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Show Me a Hero
Show Me a Hero is a 2015 six-part HBO miniseries by David Simon, based on Lisa Belkin's 1999 book, dramatizing the Yonkers, New York public housing desegregation battle and Mayor Nick Wasicsko, played by Oscar Isaac, who won a Golden Globe.
Sicily Express
Sicily Express (Sicilia Express) is a 2025 five-episode Netflix holiday comedy written, directed, and starring Ficarra & Picone as two Sicilian nurses in Milan who find a dumpster portal home to Sicily before Christmas.
Solos (TV series)
Solos is a 2021 Amazon Prime Video sci-fi drama anthology series created by David Weil, with seven roughly 30-minute monologue episodes starring Morgan Freeman, Anne Hathaway, Helen Mirren, Uzo Aduba, Anthony Mackie, Constance Wu, Dan Stevens, and Nicole Beharie, filmed under COVID-19 protocols.
Stateless (TV series)
Stateless is a 2020 Australian six-part drama miniseries co-created by Cate Blanchett, Tony Ayres, and Elise McCredie, set in the Barton immigration detention centre and inspired by the Cornelia Rau unlawful detention case; it aired on ABC and Netflix and won AACTA awards.
Submission (TV series)
Submission is a 2016 American Showtime erotic drama mini-series, six episodes, created by Paul Fishbein and Jacky St. James, starring Ashlynn Yennie, Justin Berti, and Raylin Joy; aired May 12 to June 16, 2016, TV-MA, IMDb 5.3.
Summer of Rockets
Summer of Rockets is a 2019 BBC Two six-part Cold War drama written and directed by Stephen Poliakoff, set in 1958, starring Toby Stephens as Russian-born Jewish inventor Samuel Petrukhin, recruited by MI5.
Super Pumped (TV series)
Super Pumped is a Showtime anthology drama; season one, The Battle for Uber (2022), adapts Mike Isaac's book, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Travis Kalanick, with Kyle Chandler and Uma Thurman, renewed for a Facebook-focused second season.
Tales of the Unexpected (TV series)
Tales of the Unexpected, originally Roald Dahl's Tales of the Unexpected, is a British anthology series of twist-ending dramas broadcast on ITV from 1979 to 1988.
The Agatha Christie Hour
The Agatha Christie Hour is a 1982 Thames Television ITV anthology of ten hour-long dramas adapting Christie short stories without Poirot or Marple, featuring Maurice Denham as Parker Pyne, later shown on PBS Mystery!.
The Age of Innocence (TV series)
The Age of Innocence (TV series) is an upcoming eight-episode Netflix limited series adapted from Edith Wharton's 1920 Pulitzer-winning novel, created by Emma Frost, starring Ben Radcliffe, Camila Morrone, Kristine Froseth, and Margo Martindale, filmed in Prague 2025-2026, distinct from the 2002 Korean SBS drama of similar name.
The Crowded Room
The Crowded Room is a 2023 Apple TV+ 10-episode limited series by Akiva Goldsman, starring Tom Holland as Danny Sullivan, loosely inspired by Daniel Keyes' book on Billy Milligan and dissociative identity disorder.
The Doll (TV series)
The Doll (Polish: Lalka) is a 2026 Polish Netflix limited drama, a modern retelling of Bolesław Prus's novel, directed by Paweł Maślona, starring Tomasz Schuchardt and Sandra Drzymalska; six episodes premiered September 16, 2026.
The Dropout
The Dropout is Hulu's 2022 eight-episode limited series created by Elizabeth Meriwether, adapted from the ABC News podcast, starring Amanda Seyfried as Elizabeth Holmes and Naveen Andrews as Sunny Balwani; it won Seyfried a 2022 Emmy.
The Drowning (TV series)
The Drowning is a 2021 four-part Channel 5 British psychological thriller miniseries created by Luke Watson and Francesca Brill, starring Jill Halfpenny as Jodie Walsh, a mother convinced a teenager is her son who vanished nine years earlier.
The Eddy
The Eddy is an eight-episode Netflix musical drama (2020) set in a struggling Paris jazz club, created by Jack Thorne, directed partly by Damien Chazelle, starring André Holland, with music by Glen Ballard.
The Jacksons: An American Dream
The Jacksons: An American Dream is a 1992 ABC two-part, five-hour biographical miniseries about the Jackson family, based on Katherine Jackson's autobiography, starring Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs, Angela Bassett, and three actors as Michael, a ratings hit with an Emmy-winning choreography.
The Offer
The Offer is a 2022 Paramount+ 10-episode limited series, created by Michael Tolkin with showrunner Nikki Toscano, dramatizing producer Al Ruddy's making of The Godfather, starring Miles Teller, Matthew Goode, and Juno Temple; critics scored it 48 on Metacritic.
The Regime (miniseries)
The Regime is a 2024 HBO six-episode political satire miniseries created by Will Tracy, starring Kate Winslet as mold-obsessed dictator Chancellor Elena Vernham and Matthias Schoenaerts as Herbert Zubak, set in a fictional Central European country.
The Romanoffs
The Romanoffs is a 2018 Amazon Prime Video anthology drama created, written, and directed by Mad Men's Matthew Weiner: eight standalone episodes about people claiming Romanov descent, aired October 12 to November 23, 2018, Metascore 56, Tomatometer 49%.
The Sinner (TV series)
The Sinner is an American semi-anthology crime drama (USA Network, 2017–2021) created by Derek Simonds from Petra Hammesfahr's novel, with Bill Pullman's Detective Harry Ambrose linking four self-contained eight-episode seasons.
The Syndicate
The Syndicate is a BBC One drama by Kay Mellor (2012-2021, 4 seasons, 23 episodes) about lottery-winning work syndicates; also a marketing agency, a Lloyd's research firm, and a termination-analysis framework.
The Widow (TV series)
The Widow is a 2019 eight-part British thriller drama written by Harry and Jack Williams for ITV and Amazon Prime Video, starring Kate Beckinsale as Georgia Wells, a widow who spots her supposedly dead husband in Congolese news footage and travels to Kinshasa to find him.
Thirteen (TV series)
Thirteen is a five-part British psychological thriller miniseries created and written by Marnie Dickens, first shown on BBC iPlayer in February 2016, starring Jodie Comer as Ivy Moxam, who escapes after 13 years in captivity.
Under the Vines
Under the Vines is a New Zealand romantic comedy-drama series created by Erin White, starring Rebecca Gibney and Charles Edwards as rival co-heirs of a failing Central Otago vineyard; three six-episode seasons aired 2021–2024 on Acorn TV and TVNZ.
Vanity Fair (2018 TV series)
Vanity Fair (2018 TV series): seven-part ITV/Amazon Mammoth Screen miniseries adapting Thackeray's 1848 novel; written by Gwyneth Hughes, starring Olivia Cooke as Becky Sharp; premiered ITV 2 September 2018, drew 2.9m viewers against Bodyguard.
Wanderlust (British TV series)
Wanderlust (2018 BBC One/Netflix drama), Nick Payne's first TV series adapted from his 2010 Royal Court play; Toni Collette and Steven Mackintosh play a couple experimenting with non-monogamy after a cycling accident; six episodes, set in Manchester.
Who Is Erin Carter?
Who Is Erin Carter? is a 2023 Netflix limited action-thriller, 7 episodes, created by Jack Lothian, starring Evin Ahmad as a Barcelona teacher with a violent hidden past; 64% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Why Women Kill
Why Women Kill is a dark comedy anthology series created by Marc Cherry, airing 2019-2021 on CBS All Access/Paramount+. Season 1 spans three decades with Goodwin, Liu, and Howell-Baptiste; Season 2 is set in 1949 with Tolman and Parrilla; cancelled after two seasons.
WWE Velocity
WWE Velocity, also called Velocity, was WWE's SmackDown-brand B-show: a one-hour Saturday program on TNN from May 25, 2002, moving to WWE.com in 2005 and ending June 2006 when ECW relaunched.