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Rivals (TV series)
Rivals is a British period comedy-drama adapted from Jilly Cooper's 1988 Rutshire Chronicles novel, streaming on Disney+ and Hulu since October 18, 2024; set in 1986 Rutshire, it dramatizes the ITV franchise war between Tony Baddingham's Corinium and Rupert Campbell-Black's Venturer, with season 2 (12 episodes) and a greenlit season 3.
Summerwater
Summerwater: a 2020 Sarah Moss novel and a six-part Channel 4 (2025, Acorn TV May 25, 2026) drama set over one rainy day at a lochside Scottish holiday park, ending in a fire and a devastating climax.
Sweetbitter (TV series)
Sweetbitter is a Starz half-hour drama (2018–2019, 14 episodes) adapted by Stephanie Danler from her 2016 novel, starring Ella Purnell as Tess, a young backwaiter at a Manhattan restaurant; canceled after two seasons.
Tell Me Lies (TV series)
Tell Me Lies is a Hulu drama (2022-2026) adapted from Carola Lovering's 2018 novel, created by Meaghan Oppenheimer, starring Grace Van Patten and Jackson White as toxic college exes Lucy and Stephen across three seasons.
The Baxters (2024 TV series)
The Baxters (2024 TV series), also adapted from Karen Kingsbury's Baxter Family novels starting with Redemption, is a Prime Video faith-based family drama starring Roma Downey and Ted McGinley; all three seasons, 34 episodes, dropped March 28, 2024.
The Big Door Prize
The Big Door Prize is an Apple TV+ comedy-drama created by David West Read, adapted from M.O. Walsh's 2020 novel. Set in Deerfield, it follows residents whose lives change when the Morpho machine reveals their life potential; two seasons, 2023–2024, then cancelled.
The Casual Vacancy (miniseries)
The Casual Vacancy (miniseries): three-part 2015 BBC/HBO adaptation of J.K. Rowling's novel about Pagford parish-council politics after Barry Fairbrother's death, adapted by Sarah Phelps, starring Michael Gambon and Rory Kinnear.
The Darling Buds of May (TV series)
The Darling Buds of May is a British comedy drama on ITV, adapted from H. E. Bates's 1958 novel and starring David Jason, Pam Ferris, and Catherine Zeta-Jones.
The Dream Lands
The Dream Lands is a BBC One coming-of-age drama adapted by Kayleigh Llewellyn from Rosa Rankin-Gee's 2021 novel Dreamland, set in 2039 Margate and starring Pascale Kann as Chance, with Anna Friel, Connor Swindells and Clara Rugaard.
The Five-Star Weekend (TV series)
The Five-Star Weekend is a 2026 Peacock drama series, eight episodes, adapted by Bekah Brunstetter from Elin Hilderbrand's 2023 novel, starring Jennifer Garner as widowed food influencer Hollis Shaw; renewed for season 2 after 2.1 billion minutes viewed.
The Flatshare
The Flatshare is a 2022 six-part Paramount+ British romantic comedy adapted from Beth O'Leary's 2019 novel, starring Jessica Brown Findlay and Anthony Welsh as strangers who timeshare a one-bed London flat, premiering 1 December 2022.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (TV series)
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a six-episode BBC television series written by Douglas Adams and broadcast in 1981, with Simon Jones as Arthur Dent.
The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart
The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart is a 2023 seven-part Prime Video Australian drama miniseries adapted from Holly Ringland's 2018 debut novel, starring Sigourney Weaver as grandmother June and Alycia Debnam-Carey as Alice, set on the Thornfield flower farm refuge for abused women.
The Marriage Plot
The Marriage Plot is Jeffrey Eugenides's 2011 novel (FSG) about three 1982 Brown graduates, Madeleine Hanna, Leonard Bankhead, and Mitchell Grammaticus, in a love triangle; an FX/A24 limited series adaptation with Sadie Sink, Will Arbery, and Hiro Murai was ordered in June 2026.
The Miniature Wife
The Miniature Wife is a 2026 Peacock Original comedy-drama series, also on Sky and NOW, based on Manuel Gonzales's 2013 short story, starring Elizabeth Banks and Matthew Macfadyen as a married couple whose relationship fractures after a lab accident shrinks the wife to six inches tall.
The Pursuit of Love (TV series)
The Pursuit of Love (2021) is a three-part BBC One romantic comedy-drama written and directed by Emily Mortimer, adapting Nancy Mitford's 1945 novel; it stars Lily James and Emily Beecham as cousins Linda Radlett and Fanny Logan in interwar Europe, co-produced with Amazon.
The Rachel Incident
The Rachel Incident is a 2023 novel by Caroline O'Donoghue about Rachel Murray and James Devlin in Cork, Ireland, after the 2008 financial crash, adapted as an eight-part Channel 4 series starring Máiréad Tyers and Ellis Howard, produced by UCP, Element Pictures, and Pageboy.
The Reluctant Vampire
The Reluctant Vampire is a 2026 BBC One family sitcom, 6 x 30 minutes, adapting Eric Morecambe's 1982 children's novel and its sequel. Written by Neil and Rob Gibbons, it stars Lenny Rush as Val, a human raised in a vampire family, premiered 4 October 2026 at 6:40pm.
The Road Trip (TV series)
The Road Trip is a 2024 six-part Paramount+ romantic comedy adapted from Beth O'Leary's novel, starring Emma Appleton, Laurie Davidson, David Jonsson, Isabella Laughland, and Angus Imrie; produced by 42, filmed in Bristol and Gran Canaria, premiered December 26, 2024.
The Walsh Sisters
The Walsh Sisters: RTÉ-commissioned Irish comedy-drama adapting Marian Keyes's Walsh family novels (Rachel's Holiday, Anybody Out There), produced with the BBC, premiering 28 September 2025, second series commissioned.
Three Women (TV series)
Three Women (TV series): Starz limited drama adapted from Lisa Taddeo's #1 NYT bestseller, starring Shailene Woodley, Betty Gilpin, DeWanda Wise, Gabrielle Creevy; Showtime 2019 commission scrapped, Starz premiere September 13, 2024.
Tiny Beautiful Things
Tiny Beautiful Things is a 2023 Hulu drama miniseries, also called the Dear Sugar series, adapted by Liz Tigelaar from Cheryl Strayed's 2012 advice-column book, starring Kathryn Hahn as Clare, an alternate-reality Strayed who never hiked the Pacific Crest Trail.
Virgin River (TV series)
Virgin River is a Netflix romance drama series adapted from Robyn Carr's Harlequin novels, starring Alexandra Breckenridge and Martin Henderson, set in fictional Northern California but filmed in British Columbia, running since December 2019 through a renewed Season 8.
Vladimir (TV series)
Vladimir is a 2026 Netflix eight-episode comedy-drama limited series adapted by Julia May Jonas from her 2022 novel, starring Rachel Weisz as an unnamed professor obsessed with colleague Vladimir (Leo Woodall); premiered March 5, 2026.
Younger (TV series)
Younger (2015-2021) is a Darren Star TV Land comedy-drama based on Pamela Redmond Satran's 2005 novel, starring Sutton Foster as 40-year-old Liza Miller, who poses as 26 to work in publishing; seven seasons, final one on Paramount+.