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Æon Flux
Æon Flux: American adult animated science fiction series created by Peter Chung for MTV (1991–1995), also known as Aeon Flux. Wordless Liquid Television shorts about agent Æon versus Bregna's Trevor Goodchild; later ten half-hour episodes and a poorly received 2005 Charlize Theron film.
Between (TV series)
Between is a Canadian sci-fi drama series (2015-2016) created by Michael McGowan for City and Netflix, starring Jennette McCurdy as Wiley Day in Pretty Lake, where a virus kills everyone over 21 and teens survive under quarantine.
Blood Drive (TV series)
Blood Drive is a 2017 Syfy TV series, 13 episodes, created by James Roland, set in post-apocalyptic 1999 where a cross-country death race uses cars fueled by human blood; cancelled after one season.
Brave New World (American TV series)
Brave New World (2020) is an American Peacock sci-fi drama series adapted from Aldous Huxley's 1932 novel, created by Grant Morrison and Brian Taylor, showrunner David Wiener; 9 episodes, premiered July 15, 2020, cancelled after one season, Metascore 54.
Colony (TV series)
Colony (2016-2018) is a USA Network alien-occupation drama created by Carlton Cuse and Ryan J. Condal, starring Josh Holloway and Sarah Wayne Callies, canceled after 3 seasons and 36 episodes with an unresolved cliffhanger ending.
Dark Angel (American TV series)
Dark Angel, Fox sci-fi series (2000-2002) created by James Cameron and Charles H. Eglee, starring Jessica Alba as supersoldier Max Guevara in post-Pulse Seattle; 42 episodes, two seasons, canceled on a cliffhanger.
Defiance (TV series)
Defiance is a Syfy science fiction series (2013–2015) by Rockne S. O'Bannon, Kevin Murphy, and Michael Taylor, set in 2046 on terraformed Earth, developed alongside Trion Worlds' MMO shooter game of the same name.
Falling Skies
Falling Skies is an American post-apocalyptic science fiction television series that aired on TNT for five seasons from 2011 to 2015, set after an alien invasion.
Gen:Lock
gen:LOCK is an American computer-animated mecha sci-fi series created by Gray Haddock at Rooster Teeth, starring Michael B. Jordan, two seasons (2019, 2021), later an HBO Max original.
Into the Badlands (TV series)
Into the Badlands is an AMC martial arts drama (2015-2019, three seasons) created by Alfred Gough and Miles Millar, loosely based on Journey to the West, starring Daniel Wu as Sunny in a post-apocalyptic feudal America ruled by barons.
Into the Night (TV series)
Into the Night is Netflix's first Belgian original series, a French-language post-apocalyptic thriller created by Jason George, adapted from a Polish novel, about passengers fleeing deadly sunlight. Two seasons, 12 episodes (2020-2021), cancelled.
Jericho (2006 TV series)
Jericho (2006 TV series): American CBS drama created by Jon Turteltaub and Stephen Chbosky about Jericho, Kansas, after nuclear attacks on US cities; 29 episodes, canceled in 2007, revived by a 20-ton peanut fan campaign for a 2008 second season.
Planet of the Apes (TV series)
Planet of the Apes (1974 TV series): CBS live-action sci-fi show based on the 1968 film, created by Anthony Wilson, starring Roddy McDowall as Galen; 14 episodes, premiered September 13, 1974, canceled December 1974.
Pluribus (TV series)
Pluribus is a Vince Gilligan sci-fi drama on Apple TV starring Rhea Seehorn as Carol Sturka, one of 13 people immune to an alien hive-mind virus; premiered November 7, 2025, nine episodes, renewed for season 2.
Quatermass (TV serial)
Quatermass is a British TV science-fiction franchise written by Nigel Kneale: The Quatermass Experiment (1953), Quatermass II (1955), Quatermass and the Pit (1958-59), and Quatermass (ITV 1979), plus Hammer film adaptations.
Raised by Wolves (American TV series)
Raised by Wolves is an American HBO Max sci-fi series (2020-2022) created by Aaron Guzikowski and executive produced by Ridley Scott, about androids Mother and Father raising human children on Kepler-22b after a religious war; canceled after two seasons.
Revolution (TV series)
Revolution is an American post-apocalyptic science fiction drama series that aired on NBC from 2012 to 2014, created by Eric Kripke and set after a global blackout.
Scavengers Reign
Scavengers Reign is a 2023 Max adult animated sci-fi series by Joseph Bennett and Charles Huettner, expanding their 2016 short Scavengers; freighter Demeter survivors stranded on planet Vesta, acclaimed (Metacritic 84), Emmy-winning, cancelled after one season.
See (TV series)
See is an Apple TV+ post-apocalyptic drama created by Steven Knight, starring Jason Momoa as Baba Voss in a future where humanity is blind; three seasons, 2019-2022.
Silo (TV series)
Silo is an Apple TV+ dystopian sci-fi drama created by Graham Yost, based on Hugh Howey's Wool trilogy, starring Rebecca Ferguson as engineer Juliette Nichols in a 144-story underground silo; it ran 2023-2026 with a final season due July 9, 2027.
Snowpiercer (TV series)
Snowpiercer (TV series), American post-apocalyptic drama adapted from Jacques Lob and Jean-Marc Rochette's graphic novels and Bong Joon Ho's 2013 film; 1,001-car train, four seasons 2020-2024, starring Jennifer Connelly and Daveed Diggs, ending on AMC.
Survivors (1975 TV series)
Survivors (1975 TV series): BBC One post-apocalyptic drama created by Terry Nation, produced by Terence Dudley, broadcast 1975–1977 in three series and 38 episodes about survivors of a lab-released pandemic; distinct from the 2008 remake and Big Finish audio continuation.
The 100 (TV series)
The 100 is a post-apocalyptic CW science fiction drama (2014–2020), created by Jason Rothenberg from Kass Morgan's books: 7 seasons, 100 episodes, ending with 'The Last War'; prequel spinoff cancelled in 2021.
Tribes of Europa
Tribes of Europa is a 2021 German Netflix post-apocalyptic sci-fi series by Philip Koch, six episodes set in 2074 after the 2029 Black December, following Origine siblings Kiano, Liv, and Elja; cancelled after one season.
Under the Dome (TV series)
Under the Dome is a CBS science fiction drama (2013-2015, three seasons, 39 episodes) adapted by Brian K. Vaughan from Stephen King's 2009 novel, produced with Steven Spielberg's Amblin Television, about Chester's Mill sealed off by a transparent dome.
Utopia Falls
Utopia Falls is a 2020 Canadian teen sci-fi hip-hop drama series created by R.T. Thorne, streaming on Hulu and CBC Gem. Set in the future colony New Babyl, ten episodes follow Exemplar competitors who discover a forbidden archive of hip-hop history; canceled after one season.
War of the Worlds (1988 TV series)
War of the Worlds (1988-1990) is a Paramount first-run syndicated sci-fi series created by Greg Strangis, a sequel to the 1953 film in which hibernating Martians revive; 43 episodes over two seasons, filmed in Toronto, retooled for season 2.
War of the Worlds (2019 TV series)
War of the Worlds (2019 TV series) covers two 2019 adaptations of H.G. Wells's novel: the BBC's three-part Edwardian miniseries with Rafe Spall and Eleanor Tomlinson, and Howard Overman's Fox/Canal+ contemporary series running 2019-2022 with Gabriel Byrne.
Wayward Pines
Wayward Pines: Fox psychological thriller (2015-2016, two 10-episode seasons) based on Blake Crouch's Pines trilogy, executive produced by M. Night Shyamalan, starring Matt Dillon as agent Ethan Burke trapped in a mysterious Idaho town.
Y: The Last Man (TV series)
Y: The Last Man is a 2021 FX on Hulu post-apocalyptic drama adapted by Eliza Clark from Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra's Vertigo comic, starring Ben Schnetzer, Diane Lane, and Ashley Romans; canceled after one ten-episode season.