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American Horror Story: Asylum
American Horror Story: Asylum, the 13-episode second season of FX's anthology (2012), set in 1964 at the fictional Briarcliff Manor asylum, starring Jessica Lange as Sister Jude; 84% on Rotten Tomatoes and two Emmy wins.
American Horror Story: Coven
American Horror Story: Coven is the third season of the FX anthology (2013, 13 episodes), set in post-Katrina New Orleans at Miss Robichaux's Academy, pitting Salem-descended witches led by Fiona Goode against Marie Laveau's voodooists; 85% on Rotten Tomatoes.
American Horror Story: Delicate
American Horror Story: Delicate is the 12th season of the FX anthology, the first adapted from a book, Danielle Valentine's Delicate Condition. It stars Emma Roberts and Kim Kardashian, premiered September 20, 2023, and ran 9 episodes in two parts.
American Horror Story: Murder House
American Horror Story: Murder House is the 2011 first season of the FX anthology series by Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk, following the Harmon family in a haunted Los Angeles house, with Dylan McDermott, Connie Britton, and Jessica Lange.
American Hostage (TV series)
American Hostage is a 2026 MGM+ psychological true-crime anthology thriller created by Shawn Ryan and Eileen Myers, based on a 2022 scripted podcast, dramatizing the real 1977 Indianapolis hostage crisis in which Tony Kiritsis abducted Dick Hall; Jon Hamm plays radio reporter Fred Heckman.
American Housewife
American Housewife is an ABC family sitcom (2016-2021, five seasons, 103 episodes) created by Sarah Dunn, originally titled The Second Fattest Housewife in Westport, starring Katy Mixon as Katie Otto in Westport, Connecticut; canceled May 2021, later syndicated.
American Idol
American Idol, adapted from Britain's Pop Idol, is a US TV singing competition that premiered on Fox June 11, 2002, moved to ABC in 2018, and lets viewers vote by phone, text, online, and since 2026 social media.
American Murder: Gabby Petito
American Murder: Gabby Petito is a three-part Netflix true crime docuseries, premiered February 17, 2025, directed by Julia Willoughby Nason and Michael Gasparro, about the 2021 killing of vlogger Gabby Petito by Brian Laundrie.
American Nightmare (TV series)
American Nightmare is a 2024 Netflix three-part true-crime docuseries by Felicity Morris and Bernadette Higgins about the 2015 Vallejo kidnapping of Denise Huskins, dismissed by police as a Gone Girl-style hoax until Matthew Muller was caught.
American Ninja Warrior Junior
American Ninja Warrior Junior is a children's obstacle-course competition series (2018-2021) spun off from American Ninja Warrior, for ages 9-14 in three brackets, hosted by Matt Iseman and Akbar Gbajabiamila on Universal Kids and Peacock.
American Odyssey
American Odyssey (originally Odyssey) is a 2015 NBC conspiracy thriller created by Peter Horton, Adam Armus, and Kay Foster, starring Anna Friel as presumed-dead soldier Odelle Ballard; canceled after 13 episodes.
American Pickers
American Pickers is a History channel reality series premiered January 18, 2010, created by Mike Wolfe, following pickers buying antiques for Antique Archaeology in Le Claire, Iowa; 27 seasons, 416 episodes, Frank Fritz died 2024.
American Playboy: The Hugh Hefner Story
American Playboy: The Hugh Hefner Story is a 2017 Amazon Prime Video docudrama, 10 episodes, on Playboy founder Hugh Hefner, told from his perspective with his archives, starring Matt Whelan; mixed reviews.
American Primeval
American Primeval is a six-episode Netflix Western limited series (premiered January 9, 2025) written by Mark L. Smith, directed by Peter Berg, starring Taylor Kitsch and Betty Gilpin, dramatizing the 1857 Utah War and Mountain Meadows Massacre.
American Restoration
American Restoration is a History Channel unscripted restoration series (2010–2016, 7 seasons), the first Pawn Stars spin-off, following Rick Dale's Las Vegas shop Rick's Restorations and later five US restoration shops.
American Rust (TV series)
American Rust is a crime drama adapted from Philipp Meyer's 2009 novel, created by Dan Futterman, starring Jeff Daniels as police chief Del Harris in the fictional Pennsylvania Rust Belt town of Buell. Season 1 aired on Showtime in 2021; the revived season 2, Broken Justice, streamed on Prime Video in 2024.
American Sports Story
American Sports Story is an FX scripted anthology series from Ryan Murphy's American Story franchise. Season 1, American Sports Story: Aaron Hernandez (2024), dramatizes the NFL player's murder conviction and 2017 prison suicide, based on the Boston Globe/Wondery Gladiator podcast.
American television series based on British television series
American television series based on British television series: US adaptations such as All in the Family, The Office, Shameless, Ghosts, and Best Medicine, their successes, failures, and format-trade economics.
American Vandal
American Vandal is a Netflix true-crime mockumentary comedy (2017-2018) by Tony Yacenda and Dan Perrault, following teen documentarians Peter Maldonado and Sam Ecklund investigating high school pranks; Peabody winner, cancelled after two seasons.
American Woman (TV series)
American Woman (2018) was a one-season Paramount Network comedy-drama starring Alicia Silverstone as Bonnie Nolan, a 1975 Beverly Hills divorcée, loosely based on Kyle Richards' mother Kathleen Richards; canceled two weeks after its finale.
Amidst a Snowstorm of Love (在暴雪时分)
Amidst a Snowstorm of Love (在暴雪时分), a 2020 romance novel by Mo Baofei Bao about snooker player Lin Yiyang and nine-ball player Yin Guo, and its 2024 Tencent Video drama adaptation starring Wu Lei and Zhao Jinmai, directed by Huang Tianren.
Among Us (TV series)
Among Us (TV series): Paramount+ animated comedy-mystery based on Innersloth's game, created by Owen Dennis, produced by CBS Studios with Titmouse animation; ten ~14-minute episodes surprise-released June 5, 2026, voiced by Randall Park, Elijah Wood, and Kimiko Glenn.
Amos 'n' Andy
Amos 'n' Andy, also Sam 'n' Henry, was a radio comedy by white actors Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll voicing Black characters, a 40-million-listener 1930s phenomenon, later a 1951-1953 CBS TV series with an all-Black cast canceled after NAACP protest.
Amphibia (TV series)
Amphibia is a Disney Channel animated series created by Matt Braly (2019-2022, three seasons) about 13-year-old Anne Boonchuy, voiced by Brenda Song, transported to a frog-populated marshland world.
Amruthadhare (ಅಮೃತಧಾರೆ)
Amruthadhare (ಅಮೃತಧಾರೆ), also spelled Amruthadhaare, is a Kannada drama serial on Zee Kannada that premiered 29 May 2023, directed by Nagathihalli Chandrashekar, starring Rajesh Nataranga as Goutham and Chaya Singh as Bhoomika in a marriage-of-convenience story.
Amrutham Dhvitheeyam
Amrutham Dhvitheeyam (అమృతం ద్వితీయం), also spelled Amrutham Dvitheeyam, is a 2020 Telugu comedy web series on ZEE5, the sequel to the sitcom Amrutham, with 26 episodes starring Harsha Vardhan, L B Sriram, Vasu, and Sivannarayana.
Amsterdam Empire
Amsterdam Empire is a 2025 Dutch-language Netflix crime drama, 7 episodes, created by the Undercover and Ferry trio Moolenaar, Matthys, and Uytdenhouwen. It stars Famke Janssen in her first Dutch-speaking role as Betty, divorcing coffeeshop magnate Jack van Doorn.
Amy Farrah Fowler
Amy Farrah Fowler is the neurobiologist character in The Big Bang Theory, played by Mayim Bialik, introduced in the season 3 finale as Sheldon Cooper's online-dating match, later his wife and Nobel co-laureate, appearing in 203 of 279 episodes.
Amy Madison
Amy Madison is a fictional witch in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, daughter of Catherine Madison, debuting in "Witch" (1997). Known for being turned into a rat for three years, restored in "The Killer in Me", and later becoming Willow's rival; portrayed by Elizabeth Anne Allen.
Amy Pond
Amy Pond (Amelia Jessica Pond) is a fictional Doctor Who companion played by Karen Gillan, the Eleventh Doctor's main companion from 2010 to 2012, wife of Rory Williams, mother of River Song, and last seen in "The Angels Take Manhattan."