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Kingdom (American TV series)
Kingdom (2014-2017) is an American family drama TV series created by Byron Balasco, set at the Navy St. MMA gym in Venice, California, starring Frank Grillo, Kiele Sanchez, Matt Lauria, Jonathan Tucker, and Nick Jonas on DirecTV's Audience Network.
Last Tango in Halifax
Last Tango in Halifax: BBC One romantic comedy-drama by Sally Wainwright, 2012–2020, five series, 24 episodes; Derek Jacobi and Anne Reid as widowed septuagenarian sweethearts reunited via Facebook, BAFTA-winning.
Life Goes On (TV series)
Life Goes On: ABC family drama (1989–1993, 4 seasons, 83 episodes), first major network series with a lead character with Down syndrome, Chris Burke as Corky Thacher; theme song Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da; later HIV storyline with Chad Lowe.
Life Sentence (TV series)
Life Sentence is an American comedy-drama television series created by Erin Cardillo and Richard Keith for The CW, starring Lucy Hale as a young woman whose cancer is cured.
Little America
Little America is an Apple TV+ anthology series created by Kumail Nanjiani, Emily V. Gordon, and Lee Eisenberg, adapting true immigrant stories from Epic Magazine into standalone half-hour episodes; two seasons aired 2020–2022.
Little Disasters
Little Disasters is a six-part Paramount+ psychological thriller adapted from Sarah Vaughan's 2020 novel, starring Diane Kruger as Jess and Jo Joyner as doctor Liz, who reports her friend to social services over her baby's unexplained head injury; UK premiere May 22, 2025, US December 11, 2025.
Masaba Masaba
Masaba Masaba (मसाबा मसाबा) is a Netflix Hindi comedy-drama series in which designer Masaba Gupta and her mother Neena Gupta play fictionalized versions of themselves; two seasons, 2020 and 2022, directed by Sonam Nair.
McLeod's Daughters
McLeod's Daughters, Australian Nine Network drama (2001–2009), 224 episodes in eight seasons, based on a 1996 telemovie; half-sisters Claire and Tess McLeod run the Drover's Run cattle station in South Australia with an all-female workforce.
Mo (TV series)
Mo is a Netflix comedy-drama (2022-2025) created by Mo Amer and Ramy Youssef, a semi-autobiographical series about Palestinian refugee Mo Najjar seeking asylum in Houston, Texas, in two seasons.
Monarch (American TV series)
Monarch (American TV series) is a 2022 Fox country music drama created by Melissa London Hilfers, starring Susan Sarandon, Trace Adkins, and Anna Friel as the Roman family dynasty; it ran 11 episodes, averaged 4.1 million viewers, and was canceled after one season. Not the Apple TV Monsterverse series.
My Father Is Strange (아버지가 이상해)
My Father Is Strange (아버지가 이상해) is a 2017 KBS2 weekend family drama, 52 episodes, written by Lee Jung-seon, starring Kim Young-chul as a father living under a dead friend's identity.
My Perfect Landing
My Perfect Landing is a Canadian children's gymnastics drama series created by Frank van Keeken (The Next Step), airing one 15-episode season on Family Channel from January 8 to April 22, 2020, starring Morgan Wigle as gymnast Jenny Cortez.
No Good Nick
No Good Nick: Netflix multicam dramedy (April 15, 2019) in which teen con artist Nick, short for Nicole, infiltrates the Thompson family for revenge. Created by Steinberg and Kogan; 20 episodes, canceled after one season.
Once and Again
Once and Again is an American ABC family drama (1999–2002) by Marshall Herskovitz and Edward Zwick, starring Sela Ward and Billy Campbell as divorced parents who fall in love; critically acclaimed (Metascore 92) but canceled after three seasons and seven time-slot moves.
Ordinary Joe
Ordinary Joe is an NBC drama series starring James Wolk as Joe Kimbreau, shown in three parallel timelines as a musician, a nurse, and a police officer.
Outsiders (American TV series)
Outsiders (2016-2017) is an American WGN America drama created by Peter Mattei about the Farrell clan defending Shay Mountain, Kentucky, from a coal company; canceled after two seasons despite strong ratings.
Paradise Lost (2020 TV series)
Paradise Lost (2020) is a Spectrum Originals and Paramount Network Southern Gothic mystery drama, 10 episodes starring Josh Hartnett, Bridget Regan, and Nick Nolte, created by Rodes Fishburne, premiered April 13, 2020, ended after one season.
Patria
Patria (HBO España, 2020) is an eight-episode miniseries by Aitor Gabilondo adapting Fernando Aramburu's novel, following two Basque families divided by ETA, starring Elena Irureta and Ane Gabarain, with Platino and Ondas awards.
Picket Fences
Picket Fences is a 1992–1996 CBS drama series created by David E. Kelley, set in Rome, Wisconsin, starring Tom Skerritt and Kathy Baker; it won 14 Emmys including Outstanding Drama Series in 1993 and 1994.
Promised Land (1996 TV series)
Promised Land (プロミスト・ランド) is a CBS family drama (1996–1999), a Touched by an Angel spin-off created by Martha Williamson, starring Gerald McRaney as Russell Greene, whose family travels America in an Airstream trailer; 69 episodes, three seasons.
Proud (TV series)
Proud is a 2026 Polish HBO Max drama series created by Karol Klementewicz, starring Ignacy Liss as gay model Filip Raczyński, who adopts his niece after his sister's death; it won the Series Mania Grand Prix.
Ramy (TV series)
Ramy is a Hulu comedy-drama (2019-2022, 3 seasons, 30 episodes) created by and starring Ramy Youssef as a first-generation Egyptian-American Muslim in New Jersey; A24-produced, Peabody-winning, Golden Globe-winning, with a fourth season in development as of 2024.
Ratu Ratu Queens: The Series
Ratu Ratu Queens: The Series is a 2025 six-episode Netflix Indonesian drama, a prequel to the 2021 film Ali & Ratu Ratu Queens, following Party, Ance, Chinta, and Biyah as Indonesian immigrants in Queens, New York, in 2013.
Riches
Riches is a six-part 2022 British family drama created by Abby Ajayi, starring Deborah Ayorinde, Hugh Quarshie, and Sarah Niles, about a fight for control of the Flair & Glory black hair and beauty empire; cancelled by Prime Video in December 2023 after one season. Not the FX series The Riches.
Selena: The Series
Selena: The Series is a Netflix biographical drama (2020-2021) about Tejano singer Selena Quintanilla, created by Moisés Zamora, starring Christian Serratos, released in two nine-episode parts with family participation.
Seven Sisters (TV series)
Seven Sisters is an upcoming FX drama series for Hulu and Disney+, created by Will Arbery, directed by Sean Durkin, starring Elizabeth Olsen as Adrienne, a sister who hears a mysterious voice; ordered to series December 2025, distinct from the Lucinda Riley adaptation.
Shameless (British TV series)
Shameless (UK) is a Channel 4 comedy-drama created by Paul Abbott, broadcast 2004-2013 over 11 series and 139 episodes, set on Manchester's fictional Chatsworth Estate and following the alcoholic Frank Gallagher's family; it won BAFTAs and spawned US, Turkish, and Indian remakes.
Shtisel (שטיסל)
Shtisel (שטיסל) is an Israeli Haredi family drama series created by Ori Elon and Yehonatan Indursky, set in Jerusalem's Geula neighborhood, aired 2013–2021 in three seasons, an Ophir-winning Netflix international hit.
Sirens (2025 TV series)
Sirens is a 2025 Netflix limited dark-comedy drama series created by Molly Smith Metzler, adapted from her play Elemeno Pea. Starring Julianne Moore, Meghann Fahy, and Milly Alcock, its five episodes premiered May 22, 2025.
Sisters (American TV series)
Sisters is an American family drama television series that aired on NBC for six seasons, from 1991 to 1996, following the lives and loves of four close Reed sisters.