox's late-night Animation Domination High-Def programming.
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Babylon: Season 1
November 13, 2014
This six-part Sundance original series (a co-production with the UK's Channel 4) comes from filmmaker Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire) as well as Sam Bain and Jesse Armstrong, the pair behind the long-running UK cult comedy Peep Show. The workplace satire—where the workplace in question involves the highest levels of London's police force—stars Brit Marling and James Nesbitt.
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Babylon 5: Season 1
January 24, 1994
Babylon 5 realized creator J. Michael Straczynski's vision of creating a five-season novel for television. Babylon 5 is a five-mile long space station located in neutral space. Built by the Earth Alliance in the 2250s, it's goal is to maintain peace among the various alien races by providing a sanctuary where grievances and negotiations can be worked out among duly appointed ambassadors.
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Band of Brothers: Season 1
September 9, 2001
Band of Brothers is a 10-part miniseries produced by Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks for HBO. The miniseries follows Easy Company, an army unit during World War II, from their initial training at Camp Toccoa to the conclusion of the war.
The series is based on the book written by the late Stephen E Ambrose. Tom Hanks approached Steven Spielberg, who just finished production of Saving Private Ryan. Together they approached HBO with their idea. The station was willing to spend a industry record sum of $120m to realize the project.
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Banshee: Season 1
January 11, 2013
Ex-con Lucas Hood (Antony Starr) may be the new sheriff of Banshee, Pennsylvania, but he's not reformed even if he's hiding from the gangsters he and his old partner, Carrie Hopewell (Ivana Milicevic), betrayed.
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Banshee: Season 4
April 1, 2016
The fourth and final season of the drama finds Lucas working with Veronica Dawson (Eliza Dushku), a FBI profiler.
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Batman: Caped Crusader: Season 1
August 1, 2024
Batman/Bruce Wayne (voiced by Hamish Linklater) faces Gotham villains such as Catwoman/Selina Kyle (voiced by Christina Ricci), Harley Quinn/Dr. Harleen Quinzel (voiced by Jamie Chung), and Harvey Dent/Two-Face (voiced by Diedrich Bader) in the animated series produced JJ. Abrams, Matt Reeves, and Bruce Timm.
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Battlestar Galactica (2003): Season 1
January 14, 2005
The Best Show on Television? Yes, according to Time Magazine, The National Review, Rolling Stone and New York Newsday. Praised by The New York Times, The New Yorker, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Chicago Tribune and many other publications, Battlestar Galactica won a prestigious Peabody Award in the spring of 2006.
Ronald D. Moore, the producer of Carnivale and writer for Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, boldly re-imagined the original 1978 space opera of humans versus the robotic Cylons. He teamed up with fellow executive producer David Eick on a powerful and dramatic update of the Galactica story.
Gone are the technobabble, disco-themed costumes and Egyptian helmets of the original series. The modern show introduces new elements to the Galactica story. The Cylons have developed human-form models that are indistinguishable from real humans. The Cylons have a monotheistic religion in contrast to the polytheistic religion of the human Colonies. The approach is serious and intense, with a focus on tough political, philosophical and religious issues set in a tale that manages to keep the focus on realistic and not always perfect characters.In the miniseries, the Cylons launch a massive attack against the humans and wipe out the Twelve Colonies, sending the 47,000 survivors on a desperate search for the fabled 13th colony -- Earth.
Season One Overview
The Cylons declare war on humanity, wiping out billions in an unprovoked first strike. The Colonial fleet is all but eliminated leaving just a handful of ships, including the soon to be decommissioned battlestar Galactica. Galactica is manned by a crew that never expected to be involved in real duty. With the president gone and the government all but eliminated, Laura Roslin, the Education Minister, takes on the mantle of President of the 12 Colonies.
Gaius Baltar, a top researcher in Artificial Intelligence, inadvertently betrayed humanity by allowing a Cylon agent into the defense network, rendering it and all of the Colonial military forces impotent in the face of the Cylon attacks. He sees her everywhere when no one else can. He initially attributes this to stress-induced hallucinations. She tells him that she implanted a chip in his brain during their time on Caprica, which enables her to talk to him. Over the season Baltar falls in love with the Cylon, Number Six, eventually betraying humanity again and again.
A lone soldier is trapped on Cylon-occupied Caprica, having given up his seat on a transport for Baltar, as he believes that his own life is not as important as one of the greatest minds of their time. He struggles against the odds, trying to stay alive amid the hostile Cylons. He is surprised to learn that Sharon Valerii, the pilot of the transport, returned for him. However, the truth is that she is actually another human-form Cylon. Sharon and Helo spend the season trying to escape Caprica. Sharon also finds herself falling in love with her human target. The season ends with her pregnant and fighting to save his life.
Meanwhile, the copy of Sharon onboard Galactica (known as "Boomer") has set off several bombs and engaged in other acts of sabotage. The season ends with a stunning turn of events after a successful mission to disable a Cylon base ship.
For a more detailed overview of the first three seasons, visit the pinned thread titled "Battlestar Galactica in Just Ten Minutes" located in the forum.
Awards and critical praise
The 2003 miniseries was the highest-rated miniseries on the Sci Fi Channel (soon to be known as Syfy) at the time. It was also the most successful cable miniseries that TV season.The first regular season premiered to excellent viewer numbers and critical acclaim. After the midseason break in Season Two, the show received widespread recognition from the mainstream media, including several outlets not always known for their interest in science fiction. As mentioned above, Time Magazine named BSG the best show on television for 2005. Rolling Stone Magazine and New York Newsday also named BSG the best show of the year. Many other publications like the New York Times and the Chicago Tribune lavished praise on the series.The American Film Institute added the show to its list of the ten best television shows of 2005. The show won Emmy Awards in the usual sci-fi categories of special visual effects but it also received Emmy nominations for writing and directing. It also won a prestigious Peabody award for its general excellence in creativity in the television medium.
The Sci Fi Channel has used creative means to promote the series, including the release of certain episodes as free streaming video on the official website. In the month leading up to the start of Season Three, the Sci Fi Channel aired a Web-only series titled Battlestar Galactica: The Resistance. The brief, 2 to 3 minute episodes revealed key events from the time period between the Season Two finale and the Season Three premiere episode. Another Web-only series was shown on the official website in the lead-up to the Season 4.5 "final" episodes.
A Battlestar Galactica television movie, "Razor", was broadcast in late 2007, followed soon after with a release on DVD. The story followed the struggles of Admiral Cain and young Kendra Shaw as they tried to survive the Cylon attack on the Colonies. The hard-hitting movie was well received by fans and critics.
Even though the series "ended" on March 20, 2009, with the two-hour broadcast of "Daybreak, Part 2", the Sci Fi Channel (Syfy) will broadcast one final Battlestar Galactica television movie. "The Plan" is scheduled to air in the fall of 2009.
The Galactica franchise will live on, even after the final movie and DVD. A prequel series, Caprica, began production even before Battlestar Galactica ended. The pilot movie will be released as a stand-alone DVD in April 2009. The movie will later air on Syfy along with regular episodes of the new series in 2010. For more information about this look at the early days of the development of the Cylons on Caprica, please consult the separate guide for that series.
Original Broadcast History: Season One
October 18, 2004 - January 24, 2005 - 8:00 PM SKY One (UK)
January 14, 2005 - April 1, 2005 - Fridays @ 10:00 PM Sci Fi Channel (USA)
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Battlestar Galactica (2003): Season 2
July 15, 2005
The Best Show on Television? Yes, according to Time Magazine, The National Review, Rolling Stone and New York Newsday. Praised by The New York Times, The New Yorker, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Chicago Tribune and many other publications, Battlestar Galactica won a prestigious Peabody Award in the spring of 2006.
Ronald D. Moore, the producer of Carnivale and writer for Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, boldly re-imagined the original 1978 space opera of humans versus the robotic Cylons. He teamed up with fellow executive producer David Eick on a powerful and dramatic update of the Galactica story.
Gone are the technobabble, disco-themed costumes and Egyptian helmets of the original series. The modern show introduces new elements to the Galactica story. The Cylons have developed human-form models that are indistinguishable from real humans. The Cylons have a monotheistic religion in contrast to the polytheistic religion of the human Colonies. The approach is serious and intense, with a focus on tough political, philosophical and religious issues set in a tale that manages to keep the focus on realistic and not always perfect characters.In the miniseries, the Cylons launch a massive attack against the humans and wipe out the Twelve Colonies, sending the 47,000 survivors on a desperate search for the fabled 13th colony -- Earth.
Season One Overview
The Cylons declare war on humanity, wiping out billions in an unprovoked first strike. The Colonial fleet is all but eliminated leaving just a handful of ships, including the soon to be decommissioned battlestar Galactica. Galactica is manned by a crew that never expected to be involved in real duty. With the president gone and the government all but eliminated, Laura Roslin, the Education Minister, takes on the mantle of President of the 12 Colonies.
Gaius Baltar, a top researcher in Artificial Intelligence, inadvertently betrayed humanity by allowing a Cylon agent into the defense network, rendering it and all of the Colonial military forces impotent in the face of the Cylon attacks. He sees her everywhere when no one else can. He initially attributes this to stress-induced hallucinations. She tells him that she implanted a chip in his brain during their time on Caprica, which enables her to talk to him. Over the season Baltar falls in love with the Cylon, Number Six, eventually betraying humanity again and again.
A lone soldier is trapped on Cylon-occupied Caprica, having given up his seat on a transport for Baltar, as he believes that his own life is not as important as one of the greatest minds of their time. He struggles against the odds, trying to stay alive amid the hostile Cylons. He is surprised to learn that Sharon Valerii, the pilot of the transport, returned for him. However, the truth is that she is actually another human-form Cylon. Sharon and Helo spend the season trying to escape Caprica. Sharon also finds herself falling in love with her human target. The season ends with her pregnant and fighting to save his life.
Meanwhile, the copy of Sharon onboard Galactica (known as "Boomer") has set off several bombs and engaged in other acts of sabotage. The season ends with a stunning turn of events after a successful mission to disable a Cylon base ship.
For a more detailed overview of the first three seasons, visit the pinned thread titled "Battlestar Galactica in Just Ten Minutes" located in the forum.
Awards and critical praise
The 2003 miniseries was the highest-rated miniseries on the Sci Fi Channel (soon to be known as Syfy) at the time. It was also the most successful cable miniseries that TV season.The first regular season premiered to excellent viewer numbers and critical acclaim. After the midseason break in Season Two, the show received widespread recognition from the mainstream media, including several outlets not always known for their interest in science fiction. As mentioned above, Time Magazine named BSG the best show on television for 2005. Rolling Stone Magazine and New York Newsday also named BSG the best show of the year. Many other publications like the New York Times and the Chicago Tribune lavished praise on the series.The American Film Institute added the show to its list of the ten best television shows of 2005. The show won Emmy Awards in the usual sci-fi categories of special visual effects but it also received Emmy nominations for writing and directing. It also won a prestigious Peabody award for its general excellence in creativity in the television medium.
The Sci Fi Channel has used creative means to promote the series, including the release of certain episodes as free streaming video on the official website. In the month leading up to the start of Season Three, the Sci Fi Channel aired a Web-only series titled Battlestar Galactica: The Resistance. The brief, 2 to 3 minute episodes revealed key events from the time period between the Season Two finale and the Season Three premiere episode. Another Web-only series was shown on the official website in the lead-up to the Season 4.5 "final" episodes.
A Battlestar Galactica television movie, "Razor", was broadcast in late 2007, followed soon after with a release on DVD. The story followed the struggles of Admiral Cain and young Kendra Shaw as they tried to survive the Cylon attack on the Colonies. The hard-hitting movie was well received by fans and critics.
Even though the series "ended" on March 20, 2009, with the two-hour broadcast of "Daybreak, Part 2", the Sci Fi Channel (Syfy) will broadcast one final Battlestar Galactica television movie. "The Plan" is scheduled to air in the fall of 2009.
The Galactica franchise will live on, even after the final movie and DVD. A prequel series, Caprica, began production even before Battlestar Galactica ended. The pilot movie will be released as a stand-alone DVD in April 2009. The movie will later air on Syfy along with regular episodes of the new series in 2010. For more information about this look at the early days of the development of the Cylons on Caprica, please consult the separate guide for that series.
Original Broadcast History: Season One
October 18, 2004 - January 24, 2005 - 8:00 PM SKY One (UK)
January 14, 2005 - April 1, 2005 - Fridays @ 10:00 PM Sci Fi Channel (USA)
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Battlestar Galactica (2003): Season 3
October 6, 2006
The 20-episode third season of the acclaimed series picks up where season two unexpectedly ended: pitting humans against Cylons on the planet of New Caprica.
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Battlestar Galactica (2003): Season 4
April 4, 2008
The final season picks up from last season's revelations of Cyclons amongst the crew and the return of the presumed deceased Starbuck.
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Batwoman: Season 1
October 6, 2019
With Batman/Bruce Wayne gone from Gotham, Kate Kane (Ruby Rose) takes the mantle as Batwoman in the Greg Berlanti and Caroline Dries series based on the DC characters.
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Baywatch: Season 1
April 23, 1989
Southern California lifeguards patrol the local beaches, fighting crimes and saving lives.
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Beacon 23: Season 1
November 12, 2023
Halan (Stephan James) has been living by himself in an AI-controlled beacon at the edge of the universe when Aster (Lena Headey) arrives in this thriller series based on by Hugh Howey's book of the same name.
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Beauty and the Beast (2012): Season 1
October 11, 2012
A remake of the 1987 series, in this version homicide detective Catherine Chandler (Kristin Kreuk) crosses the path of Dr. Vincent Keller (Jay Ryan), who supposedly died in in Afghanistan in 2002 and has been hiding the past 10 years.
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Beavis and Butt-head: Season 1
September 22, 1992
Beavis and Butt-head was first aired on the U.S. cable network MTV in March 1993. This show, which combined animation and music videos, was an example of the unique programming that MTV has consistently provided for its youthful demographics. The half-hour program alternated between a simple narrative, which focused on the exploits of two low-life adolescents, and clips from music videos, which the two teens commented on. Creator Mike Judge had penned the aimless duo for a festival of animation when Abby Turkuhle, MTV's senior vice president picked up an episode for the network's animated compendium Liquid Television. MTV immediately contracted for 65 episodes from Judge, with Turkuhle as producer, and placed Beavis and Butt-head in the 7:00 and 11:00 P.M. week-day time slots.
The characters, Beavis and Butt-head, are rude, crude, and stupid, and can be placed in the "dumb comedy" tradition, which includes Abbott and Costello, The Three Stooges, Cheech and Chong, Saturday Night Live's Wayne and Garth, and FOX's The Simpsons. When the show debuted, television critics differed in their opinions, with some praising the show for daring to present the stupidity of male "metalheads" who watch too much television (effectively satirizing the core MTV audience), and others categorizing Beavis and Butt-head as another example of television's declining quality. Beavis and Butt-head did find an audience and began pulling in MTV's highest ratings. But the show was also quite controversial, instigating heated public debate on the interconnected issues of representations of violence in the media and generational politics surrounding youth subcultures.
Beavis and Butt-head they found, was especially popular with those in their twenties. It turned out to be bothersome to many that young people enjoyed the show and laughed at its two imbecilic boys, even if these fans were much more intelligent and much less grating than Beavis and Butt-head. In this sense, Beavis and Butt-head raised the issue of generational taste cultures. Definitions of "taste," Pierre Bourdieu notes, "unite and separate, uniting those who are the product of similar conditions but only by distinguishing them from all others. And taste distinguishes in an essential way, since it is the basis of all that one has--people and things--and of all that one is for others, whereby one classifies oneself and is classified by others." To the degree that taste cultures agree, they are brought together into a subcultural formation; but to this degree they are also separated from those with whom they differ. It was the "bad taste" of Beavis and Butt-head's audience which bothered many, and this brings to the surface another one of the reasons why Beavis and Butt-head was so controversial.
Cultural critics, educators, and concerned parents gathered skeptically, sternly, and anxiously in front of the television set and passed judgment upon the "tasteless" Beavis and Butt-head show. And in an ironic reversal, Beavis and Butt-head countered by ascending the cultural hierarchy. The two youths channel-surfed, looking for videos that didn't suck (i.e. those with heavy metal or hardcore rap, those that contained violence, or encouraged genital response.) In becoming the self-proclaimed Siskel and Ebert of music video, they served to evaluate pop culture with an unencumbered bottom line--does a music video "suck" or is it "cool?" Beavis and Butt-head as a television show, was certainly towards the lower end of traditional scales of cultural "quality." But these two animated "slackers" evaluated other media, and so pronounced their own critical opinions and erected their own taste hierarchies. Beavis and Butt-head had their own particular brand of "taste:" they determined acceptability and unacceptability, invoking, while simultaneously upending, notions of "high" and "low" culture. In this, they entered that hallowed sphere of criticism, where they competed with others in overseeing the public good and preserving the place and status of artistic evaluation. They disregarded other accepted forms of authority, refusing to acknowledge their own limited perspectives. But like other critics, this was an important part of their appeal. After all, critics are sought out for straightforward opinion, not muddled oscillation.
In this recuperation of the critical discourse, Beavis and Butt-head joined with their audience, approximating the contradictory impulses of contemporary cynical youth, who mixed their self-delusion with self-awareness. In the case of fans of Beavis and Butt-head, these lines of demarcation indicated both a generational unity and the generation-based barriers between the baby boomers and the "baby busters." The reputed cynicism of the "twentynothings" was on view as Beavis and Butt-head evoked both a stunted adolescence which was long past and an unsure and seemingly inaccessible future.
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Beavis and Butt-head: Season 8
July 18, 1997
The infamous cartoon duo created/voiced by Mike Judge returns to MTV after a 13-year absence.
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Being Human: Season 1
January 17, 2011
The remake of the BBC show about a ghost, a vampire, and a werewolf who move in together is set in Boston.
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Beowulf: Season 1
January 23, 2016
Beowulf (Kieran Bew) returns to his hometown after 20 years to pay respects to the Thane of Herot, Hrothgar (William Hurt) and his wife Rheda (Joanne Whalley), only to have the town attacked by a creature and find himself accused of murder in this ITV-produced drama based on the Old English epic poem.
[Premiered originally in the UK on ITV on 3 Jan 2016 and in the US on Esquire Network on 23 Jan 2016]
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Berlin: Season 1
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Betrayal: Season 1
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This soapy, Chicago-set drama centers on a woman (Hannah Ware) who begins an affair with an attorney (Stuart Townsend), only to learn that he will be opposing her husband (another attorney, played by Chris Johnson) in an upcoming high-profile murder trial. James Cromwell, Wendy Moniz, and Henry Thomas also star for former ER producer David Zabel. The first season will consist of just 13 episodes.
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Bionic Woman: Season 1
September 26, 2007
There's no $6 Million Man or cheesy sound effects in this new, darker Bionic Woman.
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Birds of Prey: Season 1
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Never fear, New Gothamites. Even though the Dark Knight has vanished, a threesome of champions led by Helena, the daughter of Batman and Catwoman, is ready to take wing. Helena refers to herself as Huntress and crime is her prey. Oracle is a wheelchair-bound beauty formerly known as Batgirl. And Dina is an Everyteen psychic.
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Bitten: Season 1
January 11, 2014
Based on the Women of the Otherworld novels by Kelley Armstrong, werewolf Elena Michaels (Laura Vandervoort) has a new life as a photographer and a new boyfriend (Paul Greene) who knows nothing of her secret, but when dead bodies start appearing at her hometown in upstate New York, she is pulled back to her former life and ex-boyfriend, Clayton Danvers (Greyston Holt).
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Black Knight (2023): Season 1
May 12, 2023
In post-apocalypse Korea where deliverymen known as Black Knights deliver oxygen and other essentials, 5-8 (Kim Woo-bin) trains refugee Sa-wol (Kang Yoo-seok) how to become one in this adaptation of the webtoon series of the same name.
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Black Lightning: Season 1
January 16, 2018
Jefferson Pierce (Cress Williams) had retired from his secret identity of Black Lightning many years ago, but when danger threatens his twenty-something daughter, Jennifer (Nafessa Williams), and a promising student is being lured by a gang, he returns to the fight.
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Black Sails: Season 1
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Created by creator Jonathan Steinberg as a prequel to Robert Louis Stevenson's novel Treasure Island set in 1715, pirate Captain Flint (Toby Stephens) and his crew prepare to fight the British Royal Navy over New Providence Island with the help of Eleanor Guthrie (Hannah New), a daughter of a local smuggling kingpin.
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Black Scorpion: Season 1
January 5, 2001
By day, Black Scorpion is Darcy, a policewoman, driving a white Corvette. By night, she assumes the role of Black Scorpion and her Corvette morphs into the Scorpionmobile, a super-charged futuristic car equipped with an arsenal of science-fiction devices.
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Blade: Season 1
June 28, 2006
Spike TV's first scripted series is a small-screen adapation of the theatrical trilogy of vampire movies, with Kirk Jones taking over the Wesley Snipes role.
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Blade Runner: Black Lotus: Season 1
November 14, 2021
Set 15 years before Blade Runner 2049, 20-something Elle (voiced by Jessica Henwick/Arisa Shida) seeks answers after waking up with little memory of who she is in this anime expansion of the Blade Runner franchise.
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Blindspot: Season 1
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A woman (Jaimie Alexander) covered in tattoos, including the name of a FBI agent (Sullivan Stapleton), is found naked in Times Square with no memories.
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Blood & Treasure: Season 1
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Former FBI antiquities expert Danny McNamara (Matt Barr) teams up art thief Lexi Vaziri (Sofia Pernas) to locate a terrorist (Oded Fehr) who has stolen a priceless artifact and kidnapped his mentor (Alicia Coppola) in this action and adventure drama created by Matt Federman and Stephen Scaia.
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