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Last Resort (TV series)

Last Resort (2012–2013) is an ABC drama created by Shawn Ryan and Karl Gajdusek about the USS Colorado submarine crew refusing nuclear launch orders; canceled after 13 episodes, starring Andre Braugher, distinct from the 2003 ABC Family reality series of the same name.

Last Samurai Standing (TV series)

Last Samurai Standing (イクサガミ, Ikusagami) is a six-episode Japanese Netflix action series released November 13, 2025, adapted from Shogo Imamura's novels. Set in 1878, it puts 292 samurai in the deadly Kodoku game for 100 billion yen; renewed for Season 2.

Last Seen

Last Seen is a 2026 six-episode Australian Apple TV thriller, adapted by Kris Mrksa from Ryan David Jahn's novel The Dispatcher, starring Patrick Brammall as a dispatcher whose missing daughter may have called him; 88% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Last Summer (마지막 썸머) (TV series)

Last Summer (마지막 썸머) is a 2025 KBS2 12-episode weekend romance drama by director Min Yeon-hong and writer Jeon Yoo-ri, starring Lee Jae-wook in his first dual role as twins Baek Do-ha and Baek Do-yeong and Choi Sung-eun as Song Ha-kyung; aired Nov 1 to Dec 7, 2025, averaging 2.0% Nielsen Korea.

Last Tango in Halifax

Last Tango in Halifax: BBC One romantic comedy-drama by Sally Wainwright, 2012–2020, five series, 24 episodes; Derek Jacobi and Anne Reid as widowed septuagenarian sweethearts reunited via Facebook, BAFTA-winning.

Last Twilight (ภาพนายไม่เคยลืม)

Last Twilight (ภาพนายไม่เคยลืม) is a 2023 GMMTV Thai romantic drama directed by Noppharnach Chaiwimol, starring Jimmy Jitaraphol as Mhok and Sea Tawinan as Day, a badminton player going blind in 180 days; 12 episodes on GMM25, Nov 2023 to Jan 2024.

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

Late Night with Conan O'Brien, NBC late-night talk show airing 12:35 a.m. from September 13, 1993 to February 20, 2009; over 2,700 episodes with Andy Richter, the Max Weinberg 7, Triumph the Insult Comic Dog, and the Masturbating Bear.

Late Night with David Letterman

Late Night with David Letterman: NBC late-night comedy talk show, February 1, 1982 to June 25, 1993, hosted by David Letterman after The Tonight Show; known for the Top Ten List, Stupid Pet Tricks, and Merrill Markoe's ironic style.

Late Night with Jimmy Fallon

Late Night with Jimmy Fallon: NBC late-night talk show (2009-2014), hosted by Jimmy Fallon at 12:35 a.m. after Conan O'Brien; house band The Roots, Lip Sync Battle origin, ended at 1.8 million viewers before Fallon moved to The Tonight Show.

Late Night with Seth Meyers

Late Night with Seth Meyers is an American late-night talk show on NBC, hosted by Seth Meyers since 2014 and known for its "A Closer Look" segment.

Latin Lover (TV series)

Latin Lover (Amante Latina) is the 2001 Spanish-language erotic telenovela produced by Playboy TV International, Venevisión, and Iguana Producciones, premiered 25 November 2001, filmed in Lima, Peru, released in erotic and broadcast-edit versions, with a Silvia Caballero nude-scene controversy and sequel Latin Lover 2.

Laugh It Up, Fuzzball: The Family Guy Trilogy

Laugh It Up, Fuzzball: The Family Guy Trilogy collects three extended Family Guy specials parodying the original Star Wars films: Blue Harvest (2007), Something, Something, Something, Dark Side (2010), and It's a Trap! (2011), released unedited on Blu-ray and DVD December 21, 2010.

Laugh track

Laugh track: recorded or canned laughter added to TV and radio comedy so it sounds like an audience is laughing. Invented by Charley Douglass's Laff Box; first used on The Hank McCune Show, NBC, September 9, 1950; meta-analysis shows positive effect on viewers (r = .391).

Laughter Chefs – Unlimited Entertainment

Laughter Chefs – Unlimited Entertainment is an Indian comedy cooking reality show on Colors TV and JioHotstar, produced by Optimystix Entertainment, adapted from Cooku with Comali, hosted by Bharti Singh and judged by chef Harpal Singh Sokhi, running three seasons since June 1, 2024.

Laura Norton

Laura Norton (Laura Jayne Norton, born 1983, Newcastle upon Tyne) is an English actress who has played Kerry Wyatt, later Kerry Pollard, on ITV's Emmerdale since July 2012; also known for Vera, Wolfblood, Byker Grove, and Royal Shakespeare Company stage work.

Laura Spencer (General Hospital)

Laura Spencer (now Laura Collins) is a fictional character on ABC's General Hospital, played by Genie Francis since 1976; half of supercouple Luke and Laura, whose 1981 wedding set soap ratings records, later mayor of Port Charles.

Lauren Branning

Lauren Branning (Lauren Beale) is a fictional EastEnders character, first appearing 3 July 2006, played by Madeline Duggan then Jacqueline Jossa; daughter of Max and Tanya Branning, wife of Peter Beale, mother of Louie and Jimmy.

Lauren Lake's Paternity Court

Lauren Lake's Paternity Court, first known as Paternity Court, is an American half-hour court show where family lawyer Lauren Lake hears paternity disputes and delivers DNA test results.

Lavender Fields (TV series)

Lavender Fields: Philippine ABS-CBN/Dreamscape action-drama teleserye (2024–2025), 100 episodes, starring Jodi Sta. Maria, Jericho Rosales, Janine Gutierrez. Premiered on Netflix Aug 30, 2024; Jasmin's revenge plot; hit #1 on Netflix PH; Box Office Awards ensemble win.

Laverne & Shirley

Laverne & Shirley, an ABC sitcom (1976-1983) spun off from Happy Days, starred Penny Marshall and Cindy Williams as brewery workers in 1950s Milwaukee; it hit number one in ratings before a sixth-season move to Burbank, California.

Law & Order

Law & Order is Dick Wolf's American crime-drama franchise, premiering on NBC September 13, 1990: bifurcated NYPD-investigation and Manhattan-prosecution episodes, spin-offs including SVU (1999), Criminal Intent, and Trial by Jury, a 2010 cancellation, and a 2022 revival.

Law & Order (franchise)

Law & Order is Dick Wolf's American TV crime-legal drama franchise, premiered 1990 on NBC, split-format police/prosecution episodes, spin-offs SVU, Criminal Intent, Organized Crime, and international adaptations in the UK, France, Russia, and Canada.

Law & Order True Crime

Law & Order True Crime is an NBC true-crime anthology series; its only season, The Menendez Murders (2017, 8 episodes, created by Rene Balcer, starring Edie Falco as Leslie Abramson), dramatized the 1989 Menendez killings and trials.

Law & Order: Criminal Intent

Law & Order: Criminal Intent is an American police procedural, the second Law & Order spin-off, following NYPD Major Case Squad detectives Robert Goren and Alexandra Eames; it ran ten seasons from 2001 to 2011 on NBC then USA Network, and spawned French, Russian, and Canadian adaptations.

Law & Order: LA

Law & Order: LA (LOLA) was a one-season NBC police procedural and legal drama spin-off of Law & Order created by Dick Wolf, set in Los Angeles; premiered September 29, 2010, creatively overhauled mid-season, and canceled May 13, 2011.

Law & Order: Organized Crime

Law & Order: Organized Crime is a serialized NBC/Peacock crime drama spin-off (2021–2025, five seasons) starring Christopher Meloni as Elliot Stabler of the NYPD Organized Crime Control Bureau, canceled in April 2026.

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (SVU) is Dick Wolf's NBC police procedural, premiered September 1999, following NYPD detectives investigating sexual assault, child abuse, and domestic violence; the longest-running primetime live-action series, led by Mariska Hargitay's Olivia Benson, now in season 28.

Law & Order: Trial by Jury

Law & Order: Trial by Jury, the fourth Dick Wolf Law & Order series, aired one 13-episode NBC season from March 2005, following Manhattan prosecutors from arraignment through trial before cancellation.

Law & Order: UK

Law & Order: UK is a British ITV1 crime drama (2009-2014), produced by Kudos, Wolf Films, and NBC Universal, adapting every episode from a US Law & Order teleplay for English courts, running 53 episodes across 8 series.

Law and the City (서초동)

Law and the City (서초동, Seochodong) is a 2025 tvN Korean drama, 12 episodes aired July 5 to August 10, 2025, directed by Park Seung-woo, starring Lee Jong-suk and Moon Ga-young as associate lawyers in Seocho-dong, Seoul's legal district; finale rated 7.7 percent.