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Father of the Pride

Father of the Pride is a 2004 NBC computer-animated sitcom by DreamWorks and Hong Kong's Imagi about the white lions in Siegfried & Roy's Las Vegas act; it premiered August 31, 2004, cost about $1.6-2 million per episode, and was cancelled after 13 episodes.

Father Ted

Father Ted is a Channel 4 sitcom (1995-1998) by Graham Linehan and Arthur Mathews, produced by Hat Trick Productions, about three priests exiled to the fictional Craggy Island, starring Dermot Morgan, Ardal O'Hanlon, Frank Kelly, and Pauline McLynn; a BAFTA-winning classic ranked second among British sitcoms in a 2019 Radio Times poll.

Fatma

Fatma is a 2021 Turkish Netflix crime-drama miniseries, six episodes released 27 April 2021, written by Özgür Önürme and starring Burcu Biricik as a cleaner who becomes an invisible killer while searching for her missing husband Zafer.

Fatmagül'ün Suçu Ne?

Fatmagül'ün Suçu Ne? (What Is Fatmagül's Fault?) is a Turkish drama by Vedat Türkali: a 1986 film starring Hülya Avşar, adapted into a 2010–2012 Kanal D series (80 episodes, Beren Saat, Engin Akyürek) about a rape victim forced to marry a perpetrator; it is a screenplay, not a novel.

Fauda (فوضى)

Fauda (فوضى, "chaos") is an Israeli action thriller created by Lior Raz and Avi Issacharoff, premiering on yes on 15 February 2015. It follows undercover Mista'arvim agents pursuing Hamas operatives, streams globally on Netflix, and has reached Netflix top 10 charts in Arab countries.

Fawlty Towers

Fawlty Towers: British BBC Two sitcom by John Cleese and Connie Booth, 12 episodes in 1975 and 1979, set in a Torquay hotel run by Basil Fawlty; inspired by Gleneagles hotelier Donald Sinclair; repeatedly voted Britain's greatest sitcom.

FBI (TV series)

FBI is an American CBS police procedural premiering September 25, 2018, from Dick Wolf's Wolf Entertainment, following New York FBI agents Maggie Bell and OA Zidan; it spawned Most Wanted, International, and CIA spinoffs.

FBI True

FBI True is a Paramount+ true-crime docuseries premiering February 28, 2023, from FBI co-creator Craig Turk and retired agent Anne Beagan, in which real FBI agents recount cases like Waco and the Boston Marathon bombing in agent-to-agent conversations.

FBI: International

FBI: International, also FBI: International (CBS), an American police procedural (2021–2025) following the FBI's Budapest-based International Fly Team tracking threats to Americans abroad; co-created by Dick Wolf and Derek Haas, canceled in 2025 after four seasons.

FBI: Most Wanted

FBI: Most Wanted is a CBS crime drama, the first spin-off of Dick Wolf's FBI, following the Fugitive Task Force hunting the Bureau's Most Wanted list; created by René Balcer, it ran six seasons (2020–2025) before cancellation.

Fear (2025 TV series)

Fear (2025 TV series): three-part British psychological thriller on Prime Video UK/Ireland, 4 March 2025, starring Martin Compston, Anjli Mohindra, Solly McLeod; adapted from Dirk Kurbjuweit's novel, set in Glasgow, directed by Justin Chadwick.

Fear Factor: House of Fear

Fear Factor: House of Fear is a 2026 FOX reality competition hosted by Johnny Knoxville, produced by Endemol Shine North America, in which 14 contestants face fear-based stunts in a Vancouver mansion for $200,000; renewed for season two.

Fear the Walking Dead

Fear the Walking Dead is AMC's 2015–2023 post-apocalyptic horror series, the first spin-off of The Walking Dead, created by Robert Kirkman and Dave Erickson, running eight seasons from a Los Angeles prequel to a concurrent crossover storyline.

Fear the Walking Dead: Flight 462

Fear the Walking Dead: Flight 462 is AMC's 16-part 2015–2016 web series following airline passengers during the outbreak's start; its crash and survivors Alex and Jake cross into Fear the Walking Dead season 2's "Ouroboros".

Fearless

Fearless (2016 Netflix documentary series, Portuguese-language) follows Brazilian PBR bull riders from Barretos to the Las Vegas World Finals; six episodes, directed by Michael John Warren, Boardwalk Pictures, premiered August 19, 2016.

Feel Good (TV series)

Feel Good is a British semi-autobiographical Channel 4 and Netflix comedy-drama (2020-2021, 12 episodes) co-created by Mae Martin and Joe Hampson, following a recovering addict comedian's relationship with George; critically acclaimed, BAFTA-nominated.

Feels Like Ishq

Feels Like Ishq is a 2021 Hindi-language Netflix anthology of six roughly 30-minute short films about young love, directed by Ruchir Arun, Tahira Kashyap Khurrana, Anand Tiwari, Danish Aslam, Jaydeep Sarkar, and Sachin Kundalkar, produced by Mutant Films and Awesomeness TV, starring Radhika Madan, Amol Parashar, and Rohit Saraf, released 23 July 2021.

Felicity (TV series)

Felicity (1998-2002) is a WB coming-of-age drama created by J.J. Abrams and Matt Reeves, starring Keri Russell as a student who follows a crush from Stanford premed to college in New York; famous for the season 2 haircut controversy and Russell's 1999 Golden Globe.

Felicity Smoak (Arrowverse)

Felicity Smoak (Arrowverse) is the hacker and Overwatch of Team Arrow on The CW's Arrow (2012-2020), played by Emily Bett Rickards. Adapted from a 1984 Firestorm comic character, she was meant as a one-off but became Oliver Queen's wife and a series central figure.

Fellow Travelers (miniseries)

Fellow Travelers (2023 Showtime/Paramount+ limited series) is Ron Nyswaner's eight-episode adaptation of Thomas Mallon's 2007 novel, starring Matt Bomer and Jonathan Bailey as lovers from the McCarthy-era Lavender Scare to the AIDS crisis.

Feludar Goyendagiri

Feludar Goyendagiri (ফেলুদার গোয়েন্দাগিরি) is Satyajit Ray's first Feluda story, published in Sandesh in December 1965, and a Hoichoi Bengali web series (2022– ) starring Tota Roy Choudhury adapting Feluda mysteries.

Fena: Pirate Princess (賊王女)

Fena: Pirate Princess (海賊王女, Kaizoku Ōjo) is a 2021 original 12-episode anime by Production I.G, directed by Kazuto Nakazawa with music by Yuki Kajiura, co-produced by Crunchyroll and Adult Swim; orphan Fena Houtman voyages with samurai to solve the mystery of "Eden."

Fennec Shand

Fennec Shand is a Star Wars assassin and elite mercenary played and voiced by Ming-Na Wen, first appearing in The Mandalorian episode "The Gunslinger" (December 6, 2019), later Boba Fett's cybernetically rebuilt partner in The Book of Boba Fett and The Bad Batch.

Ferb Fletcher

Ferb Fletcher is the quiet British stepbrother of Phineas Flynn in Disney's animated series Phineas and Ferb, voiced by Thomas Brodie-Sangster (seasons 1–4) and David Errigo Jr. (season 5 onward), known for engineering skill and few words.

Ferengi

Ferengi: fictional Star Trek alien species, first seen in TNG's "The Last Outpost" (1987), defined by profit-seeking, the Rules of Acquisition, latinum currency, and patriarchal society; later reformed under Grand Nagus Rom.

Fernanda Castillo

Fernanda Castillo (María Fernanda Castillo García), Mexican actress born 1982 in Hermosillo, Sonora; known for Mónica Robles in El Señor de los Cielos, Férula in La casa de los espíritus (2026), and Diosa de Plata and Canacine awards. Not the Chilean Teatro Biobío director of the same name.

Fernando Colunga

Fernando Colunga Olivares (born 1966) is a Mexican telenovela actor known for María la del barrio, La usurpadora, Amor real, and Soy tu dueña; former civil engineering student, stunt double, later Netflix's El secreto de la familia Greco.

Ferris Bueller (TV series)

Ferris Bueller (NBC, 1990–1991) was a 13-episode sitcom based on the 1986 film, starring Charlie Schlatter and Jennifer Aniston, cancelled mid-season after poor ratings and negative reviews.

Fetch! with Ruff Ruffman

Fetch! with Ruff Ruffman (FETCH!) is a PBS Kids Go! children's reality game show, WGBH-produced, hosted by animated dog Ruff Ruffman (Jim Conroy), running 100 episodes over five seasons from May 29, 2006 to November 4, 2010, ended for lack of funding, with spinoff The Ruff Ruffman Show.

Feud (TV series)

Feud is Ryan Murphy's FX anthology drama series. Installments: Bette and Joan (2017, Davis/Crawford) and Capote vs. The Swans (2024, based on Laurence Leamer's Capote's Women), starring Jessica Lange, Susan Sarandon, and Tom Hollander.