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High Cookie

High Cookie (하이쿠키, Hi Cookie) is a 2023 South Korean U+ Mobile TV fantasy thriller, 20 episodes, directed by Song Min-yeop, written by Kang Han, starring Nam Ji-hyun, Choi Hyun-wook, Kim Mu-yeol, and Jung Da-bin; a wish-granting cookie spreads through an elite high school.

High Country (TV series)

High Country is an Australian mystery drama series created by Marcia Gardner and John Ridley for Foxtel/Binge, starring Leah Purcell as Detective Andie Whitford investigating five missing persons in the Victorian High Country; season 1 aired 2024, season 2 (What Lies Beneath) premiered 14 September 2026.

High Desert

High Desert: Apple TV+ dark comedy (2023) created by Nancy Fichman, Katie Ford, and Jennifer Hoppe, starring Patricia Arquette as Yucca Valley addict-turned-private-investigator Peggy Newman; directed by Jay Roach, executive produced by Ben Stiller, canceled after one season.

High Fidelity (TV series)

High Fidelity (2020 Hulu series): American comedy-drama adapted from Nick Hornby's 1995 novel, gender-flipping the 2000 John Cusack film. Zoë Kravitz stars as Rob Brooks, a Brooklyn record store owner; canceled after one 10-episode season.

High Heat

High Heat (Donde hubo fuego) is a 2022 Mexican Netflix action-drama series, 39 episodes, created by José Ignacio Valenzuela and produced by Argos, in which Poncho infiltrates a Mexico City fire station to solve his twin brother's murder.

High Kick: Revenge of the Short Legged (하이킥: 짧은 다리의 역습)

High Kick: Revenge of the Short Legged (하이킥: 짧은 다리의 역습), a 123-episode MBC daily sitcom aired 2011-09-19 to 2012-03-29 at 7:45 pm; third and final High Kick series, directed by Kim Byung-wook, about a bankrupt family living with in-laws, 12.7% average rating.

High Maintenance

High Maintenance is an American anthology comedy-drama created by Katja Blichfeld and Ben Sinclair, about a Brooklyn weed dealer called The Guy; a Vimeo web series (2012, 19 episodes) that ran four HBO seasons, 34 episodes, 2016-2020.

High Potential

High Potential is an American crime drama on ABC starring Kaitlin Olson as a high-IQ single mother consulting for the Los Angeles police, adapted from the French series HPI.

High Priestess

High Priestess is a 2019 Telugu-language supernatural thriller ZEE5 web series, also called The High Priestess, directed by Pushpa Ignatius, produced by Krishna, starring Amala Akkineni as psychic tarot reader Swathi Reddy across eight episodes.

High School

High School is a 2022 Amazon Freevee comedy-drama based on Tegan and Sara Quin's 2019 memoir, created by Clea DuVall, starring TikTok twins Railey and Seazynn Gilliland; cancelled after one season in 2024.

High School Frenemy (High School Frenemy มิตรภาพคราบศัตรู)

High School Frenemy (มิตรภาพคราบศัตรู) is a 2024 GMMTV Thai teen drama on GMM25, a remake of Korea's School 2013, starring Sky Wongravee as Saint and Nani Hirunkit as Shin, former friends reunited by a school merger; 16 episodes aired October–December 2024.

High School King of Savvy (고교처세왕)

High School King of Savvy (고교처세왕) is a 2014 South Korean romantic comedy series on tvN, starring Seo In-guk, Lee Ha-na, Lee Soo-hyuk, and Lee Yul-eum.

High School Musical: The Musical: The Series

High School Musical: The Musical: The Series is a Disney+ mockumentary musical drama created by Tim Federle, running four seasons from 2019 to 2023, following East High drama students staging HSM productions with original songs and Rodrigo's hit "All I Want".

High School Mystery Club (여고추리반)

High School Mystery Club (여고추리반, Girls' High School Mystery Class) is TVING's first original Korean mystery-adventure variety series (2021), directed by Jeong Jong-yeon, starring Park Ji-yoon, Jang Do-yeon, JaeJae, BIBI, and Choi Ye-na as transfer students solving school mysteries across three seasons.

High School Return of a Gangster (조폭인 내가 고등학생이 되었습니다)

High School Return of a Gangster (조폭인 내가 고등학생이 되었습니다), also known as I, A Gangster, Became A High School Student, is a 2024 South Korean fantasy drama, 8 episodes on Wavve and TVING, adapted from Horol's BL web novel with the romance removed, starring Yoon Chan-young, Bong Jae-hyun, and Lee Seo-jin.

High Score

High Score is a 2020 Netflix six-part documentary limited series on the history of classic video games, from Pac-Man to Doom, directed by France Costrel and narrated by Charles Martinet.

High Seas (TV series)

High Seas (Alta mar) is a Spanish Netflix mystery thriller (2019–2020) created by Ramón Campos and Gema R. Neira, set on the 1940s liner Bárbara de Braganza from Spain to Brazil, three seasons, 22 episodes, starring Ivana Baquero.

High Society (상류사회) (2015 TV series)

High Society (상류사회, Sangryusawhe) is a 2015 SBS Korean Monday-Tuesday melodrama, 16 episodes, June 8 to July 28, 2015, by writer Ha Myung-Hee and director Choi Young Hoon, starring Uee, Sung Joon, Park Hyung-Sik, and Lim Ji-Yeon. It follows a chaebol heiress hiding her wealth; ratings peaked at 10.1%.

High Value Target: The Hunt for Saddam

High Value Target: The Hunt for Saddam is a 2026 TNT eight-episode political thriller limited series starring Joel Kinnaman as CIA analyst John Nixon and Waleed Zuaiter as Saddam Hussein, based on Nixon's memoir Debriefing the President, shot in Cairo, and covering the December 2003 capture and interrogation.

High Water

High Water (Wielka woda) is a 2022 Polish six-episode Netflix limited drama directed by Jan Holoubek and Bartłomiej Ignaciuk, dramatizing the July 1997 Millennium Flood threatening Wrocław, starring Agnieszka Żulewska, Tomasz Schuchardt, and Ireneusz Czop.

High-End Crush (고품격 짝사랑)

High-End Crush (고품격 짝사랑, 高品格單戀) is a 2015 Korean-Chinese web romantic comedy, 20 episodes of ~15 minutes, starring Jung Il-woo and Jin Se-yeon, produced by Kim Jong-hak Production and Sohu.com, which drew 120 million Sohu views by January 2016.

High-Rise Invasion

High-Rise Invasion (天空侵犯, Tenkū Shinpan) is a Japanese survival horror manga by Tsuina Miura and Takahiro Oba: 21 volumes, 258 chapters on Manga Box, sequel Arrive, and a 12-episode Zero-G Netflix anime released February 25, 2021.

High&Low

High&Low names two unrelated Japanese screen works: High and Low (Tengoku to jigoku, Kurosawa's 1963 kidnapping thriller based on Ed McBain's King's Ransom) and HiGH&LOW, the Nippon TV and LDH Japan action franchise begun in 2015.

Highlander (franchise)

Highlander is a media franchise from the 1986 Russell Mulcahy film about immortal warriors fighting by beheading for the Prize, spanning five films, the 1992-1998 TV series with Duncan MacLeod, an anime, and a Henry Cavill-Chad Stahelski reboot.

Highlander: The Series

Highlander: The Series (1992–1998), a Franco-Canadian syndicated science fantasy series starring Adrian Paul as Duncan MacLeod, cousin of film hero Connor MacLeod, set in an alternate timeline where the Gathering still continues.

Highschool of the Dead (学園黙示録)

Highschool of the Dead (学園黙示録, Gakuen Mokushiroku) is an unfinished seven-volume zombie-survival manga by Daisuke Satō (story) and Shōji Satō (art), serialized in Monthly Dragon Age, adapted by Madhouse into a 2010 twelve-episode anime plus the Drifters of the DEAD OVA.

Hightown (TV series)

Hightown is a Starz crime drama (2020–2024) created by Rebecca Perry Cutter, set in Provincetown, Cape Cod, starring Monica Raymund as fisheries agent Jackie Quiñones; three seasons, 25 episodes, later a Netflix Top 10 title.

Highway Thru Hell

Highway Thru Hell is a Canadian docuseries (2012–, Discovery Canada/USA Network) following Jamie Davis Motor Truck and other heavy recovery firms clearing wrecks on British Columbia's Coquihalla Highway, narrated by Dave Pettitt, produced by Great Pacific Media, with 14 seasons and spin-off Heavy Rescue: 401.

Highway to Heaven

Highway to Heaven, NBC drama series 1984–1989 created by Michael Landon, who starred as probationary angel Jonathan Smith with Victor French as ex-cop Mark Gordon; 111 episodes, Henry Mancini theme, later Touched by an Angel comparison.

Hikaru no Go (棋魂)

Hikaru no Go (棋魂, Qi Hun) is a 2020 Chinese drama adapted from the Japanese manga, starring Hu Xianxu and streaming on iQIYI in 36 episodes.