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Fresh Off the Boat

Fresh Off the Boat is an American family sitcom that aired on ABC from 2015 to 2020, following a Taiwanese American family that moves to Orlando, Florida, in 1995.

Friday Night Baseball

Friday Night Baseball is MLB's exclusive weekly Friday doubleheader on Apple TV, launched in 2022 under a seven-year deal worth about $50 million per year, available in 60 countries, and known for iPhone-camera and Apple Immersive production firsts.

Friday Night Dinner

Friday Night Dinner is a Channel 4 British sitcom (2011–2020) by Robert Popper about the secular Jewish Goodman family's weekly Shabbat meal, starring Tamsin Greig, Paul Ritter, Simon Bird and Tom Rosenthal, based on Popper's own family.

Friday Night Lights (TV series)

Friday Night Lights (2006–2011) is an American drama series about a Texas high school football team in fictional Dillon, developed by Peter Berg and showrun by Jason Katims from Bissinger's 1990 book; it ran five seasons, 76 episodes, and won a Peabody and three Emmys.

Friday the 13th: The Series

Friday the 13th: The Series is a horror show that aired from 1987 to 1990. It follows an antique shop that deals in cursed items, unlike the slasher films.

Fridays (TV series)

Fridays was ABC's late-night live sketch-comedy series (April 11, 1980 to April 23, 1982), an SNL competitor from Studio 55, Los Angeles, whose cast included Larry David and Michael Richards and featured the staged 1981 Andy Kaufman brawl.

Friendly Rivalry

Friendly Rivalry (선의의 경쟁, Seonuiui Gyeongjaeng), also called Friendly Competition, is a 2025 South Korean mystery thriller adapted from Song Chae-yoon's webtoon, starring Lee Hye-ri and Chung Su-bin at elite Chaehwa Girls' High School; 16 episodes aired on U+ Mobile TV, February 10 to March 6, 2025.

Friends

Friends (1994-2004) is the NBC sitcom by David Crane and Marta Kauffman about six twenty-somethings in New York, starring Aniston, Cox, Kudrow, LeBlanc, Perry, and Schwimmer, famed for Central Perk and its ensemble format.

Friends from College

Friends from College is a Netflix comedy series (2017-2019) created by Nicholas Stoller and Francesca Delbanco about six Harvard friends in their forties, starring Keegan-Michael Key and Cobie Smulders; canceled after 2 seasons, 16 episodes.

Friends: The Reunion

Friends: The Reunion (2021), an unscripted HBO Max special directed by Ben Winston, reunited Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, Matthew Perry, and David Schwimmer on Stage 24 on May 27, 2021, with celebrity guests and no scripted scenes.

Friendship Is Witchcraft

Friendship Is Witchcraft (FiW) is a fan-made abridged parody series of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic by Jenny Nicholson and Griffin Lewis as Sherclop Pones, on YouTube 2011–2016, nine episodes plus specials, original songs, and the robot Sweetie Bot.

Frieren (TV series)

Frieren: Beyond Journey's End (葬送のフリーレン) is a Madhouse TV anime adapted from Kanehito Yamada and Tsukasa Abe's manga. Season 1 (28 episodes, 2023–24, dir. Keiichiro Saitō) and season 2 (January 2026, dir. Tomoya Kitagawa) aired on Nippon TV; season 3 is set for October 2027.

Frieren (葬送のフリーレン)

Frieren (葬送のフリーレン, Beyond Journey's End) is a Shogakukan Weekly Shonen Sunday fantasy manga by Kanehito Yamada and Tsukasa Abe, serialized since April 2020 about an elven mage traveling after her hero party's era; Manga Taisho 2021 winner with 35 million copies and a hit Madhouse anime.

Frieza (フリーザ)

Frieza (フリーザ, also Freeza) is Akira Toriyama's Dragon Ball villain, the 'Emperor of the Universe' who destroyed Planet Vegeta; four forms, first-form power level 530,000, Golden Frieza, and the roughly 3.5-hour Namek fight.

Fright Krewe

Fright Krewe is a DreamWorks Animation 2D animated horror series created by Eli Roth and James Frey, streaming on Hulu and Peacock since October 2, 2023, about five New Orleans teens given Loa powers to fight the demon Belial.

Fringe (TV series)

Fringe (2008–2013) is an American Fox science fiction series by Abrams, Kurtzman, and Orci: 5 seasons, 100 episodes, FBI Fringe Division, Olivia Dunham, Walter and Peter Bishop, and a parallel-universe war, often compared with The X-Files.

Frisco Jones and Felicia Cummings

Frisco Jones and Felicia Cummings are a divorced supercouple from ABC's General Hospital: Frisco, a singer-turned-cop and WSB spy (Jack Wagner, from January 1984), and Felicia, an Aztec princess (Kristina Wagner, from September 1984). They wed June 23, 1986, had daughters Maxie and Georgie, and separated; Felicia later married Mac Scorpio.

Frisco King

Frisco King (formerly NOLA King) is a 2026 Paramount+ crime drama-comedy, a Tulsa King spin-off starring Samuel L. Jackson as gangster Russell Lee Washington Jr. in Frisco, Texas; eight episodes written by Taylor Sheridan premiere December 18, 2026.

Frisky Dingo

Frisky Dingo is an Adult Swim animated comedy (2006–2008, 25 episodes) by Matt Thompson and Adam Reed, pitting supervillain Killface against the billionaire hero Awesome X; it was the forerunner of Archer and was canceled after two seasons.

From (TV series)

From (TV series): American sci-fi horror drama on MGM+, created by John Griffin, directed by Jack Bender, starring Harold Perrineau; trapped-town mystery with nocturnal monsters, 2022–2026, renewed for season 5.

From Dusk till Dawn: The Series

From Dusk till Dawn: The Series (2014–2016) is Robert Rodriguez's El Rey Network supernatural crime series adapting his 1996 film: 30 episodes, three seasons, culebra vampire mythology, starring D.J. Cotrona, Zane Holtz, and Eiza González.

From Scratch (TV series)

From Scratch is a 2022 Netflix eight-episode limited drama created by sisters Attica and Tembi Locke, adapted from Tembi's memoir about her marriage to Sicilian Saro Gullo, starring Zoe Saldaña as Amy Wheeler and Eugenio Mastrandrea as Lino.

From the Earth to the Moon (miniseries)

From the Earth to the Moon is HBO's 12-part 1998 docudrama miniseries on the Apollo program, created by Tom Hanks with Imagine Entertainment, premiering April 5, 1998, budgeted at $65 million, winning the 1998 Emmy for Outstanding Miniseries after a public category dispute with the networks.

Frontier (2016 TV series)

Frontier is a Canadian-American historical drama series starring Jason Momoa as outlaw trapper Declan Harp, who campaigns to break the Hudson's Bay Company's fur-trade monopoly in 1700s Canada.

Frontline

Frontline is an American investigative documentary series produced at GBH in Boston and broadcast on PBS since 1983, created by David Fanning and narrated for decades by Will Lyman.

Frontline (Australian TV series)

Frontline is an Australian ABC TV satirical comedy (1994–1997) by Working Dog Productions, a behind-the-scenes parody of a ratings-driven current affairs program hosted by Mike Moore (Rob Sitch), winner of 1996 AFI, ATOM, and Logie awards.

Fruit Love Island

Fruit Love Island, also called AI Fruit Love Island, was a 2026 TikTok microdrama by anonymous account AI Cinema (@ai.cinema021) parodying Love Island with AI-generated anthropomorphic fruit; it gained 3 million followers in nine days, 300 million views, then ended after takedowns on March 28, 2026.

Fruits Basket

Fruits Basket (フルーツバスケット) is Natsuki Takaya's shōjo manga about Tohru Honda and the zodiac-cursed Sohma family, serialized 1998–2006 in Hana to Yume, 23 volumes, 30 million copies, adapted as a 2001 anime and a complete 2019–2021 reboot.

Fruits Basket (フルーツバスケット) (2019 TV series)

Fruits Basket (フルーツバスケット, 2019) is TMS Entertainment's 63-episode anime reboot of Natsuki Takaya's manga, directed by Yoshihide Ibata with author supervision and a new cast, airing in three seasons 2019–2021, unlike the 26-episode 2001 Studio Deen adaptation.

FUBAR (TV series)

FUBAR is a Netflix action-comedy spy series created by Nick Santora, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger in his first TV lead as CIA operative Luke Brunner opposite Monica Barbaro's Emma. Two seasons, 2023–2025, 16 episodes, cancelled August 2025.