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Adrian Monk

Adrian Monk, the Obsessive Compulsive Detective, is the fictional San Francisco private eye played by Tony Shalhoub in the USA series Monk (2002-2009) and the 2023 film Mr. Monk's Last Case, defined by OCD, hundreds of phobias, and his wife Trudy's unsolved murder.

Adriana La Cerva

Adriana La Cerva is a fictional character on HBO's The Sopranos, played by Drea de Matteo; girlfriend of Christopher Moltisanti, FBI informant, killed by Silvio Dante in "Long Term Parking"; Emmy-winning role (2004).

Adrianne Curry

Adrianne Curry (Adrianne Marie Curry-Rhode), born 1982 in Joliet, Illinois, is the American model who won the first cycle of America's Next Top Model in 2003, later starred in My Fair Brady, and now lives in Montana selling Avon.

Adrien Agreste

Adrien Agreste (アドリアン・アグレスト), also Cat Noir/Chat Noir, is the fictional co-protagonist of Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir: a teenage model, son of designer-villain Gabriel Agreste, holder of the Cat Miraculous ring with kwami Plagg and the destruction power Cataclysm.

Adult Trainee (어른연습생)

Adult Trainee (어른연습생) is a 2021 TVING original South Korean comedy-romance web drama, 7 episodes aired Fridays November 12-26, 2021, about three high schoolers' love and sexual concerns, starring Ryoo Ui-hyun, (G)I-DLE's Miyeon, and Ryeoun.

Adulting (TV series)

Adulting (TV series) covers several unrelated shows sharing the title: Dice Media's Indian Mumbai web series (2018–2022), Showmax's South African drama (2023– ), and American #Adulting web series, plus the slang term behind the name.

Adults (TV series)

Adults is an FX/Hulu ensemble comedy created by Ben Kronengold and Rebecca Shaw about five twenty-something friends in Queens, New York. Premiered May 28, 2025; renewed for a second season in October 2025; stars Malik Elassal, Lucy Freyer, Jack Innanen, Amita Rao, and Owen Thiele.

Advanced Dungeons & Dragons (Community)

"Advanced Dungeons & Dragons" is Community season 2 episode 14 (NBC, February 3, 2011), in which the study group plays D&D with suicidal classmate Fat Neil while Pierce crashes the game; removed from Netflix and Hulu in June 2020 over Chang's dark-elf costume.

Adventure Time

Adventure Time is an American animated series created by Pendleton Ward for Cartoon Network (2010–2018, 10 seasons, 283 episodes) about Finn and his shape-shifting dog Jake in the post-apocalyptic Land of Ooo; spin-offs include Fionna and Cake and Side Quests.

Adventure Time: Distant Lands

Adventure Time: Distant Lands is a 2020-2021 HBO Max miniseries of four specials (BMO, Obsidian, Wizard City, Together Again) continuing the Cartoon Network series, created by Pendleton Ward, scoring 82 on Metacritic and 92% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake

Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake is a Max animated spin-off of Adventure Time starring gender-swapped Finn and Jake counterparts Fionna and Cake, created by Natasha Allegri, showrunner Adam Muto; season 1 premiered August 31, 2023, season 2 aired October–December 2025.

Adventure Time: Side Quests

Adventure Time: Side Quests is a 2026 animated prequel spinoff of Adventure Time following young Finn and Jake in Ooo; 40 episodes, premiered June 29, 2026 on Hulu and Disney+, with Victor Courtright as supervising director and Sasha Knight voicing Finn.

Adventures of Superman (TV series)

Adventures of Superman (1952–1958) was the first live-action Superman TV series, syndicated, 104 episodes, starring George Reeves with Phyllis Coates then Noel Neill as Lois Lane, shot in color from 1954.

Advocate Achinta Aich

Advocate Achinta Aich (অ্যাডভোকেট অচিন্ত্য আইচ) is a Bengali courtroom drama web series on hoichoi, directed by Joydeep Mukherjee, starring Ritwick Chakraborty as a notary lawyer; three seasons from 2024, 2025, and 2026.

Advocate Anjali Awasthi

Advocate Anjali Awasthi (एडवोकेट अंजलि अवस्थी), also retitled Aarti Anjali Awasthi, is a Hindi StarPlus courtroom drama (2024–2026), a remake of Bengali Geeta LLB starring Shritama Mitra and Ankit Raizada, ending 31 May 2026.

Aema

Aema (애마) is a 2025 Netflix Korean limited series, six episodes, written and directed by Lee Hae-young, starring Lee Hanee, Bang Hyo-rin, Jin Sun-kyu, and Cho Hyun-chul. Set in 1980s Chungmuro, it fictionalizes the making of the 1982 erotic film Madame Aema under Chun Doo-hwan's 3S policy.

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.

Aeterna

Aeterna (Этерна) is a 2025 Russian fantasy series on Kinopoisk, adapted from Vera Kamsha's cycle Otbleski Eterny; a reboot of the poorly received 2022 pilot film, six episodes directed by Sergei Trofimov.

AEW Dark

AEW Dark was All Elite Wrestling's weekly YouTube web series (October 8, 2019 to April 25, 2023, 193 episodes) showing untelevised Dynamite matches; ended by the Warner Bros. Discovery deal, briefly revived as Dark: Stocking Stuffer in Cardiff, 2025.

Affair (รักเล่นกล)

Affair (รักเล่นกล) is a 2024 Thai girls' love drama on Channel One31, adapted from an online novel by เจ้าปลาน้อย, starring Sonya Saranphat Pedersen and Lukmhee Panyaphat Wongphongsathapon as lovers separated for thirteen years.

African Queens

African Queens is a 2023 Netflix docudrama series from Jada Pinkett Smith's Westbrook Studios and Nutopia, covering Queen Njinga of Angola (season 1) and Queen Cleopatra (season 2), with mixed critical and audience reception.

Afro Samurai (アフロサムライ)

Afro Samurai (アフロサムライ) is a Japanese action manga by Takashi Okazaki, set in a futuristic feudal Japan and best known through its 2007 anime starring Samuel L. Jackson.

Afsos

Afsos (अफ़सोस, "regret") is a 2020 Hindi black comedy miniseries on Amazon Prime Video, created by Anirban Dasgupta and Dibya Chatterjee, directed by Anubhuti Kashyap, about a suicidal writer who hires his own killer amid an immortality-elixir plot.

After Life (TV series)

After Life is a 2019-2022 Netflix dark comedy-drama created, written, and directed by Ricky Gervais, who stars as Tony, a Tambury newspaper writer grieving his wife Lisa's death from cancer across three seasons.

After Midnight (TV series)

After Midnight was a CBS late-night comedy panel game show hosted by Taylor Tomlinson, a 2024 reboot of Comedy Central's @midnight, airing after Colbert; 199 episodes, canceled 2025.

After School Club (애프터 스쿨 클럽)

After School Club (애프터 스쿨 클럽) was Arirang TV's live English-language K-pop talk show (2013–2025, 671 episodes) connecting idols with global fans via Google Hangouts video calls and social media.

After the Party (TV series)

After the Party: New Zealand six-part drama (2023, TVNZ 1), created by Robyn Malcolm and Dianne Taylor, starring Malcolm as teacher Penny who accuses ex-husband Phil of a sex crime; distinct from the Apple comedy The Afterparty.

After the Rain (恋は雨上がりのように) (manga)

After the Rain (恋は雨上がりのように, Koi wa Ameagari no You ni) is a 2014–2018 romance manga by Jun Mayuzuki about 17-year-old Akira Tachibana and 45-year-old restaurant manager Kondo, adapted into a 2018 WIT Studio anime and live-action film, winner of the 63rd Shogakukan Manga Award.

After the Thrones

After the Thrones was a 2016 HBO Now aftershow recapping Game of Thrones season 6, hosted by Andy Greenwald and Chris Ryan for Bill Simmons' The Ringer, cancelled after 10 episodes.

AfterMASH

AfterMASH (アフターマッシュ), CBS sitcom 1983–1985 spinning off M*A*S*H's Potter, Klinger, and Mulcahy at a Missouri veterans' hospital; strong first season, then cancelled opposite The A-Team, finale unaired, never released on home video.