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Ajin: Demi-Human (亜人)
Ajin: Demi-Human (亜人) is a seinen manga by Gamon Sakurai serialized in good! Afternoon 2012–2021, complete in 17 volumes, about immortal humans called ajin, protagonist Kei Nagai, antagonist Sato, with anime, Netflix, and live-action adaptations.
Aka Charlie Sheen
Aka Charlie Sheen is Andrew Renzi's two-part 2025 Netflix documentary in which actor Charlie Sheen, seven years sober, recounts his stardom, addiction, HIV disclosure, and recovery, with interviews from Richards, Mueller, Penn, and Cryer.
Akame ga Kill! (アカメが斬る!)
Akame ga Kill! (アカメが斬る!) is a completed dark fantasy manga by Takahiro and Tetsuya Tashiro, serialized in Monthly Gangan Joker 2010–2016 across 15 volumes, adapted into a 24-episode 2014 White Fox anime with a divergent ending.
Akash Vaani
Akash Vaani (ஆகாஷ் வாணி) is a 2022 Tamil romantic comedy web series, aha Tamil's first original, directed by Enoc Able, starring Kavin and Reba Monica John as a divorced couple feigning love at a college reunion; seven episodes, Telugu version 2024.
Aki Sora (あきそら)
Aki Sora (あきそら), also romanized Aki Sora, is a 2008–2011 romance manga by Masahiro Itosugi serialized in Champion Red Ichigo about sibling incest between Aki and Sora, adapted as OVAs and pulled from print by Tokyo's 2011 youth ordinance.
Akira (アキラ) (franchise)
Akira (アキラ) is Katsuhiro Otomo's media franchise: a 1982–1990 Kodansha manga in six volumes, the landmark 1988 anime film set in Neo-Tokyo 2019, games, and a canceled Warner Bros. live-action adaptation whose rights reverted to Kodansha in 2025.
Akudama Drive
Akudama Drive (アクダマドライブ) is a 2020 original cyberpunk TV anime by Studio Pierrot and Too Kyo Games, story by Kazutaka Kodaka, 12 episodes set in a post-war Kansai where criminals called Akudama carry out a heist.
Al Bundy
Al Bundy, played by Ed O'Neill, is the patriarch of Married... with Children (1987–1997), a Chicago women's shoe salesman and former football star; his 1989 censorship controversy helped make FOX's first sitcom a hit.
Al Hayba (الهيبة)
about 20 words: Al Hayba (الهيبة) is a Syrian-Lebanese television drama series about arms smuggling. It premiered in 2017 and reached over 116 million viewers across the Middle East.
Aladdin – Naam Toh Suna Hoga
Aladdin – Naam Toh Suna Hoga (अलादीन - नाम तो सुना होगा) is a Hindi fantasy TV series on Sony SAB (2018–2021, 572 episodes) starring Siddharth Nigam as Aladdin, with Avneet Kaur then Ashi Singh as Yasmine, produced by Peninsula Pictures.
Aladdin (animated TV series)
Aladdin (1994-1997) is Disney Television Animation's 86-episode animated series continuing the 1992 film, airing on Disney Channel, the Disney Afternoon, and CBS, with Dan Castellaneta replacing Robin Williams as Genie; it remains unavailable on US streaming.
Alan Dale
Alan Hugh Dale (born 1947, Dunedin) is a New Zealand actor, Jim Robinson in Neighbours, then US TV authority figures: Caleb Nichol in The O.C., Bradford Meade in Ugly Betty, Charles Widmore in Lost, Joseph Anders in Dynasty. Distinct from the singer Alan Dale (1925–2002).
Alan Partridge
Alan Partridge is a fictional British broadcaster played by Steve Coogan, created in 1991 with Armando Iannucci and Patrick Marber on BBC Radio 4's On the Hour; his vehicles include Knowing Me, Knowing You, I'm Alan Partridge, Alpha Papa, This Time, and From the Oasthouse.
Alaska Daily
Alaska Daily (ABC, 2022-2023) is an American crime drama created by Tom McCarthy, starring Hilary Swank as disgraced journalist Eileen Fitzgerald investigating missing and murdered Indigenous women in Anchorage; canceled after one 11-episode season in May 2023.
Alaska: The Last Frontier
Alaska: The Last Frontier, Discovery Channel reality series (2011–2022, 11 seasons) following the Kilcher family homestead outside Homer, Alaska, settled by Yule and Ruth Kilcher; stars Atz and Otto Kilcher, the former father of singer Jewel.
Alaskan Bush People
Alaskan Bush People is a Discovery Channel reality series (2014-2022, 14 seasons) following Billy, Ami, and their seven Brown children, first in Alaska and later in Washington; it drew persistent accusations of being staged.
Alastor the Radio Demon
Alastor the Radio Demon is a Hazbin Hotel character created by Vivienne Medrano: a deceased New Orleans radio host and serial killer, now a Hell Overlord, voiced by Amir Talai, asexual, and bound by a soul deal.
Alba (2021 TV series)
Alba is a 2021 Spanish drama series by Boomerang TV and Atresmedia, adapted from the Turkish Fatmagül, starring Elena Rivera as a gang-rape survivor fighting the wealthy Entrerríos family; 13 episodes, premiered on Atresplayer, later a Netflix Top 5 international hit.
Alcatraz (TV series)
Alcatraz (2012) was a Fox science fiction drama executive produced by J.J. Abrams, created by Sarnoff, Lilien and Wynbrandt, in which 302 prisoners and guards who vanished from Alcatraz in 1963 reappear unaged in San Francisco; 13 episodes, canceled May 2012.
Alchemy of Souls (환혼)
Alchemy of Souls (환혼, Hwanhon) is a 2022–2023 tvN Korean fantasy drama by the Hong sisters and director Park Joon-hwa, in two parts, set in fictional Daeho where soul-shifting magic (hwanhonsool) traps assassin Naksu's soul in Mu-deok's body.
Aldnoah.Zero
Aldnoah.Zero (アルドノア・ゼロ) is a 2014–2015 mecha anime by Gen Urobuchi and Ei Aoki, produced by A-1 Pictures and TROYCA, about war between Earth and Mars, 24 episodes plus a 2025 EP24.5 Blu-ray coda.
AlDub
AlDub, from Alden Richards and Yaya Dub (Maine Mendoza), was a Philippine love team born 2015 on Eat Bulaga!'s Kalyeserye, ending December 17, 2016; it set Twitter records and drew ratings up to 50 percent.
Alex Drake (Pretty Little Liars)
Alex Drake is the fictional final villain A.D. of Pretty Little Liars, revealed in the June 27, 2017 finale as Spencer Hastings' British identical twin, both played by Troian Bellisario.
Alex Ferns
Alex Ferns (born 1968) is a Scottish actor known as abusive Trevor Morgan in EastEnders (2000-2002), Glukhov in Chernobyl, Commissioner Pete Savage in The Batman, and for BAFTA Scotland-winning and stage work.
Alex Karev
Alex Karev is a fictional surgeon on Grey's Anatomy, played by Justin Chambers from 2005 to 2020 across 16 seasons. Added after test audiences wanted a bad boy, he evolved from abrasive intern to pediatric surgeon, married Jo Wilson, and exited off-screen to reunite with Izzie Stevens in Kansas.
Alex Krycek
Alex Krycek, played by Nicholas Lea, is a recurring double agent and antagonist in The X-Files, introduced in "Sleepless" (1994) as Mulder's partner spying for the Cigarette Smoking Man, later a rogue operative killed in "Existence."
Alex P. Keaton
Alex P. Keaton is the fictional Young Republican eldest son, played by Michael J. Fox, on NBC's Family Ties (1982–1989), the conservative child of ex-hippie parents who became the show's breakout character and won Fox three consecutive Emmys.
Alex Rider (ΔLEX) (TV series)
Alex Rider (ΔLEX) is a British spy thriller TV series (2020–2024) adapted from Anthony Horowitz's novels by Eleventh Hour Films for Sony Pictures Television, starring Otto Farrant; three seasons on Amazon Prime Video, IMDb TV, and Freevee, based on Point Blanc, Eagle Strike, and Scorpia.
Alex Vause
Alex Vause is the fictional Litchfield inmate and Piper Chapman's ex-lover in Netflix's Orange Is the New Black, played by Laura Prepon and loosely based on Catherine Cleary Wolters (Nora Jansen in Kerman's memoir).
Alex, Inc.
Alex, Inc. is an ABC single-camera sitcom (2018) starring Zach Braff as radio journalist Alex Schuman, adapted loosely from Alex Blumberg's Gimlet Media podcast StartUp. Ten episodes aired March 28 to May 16, 2018; ABC canceled it after one season amid low ratings.