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Next (2020 TV series)
neXt (Next, 2020 TV series) is an American Fox science-fiction crime drama created by Manny Coto, starring John Slattery as Paul LeBlanc fighting a rogue AI; premiered October 6, 2020, ran 10 episodes, canceled after one season.
Orphan Black
Orphan Black: Canadian sci-fi thriller created by Graeme Manson and John Fawcett, aired 2013-2017 on Space and BBC America, five seasons, 50 episodes. Tatiana Maslany played 17 clones of Sarah Manning; won 2016 Emmy and a Peabody; spin-off Echoes (2024).
Osmosis (2019 TV series)
Osmosis is a 2019 French Netflix science-fiction series created by Audrey Fouché, 8 episodes set in near-future Paris, where a dating app implant matches soulmates by mining brain data; adapted from a 2015 Arte Creative web series by the Chiche brothers.
Pantheon (TV series)
Pantheon is a 2022 American adult animated sci-fi drama on AMC+, created by Craig Silverstein from Ken Liu short stories, about Uploaded Intelligences (digitized human minds). Canceled after season 1, it reached global audiences only via Netflix in 2024-2025.
Reverie (TV series)
Reverie is an American NBC science-fiction drama created by Mickey Fisher, airing May 30 to August 8, 2018, 10 episodes starring Sarah Shahi as a hostage negotiator rescuing users trapped in a virtual-reality program; canceled after one season.
RZR (TV series)
RZR is a 2024 American cyberpunk sci-fi thriller series created by and starring David Bianchi as Grimm, a hacker with a brain-computer implant in dystopian Los Angeles. Eight 14-minute episodes premiered April 14, 2024 on Gala Film, the Web3 platform's first series, with Mena Suvari, Richard Cabral, and Danny Trejo, and earned a Primetime Emmy nomination.
Salvation (TV series)
Salvation is a CBS science fiction drama (2017-2018), created by Liz Kruger, Craig Shapiro, and Matt Wheeler, about an asteroid 186 days from Earth impact; two seasons, 26 episodes, canceled after mixed reviews and declining ratings.
SeaQuest DSV
seaQuest DSV (1993-1996) is an NBC underwater science fiction series created by Rockne S. O'Bannon and executive produced by Steven Spielberg, starring Roy Scheider as Captain Nathan Bridger; renamed seaQuest 2032 for its 13-episode third season with Michael Ironside.
Second Chance (2016 TV series)
Second Chance (2016 TV series), formerly The Frankenstein Code and Lookinglass: American Fox science fiction crime drama created by Rand Ravich, inspired by Frankenstein; 11 episodes, aired January to March 2016, canceled after one season.
Sense8
Sense8 is a Netflix science fiction drama (2015–2018) created by the Wachowskis and J. Michael Straczynski about eight strangers worldwide who become psychically linked; canceled after 23 episodes, revived for a two-hour finale.
Severance (TV series)
Severance is an Apple TV+ workplace science-fiction thriller created by Dan Erickson, directed and produced by Ben Stiller, starring Adam Scott as Mark Scout at Lumon Industries, whose employees' memories are surgically split between work and personal lives; premiered February 18, 2022, renewed for season 3 with filming underway since July 2026.
Soulmates (TV series)
Soulmates (AMC, 2020) is a six-episode sci-fi anthology created by Will Bridges and Brett Goldstein about a future test that identifies your soulmate; renewed before premiere, cancelled by AMC in 2023.
Stitchers
Stitchers (2015–2017) is an American crime sci-fi drama on ABC Family/Freeform, created by Jeffrey Alan Schechter; Emma Ishta plays Kirsten Clark, who is stitched into dead people's memories; canceled after three seasons, 31 episodes.
Sunny
Sunny (TV series): Apple TV+ sci-fi mystery, 2024, created by Katie Robbins from Colin O'Sullivan's The Dark Manual; Rashida Jones as Suzie in Kyoto with robot Sunny; cancelled after one season.
Supercar (TV series)
Supercar: British 1961-62 children's science-fiction puppet series by Gerry Anderson's AP Films for ATV/ITC, 39 episodes, first Supermarionation screen credit, set at Black Rock, Nevada, voiced by Graydon Gould and David Graham.
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Fox TV series 2008-2009 created by Josh Friedman, starring Lena Headey and Thomas Dekker; a post-Terminator 2 alternate continuation, 31 episodes, canceled on a cliffhanger.
The Bionic Woman
The Bionic Woman is the American science-fiction TV series (1976-1978), a spin-off of The Six Million Dollar Man starring Lindsay Wagner as Jaime Sommers, rebuilt with bionic legs, right arm, and right ear after a skydiving accident; distinct from the 2007 remake.
The Dead Zone (TV series)
The Dead Zone (2002–2007) is a USA Network supernatural drama based on Stephen King's novel, created by Michael and Shawn Piller, starring Anthony Michael Hall as Johnny Smith, a coma survivor with psychic visions; six seasons, 81 episodes, cancelled December 2007.
The Event
The Event (THE EVƎNT) is a 2010-2011 NBC sci-fi conspiracy thriller, 22 episodes, starring Jason Ritter and Blair Underwood; 1944 Alaskan alien crash premise; canceled May 13, 2011 after falling from 10.9 million premiere viewers.
The Feed
The Feed (2019) is a British near-future sci-fi thriller series, also known by its source novel title The Feed by Nick Clark Windo, about a brain implant sharing thoughts and emotions; developed by Channing Powell, co-funded by Virgin Media and Amazon for over $40m, cancelled after one season.
The One
The One is a 2021 British Netflix sci-fi drama created by Howard Overman from John Marrs' 2017 novel, starring Hannah Ware as MatchDNA CEO Rebecca Webb; eight episodes premiered 12 March 2021 and the series was cancelled after one season.
The Power (TV series)
The Power (TV series) is a 2023 Prime Video science fiction drama adapted from Naomi Alderman's 2016 novel, in which teenage girls develop the ability to electrocute at will. One season of nine episodes, starring Toni Collette; cancelled in 2025.
The Six Million Dollar Man
The Six Million Dollar Man: ABC series (1974-1978) starring Lee Majors as Col. Steve Austin, a bionically rebuilt astronaut-agent based on Martin Caidin's 1972 novel Cyborg; distinct from the Assange film The Six Billion Dollar Man.
The Swarm (TV series)
The Swarm (Der Schwarm) is a 2023 eight-part ZDF-led eco-thriller series based on Frank Schätzing's novel, led by Frank Doelger, with a €40–44 million budget, screened at the 2023 Berlinale and aired on The CW in 2023.
The Tomorrow People
The Tomorrow People: British children's sci-fi series by Roger Price for Thames Television/ITV, 1973–1979, about Homo superior teens with telepathy, jaunting and telekinesis; revived on Nickelodeon (1992–95) and The CW (2013–14).
The X-Files
The X-Files is Chris Carter's Fox science-fiction series (1993–2002, plus 2016 and 2018 revivals) about FBI agents Mulder and Scully investigating paranormal cases and an alien-conspiracy mythology; a Ryan Coogler Hulu reimagining was ordered to series in 2026.
Three-Body
Three-Body (三体) is Tencent Video and CCTV's 30-episode 2023 live-action adaptation of the first novel of Liu Cixin's trilogy, directed by Yang Lei, starring Zhang Luyi and Yu Hewei, scoring 8.3 on Douban.
Thunderbirds (TV series)
Thunderbirds is a 1965 British Supermarionation puppet series by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson about International Rescue, the Tracy family, and five Thunderbird machines; 32 episodes, two 1960s films, and revivals in 1991, 2004, and 2015.
Upload (TV series)
Upload is a Prime Video sci-fi comedy created by Greg Daniels, set in 2033, where the dying can upload into corporate virtual afterlives like Lakeview; it ran four seasons, 2020 to 2025.
Utopia (2020 TV series)
Utopia (2020) is an American Prime Video conspiracy thriller by Gillian Flynn, adapting Dennis Kelly's British Channel 4 series; eight episodes starring John Cusack, Rainn Wilson, and Sasha Lane, premiered September 25, 2020 and canceled November 27, 2020 after one season.