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3 Body Problem (TV series)
3 Body Problem is Netflix's 2024 science fiction series by David Benioff, D.B. Weiss, and Alexander Woo, adapting Liu Cixin's Remembrance of Earth's Past trilogy; eight episodes, renewed through season 3, with the Oxford Five replacing the novel's Wang Miao.
Alias (TV series)
Alias is an American spy drama created by J.J. Abrams, airing on ABC 2001–2006 in five seasons. Jennifer Garner stars as double agent Sydney Bristow infiltrating SD-6, a criminal organization posing as a CIA branch.
Almost Human (TV series)
Almost Human (TV series): American FOX science fiction crime drama, 2013-2014, created by J.H. Wyman with J.J. Abrams; Karl Urban as Det. John Kennex with android partner Dorian (Michael Ealy) in 2048; 13 episodes, canceled after one season.
Automan
Automan is a 1983-1984 American ABC science fiction superhero series created by Glen A. Larson, starring Desi Arnaz Jr. as programmer Walter Nebicher and Chuck Wagner as his holographic crime-fighting alter ego Otto J. Mann, cancelled after 13 episodes.
Better than Us
Better than Us (Лучше, чем люди) is a 2018–2019 Russian sci-fi drama series, 16 episodes, set in 2029 Moscow; the first Russian Netflix Original, starring Paulina Andreeva as android Arisa and Kirill Käro as Georgy Safronov.
Bionic Woman (2007 TV series)
Bionic Woman (2007) is NBC's short-lived reimagining of the 1976–78 Lindsay Wagner series, starring Michelle Ryan as rebuilt bartender Jaime Sommers. Eight episodes aired before the WGA strike; it premiered to 13.91 million viewers and was cancelled in spring 2008.
Black Mirror
Black Mirror is a British dystopian science-fiction anthology series created by Charlie Brooker, first aired on Channel 4 in 2011 and later a Netflix original, with standalone episodes about technology and society, including the interactive film Bandersnatch and a seventh season in 2025.
BrainDead
BrainDead names two unrelated works: the 2016 CBS comic-thriller by Robert and Michelle King about alien bugs eating politicians' brains in Washington, cancelled after 13 episodes, and Peter Jackson's 1992 New Zealand splatter film Braindead, also released as Dead Alive.
Caprica
Caprica is a 2010 Syfy science fiction drama, the prequel to the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica, set 58 years before the Fall and following the Graystone and Adama families as the first Cylons are created; canceled after one season.
Cassandra (TV series)
Cassandra is a 2025 German six-episode Netflix limited series by Benjamin Gutsche in which a family reawakens a 1970s smart-home AI robot, played by Lavinia Wilson, with dark intentions.
Debris (TV series)
Debris (NBC, 2021) is a science fiction drama created by Fringe showrunner J.H. Wyman, starring Jonathan Tucker and Riann Steele as CIA and MI6 agents recovering alien spacecraft wreckage; cancelled after one 13-episode season.
Devs (TV series)
Devs is Alex Garland's 2020 FX on Hulu eight-episode limited series in which engineer Lily Chan investigates Amaya's secret division and its quantum computer that retrodicts the past and predicts the future under hard determinism.
Dollhouse (TV series)
Dollhouse (TV series), Fox science fiction drama created by Joss Whedon, starring Eliza Dushku as Echo, an Active whose memories are wiped and imprinted for clients; ran 2009-2010, canceled after two seasons.
Doomwatch
Doomwatch is a British science fiction television series produced by the BBC, running from 1970 to 1972, about a government scientific body investigating environmental and technological hazards.
Electric Dreams (2017 TV series)
Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams (2017) is a ten-episode Channel 4/Amazon sci-fi anthology adapted from Dick short stories, executive produced by Ronald D. Moore, Michael Dinner, Bryan Cranston, and Isa Dick Hackett; cancelled after one season.
Extant (TV series)
Extant is an American CBS science fiction mystery thriller (2014–2015, two seasons, 26 episodes) created by Mickey Fisher and executive produced by Steven Spielberg, starring Halle Berry as astronaut Molly Woods, who returns from a 13-month solo space mission inexplicably pregnant to a family including an android son, Ethan.
Extrapolations (TV series)
Extrapolations is an Apple TV+ limited drama series created by Scott Z. Burns, premiered March 17, 2023. Eight interconnected episodes set 2037–2070 dramatize climate change impacts, starring Meryl Streep, Sienna Miller, Kit Harington, and Edward Norton; mixed critical reception.
Helix (TV series)
Helix is an American sci-fi horror TV series created by Cameron Porsandeh, airing on Syfy January 10, 2014 to April 10, 2015 in two seasons, about CDC scientists fighting a viral outbreak at an Arctic research facility; executive produced by Ronald D. Moore, Steven Maeda, and Lynda Obst.
Humans (TV series)
Humans (TV series): British-American sci-fi drama by Sam Vincent and Jonathan Brackley, adapted from Swedish Äkta Människor (Real Humans). Aired on Channel 4 and AMC 2015–2018, three seasons of 8 episodes about sentient Synths; cancelled after season 3.
Impulse (TV series)
Impulse (2018-2019) is a YouTube Red/Premium sci-fi drama, spin-off of Jumper, based on Steven Gould's third Jumper novel, starring Maddie Hasson as teleporting teen Henry Coles; two seasons, canceled 2020.
Incorporated (TV series)
Incorporated (TV series): Syfy dystopian sci-fi thriller, 2016–2017, created by David and Àlex Pastor, executive produced by Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, set in 2074 corporate-ruled Milwaukee, canceled after one season.
Kyle XY
Kyle XY is an American sci-fi drama series on ABC Family (2006-2009), created by Eric Bress and J. Mackye Gruber, starring Matt Dallas as an amnesiac savant with no belly button; three seasons, 43 episodes, canceled on cliffhangers.
Living with Yourself
Living with Yourself is a 2019 Netflix comedy-drama, 8 episodes, created by Timothy Greenberg, directed by Dayton and Faris, starring Paul Rudd in a dual role as Miles Elliot and his clone Miles 2.0, with Aisling Bea; ended after one season.
Love, Death & Robots
Love, Death & Robots (Love, Death + Robots) is a Netflix adult animated anthology created by Tim Miller with David Fincher, premiering March 15, 2019; four volumes, 45 self-contained shorts, 17 Emmy wins, adapted mostly from published short stories.
Made for Love (TV series)
Made for Love: HBO Max dark comedy (2021-2022) adapted from Alissa Nutting's 2017 novel, starring Cristin Milioti as a woman fleeing tech billionaire Byron Gogol after he implants a brain chip; two seasons, 16 episodes, cancelled and later removed from streaming.
Max Headroom (TV series)
Max Headroom is a science fiction series that ran from 1987 to 1988. It is set in a dystopian future where corporate TV networks wield power.
Minority Report (TV series)
Minority Report (2015 Fox series), created by Max Borenstein, a sci-fi crime drama sequel to Spielberg's 2002 film, set in 2065 Washington DC with Stark Sands and Meagan Good; cancelled after 10 episodes.
Misfits of Science
Misfits of Science is an American science fiction comedy series, created by James D. Parriott, which followed young superpowered individuals at the Humanidyne think tank.
Murderbot (TV series)
Murderbot is an Apple TV+ sci-fi comedy-thriller (2025) adapted from Martha Wells' The Murderbot Diaries, created by Paul and Chris Weitz, starring Alexander Skarsgård as a free-willed SecUnit; renewed for a second season.
Neuromancer (TV series)
Neuromancer (TV series) is Apple TV's 10-episode adaptation of William Gibson's 1984 cyberpunk novel, created by Graham Roland and J.D. Dillard, starring Callum Turner as Case and Briana Middleton as Molly, premiering January 22, 2027.